According to the P90X schedule, I am supposed to be on recovery week.  However, meat heads think recovery weeks are over-rated!  So as a bonafide lifetime member of the “Meat Head Club for Men” I have continued doing my regular workouts.  If you need information about joining the Meat Head Club (yes, there is a women’s chapter too), please contact our club president Jeff of Dangle the Carrot.  Please be warned that you must pass the hundred pushup challenge to apply.

Seriously, though, the reason I am not doing the recovery week is because I simply lost track of the schedule.  During my first round of P90X I was counting the days until recovery week.  Now, these workouts are just a normal day at the office.  However, all serious athletes and fitness enthusiasts know the value of recovery week.  This is the time that we actually get stronger.  So I am just going to continue with the workouts for the rest of the week and do recovery week next week.  I don’t really feel that bad that I over ran recovery week because I feel pretty energized this week and, besides, as you P90Xers already know, there are some P90X workouts during the so-called recovery week that are butt kickers… can you say core synergistics?

Yesterday I wanted to do a session on my bike so I hooked it up to my indoor trainer and did tabata intervals.  Man, that is a humbling workout.  I was trashed after the first round of tabata.  I thought my lungs were going to burst.  20 seconds felt like 20 minutes.  I ended up doing a total of 3 rounds of 8 sets of 20/10 tabata intervals.  I needed to rest a couple minutes between each round.  After the tabata intervals I rode for an additional 40 minutes.  When I woke up this morning, I could still feel the tightness in my quads.  I was supposed to do P90X Plyo X, but I decided to substitue the workout with cycling

Today I stayed on schedule with P90X Shoulders and Arms.  I used the Tower 200 minimally for this workout because I wanted to go heavy for a change.  I loaded up my curling bar and the dumbbells and went to work.  Even though I haven’t been doing heavy lifts for quite a while, I somehow still maintained my strength.  I did a lot of the curling with 45 llb dumbbells and I loaded the curling bar with 95 lbs for the first set and 115 lbs for the last set.  Obviously, I substituted some of the dumbbell movements with the curling bar.

After shoulders and arms, I did a quick abs workout and some kettlebell swings.

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