This workout was originally to be on Friday, but I ended up making other plans with a couple friends, and intended to get to the workout on Saturday. However, I had to work on Saturday and it took longer than I thought it would - not getting home until 9:30 - so the workout didn't happen then either.
This posed a bit of a problem, because tomorrow is supposed to be legs & back - but having just done back today, I really don't want to do it again tomorrow. And then with Thanksgiving this week, the schedule is all a mess. So at current I'm thinking I'll go to Yoga tomorrow, followed by Legs & Back on Tuesday, and swimming on Wednesday. I will hopefully be able to get Shoulders & Arms in on Thursday evening, leaving Saturday for Chest & Back, and putting me pretty much back on schedule without having missed a workout. That would be nice.
One of the things I'm still toying around with in P90X is how to go about increasing reps - I don't want to go to exhaustion for one pull up set when I know there are others coming up, and I don't want to go balls to the wall for one thing and end up sacrificing something else. So for something like Chest & Back, where there are two sets - I thought one idea might be to do the same number of reps as the previous week for the first set, and then on the second set increase reps. Theoretically I should be less fatigued during the first set on the subsequent week, leaving more ability to do more reps on the 2nd set. Then, on the next week (which would be the third), I could bump up the number of reps on the first set, and keep the reps on the 2nd set the same as the 2nd set from the previous week. Follow? If not - don't worry - there are only 5 workouts for chest & back, and 2 are finished already and two occur in the last month of the P90x schedule, so it really doesn't matter.
But anyway, it does help illustrate my goal numbers for this week and why I (for the most part) kept set one the same as the previous week, and opted to increase the reps for set two.
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