Kept a nice heart rate of 140-150 during most of the plyometrics workout.  As always, plyo is tough.  The better you do in the beginning of the workout the harder it seems to be as you work through the rest.  Slowly but surely my endurance and strength continues to improve. Sure signs that P90X works.

I’m no Jack Palance.  I’m not even Laura from the video.  First I try to do the normal one-arm pushups and utterly fail.  Then I try the knees version.  Still can’t do it.  Laura, you win!

End of week 6.  We made about half way through. Can’t say exactly since P90X is a 13 week program.  Kenpo is that workout that is fun to do.  Works up a good sweat. Gets the heart rate going.  Falls short at the end.  I’ve felt like this aspect of the Tony Horton P90(X) series has been a short coming. In P90 there wasn’t a Kenpo but the second part of Sweat was basically kicking and punching ala Kenpo X.  They both suffer the same problem.  You start strong and get good and lathered up.  The heart rate gets up into the zone.  Then over the course of the final 25 minutes of Kenpo (maybe 10 in Sweat from P90), it’s like its a cool down.  You continue to sweat but the heart rate slowly but surely drops out of the aerobic zone.  The moves just are not intense enough to maintain a good aerobic heart rate.  I’m looking to burn calories in the non resistance workouts by maintaining a high heart rate for the duration.  I’m going to have to try to push the intensity myself next time.  It’s not easy when you are getting tired by the end to self motivate and self regulate to a higher intensity.

This is still one of the hardest resistance workouts.  Squats and lunges very quickly turn your legs into quivering lumps of jelly.  Wall Squats and Single Leg Wall Squats are killer.  I’ve never felt fire like that in my legs or any other muscle.

Ended up cutting Ab Ripper X short this night.  A neighbor needed to get on our internet connection to access some work files and so she came over at 9:30.  She was done just as we were getting started on abs.  Val started talking and before I knew it 30 minutes had gone by and I wasn’t motivated at all to try to finish up.  Ab Ripper X…I’ll see you next time my friend.

Moved the rest day to Friday.  Val went out for a night out with the girls.  Sex in the City 2.  Probably cliched for a group of ladies to go out en mass to see a Sex in the City movie but what can ya do.  The weather has been terrible with on and off rain for days so the kids and I played it lazy and sat in side watching Instant Play movies on Netflix through the Wii.  It was restful.