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P90X: Ply-o-my-god!

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Last night was day 2 of my P90X experience and it was a night of Plyometrics (or Plyo for short). Plyo is basically a series of exercies that uses your own body and gravity against you. The entire evening workout required no more equipment than a rolled up towel (or some other small item you can sort of run around). I was warned by a friend that Plyo would kick my but however I'm glad to say it wasn't that bad. Sure, it got my heart bumping and my legs were fairly jello-y at times but overall I think I did pretty well.

One of the guys in the video was doing 360 jumps while I was exhausting myself on 180's and one of the other guys only had one leg yet never slowed down so I felt pretty motivated to keep moving. The only exercises I really had fatigue issues with, that caused me to stop just short of the full 30secs were the squatting jumps. I was taking my squats pretty low so around the 27 second mark my legs were pretty dead.

Overall Plyo lived up to my expectations. It was hard but fun and very entertaining. My legs are starting to get sore so I know I did some good work and I think, as I go through the program, my moves in the Plyo will get much more dynamic so no matter how good I start to feel I know I'll be able to still push myself. I think that is what I like about these videos so far. Each and every exercise, while hard, isn't impossible - or if it is there is an alternate version of it you can do so that you're still pushing yourself; plus, as you get better, there are harder modifications to keep your body fighting. It's pretty cool.

Tonight is "Arms and Shoulders" plus another round of Ab Ripper. My chest and arms are pretty sore today from two days ago so it should be a real challenge tonight.