P90X Challenge: Week 5 Recap (Warning, It’s Rant Time)

By Kelly Turner on November 24th, 2009

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Well, the first week of Phase Two of my P90X Challenge is over, and I must say the change of workouts is refreshing. While the cardio and yoga DVDs are the same (and I now officially know the dialogue of each one by heart) and spaced the same as Phase One, the strength training DVDs have changed.

Here’s the breakdown:

Day 1: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, Ab Ripper X
Day 2: Plyometrics
Day 3: Back and Biceps, Ab Ripper X
Day 4: Yoga X
Day 5: Back and Legs, Ab Ripper X
Day 6: Kenpo X
Day 7: Rest

These strength training DVDs are harder and more focused than Phase One, keeping up with with buffness the participants should be already gaining (I know I am).

Okay, real talk though: I think I’m going insane from working out in my house. It’s been five weeks! I miss my gym–that I still have to pay for even though I can’t go. I miss that sweaty guy that never wipes down the machines. I miss walking in and asking myself, “what do I want to do today?” I miss getting hit on relentlessly by old guys in biker shorts and sweat bands while simultaneously being ignored by the gym staff.

I also don’t know if I am going to be able to do the Back and Biceps DVD again. Usually, there are three people working out with Tony, who for the most part keep their mouths shut and do their workout and sweat and make you think, “Man, I would kill for her legs,” but there is one girl on that particular DVD that giggles incessantly into the microphone, interrupts, and chimes in constantly. Maybe it’s on purpose to make you take out your annoyance on your dumbbells, or maybe I am just becoming a cynical recluse from not leaving my house, but man–shut it, already. By the time I have to watch it for the third and fourth time, Beachbody might be getting a bill to repair a crappy 1990 Sharp TV with a shoe through it.

Thing is, 90 days is a long time. I’m not even halfway through. It works, sure. There is no doubt it works, and for people that haven’t yet found the joy of making up their own effective workouts on their own, it provides an excellent blueprint of exactly what you need to do. I just miss variety, is all. I miss being creative with my own workouts. Sometimes I just want to hit the treadmill. Sometimes I want to do full body strength training. Maybe I just don’t like being told what to do everyday? Complaints aside, though, I do like my ridiculously more cut abs, smaller ass, and to not have to get dressed to workout.

Have you missed anything?

P90X Challenge: Program Overview

P90X Challenge: Week One

P90X Challenge: Week Two

P90X Challenge: Week Three

P90X Challenge: Week Four