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I woke up on the last day of my first week with P90X with some bad soreness. Get the details below:

July 10, 2007

Day 7: X Stretch

Today would have been my father’s 56^th birthday. Thus, the reasons why I am doing P90X have been on my mind all day.

For the first time since beginning P90X, I woke up with some bad soreness. It is located underneath my right shoulder blade.

This is an area that I need to be careful about as it is always tight because my shoulders are too loose and I am prone to shoulder dislocations. In high school, my genetically loose shoulders where further loosened by multiple dislocations playing football, basketball, and, to some extent, baseball… and when I say multiple I’m talking like 25 times each. My shoulder would pop out and pop back in… It would hurt… Numbness would set in… I’d slowly regain feeling… and I was ready to go.

I attribute my current shoulder woes to pull-ups. It’s really not good for me to hang loose from a bar and pull ups are my weak spot. In the P90X Fit Test I maxed out to failure at 6, and am capable of doing no more than 3-5 per set. I feel like this is not enough reps to really be effective and I worry that I am putting too much stress on my shoulders, which led to the soreness beneath my right shoulder blade. So, I’m thinking about trying out the bands this week and perhaps trying to use a chair with the pull up bar in the third week (although this is kind of difficult as my doorway pull up bar is already fairly close to the ground… it might be better just to do them with my feet on the floor).

We’ll see…

Anyway, I did the X Stretch today and it felt really good. Stretch by stretch, Tony loosened up my entire body.

That spot beneath my right shoulder blade is still sore though.

That soreness went away pretty quickly and has not returned. I’ve been doing pull-ups with a chair and no longer worry so much about hanging from the bar as my shoulders are now much stronger than when I started P90X.

I’m actually glad that I experienced that bad soreness because it led to my contacting my MDB Coach, which led to my becoming an MDB Coach, which led to this blog. But, I’ll disclose more about this in my next post…

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