so, i bought P90X.  have you heard of it? the first time i heard of P90X, my friend was telling me about this “great” new workout program her boyfriend bought.  she seemed all impressed and stuff.  i was thinking to myself, “ya, ya….exercise video….been there done that”.  then she continued to tell me how she came home one day, and found him lying in the bathroom floor after puking halfway through one of the videos.  OOOH, TELL ME MORE!

i became obsessed.   i was on P90X’s website almost everyday!  i was reading reviews and getting pumped. i had to have this program. i was reading about all these people and their 6-pack abs, and all they had to do to get them was a little P90X!?  i’m looking at these people and thinking….”i could actually LOOK like an Ironman triathlete!”.  their 6-pack abs were haunting me, they were everywhere i looked.  i wanted them, so i bought it. thank you amazon.com.

i spent about a week and a half reading, studying, and planning the best approach to make my P90X experience the BEST it could be.  i WOULD have 6-pack abs. i wanted to start on the perfect day.  so, Monday August 24th, brett and i donned our P90X gear, printed our workout sheets, watched the first video labeled “HOW TO BRING IT” (talk about pumped up! not really), took our before pictures, and started.

the first video was chest and back which actually means, an hour of  pull-ups and push-ups….then after that you do “AB RIPPER X”…which is 16 minutes of abdominal exercise-hell.  like you might have to do this in hell…i’m not kidding. i think the devil co-wrote this workout.

after the first 10 push-ups (which is all i can do), and my first 5 pull-ups (using a chair to stand on. yes, i’ve completed two ironman distances races, jerks) i’m pretty sure brett and i spent more time laying on the floor laughing at ourselves than actually exercising…..but i clearly got a good workout, as i still couldn’t get off the floor when we were done.  apparently it takes arms and abs to get one’s body off the floor. ouch.

day two of P90X was plyometrics. which was basically high school volleyball practice without any equipment, and probably wasn’t very good for my plantar fasciitis.  it did hurt so good, so maybe i can do a  low impact version next time, and maybe i’ll even bring out my volleyball, just to make it more fun.

day 3 of P90X was arms, back, and AB RIPPER X! they want me to use my arms and abs again?! i was just getting REALLY REALLY sore from Monday’s workout.  so because i’m tough, i did pull-ups, i did bicep curls (more than i’ve ever done before in my life), i  layed on the floor laughing at brett, and i got attacked by my puppy. you see,  she thinks we are playing without her when we do P90X, it’s pretty hilarious.  especially during AB DEVIL RIPPER X when we are laying on the floor (working really hard)  and she’s barking and jumping on, over, and around us! hilarious.

imagine laying there on the floor abs-a-burnin’, zona attackin’, brett-a-laughin’, tony horton a-yellin’.  it makes for an interesting and fun workout.

i may not have 6-pack abs at the end of all of this afterall.

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