The P90X program does focus a lot on appearance. Tony Horton talks about "getting the most ripped abs of your life" and the whole Beachbody.com franchise of which P90X is a part of is very much focused on-well, a beach body. The funny thing is, I find myself posing in the mirror to see if there are any discernible changes in my physique. The other day, the light caught me just right and I noticed that indeed, I could see a few small muscles that I had not seen before. Now I am even more motivated to bring it! I figure if I can see the results in the mirror, I must be doing something right. Not that I will be showing off at the beach in my lifetime. That is just not me.
Ultimately I know that all this hard work will only help me in my other athletic endeavors. For instance, swimming takes a lot of core muscles if you do it right and the P90X workouts are a great supplement to swimming. Regarding the swimming, this will be our fourth week of swimming with a coach on Wednesday mornings as well as on our own on Saturday mornings. It is a little tiring getting up so early to swim but it is such great low impact exercise, that I plan to continue.
The only downside to doing P90X is that it is time consuming and leaves less time to bike and run. In fact, I have not been on the bike for a while. But that's ok. By the time the new year starts, I should have a better idea on what I want to do as far as races go and I will have a great base to work from. After all, we are working out an average of 86 minutes every day. And I must say, I am loving it. We missed one Kenpo X workout although on that day we swam for an hour, ran 2 miles, and I did a 2.5 hour mountain bike ride. So while we missed out on the unique benefits of Kenpo X, it is not like we sat around eating donuts (something I don't ever eat since late 2009).
Another great benefit is getting the opportunity to workout with Melissa. She is also bringing it hard and is also doing great! She is getting stronger and in great shape! It is nice to be able to work out together and to share the power of hard work and sweat.
Doing all this exercise and working a full time job does leave less time for blogging so I imagine I won't be writing as often as I have in the past. I appreciate you reading and please feel free to leave comments. That way I know someone is reading. Thanks.
