P90x Reviews Kenpo X and My Wife

My P90X review for this week is……..I’ve been a lazy dog until today. My wife had the day off and she was just the push I needed to pop in the P90X Kenpo X disk and work out with her for an hour. Yesterday and Monday were just bad days for me…..no motivation…soreness in my right shoulder…..racquetball injury from last week and just a bad attitude in general.

I woke up this morning feeling much the same way as I did the previous 2 days and if Kim wasn’t there to prod me along, it would have been 3 lousy days in a row.

I actually feel great right now. The workout went really well. Kim hasn’t been able to do any P90X for a couple of weeks now so Kenpo X was just the right workout for her to start up on again. She did really well in spite of her sore back. Her lower back has been pretty tight lately, but this workout is easier than most of the P900X series….at least in my opinion.

I know there’s a point in the workout when Tony has his heart rate up in the 165 region and I can’t even get close to that. The most I’ve been at with Kenpo X is about 135. I keep worrying that I’m dogging or something, but I am in that heart rate zone pretty consistently whenever I’m doing Kenpo X.

This P90X workout is pretty easy on my joints and the torn shoulder muscle I have didn’t get aggravated by any of the routine either. I felt well enough after the workout to go and play 2 hours of racquetball with my 17 year old son. He hasn’t been playing that long so I have to take it a little easy on him so he doesn’t get too discouraged. He’s made a lot of progress in the last couple of weeks as he has been able to play more and more with his brother as well as me and Jon – my brother in law.

He moves around the court like a jack rabbit and like most really young guys thinks that’s how you win games. He’ll eventually figure out that his speed will only benefit him if he learns how to play with good positioning. In any case….it was fun to play him this morning and I feel so much better after 3 hours of working out. My attitude is better and I’m ready to make things happen again.

It’s funny how I can manage to at times avoid the very thing that makes me feel so much better and make me so much more productive. These are the lessons I’m learning as I continue on my P90X journey and become fit once again.

Life is good!