P90X Day Three - Shoulders and Arms

Fred and I performed all these exercises with 25 lb and 15 lb bumbbells. I'm going to have to spring for some 35 or 40 l pounders to max out at 8-10 reps on some of the exercises so far. I am trying to avoid buying a full set or one of those integrated systems. We'll see how long that lasts.

I came into this session a feeling comfortable since I already do plenty of arms and shoulder work. I benefited from that since I had performed all the those exercises before and I was comfortable with form and execution. All that means is that it was as intense as I expected but I was hanging in there. The Tricep workouts were were different. They had a full minute of tempo rated tricep dips on a chair, flip-grip twist triceps kick backs and something called the crouching cohen curl which hurt like heck on the biceps and hamstrings. Today he did not have water breaks and we had to push through this one. If you wanted break you had to press pause. We pressed pause a few times

Then after we were done we noticed that there was about 12 min left and the instructor told us we were now in the bonus round. We had a choice to skip to Ab Ripper X or enter the bonus round. So in the bonus round there were three advanced exercises for each muscle group, shoulder, bicep and tricep. The killer was the Side Tri Rise. This is a body weight exercise where you lie on your side and take the opposite arm and push your entire upper body up like a side tricep pushup. It was crazy but we cranked out plenty and were in pain when the bonus round was over.

As soon as Ab Ripper X started up, I got motivated and worked much harder today than on Day One when I barely had enough energy to press pause. We went through the entire Ab Ripper X without a break and Day Three was a wrap.

Of course, if you read Day Two, you know I had to go back and do the Plyometrics after Fred left. I was really spent after that. So at 9:18 PM I've got to get batteries for the camera, figure out why it is not working, fix it, up load the pics and run 2.5 miles.

That brings me to the biggest challenge I will have as I move through this program - Getting Enough Rest. I have got to master that quick or my results will be stunted.