WTF!  Seems like there are times when you can’t catch a break.  First, my lower back has been slowly getting sore again.  Then my knees starting getting sore.  Next my stomach has been pissed off at something in my diet.  Finally, yesterday morning I pinched a nerve in my neck.  Or something else happened, but my neck hurt like a sonofabitch and that did not help my workout.  I pretty much dogged it the entire workout, afraid of shooting pains in my neck.  Never quite happened but the workout suffered.  Heart rate barely stayed in the aerobic zone.

Thank god for the recovery week.  Time to regroup and refocus.

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.