P90X (NOVEMBER 1) - BRING IT

Hi everyone,

I need advice. I am here in a hotel room and have managed ok for the past two days doing the DVD's in a smaller space but I can't do the Kenpo here and give it justice. I am headed down to the exercise room and plan to swim after that. So...I will get exercise in today but not specifically Kenpo...should I ...

A. skip it and pick up tomorrow with 'Saturday's work out?
B. Do Friday and Saturday tomorrow?
C Do Friday on Saturday and then Saturday on Sunday which is supposed to be the "rest" day?

Thanks! If I do option C,I will still do the C stretch.

YOu guys are rockin!

D

I am not sure what day you started and what program you are doing but Kenpo is day 6 (classic) and day 7 is rest or Stretch X. I would say exercise today or use it as a rest day then do Kenpo tomorrow and the Stretch (I LOVE the stretch it feels good and isnt really a work-out to me but a reward).

I may have to do the same every Saturday because I work at my gym on Saturdays for a full day that starts in the early morning and I have a hard time getting my butt in gear on Saturday mornings and I don't like to exercise after 6pm because I can't go to sleep until 3am if I do... which throws off my whole schedule. So I think I will do the Kenpo tomorrow morning then stretch afterwards.

I am on day 23 of classic and this week I tried something different. I always have a hard time doing ARX after Legs and Back for obvious reasons, so I did ARX and THEN legs and back. Felt so much better and I imagine that the results are the same anyway..well...just a suggestion. YogaX in a little while, owie.

Here is something I lifted off the Beachbody thread I participate on regarding doing the ABX first. It is just a word of caution:

Although in theory this sounds like a good idea, I have always trained abs last. I did this on the advice of a couple of good trainers I had years ago. Their advice was to train Core and specifically abs last. There are two main reasons:


1) Abs and core are used to support the body doing other exercise and if you tire out your mid-section, it is much harder to maintain form and to support the work being done by the legs or arms in larger muscle workouts; and

2) Abs being tired during strenuous exercises is a big source of injury. As the abs support and provide a foundation for the core, it is much more likely to hurt yourself doing abs first then other muscles later. This is especially true for back issues where tired abs cannot counter-balance well enough and the back muscles fall out of alignment or become over taxed to try to compensate.

I am not saying don't do Ab Ripper X first if it works for you but I likely will not as I have had back issues that are behind me (LOL), but I don't want them to flare up again.

However, both abs and calves can be trained when tired and trained more often as they tend to recover much faster (after a lifetime of regular use and abuse).

I changed my mind regarding my earlier post. Everyone had such great things to say about Kenpo that I just had to do it tonight. (Hopefully it won't have me jacked up until 3am) but since we are turning our clocks back and I don't have anything pressing to do tomorrow I guess it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

I LOVED it... but I have to admit the first segment of punches had me a little confused... I am sure it was comical since I have never hit anyone in my life and with the kicks years of dance showed up with lots of pointed toes... I did my best and as time went on I became more coordinated. This is one I will look forward to... actually I look forward to them all except Monday's chest and back!

Thank you - that is helpful.