P90x Day Two - Plyometrics

In the spirit of truth in blogging, Day Two actually occurred after I completed Day Three. Therefore, that makes this Day "Twree" or something like that. Let's just say it was a mistake on my part not to complete it yesterday as designed.

I woke up at 6:45 am today and text'd my standing Sunday morning racquetball partner that I could not make it this morning thanks to Day One. I woke up again at 9:00 am and proceeded to head to the gym and run 4.0 miles in 30 min. When I finished I thought that I had just completed the hardest thing I had ahead of me for the day, even though I knew I had to knock out Day Two and Three before midnight. I was wrong by a long shot.

Plyometrics was so intense, even the creator of P90X was grabbing his knees a couple of times in the 50 + min session. I've been taking advanced group fitness training classes for 7 months now and all of that only prepared me to get my hat handed to me in this session. My quads, hamstrings, calves and glutes were on fire. I pushed through the pain but lost some personal points on form. There must have been 12-15 different exercises that had me jumping all over my basement from squat jumps, to jumping on one leg for calves, to running tires (imaginary of course) and so on. I was drenched at the end of this and absolutely dreading the fact I had run and done day three just before this. At one point my youngest son Jordan jumped off a chair onto my back while I was jumping around. Part of me was laughing and the other part was wondering if there are stunt kids out there anywhere making a living.

Thanks to the running and Day One and Day Three which proceeded me starting Plyometrics today, I started this session with every single bone in my body hurting. I could only think of three things as I went through this agony that I was loving at the same time:

1) Why in the hell won't my camera connect with my Mac so that I could download those pics I took earlier today as required by the P90X? That is really bugging me.
2) Am I really going back to the gym tonight to run a quick 2.5 miles? That is still up in the air, but knowing me I will do it.
3) I will work hard to avoid having to complete 2 DVDs in the same day again. I feel like I used to feel after a full contact karate match. That is not a good feeling.

I estimate that I burned about 600-700 calories. Why estimate and not use my Polar RS 100 Heart Rate Monitor? Well, somehow I lost it about 10 days ago and I can't find it. Until then I used it everyday twice a day for almost a year so I have a good idea what was going on and I checked my heart rate. This is a good one for me to take on the road since I won't be hauling dumbbells through TSA checkpoints or in checked bags.

That's it for day two.