Round 4: Day 25: X Stretch

I woke up this morning with a slight ache in the middle of my back. I can't think of what might caused it, as this week has been Recovery Week, and there's no strenuous lifting involved in the workouts. Perhaps it was just that I slept in a strange position. At any rate, I felt that X Stretch would work out the kinks and leave me feeling vigorous and refreshed.

I'm not really a huge fan of this workout. It's long, slow paced, and not challenging. I suppose it does exactly what it's designed to do: focus on each individual part of the body and stretch it out. It's hard to make that particularly interesting. One thing I really don't care for is the music accompanying this workout. It's largely organ music (which I actually like, just not the tunes or the way they are rendered here), or perhaps it's specifically the organ music to which I take exception; at other times, it's music from the Yoga X workout copied and pasted over a stretching exercise. Sometimes, I'm reminded of the music played when I was a kid skating outdoors at the rink on a weekend in the mid-1960s. The gist is that the music is not inspirational or relaxing or even particularly appropriate for the activity being undertaken. Someone on the P90X Facebook site once mentioned that the music seems lifted from a porn film. Nicely put.

The stretches are fine. I'm not really a fan of Shoulder Stand; I felt a slight tweak in my back when rolling out of it. I don't have any problem with this move during Yoga, but during X Stretch, I find it difficult, likely because my body isn't sufficiently stretched in the right directions prior to undertaking the move. I'll be more conscious of that in the future.

Overally, a decent workout. I did feel pretty mellow when showering after the workout; however, as I write this, my back is still sore in the same spot as when I woke up. Hopefully, a good night's rest will take care of that.