Day 47

I labeled today Day 47 as it is from when I actually started eating better and working out. Today, in P90X3 days, is Week 6, day 2 or Day 37 and my workout today was Triometrics. This is one quad burning workout. My quads were gassed in the first 10 minutes. All the squatting on both two legs and one.

I previously stated that this week and next week have to be the weeks for this block to really push harder, increase the weights and maximize the intensity to make those gains for this block. Today I did just that. I pushed it harder and that is obviously why my quads were toast in the first 10 minutes. To be able to do cardio and burn calories all while building the strength in my legs is really as close as you can get to actual torture without being torture. Haha! You can really make this workout tough if you go down as low as you can in those squats. Last week I was worried about my right knee due to the pain I had felt on Sunday so I was making sure not to push too hard until I knew I could really do the hard work. After all week of not feeling any pain, I pushed today and felt pain. Not in my knee, rather in my quads (as I keep whining about it... haha).

I was really happy with my legs ability, and especially my knees, to handle the workouts. It can't be easy on those legs with all this weight on them and doing some of the exercises on one leg just increases that load. When you do exercises like this without weights, you have to increase the range of motion to add that extra stress on the muscles all the while maintaining proper form and protecting the joints. Warrior 3 squats are definitely a challenge, but if we didn't challenge ourselves we wouldn't be able to grow. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail when challenged. What really counts is when we succeed, we create new goals and challenges and when we fail, we keep working at it until we do succeed. The only true failure is not trying.

When doing a heavy day whether on arms or legs, it is good to get quality stretching in after the workout. Stretching helps to promote growth, but you need to static stretching after the workout and not before it has been warmed up. Calisthenics before your workout to warm the muscles up is the way to go.

Ignore all the noise that would distract you. Focus on the task at hand. Keep trying. Keep pushing. Keep working.