“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ~John F. Kennedy

I had a few misconceptions about my life before P90X: 1) I thought I was in shape.  I am not.  And 2) I thought I had a lot of spare time.  I do not.

I’ll expand on number 2 first: between work, my daughter, tithing my life, etc., I have some free time, but the 90 minutes per day it takes to do many of the P90X workouts is a lot!  I have had to cut out pretty much all television.  I can watch television only on cardio days when the workouts are only an hour.

Number 1, my fitness level, now: I am in pretty good shape.  But the first day I attempted the chest and back workouts on P90X, I didn’t complete even 75% of the workout.  I kept trying, but after about 200 pushups, I just had to be done with that exercise.  The same went for pull-ups.  After a few sets of ten, I just had to be done.  In one hour, I did more pushups than I had in a month and, possibly, more pull-ups than I had done in a year!  I thought I was in good shape with cardio exercise; plyometrics proved me wrong.

Two days in and I want to die, but I am hooked!