Snooze. No Swim. Youtube. P90X.

I am not a morning workout person. My alarm went off at 5:45 am today. My plan was to swim with the 6:30 master’s group at the Chapel Hill pool. I hit the snooze button, and didn’t get up until 6am. Then I dragged my feet getting my act together. I was finally heading out the door at 6:20am. Then I remembered I was out of cash. Crap, no time to go to the bank machine first, and I really hate being late for stuff. So I bagged the swim idea.

I went over to my computer and sulked while checking my social notworkingout sites. These are the thoughts that were running through my mind.

I really need a workout. I have my swim stuff together already. Maybe I should go to the pool and just not swim with the masters group. No, that would be awkward. I only swam with them once so far, and they might think I don’t like them. Maybe I should go to the other pool. No, that one is too crowded. Crap. It’s too cold to workout. Maybe I should do some P90X. No, that’s too hard and I’m too sleepy. Maybe I should go running. Nah, it’s too dark out still.

Wow, what a bunch of lame excuses!

I tweeted: did not get up in time for swimming with the group. poop. now feeling very unmotivated to do anything but sit here and sulk. #badmood

I found myself on Youtube and searched for P90X, thinking “Oh, let’s just see what P90X workout videos are on Youtube. Just for fun.” OMG, I found this guy who posted a bunch of the workouts in 4X speed. That was great because I could watch the whole workout and see what it was all about in just a few minutes. So I would know what I was “in for”. I watched Kenpo X, and decided that was too much kicking and punching and I wasn’t in the mood for that. Then I watched Core Synergistics. That one had lunges with dumbells. Yay, I like dumbells! It also included push-ups, but I promised myself I’d do those on my knees so as not to kill myself again.

So, off to my living room I went with dumbells in hand and I did the Core Synergistics P90X workout. It was alot of fun, even at 6:45am. I especially liked the “leaning lunges with dumbells” and the “superman banana rolls” (except not the banana part – ouch). And I did the push-ups on my knees and did not feel guilty one bit.

I am trying to formulate a plan in my mind how to incorporate P90X into a triathlon training plan. You definitely don’t want to start it up in your build or peak phase! It would be too much, and your other workouts would suffer. I cooked myself pretty good last week when I started P90X. When I figure it out, I will let ya’ll know!

In case you are new to my blog, I purchased P90X   because I wanted an easy way to squeeze workouts into my busy life. And I also wanted to do strength training without joining a gym. It has definitely satisfied those two needs very well.