P90X, Day 5: Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X

My arms are still sore. It's my biceps on the other side of my elbow. It's gotten to the point where it's no longer the "feel good" type of sore; it's getting really annoying how sore it is. The soreness has oddly moved down to reach the top and inside of my forearm as well. I'm excited to not be sore anymore.

This morning was legs and back: many lunge and squat -type things plus variations of pull-ups. I need to clean up my room! There was a bit of the cramped feeling going on. During the calf raises, I thought I could go on forever but my calves started to feel like they were being tickled from the inside..? I can't explain it. But people who know me well know that I'm weird about my calves so that had something to do with it. The calf raises were interesting: first you do it wide-toed, then straight-footed, then pigeon-toed. By the time we got to the pigeon-toed ones I was shaky and tickly so I had to quit. There were also wall squats. You do a higher-than-90*-angle for 15 seconds (or 10?) and then you go 90 degrees, then up again. Those were really hard. The other one was at 90* but one legged and switch legs after ever 10 without getting up. I only stopped on one of them. But I don't think I was exactly at 90* though.

Abs again. Man, I am really not liking sit ups. The one where you lie down and sit up and touch your alternating toe is super annoying because for some reason I end up inching up my yoga mat. The sit-up v-ups are almost the worst. The side sit up things are THE worst. I started to skip that part now. I did all 50 seconds of the thing in the end. I'm not sure how upright I'm supposed to be though.

Oh, two gripes I forgot to mention about P90X:

1. Tony Horton doesn't show you the move first. As a n00b it's most annoying because I have no idea what anything is. And even after I get to know the moves, I won't remember the names (except Heavy Pants. That name is funny!) so it would be nice to be able to have a refresher without a finger on the rewind button.
2. The image on tv isn't a mirror image (...yes... like in Insanity).

Overall from what I can tell 5 days in it looks like P90X is pretty well-rounded. Lots of strength training with a few cardio days. Where's my beach body...