Lost 65lbs in 7 months with P90x and eating clean. Best shape of my life. A program not for someone who thinks “walking” with the wife after dinner is exercise. Wanna lose weight and keep it off, it’s do resistance training to muscle failure, get your heartrate up 4-6 times a week and stop shoving garbage in your pie hole. I puked the first time I did P90x and by my second round, I could run a 5k in 21 minutes, do 60 pushups, 15 pullups and make love to the wife like a college sophomore. “Bring it” or go for a “walk” and stay soft and full of excuses.
P90x works and is like you said, not for wimps.
You’ll never look at P90x’s German potato soup girl, Maren, the same way again after reading this:
http://www.fitbomb.com/2010/07/marens-into-more-than-just-german.html
GRrrrrrrrr..~! I could almost see you gritting your teeth through all that!
How does the wife feel about the college sophomore thing?
Your mind adjusted your body. Not this ‘magic pill’.
I used to do HIT for weight training and I got very good results.
I got strong enough to squat 400 pounds twice. I weighed 140 lbs.
Since you have used P90x, I have a couple of questions. I have done several low frequency, high weight workouts, centered around the big compounds (deads, squats, bench/shoulder presses, etc.). While they work, they just stopped working past a certain point, and I always had the sense that while I had built some muscle, I really hadn’t gotten any fitter. I really feel that there is something genetic, that my body-type demands vigorous, sustained exercise, more than short high-load workouts.
So I took all of the things I had learned, and built a regimen that concentrated on my weaknesses, but revolved around longer, more intense workouts. I have been curious about P90x, but don’t want to waste money on something that isn’t substantially better than what I came up with.
My big question is this: is there anything in P90x that is really revolutionary? If I work out with varied resistance exercises combined with intense cario, stretching, and bodyweight exercises, for an hour a day (I actually do 2 hours on some days, and take 2 days off after ever 4 days on), am I really gaining anything by buying the DVDs? I don’t need someone to push me or motivate me, and I am always throwing in new variations. And as far as diet is concerned, I have done a lot of research, and am fairly comfortable that my diet works for me. But given the ridiculously positive reviews for p90x, I can’t help but wonder if I am missing something.