Tuesday, October 20, 2015

P90X round 3: Day 30 - Plyometrics

Plyometrics. My foot felt fine enough to give it a whirl although I did slightly regress a bit from Sunday's golf tournament and walking on it all day. I went into working out right away in the morning. My logic is that it's better to get the workout over with before I can work. And since I'm working on closing shifts pretty much all week, it is virtually impossible to come home from a long day at work, crank into an hour workout with lower energy and then manage to sleep well after that. I've already learned from this a few times earlier this round where I attempted to do that.

With regards to the workout, I was doing fantastic. Started the workout and I felt like it would be my best performance of the round so far for plyo. Then reality hit me, and my left foot started acting up again. I caught myself using my right leg a bit more than my left (almost limping on the left) and that's when I realized that I should probably stop plyo. This happened after the 2nd break (right after circle runs). My foot began burning and rather than tear the shit out of my foot and complete a half-assed workout, I finished the duration of it cycling on my stationary bike. Surprisingly, there is little strain on the foot on a bike. So I was able to do this comfortably. 

I hope that my foot can heal quickly, but as of now it is causing nagging pains on the cardio workouts so far. Really, this isn't a game changer I believe because my primary goal is to gain mass and limit fat gain as much as possible. I am still dominating the strength workouts very much. Plus, I actually believe in the P90X mass version, they swap out plyo for cardio. After I finish this round, I am debating giving the P90X mass version a whirl as my brother discussed doing P90X near November. 

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