Tuesday, September 20, 2011

P90X upper body #fail

I tried Emma's chest/shoulder/triceps (aka: push-ups from hell) workout, and pretty much failed to complete it as stated. However, it was still a good workout.

The exercises I left out were the few that I couldn't figure out from the description how to do. Then there were a few which I was completely unable to do: plange push-ups, pike press, push-ups with clap. Tried each of these and was unable to do even one. Maybe if I did them at the very beginning?

All the push-ups were from the knees, as I'm still unable to do more than one or two "proper" form push-ups. DB's were 10 lbs, except where noted.

Slo-mo push-ups = 3 sets of 4
Max rep PUs in 20 sec = 10
Front/side (alternating) flys = 2 sets of 8
Chair dips (max rep in 50 secs) = 22
Plange push-up = ZERO (mostly this was a wrist problem)
Pike press = ZERO
Floor flys, alternating arms every 4 (1:30 min) = 16 total
Two speed push-ups (max rep in 1:45 min) = 17
Y press (with DBs) = 2 sets of 12
Lying tri extensions = 15
Arm out rotations (20 fwd+20 back) = 2 sets with 3lb DB (10 lb was too heavy so I did extra reps)
PU with clap = ZERO
PU with arm-up rotation = 12
DB cross body punch max reps = 50 (with 10 lb dbs)

I felt an instinctive urge to balance this out, so I finished with:

sit-ups - 3 sets of 20
bent-over rows (20 lb DB) - 3 sets of 10/arm

And later at the park, I did 5 sets of 5 inverted rows on the spiderweb climber while Tim scooted around above my head. (My shoulders almost on the sand when arms extended, but my legs were a little bit bent.)

2 comments:

Emma said...

Good for you! It's hard! I'm impressed you figured it out from my instructions too! I'm sure I managed extra reps as I had extra time between as I was trying to write things down.

Ms. Hedda said...

I may have creatively interpreted some of your instructions, but the effect was the same, I'm sure. :-)

Yeah, I wasn't really taking breaks at first - it got a little easier once I started resting a bit between exercises. What would be excellent would be to pick a large handful of these and "rest" between by doing, say 200m runs! (Or sets of lunges, etc.)