P90x

I'm no longer fat, after spending a month ingesting only 1200 calories a day, no carbs, but I am mushy as hell. Trying to get up from a seated position on the floor means rolling to my side and getting on my knees before hoisting myself up. I am around 120 or 125 lbs but about 95 of those lbs are fat. And about 1 is muscle.

So I bought a 12 disc set of p90x off of eBay, realized that there is a disc 13, found that that single disc sells for way too much, and found some video of some dude who recorded himself doing disc 13. He recorded only himself and not what was playing on the tv so I have to watch and copy this dude to do disc 13.

The introductory disc said not to do the p90x program without taking the fitness test or approval from a physician. I didn't want to take the test, because if I failed then my grand quest to be superfit would be over before it began, and I was still waiting for my pull up bar to arrive (says the girl who has never been able to do a pull up in her life). Luckily for me my sister is a doctor and she waved me on as she fell asleep on the couch.

Despite the lack of pull up bar, I decided I would try the first disc in the program, called core synergistics. I figured I would need some practice considering my level of fitness (between rock and sloth) and this disc didn't need the bar.

About five minutes in I was feeling pretty good but winded. Then I realized that we were still in the warm up phase. The real exercises kicked my ass. I was sweaty in places where I am not normally sweaty, like my elbow. A lot of the exercises required rolling around on the floor, which I wish they would have warned me about before I rolled into my bedstand, night table and that wobbly little stick that is attached to the bottom of the door.

It appears that I may have been born without triceps, or whatever muscle group is required for push ups. There was a lot of flopping on the ground and "holy shit"s.

But I shall persevere! Until I start looking like a man. Then I'll stop.

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