P90X – Shoulders & Arms – Racquetball – Exhaustion

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I just got back from playing racquetball for 2 hours and I’m absolutely hammered.  I did a round of P90X Shoulders & Arms this morning and felt great afterwards.  It’s still my favorite P90X workout.

I was sore, but it was the good kind of sore.  I still have soreness in my left elbow, but nothing near as painful as a month or two ago.  I do have something going on in my right shoulder and tricep area.

I had to lower the weight on my dumbbells on most of my bicep exercises by 5 pounds.  I kept the same weight on all the tricep exercises, but fell short of my goal of 25 per side with the side tri rise exercises.  I also lowered the weight in most of my shoulder exercises by 5 pounds as well.

I really struggled playing racquetball.  I played great the first game winning it easily 15-3.  I lost the next two – 15-14 and 15-9.  By the fourth game my arms were feeling like jello and my legs were starting to feel a bit like tree trunks.  I got a second wind for the last few games winning 2 of the 3.

I’m exhausted at this point.  I’m sitting here in my bed typing this up and feeling like I have zero energy.  Food doesn’t sound real appetizing at this point, but I know I need to go downstairs and find something moderately healthy to eat.  I’ve lost about 6 or 7 pounds of the extra weight i picked up this last month…so that’s a good thing.

I’m just going to keep doing the workouts everyday and play racquetball at least 4 times a week for at least 2 hours a whack.  Sooner or later…..somethings gonna have to give……it better be the weight and not one of my knees.