P90X Help I’ve Stalled
© Tim Pannell
I’m a wuss! Ive stalled the last couple of months. I really messed up my knee playing racquetball over a month ago. I went and played again a week later and have a stress fracture in my right foot.
It’s been pretty frustrating. I miss working out with my wife too. We have to find a way to get back on track. I haven’t been able to get anything taken care of because of work assignments getting in the way. I can’t afford to be gimped up when I’ve got several big jobs on the line.
I just got back from LA where I shot some lifestyle work as well as some running shots with a great female athlete that we hired.
I have a bit of a lull the next couple of weeks so I’ll see if I can get in and see a knee specialist as well as a foot specialist.
I just want to be able to walk around pain free again…….wouldn’t that be nice?
P90X – Problems?
© Tim Pannell Photography
Man, what a weird week!
I love P90X, but this week I’ve had some problems with it.
My wife and sister in law headed out of town Monday and Tuesday….leaving me all by myself.
Monday morning I got up and dutifully did my P90X Back and Chest workout.
It was great! I felt good afterwards and was pleased with myself for doing it even though I was alone.
Tuesday………I don’t even remember Tuesday.
That wouldn’t bother me if I was a drinker, but I’m not.
I just know I didn’t work out that day.
Kim got back into town Tuesday night.
For whatever reason, we didn’t work out Wednesday morning either.
Yesterday I got up at 5 am because Kim started her new job and had to be there at 6 am.
I got up with her and took her to work and then got home to get the youngest of our kids off to school.
After that I went out and did some photography….shooting scenic backgrounds for a photo project I’m working on.
I spent the whole day after that at the computer processing and retouching….at least until I went out and shot scenics for another 3 hours in the late afternoon – early evening.
Right now it’s 5 am and I’m going to shoot outdoors again at sunrise.
Kim will head off to work at 6 and won’t get home til this afternoon.
Here’s the question – When in the crap are we going to work out?!?
For almost 3 months now, we had a nice little system in place.
We’d get up, get the kids off to school.
Kim’s sister would come over around 8 am and we’d pop in a P90X workout and we’d get moving.
We were really consistent with this P90X routine.
It was really nice starting the day off with a great sweaty workout.
It was also nice having 2 other people there to keep me motivated.
Afternoons are busy around here and I’m worried we’ll find excuses.
Melanie won’t be able to work out at that time every day.
Kim really enjoyed the P90X workouts and was getting stronger and stronger by the day.
It was fun watching everybody make a lot of progress from week to week too.
It’s always a drag when a good routine comes to an end.
I guess we’ll see what happens today. The plan is to workout at 2:30 when Kim gets home.
I’ll keep you posted.
P90X Kenpo X Style
P90X Kenpo X Workout © Tim Pannell Photography
Okay! I just finished the Kenpo X P90X Workout with my wife and sister in law and feel pretty good.
I’m still struggling with my breathing, my lungs are scratchy and itchy and operating well shy of 100%, but I’m at least able to keep up with the P90X DVD for the entire hour.
The stretching is always the hardest part of the workout for me. I’m amazed at how flexible everybody is even though they’re extremely muscular.
It gives me something to shoot for at the very least.
I can say this…….I’m more flexible today than I was the first time I did the Kenpo X workout.
I’m also not nearly as wiped out as I was the first time I did the exercises.
It’s nice to be able to see progress being made over time.
I haven’t done much of anything the last couple of months because of selling our house and moving. A P90X workout here, a P90X workout there, a 1/2 hour or 45 minute bike ride, but nothing even close to consistent. Things were way too busy and hectic.
I know, I know……….I should have made time to work out more whether or not life was hectic.
Well, that’s in the past. I’ll work on that in the future if my life is ever that crazy again.
For now, I’m working on settling into a routine of getting up early and getting my workout done first thing in the morning.
I’ve got some good workout buddies, my wife Kim and her sister Melanie.
It makes it so much easier to get up and get started when I know that someone else will be working out along side me.
It’s nice to know that I have their support. It’ll help me reach my 210 pound target goal I’m sure.
In the last 9 months I’ve had ups and downs with P90X. I have learned from my mistakes as well as my successes during that time period.
2010 will be about consistency. Slow, deliberate, methodical steps that I will take to once and for all get into great shape.
I’m looking forward to feeling more healthy. Life is too short. I have to take advantage of the time I have left.
