So, how can I sum up day two of P90X in one word? Plyometrics.

What’s plyometrics? It’s jumping exercises designed to make you burn calories fast, improve performance and sweat buckets.

And boy did I sweat. It sounded like someone turned on a faucet and let it pour over my exercise mats. Every time I bent over, a river of sweat rolled down my head and face and onto the floor. To put this into perspective, I was working out in my cool, dry exercise room located in my basement; I don’t sweat this much when I’m running a 5k outside underneath the sun. P90X builds in 30 second water breaks approximately every ten minutes in this 50 minute long video, and thank god, because without them, I’d be passed out somewhere between minutes 16 and 17.

If you’ve ever trained for football or any other  intense sport, you’ll be right at home with the plyometrics video. From big truck tire jumps to jumping lunges to leapfrog squats, your quads, calves and gluts will be screaming for agony.

So, how did I do? Pretty well actually. I started to run out of steam near the end, but I held my own for quite awhile. The short breaks really do help you to continue on. And the way in which the videos are broken down makes getting through the video easier. That is, each exercise is 30 seconds to 1 minute in length, and a timer on the screen counts down those 30 seconds. If you can tell yourself to hold on for just 30 seconds, you’ll make it through each exercise. Each jumping squat or lunge, etc is a miniworkout, a short goal that you can set for yourself to accomplish.

As for the nutritional program, I’m already improving. The first day was rocky. I was still learning which meals I could eat and how much of each food group I was allowed. But already, I’ve learned to better plan out my meals, to include as many food groups in each meal for a well-balanced diet, so that by the end of the day, I’m not left with 3 servings of vegetables I still need to consume.

My whole body aches. Two days down. 88 days left.

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