quote:Originally posted by DRZ400 I'd like to tie you to a tree, stick one on you and turn it up to 99 .... as long as you promised not to get an erection!
6 weeks this 8 weeks that. Some times you make fast progress on gaining muscle or losing fat and sometimes it seems like you are spinning your weels. Things happen in your life , you get sick and miss some workouts or weeks of workouts.
Every time you exercise you can say that you have cut your chances of cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis diabetes and recent studies even suggest alzheimer's. You boost you immune system and metabolism. So the effort is never wasted losing weight or not.
Any before/after pictures come out of this yet? Surely been 90 days no?
My yoga mat is ready to go, dvds burned, before picture taken.
Couple quick questions because I don't have enough internet time to look it up today:
What supplies do I need?
I knew going in needed a pull-up bar but anything else mandatory?
I started watching disc one today. Can I assume that I can just watch everything in order and it's an hour a day?
Any suggestions or experience are appreciated. If anyone is embarrassed you can just answer my questions and worry about your photos later haha
I've never understood the appeal of programs like p90x and Insanity other than people deciding it's more exciting than doing the bare minimum required to get in much better shape. Plus all my friends who I've seen do p90x are fat and can never keep the weight off. Why bother if it's not a long-term solution?
What he suggests (and many others who view working out as a science and not a money-making scheme) is a lot less ridiculous and time-consuming as these super workout programs that get all the hype. It's simple, it works, and it's more effective.
But it's boring, and people are suckers for anything with glitz and glamor. Almost nobody likes taking the long-term path to success, even though it works a helluva lot better.
Your whole "I dress like an office drone and act respectable and then sit on forum where we discuss urethra fucking and public torture" bit still creeps me out. I bet it would creep out your co-workers even more.
Not sure if the idea applies to me let alone the quick and easy fitness solution.
I don't give a shit about long-term overall health or having a generally healthy lifestyle. Thanks to my diet I can't gain much weight unless I really put some effort into it and I feel like over 9000 bucks as far as energy and alertness.
I just thought p90x would be fun to try all the way through to see what it would do to my body. Might as well experiment while I'm feeling healthy anyway. The scheduled "muscle confusion" is appealing to me too because I'm not incredibly lazy but in my free time it's way easier to be given a specific idea of what to work on without putting a lot of thought into it. The variety of stuff I get myself into over the course of having fun is can be pretty physically strenuous too, which it seems like the author was getting to.
Plus I like the idea that I can get blazed off my ass, setup the dvd to mute the music and play the audio instructions so I can listen to my own music, and sweat my balls off in the living room. Couldn't quite manage that with martial arts or my stupid "gym" memberships.
I think it's safe to say that we can close this embarrassing chapter of faux manhood with an appropriate tone of unmitigated failure. Thanks for playing.
I know this is a p90x thread,but I was wondering if anyone has heard of the Insanity program. I've been going to a Kickboxing class for the past few months with great results and was thinking about trying the Insanity class.Has anyone tried it? or know of people who've had success?
I know this is a p90x thread,but I was wondering if anyone has heard of the Insanity program. I've been going to a Kickboxing class for the past few months with great results and was thinking about trying the Insanity class.Has anyone tried it? or know of people who've had success?
I'd be careful. Sounds like the end result might make you end up in congress.
I'm on the last few days of the (90 day) P90X program. I really enjoyed it.
You're not getting pics, but I did see some loss in body fat, and huge gains in muscle mass. I was no weakling to start, though(I passed the initial fitness test with no problem).
Since I liked it so much, I've decided to do a self-devised hybrid version of it, that adds in extra cardio(usually running) and other options on non-lift days.
The lift days are my favourites, so I'm leaving those as is.
The program helped immensely, as far as getting me back into my old routine of working out every day. I got injured a couple years ago, and had a hard time doing what I used to do. I'm pretty well capable of doing anything at this point, though. So I have no good excuse to skip my workouts. The program definitely helped make me not WANT to skip.
I really love the lift days, and now my non-lift days will have more enjoyable options.
Also, I have P90X2 now. I'll work in some of those on the 3rd round, I think.
Couple quick questions because I don't have enough internet time to look it up today:
What supplies do I need?
I knew going in needed a pull-up bar but anything else mandatory?
I started watching disc one today. Can I assume that I can just watch everything in order and it's an hour a day?
-pull-up bar,
-some hand weights in a range of sizes(at minimum, get one set that is light for you, one that is mid-weight, and one set that is on the heavy side), or get some adjustable hand weights.
-yoga mat
Those are the barest essentials. Some pull-up bars can be used as push-up bars, as well. Mine do that, and I love it.
The calendars are mixed up, not in order. The first two months have 3 weeks of a set schedule, then a week of active rest( basically, no lift days). The third month switches schedule every week for 4 weeks, then has the final rest week.
You can find copies of the schedule on the website for free, I believe.
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