TheLegendsLeague | Bryan Espiritu

This is my last week of P90X before the FINAL Recovery Week!

Starting weight: 177lbs
After week 13: 153lbs.

Here’s how the week went.

The Workouts:

Day 85:
Yoga X

Ah man, first day of my final week of P90X and I get to do Yoga. I was honestly exhausted yet again today and I needed to be able to be calm and relax throughout this workout. I thankfully gave myself that opportunity by shutting the lights and doing my best to not think about my workload right now and it helped quite a bit.

I noticed from the opening warm-up that my knees were very sore and my right leg was in a lot of pain. I really think that this is a result of having to sit down at a desk so much lately. It pisses me off to think about this, but it’s true. When you sit at a desk for hours on end and don’t get up to stretch or give your legs some movement, they get very tight and very achy. This pain really fucked with my ability to do today’s workout comfortably and I needed to skip Warrior Three and just stay in Crescent Pose through the whole sequence.

Everything else with the exception of Standing Leg Extensions was fine, but my right leg was very tender and I was happy when this was all done.

Yoga Belly 7 was as good as usual today, but my lower back was also sore, again from having to sit at a desk for hours at a time. This made the 3 part Touch The Sky very difficult but still bearable.

Overall it was a good workout, but I’m worried that my mind doesn’t have the capacity to be too focused on P90X even while in my final week – a recovery week at that..

Day 86:
Missed Workout

Just like last week, I’m finding myself missing a workout due to an increased workload and exhaustion. I’m gonna need to find a way to cram these all in if I plan on finishing my P90X goal in time for Shuffle this Friday..

Day 87:
Core Synergistics

I hadn’t done this workout in a while and I was excited and a little threatened by it. It’s pretty difficult and being aware of my fatigue I was definitely worried. I did the workout at about 7:30 this morning and I was feeling so gassed that on 3 occasions I felt like I was going to faint. This is very likely a combination of fatigue, the time that I was doing the workout, and a lack of nutritional fuel. I am beat. Absolutely drained. And it really showed in today’s workout. I don’t know that I’ve given up in the way that I did today. On certain moves and exercises I felt myself saying in my head, “You can’t do it”, where in the past I would’ve just continued until my body gave out. It was fucked. And I finished the workout pretty upset.

In all honesty my performance today was far better than my early goes at Core Synergistics, but having it in your head that you’ve come so far makes you want to do the best you possibly can at all times. Today was definitely not my best. I need sleep very badly.

Day 88:
Kenpo X

I started my Kenpo workout today at about 10:30pm. It was the last day of Remix before they breakdown the building and I had to come home to do some fucking work. I’m so pissed. I did the workout with the same mentality as last time – breathe through your nose to limit fatigue and keep a stable heart rate, and while it worked, I was clearly more tired than I’ve been in the past 2 or 3 weeks. Again this is all do to my workload, etc, etc.

There was nothing relieving, strenuous, challenging, or anything about today’s workout. It just felt like something I had to get done to get my mind off of a lot of bullshit. Well I guess that brings it into the stress relief category, but whatever.

I’m not at all happy right now.

Day 89:
Core Synergistics

I have been working way too much lately and it’s really starting to effect my energy badly. I got up to do this workout and had planned on popping in the X Stretch DVD first, but I was so tired that I decided to just get this out of the way and keep it moving in order to get all of my work done.

Thinking that I was gonna be pretty gassed through this DVD, I started to shock myself early with how high my energy was. I was feeling 100% better than my last Core Synergistics workout and was really keeping myself focused and minding my midsection through the exercises as you’re supposed to.

I found myself having a lot of extra energy today. Knowing how little I’ve been able to sleep and how tired I probably SHOULD have been, it was a real shock but also a real motivator to be able to do today’s workout at the level that I did it at. I was determined, struggling through my last reps but not wavering, and really, really went in on it.

I’m feeling really good, but I am definitely feeling really tired. My work is killing me right now..

Day 90:
Yoga X

This is basically it guys. My last workout of all of P90X! I can’t believe I’m done and I cannot believe I actually made it especially with how crazy this week has been.

Tonight I did the good old, all lights out yoga thing and really focused on my breathing and remaining calm considering how much is going on in my life right now. I just finished 80+ drawings for a short film, have been working on some corporate programs, and have been managing all the sales from the Ideall online sale. I am exhausted beyond measure and needed this workout really, really bad.

When I started I was getting annoyed because my socks were slipping and sliding everywhere. I know, it sounds funny, but it was annoying as shit. So I took them off for a while. I noticed that the sweat that was building up from my body and feet was making it really difficult to keep good footing on the mat, but I went through 90 percent of the workout like this and it was hard as FUCK! I put my socks back on near the end after Chair Pose I think and continued through the workout as normal. I had to chill through the Warrior Three section as usual because of pain in my legs and feet, but I’ve come to terms with the fact that my orthopedic situation is one that requires me to be mindful of these things to avoid injury. No big deal, just what my situation is really. When I got to Yoga Belly 7 I was really determined to go hard on it and not hold back at all. I felt great and knowing that it was the last bit of pain that I would be going through in P90X was amazing! When I was done that section I felt like I was ready to go to bed. lol. I finished the rest of the stretches, sat through the ohms and called it a night. … then I continued working. lol.

Can’t believe it’s over. I’m so fucking happy!

Day 91:
Rest or X Stretch

I didn’t really “rest” today because of how much work I had to do. But I sure didn’t “stretch” either. I kinda wish I had.

The Diet:

My diet this week was probably the worst of my whole P90X experience. There was sandwich meat so old in my fridge that I had to throw it out, I ran out of milk and didn’t buy more, I was noticing myself not eating until noon somedays, and my energy was so low I could feel my body shaking from fatigue. I haven’t had eating issues like this in a long time. I am honestly just swamped with so much work that I can’t find a second to get a meal in. My dishes have piled up, my apartment is an absolute mess, and I am feeling so weak. These past few days have been horrendous. I have consumed more energy drinks and coffee than I have water because I can’t afford to fall asleep for longer than 4 hours a night.

There’s not really anything more to say. My diet this week hasn’t been bad in terms of what I have been consuming because I haven’t really been consuming too much at all. Just a lot of cereal, my shakes, bread, eggs, juice, and veggie burgers.

I’m disappointed in myself.

Closing Thoughts:

In any working week in my whole life, I have never done as much work in as short a period of time as I did this week. 4 of the 7 days I went to bed at 6am or later and nearly everyday I was up at 8:30am to work. I had 82 drawings to do by Monday morning. I missed a funeral, I missed Shuffle, I missed out on the last night at Remix. All I have been doing is working and working and taking what feel like short naps. I am incredibly weak and exhausted. But I got all of the work done, and I am finally finished P90X as well. I can’t even really register the fact that I’ve finished the program right now. I’m too out of it. My arm is feeling like it’s reinjured (carpal tunnel) from all of the drawing, my neck is ridiculously tense, and I lost 4lbs in 2 days from not eating how I’ve been accustomed to eating. This is NOT how I recommend anyone function on P90X, but I was able to do it.

I’m sorry.. but I’m completely out of it and need some rest. That’s as good as a “Closing Thought” as I can give for the type of week this has been.

Stay tuned for the Day 90 Results and the complete wrap-up.

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