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Started a new exercise program, P90X. The X stands for xtreme and the dialogue of personal trainer Tony Horton is just that. Xtreme in a weird way. Self-congratulatory and self-denigrating. A jarring mixture.
(That’s Tony in panels 1 and 3)
That aside, I believe this program will energize my workouts which had gotten stale. P90X is a 90 day package of alternating resistance and cardio workouts, each one taking around an hour. The first one, chest and back, which was tonight pushed me, but in a good way. Tony’s big thing (yes, Tony and I are on a first name basis already) is muscle confusion. That is, he works muscle groups from several different angles.
It is true that repetitive workouts begin to lose their punch because your body adapts to them and doesn’t work as hard. I want to avoid muscle loss associated with aging, to get stronger so that the outdoor work I do is less tiring, and to give myself the advantage that regular, intense exercise has to offer. I’ve been doing the first and the last with a self-designed program, but I wasn’t progressing. We’ll see if this program will produce different results.
