P90X – Day 1 – Chest & Back

I survived!

I went to bed WAY too late last night, hitting the sack at around 4:30am.  I was really tired and I didn’t get out of bed until 11am (6.5hours sleep), and I was excited to get started on the program.

Incredible Hulk Breakfast

The breakfast was HUGE.  Prior to this I never even ate breakfast in the mornings, so it was really hard for me to even finish this thing.  Here’s what I had for breakfast:

What you see on the plate is a Mushroom Omelet that I decided to turn into a Scrambled Eggs Omelet half way through cooking, so that’s why it doesn’t really look as appetizing as it should.  It was made out of egg whites, mushrooms and tomatoes.  The tomatoes made the eggs look so reddish, that’s probably why it looks so odd compared to the normal yellow/white look of eggs.

Part of the breakfast was also a small bowl of low-fat cottage cheese to which I added some chopped green onions and a bit of pepper/salt.  When I was a little kid my parents used to make cottage cheese like that with green onions so it was a really familiar taste to me and I really enjoyed it.

The only challenge was the sheer volume of food.  I was full about 1/3 of the way through, but I really wanted to finish this big breakfast (well lunch) to get the day started right.  I started eating it just after noon and it took me a while but I finished the whole thing by 1pm.

I was also supposed to have a cup of strawberries, but I skipped that.

I wanted to wait until the fullness of “breakfast” went away before starting my workout as I don’t like working out on a full stomach.  Around 3:30-4:00pm I finally started on the workout.

Chest & Back Workout

Holy smokes, this was by far the hardest workout I’ve ever done.  We did standard push-ups, wide front pull-ups, military push-ups, reverse grip chin-ups, wide fly push-ups, closed grip overhand pull-ups, decline push-ups, heavy pants, diamond push-ups, lawnmower, dive-bomber push-ups, back-fly’s and then repeated the whole set once again in a different order for a second time.

About a third of the way through, my arms felt like they were made out of Jello.  Some of the push-ups I just didn’t even have the strength to do anymore, having to do them on my knees, as best I can.  This is only Day 1 so it’s perfectly normal not to be able to do the exercises perfectly and in large quantities.  The important thing is to just do your best and push yourself, but don’t overdue it and cause an injury.

Once the 1 hour workout was done, we moved onto one more thing.

Ab Ripper X

The Ab Ripper X workout consists of 11 different ab shredding exercises done in a super fast paced 15 minute long session that will make a grown man cry like a little girl.  In the support forums where I’m hanging out with all the other people who also start P90X today, someone literally threw up during the Ab Ripper X part of the workout.  It’s that intense.

The exercises include In & Outs, Seated Bicycle, Seated Crunchy Frog, Crossed Leg/Wide Leg Sit-Ups, Fifer Scissor, Hip Rock ‘N Raise, Pulse-Ups, Roll-Ups, Oblique V-Ups, Leg Climbs and Mason Twists.  Before today I didn’t even know what any of these are.  All I knew of Ab workouts was standard sit-ups and crunches.

Post Workout Report

Once the workout was done I was pumped up.  I survived!  Luckily I didn’t feel any nausea like some of the other people that posted on the P90X forums and I was really happy with the way I pushed myself during the workout.

Recovery Drink

After my workout, I made the recovery drink called  Endurox R4 from Pacific Health Laboratories.  It actually tasted amazing!  I was expecting some disgusting tasting protein drink with clumps in it, but this was actually really delicious to drink.  I’m very happy with this product.

I also ordered the recovery drink that the makers of P90X make, but it hasn’t come in yet.  I hope that one tastes as good as this Endurox R4 drink.  After the drink I felt even better.  I highly recommend using one of these if you decide to do the P90X workout.

Dinner – Chef Salad

For lunch I was supposed to have this Chef Salad, but since I woke up so late my whole day was shifted so instead I ended up having this thing at dinner time and then there wasn’t enough time to actually make the dinner I was supposed to have (Salmon with Asparagus and Wild Rice, plus Red Pepper Soup).  I think I’ll have those for Lunch tomorrow instead of the Shrimp Stir-Fry I’m supposed to have since I don’t want my Salmon to go bad, and the Shrimp is still frozen.

The Chef Salad was really good!  I can’t believe how tasty all these foods are and how much I’m allowed to eat.  A bit later on I had a Meso-Tech protein bar as a snack, and some grape juice with my vitamins and Creatine.

Even though I missed a meal, my nutrition stats for the day were:

Calories: 1873
Fat: 30 g
Carbs: 192 g
Protein: 204 g

I’m about 500 calories short of what I was supposed to eat today (2,400 calories), but that’s ok.  Tomorrow is another day.  I do have to go to bed earlier though, so this will be it for today’s post.

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