Hey Guys. Day two was pretty difficult. Plyometrics is really tough and it’s hard to keep up, but I did stick it out for the whole workout. About 25 minutes into the workout, I had to take a little break, maybe 3 minutes, and a few other short breaks here and there through out the workout. My heart rate was really high towards the middle of the workout, about 185, so I needed that break to bring it down a bit. Anyway, plyometrics really worked out my legs and my lungs with all the jumping, lunging, hopping, and leaping. It was really rough, but I am happy that I actually stuck it out!
As far as my diet goes, I ate turkey bacon, egg whites, and some low fat cheddar cheese for breakfast. Not very tasty, but it did the trick. I had a recovery drink after my workout, a tuna salad for lunch, and fruit and yogurt for my first snack. I will have a bar a little later for another snack, and fill in the blanks for dinner. I am really trying to stick to the portions approach by measuring out what I am eating, sticking to the approved foods list, and following the daily servings chart. It’s pretty easy.
Be back tomorrow!
Hey Erin – I figured I’d be your first comment!
I just started a round 2 of p90x on Monday with you. I’ve done one round already, but took 9 months off between, so I’m strating from scratch.
Good luck in your workouts – I’ll be checking in on your blogs.
Joe
Hey great! It will be nice to have you along for the ride!
Good luck to you as well!
Plyo days are the hardest for me, but boy what a workout. My two year old daughter loves all the jumping I do. She’ll either sit on the couch and giggle at her silly daddy or jump around the living room with me.
Erin Reply:
December 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hi Brad. I am already dreading tomorrow because it’s a Plyo day! Hopefully it will get easier week to week. My kids like to jump in too. My daughter is usually in school when I work out in the morning, but my son is home (he’s almost 2). But this morning, my son slept in and my daughter had the day off of school and she was grabbing the bands and pretending to do push-ups! Funny!
Hi Everyone,
January 5th will be a year since I started the P90X program. If you can not do it all the first few times around do not get frustrated,,,it will come. I went from doing 0 pull ups/chin ups, etc to 150 during a workout session. The same for the push ups.
Keep up the good work and stick with it.
Good Luck!!
Erin Reply:
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hi Tracy,
thanks for the encouragement. It’s week 4 and I do seem to be getting better at these workouts. Plyo will be my toughest challenge, but once I master this I will feel sooo much better! Push-ups and pull-ups are a challenge that I hope to overcome too. I have a bad wrist, so I tend to give up on doing too many, but the bars do help.
Thanks for stopping by and for the encouragement!
Erin
Hey Erin,
Hubby and I finally started. Day 2 down! The triplets look at us like we are crazy, but hey,we entertain them. Seriously thinking we are heading for 2 different goals and thinking I should be doing the lean and he the classic….why did you choose “classic” over “lean”? I am going to continue down this path and maybe change it up later, but never stop…I look forward to the workouts and the burn. We took before pics,so we would be sure and see our progress!
Erin Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Hi Renee.
You must have your hands full with 3 babies! More power to you!
I chose classic because I do a couple sports and I could use the muscle build and performance improvement that classic can give you. Otherwise I probably would have chosen lean just to lose weight and tone up.
-Erin