August 15, 2008P90X Day Five: I Can't Feel My Legs! (331 Comments)"Legs & Back" DVD As predicted, my legs are in the most post-workout soreness they've ever been due to constant use all week. I was surprised by my lower body's resilience, however, when doing P90X's focused legs and back exercises today. The soreness was still hitting me of course, but I found that after the warm up there was still enough strength left in them to complete a great one-hour workout. It was kind of like constant achy-ness in the muscles, but a lasting endurance. That counts as improvement in my book! This is also the first day that I'm listening to Tony Horton's advice for writing everything down. Now that I'm doing it consciously, it really does make a lot of sense. I realized that I couldn't really remember the whole workout from Monday, so I think this will be super helpful come next week. For my notes, I've been keeping my laptop handy on a countertop. After each exercise, I hit the pause button and type some shorthand using TextPad. It looks something like the following:
10lbs. X 25 squats w/ calf raise It's a little messy for starters, but I'll clean it up and make it more consistant as I get used to note taking. I think typing is the smart move, cause I can't even read my own hand writing anymore in this computer-centric world we now live in. One fun little fact I discovered while researching muscle soreness online (cause if it's online, it must be true!) is that the sensation is not caused by lactic acid build up like many people think. Instead, it's simply the recovery process caused by the microscopic muscle tears that occur when exercising. As our muscles cycle through tearing and healing, that's of course how one gets RIPPED! Through my experience, even pre-P90X, I can genuinely feel a reduced muscle aching by drinking a recovery protein drink after all my workouts. I have a MUCH longer recovery time when I go without it. Here's one of the articles on muscle soreness I found.
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