Day 2: Cardio Attack

Hello, my captive audience :).  I have completed day 2 of P90x, and I feel that I need to visually illustrate my emotions as I was going through this workout.  One day I'll record a video of myself very ungracefully almost falling on my face and groaning in pain, but for now post workout sweaty selfies will do.

So, day 2 is plyometrics.  I've been through a few different plyo programs in my day and they are seriously killer.  Like they are usually short and get the job done.  I don't usually enjoy a plyo workout, but I appreciate how effective it is so I just grit my teeth and get it done.

P90x plyometrics is 58 MINUTES LONG!  Like holy mother of all that is good in life.  How can I actually survive an hour of intense hell?

This is how I looked after I finished.

Super sweaty and like I wanted to drop, but still able to function.  There was a lot more emotion involved throughout the process, however.

Backing up to the beginning..... this expression explains how I felt after the first 2 sets in round one....

Like...dude, this is highly unpleasant but I am going to soldier on through

About halfway through I was thinking this would never stop.  Like seriously, every other plyo workout I'd ever done had ended by this time and...how was I going to keep going?

I dug deep and kept going.  Sweating buckets I made it to what I thought was the end and then he threw in an extra set.  Like, for real?  Why, Tony??? WHY?????

But I finally got to the stretch section and was actually pretty proud of myself.  All in all, it wasn't as bad as I had anticipated and I think I probably burned exactly 5,642 calories during that 58 minutes.  I think I can repeat that one again next week without too many nightmares.

Also glad that I'm not as sore as I had figured I'd be today after that crazy workout yesterday.  But I feel it in a way that makes me know I'm getting some good benefits from this program :).