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Feeling Sore After Doing P90X Chest And Back And Plyometrics DVD

By Brad Gibala On October 10, 2008 NO COMMENTS

Just catching up on a couple days off from writing. Over the past couple of days I did the P90X Chest and Back DVD and Plyometrics. It had been some time since I had done the chest and back workout. For some reason I skip over it a lot and I now remember why. It is hard. All of those push ups and pull ups really get into my head. Its not that I can't do them, its just that you use pretty much every muscle in your upper body while doing it. Also, I have not been doing that many chest exercises in the past couple of weeks. With the cardio routine that I have been sticking to for the most part I substituted a lot of chest workouts with a swimming workout. As we all know, swimming for the most part is all upper body. I have not felt

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I Am Still Feeling Sore From Doing P90X Plyometrics DVD

By Brad Gibala On September 26, 2008 NO COMMENTS

A couple of days ago my brother actually called me out and said we needed to workout. This is before I did the P90X Back And Biceps DVD the other day. He wanted to do the Plyometrics DVD pretty bad. I would say that the Plyometrics DVD is the hardest to do out of all of the P90X DVDs. There is just something about doing lunges and jumping around for an hour that really is a calorie burner. I remember the first couple of times that I did Plyometrics I could barely walk the next day.

After a couple weeks of doing Plyometrics I was able to hang and it actually became one of my favorite P90X workouts to do. My legs were in the best shape ever. I noticed more strength every where. It helped out greatly when I went skiing this past winter in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. My friends had not

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