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 July 19, 2007

 Day 16: Plyometrics

 I Puked!

 Yes sir… Threw Up!… Blew Chunks!… I was Praying to the Porcelain God! (as we used to say in college)… Whatever you want to call it… However you want to describe it… I did it!

 The first two times through the Plyometrics workout, I was worried that I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough.  However, I didn’t want to push too hard and hurt myself.

 As I wrote on Day 1:

 The P90X program has three phases.  The P90X Fitness Guide says that during the first phase ‘your goal should be to master each movement and finish the workouts in one piece.’  It goes on to recommend that you, ‘focus less on the amount of weight you are lifting and instead try to achieve your desired number of repetitions while maintaining strict form.’

 Well, I’m not worried that I didn’t push myself as hard as I should today!

 I was conscious of the fact that I felt a little less hydrated than I would have liked to be when I started the workout this morning.  It’s been somewhat sweaty here in Concord, MA over the past couple of days, and I don’t think I drank enough water before I went to bed last night.  In fact, I even started my workout this morning a little later than I wanted, just so I could drink an extra glass of water.

 Once I started, I felt thirsty throughout the workout and kept going back for a little more water whenever given an opportunity.  I felt good though, at first anyway. 

 I have yet to actually sit down and figure out how all the heart rate zones work, and what my heart rate should be at during the workouts (I should do this soon).  However, I have been wearing my heart rate monitor during the Plyometrics and Kenpo X workouts and keeping an eye on it.  During the first two Plyo workouts, my heart rate remained above 130 for the most part and got into the 140s on occasion.  During the first two Kenpo X workouts, my heart rate remained above 120 for the most part and got into the 130s on occasion.  Today, my heart rate remained above 140 for the most part, got into the 150s on occasion, and even hit the 160s a couple times.

 Like I said, I felt good, at first.  I felt like I was pushing myself a bit more.  I felt comfortable doing so.  I was sweating and huffing and puffing and it felt like I was doing the Plyometrics workout the way it was meant to be done… or at least closer to how it was meant to be done than the first two times.

 However, about three quarters of the way through, I began to feel a little nauseous.  “I’ve been drinking too much water,” I thought to myself, in the midst of all those feel good chemicals that Tony talked about in the live chat on Monday flowing through my brain, “I just won’t drink anymore until it’s over.” 

 Well, my heart was pounding, sweat was dripping onto the mat, and I was huffing and puffing like I have not done in years.  I finished strong, not feeling too nauseous… but then when the cool down started… all that water started to come up… and I was not about to keep it down!  I rushed over to an empty trash barrel and…

 I Puked!

 Then, I threw up again… then I blew chunks again (actually, there were no chunks at all, it was all water and froth and a little stomach acid I suppose)… and again… and again… and again…

 By the time I was done, so were Tony and Co.

 It was hard because, even though my body wanted that water out of my tummy, my body also wanted to be moving around and cooling down.  I went from a heart rate above 160 (I don’t recall looking, but I did really push it at the end), to on my hands and knees with stomach convulsions.

 Nevertheless, I wiped off my mouth, scanned back the DVD, and did the cool down, complete with some extra stretching and breathing at the end.

 By the time I was done, I felt fine.  And, thankfully, the P90X Peak Recovery Formula remained in my stomach with no problems.

 Although I don’t want to repeat this experience, I do feel like an official hard core P90Xer now!

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