Chest and Back, ARX

First time today- to do Chest & Back. It was scary- to see the worksheet... and it was pushups, then pull-ups. Then pushups again, and pull-ups again. Then another kind of pushups, followed by another kind of pull-ups. More pushups... more pull-ups... yikes!!!!!! Thankfully it did have some other moves at the end, mingled in around MORE pushups... but then it was "round 2" where you did it all over again! Yikes!!!!

But really... once I got over that Dread and got into it, it was actually a fun workout. A HARD one, but still, it was sorta fun. Because the moves are similar yet different, and it went pretty fast. It seemed that EVERYTHING was a challenge, though I was glad to find that I've improved alot from where I used to be when I was still doing P90. In this workout, there are Heavy Pants and Lawnmowers... just like in the old P90- but now I can do them and they are SOO much easier than they used to be! I'm maxed-out with the heaviest weights I have (10lb) and it's too easy. Back in the old P90 days... it was enough. So I can tell that my strength has increased by alot since starting the X! Yay for that!!!!

I just wasn't sure how hard I could push (or not) because this was my first time through. And Tony kept saying "don't kill yourself on the first round" and "pace yourself" and stuff like that- and I think I might've "saved myself" too much. So next time, I will know to push harder and I will still survive. :-)

Anyway, the numbers... although they seem a bit puny- I know I can try harder next week:
Standard pushups: 11 toes, 10 knees/ 10 toes, 10 knees
Wide front pullups: 6 chair/7 chair (trying to do slow-ish drop-down again, too)
Military pushups: 17 knees/ 3 toes, 8 knees
Reverse-grip chin-ups: 1 without chair, 5 chair/ 6 chair
Wide fly pushups: 14 knees/12 knees
Closed-grip overhand pullups: 7 chair/ 8 chair
Decline pushups: 7/ 8 (drats that I used to do more in P90- but it was also the FIRST move then... I'm more tired by this point here!)
Heavy Pants: 15/10lbs; 16/10lbs (need more weight!)
Diamond pushups: 10 knees/3 toes, 6 knees (surprised that I could do this many of these, actually)
Lawnmowers: 18r/20l- 10lbs; 15r/15l- 10lbs (need more weight!)
Dive-bomber pushups: 10/ 9 (no 'back under the fence')
Back flys: 10/5 lbs; 16/5 lbs (gotta watch the form to make sure I'm doing them right)

And then, ARX:
In & out: 25, arms up
Seated bicycle: 25/20
Crunchy frog: 25 (with a couple of rests)
Crossed-wide leg situps: 25
Fifer scissors: 20 (with a rest through #12-13)
Hip rock raise: 20
Pulse-ups: 25
Roll-up V combo: 25 (oof!)
Oblique V-ups: 8r/10l
Leg climbs: 12/12
Mason twist: 40

Could've done better on some had I not pushed for that '25' on the move before... but I feel good about it overall.

Eating has been decent today, except I did have 2 dark chocolate Twix sticks. I was going to just have one of them, but then ate them both. Otherwise, eating has been pretty good. Time to crunch out the last phase of the X and see just WHAT it can do for my shape and fitness!!