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Message started by Pine on 12/11/13 at 08:47:30

Title: oh gah ---wintertime ?fun?
Post by Pine on 12/11/13 at 08:47:30

My son, soon to be 16 and about a foot taller than me... has long wanted for us to DO something together. In order to get him to pull up his grades and agreed to purchase P90x... Last night was CD #2 Plyometrics.

Basically you jump and or otherwise destroy your thighs for an hour. Well the good news.. I was able to keep up with my son, which is rather amazing. The bad news.. wholly crap am I paying for it today. I have a timer for when I can take the next Ibuprofen.

Plyometrics also one of the two P90X workouts about which people are constantly asking, “Couldn’t I just skip this?” (The other is the hour-and-a-half, “Are we done yet? No? Okay. How about now?” Yoga X workout.)

I’ve asked that question many times myself, and the answer is: unless you have heart, knee, or back issues, no, you should not under any circumstances skip Plyometrics and do the easier Cardio X workout instead. No, not even if your legs feel as if they’re about to fall off.

Taken from here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/A-Review-of-P90X-Plyometrics

Why do my sides hurt?
PS: we only made it 30 minutes... the first half which is the "easy" half.

Title: Re: oh gah ---wintertime ?fun?
Post by Dave on 12/11/13 at 13:37:53

Alright.....nobody has anything to say? I had a really funny gym story that happened in September.

I entered this training competiton at our gym for the Summer Games Pentathalon. We would train for an hour every Wednesday night for 8 weeks, then at the end of that we would have a 5K race, followed by a target shoot on the paintball field, then jump rope for a minute to see how many jumps you could do, then a shotput throw, then a mile sprint on the bicycle. Our trainer was young, very pretty, very well built....and she worked us out really hard. She was like Jilian on the Biggest Loser, only without all the yelling and drama. We started out by running from 2-3 miles to warm up - then the real workout got going. I have a heart monitor that I wear and it records calories.....and I could use up 1,200 calories in an hour.

So...the fun part. After about 6 weeks of the training started I was one of the first ones in the room before the start of a workout...and it was just me and Michelle....the gorgeous trainer. I walked up to her and I said: "Michelle, I am starting to develop "feelings" for you!" I saw the kind of washed out panicked look in her face as she was trying to find a way out of this one. I continued: "Yeah, you know.....The kind of feelings you get in your stomach just before you go to the dentist and you know that you are going to go through an hour of pain!" At that point she was relieved, and we both had a good laugh!