Week 13... Less than a week to go!!!!

3-29-10


Well, the final week is upon me. This week started a little strange as it is a recovery week, but since I missed Yoga for its regularly scheduled date, I made it up yesterday. This resulted in have yoga on back to back days. People should do this more often. It was “normal-hard” yesterday… Today is was a piece of cake and got me good and stretched out. As I keep pushing the ab portion of all workouts harder and harder, that’s the only place I’m feeling it this morning. Everywhere else feels good (now, don’t interpret this as I’m not tight anywhere because I am. I simply am not painfully sore right now). I’m not really going to talk about Saturday’s Yoga workout, but I will add that I ran an easy 3 miles with my two dogs immediately following it (I mention that I ran with the dogs because this is not normal running. The dogs occasionally make me stop for smelling and business).

Some pain came up in my wrist this morning following side arm balance (with the leg raise) and it got me thinking about some toughness this journey has given me. There’s a part on bridge/wheel where Tony says something to the point of “if you have wrist issues here, I’d just bag it.” There’s another part on table where he talks about moving the hands to make a more comfortable wrist position. I said back to the television today… “or just tough it out… c’mon.” OK…. I’m not saying this is the most intelligent comment I’ve made, but I have discovered that through this process, occasionally aches and pains come up. Some of them really suck. Some of them almost made me stop. A sort list of my aches and pains are: shoulder (pinched nerve? No.), wrist (tweaked, sharp pain with any weight… went away after pushing through), groin (bad sharp pain…. Went away after working it out), knee (knees hurt sometimes), thigh, right calf, etc. What I’m trying to say here is that there’s a difference between, hurts, pains, and injuries. 5 workouts left and no injuries have come up. I really believe you have to keep pushing through. That’s not to say when I had some pain in my knee during the legs and back workouts that I went and grabbed more weight and tried to push it harder, but I think maintaining intensity is fair.

I’m going through a big dilemma of what to do next week (day 91). Insanity keeps running through my mind for more “muscle confusion,” but I feel like I’m about to hit my stride on P90X. I think if I can go through at least another 30 days, I can push it even harder. That’s what I’m going to do, but if I feel like I’m plateauing (not sure that’s a word), I’m going to switch it up.

Being on the last week is pretty awesome.