Out of commission

So, p90x will have to be put on the back burner for a little while. I had a mishap during basketball. Because of that, I'm now sporting some shiny new crutches. After I got home from urgent care I looked through the p90x manual to see if there were any crutch assisted exercises, but alas, there weren't. Even though it's been almost 7 years since another basketball related injury relegated me to crutches for 6 weeks, 7 years was not long enough. I hate crutches! I think for this go around, I'll rent a rascal scooter instead

The thing is....

ok, so the weirdest thing happened... I put in the plyometrics dvd, and was once again warming up.  and in the middle of the warm up, Tony says "oh by the way, you don't want to do plyometrics within at least an hour of eating".... well, I just happened to have had dinner about 30 minutes prior to putting in the dvd.  And who am I to tell Tony he's wrong?? So, I had no choice but to  delay my plyometrics session until another day.... maybe tomorrow.
Plus, Anchorman was on, and I love that show.  What? did you think this was going to be all about progress and shedding unwanted pounds while at the same time developing a rock hard self esteem, and coming to realize that who I am is acceptable and I shouldn't worry about what society thinks? If so, you really don't know me that well.  For those that do know me, they expect to see a few of these types of posts along the way.  plus, where's the humor in reading a blog about how awesome I am at everything I do, and P90x is no exception?  exactly.

Day 1: shoulders and back...and throw up

You know you're in trouble when you get winded during the warm up to the actual exercise... But that's precisely what happened on day one. After I took a 30 second break prior to beginning any of the actual work, I was ready to roll. Tony kept saying to set goals for each set. All of the people on the video were doing sets of 25 or 30. I set goals a little further down the scale. Mine were goals like: 5 or 8 or "just do as many as u can without dying". I made it all the way thru the first round of exercises and half way thru the second when suddenly, all the water that I had consumed during the workout seemed to immediately want to exit my body thru my mouth... After the water exited as planned, I decided that was enough for day one... I texted Dave Walker to ask how many times I should expect to puke after a p90x workout. He said something to the affect of "for you, 5 or 6". So at least I have a measuring stick to go by. Tonight is plyometrics... I hear it's "intense". Why am I surprised? Well, here we go.

New thing called P90x

So, I don't know if you've heard gang, but there's this new exercise program out called P90x. What's that? It's been out for quite some time now?? Everyone's heard of it? Oh.... Well I guess I'll skip the back story then. If, for some reason, you are unfamiliar, you can look it up on Wikipedia. Anyway, so I've recently decided to give it a try. And I thought, 'hey, why not blog about my P90x journey?'. So that's just what I'm going to do. I got my hands on the DVDs a couple days ago. I was told it would be helpful to get a pull up bar, so I picked up one of those tonight. This was the original plan: come home, put together the pull up bar, watch the intro video and then do the first exercise. This is how it played out: came home, listened to the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack while i watched Conan with subtitles. Then I put together the pull up bar while I watched some Roadhouse. After completion of the pull up bar, I went to "test it". Quick side note: senior year of high school and the summer after graduation, I was in the best shape of my life and still could only do 7 or 8 pull ups....I don't know what it is but I'm horrible at them. I think its due to one of two reasons. Either my arms are just too long or I'm just incredibly weak...neither is outside the realm of possibility. Anyway, I just wanted to get that story out there before I continue with the events of the evening. So I proceed to the door jam and mount the bar. I grip the bar and start to slowly apply all my weight. I hear a slight creak in the door molding, which doesn't lift my spirits in the slightest. Once I'm assured I'm not going to break the doorway or the bar, I start to pound out 5 or 6 pull ups...just for a warm up I tell myself... The only problem is, I'm struggling just to get one. I did eventually get my chin above the bar, but it seemed to take all my remaining energy just to get that one. So I dropped down and returned to the couch to look over the instruction guide that came with the bar. There are diagrams and written steps, but no "trouble shooting guide for fat guys". That must be in the online catalog...oh well, that was enough for one evening and I haven't even started the actual P90x. This could end up being P205x. Before retiring to my room I did do 2 sets of curls with the 15lb dumbells I bought along with the bar- thinking that would make me feel a little better about myself, but alas...it didn't work. My spirits are dampened but not broken...tomorrow is another day and when, as the saying goes, 'the real work begins'....