So I did day 1 just now and I am amazed my arms are able to reach the keyboard to type this post. It will be short and sweet most likely. If the X in P90X means extreme then it is an appropriate name for the first days work out. There were 12 different chest/back exercises - almost all of them were a variation on a push-up or a pull-up though I needed dumbbells for 2 exercises (I still don't have any so the 1 gallon paint cans still had to fill the void).
The workout consisted of doing all 12 exercises 2 times and they just compound upon one another to make the next exercise that much harder. Once you are done with that you have a 16 minute ab workout from hell called Ab-Ripper-X which, supposedly, does 340+ ab/core exercises and I believe them.
At this point it is hard for me to get off the ground my arms are like noodles and my chest has nothing to offer in terms of assistance. My abs are dead and I was barely able to do some of the ab exercises - they are just hard to do. I don't know what they were all called but some of the ab exercises I had never seen before and they are really, really, really hard. I can't imagine not getting good results from this program if each day is this hard (or harder).
A friend lent me a pull up bar station so I was able to do each of the pull up exercises - though for many I needed to use the foot bar so that I could actually complete a few reps. I am in really bad shape it seems. I'm actually a little nauseas so maybe I should do this before dinner in the future? Actually, here are my results so you can judge for yourself.
Round 1:
standard push-ups: 20
wide front pull ups: 5reps 1 leg
military push-ups: 6
reverse grip chin-ups: 8reps 1 leg
wide fly push-ups: 6
closed grip overhand pull-ups: 5reps 1 leg
decline push-ups: 3
heavy pants: 20 @ 0lbs (didn't think of paint)
diamond push-ups: 5
lawn mowers: 15 @ 0lbs
dive-bomber push-ups: 5
back flys: 8 @ 11lbs (found paint)
Set 2
wide front pull-ups: 7reps 1 leg
standard push-ups: 4
reverse grip chin-ups: 8reps 1 leg
military push ups: 1
close grip pull-ups: 5reps 1 leg
wide fly push ups: 3
heavy pants: 10 @ 11 lbs (paint)
decline push-ups: 3
lawn mowers: 18 @ 11lbs
diamond push-ups: 2
back flys: 13 @ 11lbs
dive-bomber push-ups: 3 on my knees
I will definitely be feeling this tomorrow when I go to do the Plyometrics. The only guy I know who is actively working on this program with me is in much better shape than I am and he only finishes half of the plyo routine so it should be a real challenge.