Made it to the second recovery phase

Whoo Hoo! I made it to the 8th week of P90X; the recovery week. Thank goodness. I was getting worn down. This week, like the last recovery week, focuses on core and cardio. Last night I did the Core Synerginistics workout. It was fun and nice to do something different. That is not to say I didn't work my butt off. I wasn't really getting hot because the air conditioner was on in the house (yes, it is warming up nicely here in Florida) but I was pouring sweat. I slightly pulled my left upper tricep or deltoid muscle during a push up exercise that I guess I got too excited to do proper form and jumped in too quickly. I didn't pull it hard enough to quit or skip any exercises though and it it only hurts a little today. Nothing that is going to stop me from Kenpo X tonight! No pain, no gain, right?

I am still loving this phase's meal plan. I worked about two hours on my grocery list for the next phase and it is ready to go. I actually have a system. I use Microsoft excel to make a spreadsheet with different categories; meat, groceries, produce and dairy. I go through each day and add the food and the amount to the spreadsheet. I use the equation function to add an amount each time the food is repeated in the menu to keep track of how much of each food I need. I do this to every single item in every meal and recipe. Then I print it each week and just cross off the things that I don't need that week and I am left with the my grocery list. It's a pretty good system. And now that I have it all saved, I can just reuse the grocery lists for the next round of P90X. Yes, I said it, the NEXT ROUND OF P90X. Let me get through this one first.

Speaking of getting through the next round, it is 5 weeks long instead of 4. In the fitness manual phase 3 is described as "football hell week in high school except 5 weeks long". OMG. It's going to be killer. Cardio is increased to 4 times a week instead of 3. Now is the time to mention that I didn't quite keep up with the Cardio X in the mornings like I wished I had. I completed 7 of 9. Not bad, but not perfect. The hardest thing for me was getting up Wednesday morning after Plyo on Tuesday evening. Plyo kicks my butt and my legs and back and body in general was just too tired and sore to do it again in the morning. That's about a 78% success rate for morning Cardio X for phase two and I am aiming to increase the success rate for phase 3. They always say to set short term goals, right? So here it is: there are 16 total Cardio x workouts scheduled for phase 3 so I have to complete at least 13 of them to beat my phase two success rate of 78%.

Last time I mentioned some newly discovered foods that I like because of P90X and I forgot to mention pecans. Especially in that quinoa stuff. Very good.

I am looking forward to enjoying this recovery week of core and cardio. It is right up my alley. I really want to go to the step class at the gym Thursday night. I kind of miss it. It's a lot of fun. I am hoping I will be able to make it to that since Thursday is a rest night anyway. I can come home and stretch afterwards.