Finally completed all 90 days of P90X. This blog post is just about the workouts. I'll create another post about the results.
I mixed up the final week due to scheduling. It is too hard to do 90 minutes of Yoga through the week. So I pushed Yoga to Saturday thinking I'd do Stretch on Friday. Then I put Kenpo on Sunday and ended normally with Core and Yoga on Monday and Tuesday.
Well, I skipped Stretch. That routine is only done 3 times during all of P90X and there is tons of stretching in the rest of the routines. That makes 3 routines I've missed during all of P90X...two Stretches and one Kenpo. Not too bad.
YOGA
I continue to get better at Yoga. Everything up to Prayer Twist in a Lunge is pretty automatic now although it is still intense. Prayer Twist in a Lunge is hit and miss...I'm better than day 1, but some days I can do it the full allotted time and some days I stumble. I can now do Warrior 3 without stumbling but I'm not as pretty and straight as everyone on the DVD. Even so, I can stay on one foot and complete the rest of the routine without coming down. I can't get fully open in half moon but I can general stay up without stumbling. Twisting half moon is better. By the way, those are the only moves where I use a Yoga block. I was able to go all the way down to the ground in all the Chaturangas. I've never done the extra pushups. I'm able to hold most of the balance postures all the way through...much better than even a few weeks ago. I can do Crane twice for 20 seconds each.
I've never had a problem with the floor work. I do bridge instead of wheel, but I did try wheel the other night and found I could do it...barely. Haven't tried it during the Yoga workout. I can put my knees against my eyes during the hamstring stretches. Yoga belly is going fine...I can get down to just a foot above the ground in the side twists. Day 90, no one was home so I did the Ohms. I actually liked it.
KENPO
Nothing really new to report here. The whole Saunders Cycle is lame. It is the worst stretch/warmup of the entire P90X system. I don't even get it. I'm supposed to do a Prayer Twist in a Lunge as a part of a warmup? What the hell does that do for me? The rest of the workout is generally fun and relatively easy. I find myself getting my second wind at exactly the same time that Horton says he does.
CORE
I've gotten better at since the last recovery week. In my final workout, I did 50-60 staggered hand push ups. I can do 15 Sphinx pushups, 14 Prison Cell Pushups and 15-17 Dreya Rolls. I can do the full routine of Plank to Chaturanga Isos. All of this is HARD...I'm not saying it is easy. I can feel I am pushing myself to my very limit. But I can do it. I can also start to feel my core engage during lunges. I've never done that before and I think that is why I've had such a hard time with them...I've only been focusing on my legs.
So there is it...90 days down. I'll post the final before/after results soon along with other thoughts and where I go from here.
