Week 2

Today started week #2 on the P90X2.  Seems to me that posting updates once a week is good. I have a hard time keeping up with the blogging every day, but a once a week "how's everything going" type update sounds reasonable to me :)

Things I LOVE about P90X2: 

• I rarely feel sore.  No, really!  The stretching and (especially) foam rolling is absoltuely amazing.  You can really work whatever areas are knotted up and get the knots out before you get sore.  There was one day my hamstrings were tight, so I foam rolled them and they felt fine afterwards.
• Having 2 days off.  It might be kind of a "duh" statement, but having 2 days off is easier than having 1 day off.  You only have to work out 2 days, then have a day off, then 3 day then a day off.  It makes it so much easier to make yourself do the workouts knowing you're close to a day off.  With P90X, working out 6 days in a row, I found it far to easy to skip.
• How much better I feel about myself as a person. I feel so good knowing that I'm getting my workouts done, and I'm doing a pretty good job sticking with the nutrition piece.  I've even had 2 times where I got home from work at night and really did NOT want to do my workout, but I made myself do it anyways...makes me feel good to push through the temptation to skip.

I'm sure there's more things, but that's the main stuff I'm enjoying. I was SUPER stoked with tonight's workout, X2 Core.  I made massive improvement in almost every move.  Some of it is just figuring out technique, but a lot of it is me getting stronger and pushing harder when I want to give up.  The nice thing with a workout like P90X2 is you can measure your progress in performance.  How many could I do last week?  How many did I do today?  Over time the visible physical progress will happen, but for now I'm more than happy with how I'm doing.