P90X Day 5 – Back and Legs – Abs

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P90X Day 5 – Back and Legs – Abs

john
January 16, 2010
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Pull ups, squats, pull ups, lunges over and over again. Day 5 of P90X proved to be another challenging workout. But we are starting to get the hang of it now. Our legs got a great workout tonight and the pull ups hit the back really hard as well.

The cool thing is that we each noticed an increase in our pull ups. I wish we had a real pull up bar rather than using the $30 pull up bar that fits in your door frame. Unfortunately, it is a bit uncomfortable. It has been very helpful to place a stool under the pull up bar. This gives us a bit of support and allows the legs to aid in the lift. Yeah, it might be cheating a bit, but our goal is to make the arms and the back do as much work as possible before resorting to a leg spot.

The leg work was insane. Just when you thought you had done about all the version of lunges and squats ever created, here comes 2 more versions. The hardest exercise by far was the sitting wall. This is where you sit like you are in a chair with you back against the wall. The goal is to make a 90 degree angle with you knees and stay in that position for as long as possible. The next version of this routine had us lifting one leg while in the chair position. Talk about hard. One thing for sure, tho, this routine hammered the quads.

This DVD was followed by the Ab Ripper DVD which added another 15 minutes into the session. This is the 3rd time this week we have hit the abs. Yep, they are felling the burn alright.

Two days left and we are thru our first week of the P90X workout set. Tonight we will do Kempo X, which should be a modified version of a kickboxing workout. Then the last DVD of the week is Stretching.

L8R,

John

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