My transition week is over and I have started the new P90X2 program. The first workout was X2 Core. I now have aches and pains where I have never had aches and pains before.
When I started the workout I was very worried that I had made a big mistake. The warmup isn’t like any previous warmup. Instead you have to use a stupid foam roller and a medicine ball. I went through it and was just thinking Oh Crap! Finally the warm up was over and it was time for the big workout.
And then Oh Crap – again!!!! What stupid moves. Each move was more stupid than the last one.
But then I started to notice a couple of things. First, I was sweating like crazy. Then I noticed that even though the moves looked easy on the screen, I couldn’t do some of them. And the ones I could do I wasn’t doing with good form. At the end of the workout I had a whole new respect for the X2 Core workout. My aches and pains that I feel this morning are good aches and pains. It means I activated muscle systems that haven’t been used lately.
Today the workout is Plyocide or “death by plyometrics” which is sort of ominous. But I am looking forward to it and will post the first impressions.
Warning: If you are considering any of the BeachBody programs, take their fitness test first and get a clearance from your doctor. If you have never done them before, consider this sequence: Power90, P90X, and then P90X2.