Thursday, April 19, 2012

X2 Recovery and Mobility

I don't get it. I tried, I did the whole workout, but I just don't get it.  And I really wanted to love it.

Lets start with the fact that I'm not the most limber person.  I wasn't able to touch my tows till P90X.  But  I will say I did enjoy the Stretch routine from P90X, on the rare occasion I did not sleep in and skip it on rest day.

The workout runs around 55 minutes.  You start with a few sun salutations.  The first of which is so long you want to beat Tony with the foam roller you thought you needed to buy.  After that, you jump into a few easy "mobility" exercises that aren't taxing.  You eventually return to these and I think the point is to show you how much better off you are.

After this, it's foam roller time.  For something like 30 minutes, you roll around on the ground with the roller.  I felt like I was cheating on my wife.  To start, Tony doesn't demo.  He wanders around, "coaching" the other people, which is nice, if you have a clue what you're doing.  Finally, after 4 minutes of working the roller on one leg, he sits down and shows you how to do it on the other leg.  I feel nothing but discomfort.  And maybe this is where I don't get it.  As I understand the roller, you're supposed to use it for self massage.  But all he really tells you to do it roll around till you find a sore spot, and then push on it with the roller.  Maybe the fact I'm not sore is the problem.  But the only spots I could find that hurt weren't muscular so massaging them wasn't doing any good.

You wrap this up and do a couple of the exercises you did at the start.  The "kids" all say how much better they feel.  But there's still 12 or 15 minutes left?  Now you get into the really long stretches.  The ones you hold for 90ish seconds.  There are 6 or 7 of them.  Then it's wrap time.

I've read some other reviews online and people love it.  So far, I don't, and I'm disappointed in that, you do this twice a week and I really wanted to feel as great as people say they do when they finish it.  Unfortunately, that was not the case.  I couldn't wait to finish.

I will not give up on it and plan to try it again, the next time it is scheduled.
Please comment if you've done this and what your experience was.  Thanks.


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