Broken Body - 4/4

Well, I went and done did it. I busted myself up.

In a good way, fortunately. Last week I glanced through the shoulders and back portion of the P90X video, and saw it had a lot of push-ups and pull-ups. So I set up a pull-up bar in the basement so that I could get started on building strength to make it through the workout. I dont know how many push-up and pull-ups are in the workout, but I knew it was more than I could do. So once the pull-up bar was set up, I tried it out. I got about 3/4 of the way up, and realized I'm weak - I thought maybe I could do one or two - but I couldn't even get a full one out. So I did a few assisted ones (stepping on a chair), and a few where I start at the top and slowly lower myself down. The same night, I also did a bunch of push-ups - a set of 20 normal, 20 or so wide, 5 or so diamond, and then another attempt at 20 normal I think. I don't remember exactly what I did - but in both pull-ups and push-ups, I went until exhaustion.
At first I was a little disappointed because my muscles only felt tired, not yet sore. I went to bed Thursday night, and did a couple more sets of 20 push-ups on Friday morning. The muscles still felt just tired, not sore. That started to change halfway through Friday when the soreness started to set in.

When I got home on Friday, I decided to give the ab-ripper portion a shot. It's a series of sit-ups (and variations) equating to about 349 reps. I had to take frequent breaks, but I finished it. I think my form probably suffered a decent amount on some portions, but I hope to fix that. By this time, I still mostly just felt tired, not sore.

Friday night that all changed. I didn't sleep well because all night, whenever I turned over, my shoulders and arms ached. The soreness of Thursday night finally caught up with me.

Saturday came along, and I did my normal LSD workout (details in another post) of about 36 miles on the bike, and a 5.5 mile run. By the end of the run, the combination of soreness from Thursday, the ab workout from friday, and the tiredness of over 40 miles of self-propelled activity caught up with me. I was beat. I had aches literally from head to toe (neck had a kink, sore shoulders and pecs, sore abs, sore inner thighs, exhausted calves, and sore feet from over 5 miles of running barefoot).

So, Sunday was mostly a recovery day. I had thought about going to Yoga, but was still too wiped and too stiff, so I put that off until Monday.