Wasted away in Week 5

2-5-10
The word of the day is wasted (not in the alcohol sense, but in the “I can’t move anything” sense). This has been, without a doubt, the most grueling week of P90X thus far. I was thinking that after a recovery week, I would be refreshed and things would be easier. I got one out of two right… I was refreshed but I worked my ass off and made it harder (that’s actually a good thing). So I talked about Yoga being extremely tough (tougher than normal) yesterday. I still had that feeling today.
BUT… as I have said before, I don’t like legs and back at all. Today, it was hard but I really owned the workout today. Didn’t miss a beat and did all exercises as hard as they can be done... Then we got to abs. I’m so much stronger with my abs, but my core is wasted. I just didn’t have anything left. I mean, we could compare this week to week 1 or 2 and say I really owned the abs workout today, but I had to work even harder to do some of the things that are simple.
Oh, and I forgot. Towards the end of the legs and back, I almost passed out three times. I got really dizzy and started to get some tunnel vision. I basically willed my way through the end, but I was in a fog towards the end. Now that’s working hard.
Favorite part of today’s workout… the way sweat began pouring out of my forehead (“I thought projectile sweat… that’s never happened”) during chair salutations. I those are hard. Harder than wall sits and harder than single leg wall sits. Chair salutations is when it begins to get ridiculous.
One more thing… today is the official day that I can do pull-ups. Can’t bust out the entire workout without a chair, but doing unassisted pull-ups is pretty sweet.
Super Bowl this weekend… I think Indy will win, but GEAUX SAINTS!