The Trio Challenge: NO PAIN, NO GAIN!!!!!!

Friday, June 3, 2011

NO PAIN, NO GAIN!!!!!!

Day 3 started off with some Ab Ripper X hosted by Tony Horton. If you have never heard of him or have never done p90x, well let's just say you are lucky. He treats working out like it is breathing which is not necessarily a bad thing, but he inflicts pain on you early and often. Ab Ripper X is 15 minutes of straight core/ab workouts. Many of the moves I cannot complete in full, but in time I am sure I will get it.

After Ab Ripper I jumped on the treadmill for about 10 minutes doing some walking/running in intervals, again the shin splints are an absolute thorn in my side and cause me too much pain to push through many of the times. I stopped running and went to the trusty old bike again doing some more intervals. I think the reason I turn to the bike is that after running and having my shins feel like they are going to explode it is a nice to still be exercising and not putting the pressure on them. I also recall my days back in 8th - 10th grade where I would bike into town from my parents house which was approximately 5 miles almost everyday to hang out with friends and then go to work. I look back at pictures of myself from then and realize how much better shape i used to be in; I want to get back to that.

I finished up by some stretching and we ended with a photo shoot for week one. The photos are going to be weekly representations of our progress and will be visible in the slide show on the main blog page.

Writing this the day after working out I can say that the soreness in my arms does not even compare to what I am feeling in the front of my hips. My guess is that I was using those muscles to do many of the ab workouts since my abs aren't strong enough to do the lifting. It is a tad hard to walk, but i know that it will just take time for my body to get used to using some muscles that I haven't in a while.

John and Bryan are off today so I will be heading up to work out by myself today. I plan on keeping it a low key day since I also have softball tonight.

1 comment:

UnknownJune 3, 2011 at 11:01 AM
this is great stuff guys! keep it up! I wanna see some cut muscle in July!! oh and something I keep very close for reference, a great quote:

"great abs don't start in the gym, they start in the kitchen!!"
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