State of my Workouts
I’ve been sticking with the P90x workouts I detailed five weeks ago. I have been happy with my results so far. The weights and reps have been slowly increasing. I haven’t measured my biceps or other parts of my musculature recently, but I think there’s been improvement there.
By far the most encouraging thing about my workouts, though, is the stability of my shoulder. I’m no longer feeling any slippage or crunching of scar tissue in my AC joint when I do pushups. Wide grip pushups are relatively easy, while military-style pushups are more troublesome from a strength standpoint than from a stability standpoint.
My left side is still lagging behind my right in a lot of the exercises. It is especially noticeable during bicep exercises, which is a little surprising (I’d have expected a bigger difference in shoulder exercises). The right side of my back is a bit weaker than my left due to the muscle paralysis that I’d gotten nearly two years ago from Lyme disease. Last week those same weakened muscles were spasming a bit on me, so my shoulder blade wasn’t quite working the way it should. The spasming has relaxed, and things are good.
This past Wednesday during TKD class, the instructor pulled out the stopwatch for 2-minute max pushups (and situps). I was able to do 70 full-range pushups, though a couple of them were a bit sketchy. This was at the end of class, and it was also at the day after doing a couple hundred pushups as part of my Sunday P90x workout. Not up to the 90+ I could do a couple of years ago before these shoulder issues took me down, but it is definitely a sign that I’m making good progress.