I keep seeing the P90X commercials and I am intrigued. But even though I am drastically in better shape than I was 5 years ago, it still seems unlikely to me that I could do most of it.
Have you tried it? What was your experience?
My oldest son and his wife are heavily into this and swear by it. I have to say that my son has gone from about 20 pounds overweight and out of shape to totally ripped. I used to have a link to his before and after photos, but no longer. His wife went from about 60 pounds overweight to slim and fit. The exercises are rigorous, so if you’re looking for a magical fitness program that doesn’t involve a lot of sweat, this isn’t it. The seem to be eating very well, but exclude certain foods.
Go to this site and scroll down to the second row of photos. The woman named “Jude V.” is my daughter-in-law.
It is a really good program. I didn’t complete it because I got lazy but I wish I did. It isn’t a quick fix program. The guy tells you that it is going to be tough and you need to keep at it, and if you do it you will see results.
After the first week I could feel muscle starting to form, but you work hard. Once wedding stuff is done with I’m going to start up again.
Actually, if you do get it PM me, I’d love to have an online workout partner. I hate exercising but I do well when I have someone to do it with.
I haven’t done it but I have a couple of friends who have and swear by it. I’m thinking of doing it during my off season of running. My biggest problem is going to be consistency, considering I won’t have anyone holding my accountable for doing it…
Wow, Chefguy, your daughter in law looks amazing! I’m totally getting it now!
We have it and ended up stopping after a month only because we started around Christmas time and just ran out of time in the day to do it.
We did the six day a week program, about an hour a day. I obviously couldn’t do everything in the beginning, let alone chin ups, but they give you a lot of modifications and you do the best you can. You don’t HAVE to do 30 push ups, you just do as many as you can, write it down, and then try to do better next time.
The cardio DVD’s are pretty intense cardio, especially the plyometrics. I’ve used some of his moves when teaching my fitness classes and the participants often say those are the most difficult classes I run. It’s really a great program but you HAVE to keep at it. You will get results.
I don’t have any experience with this specific program, but stick with ANY exercise program that does an hour of intense exercise per day and you will see results. If this program motivates you, great. But the important thing is find something that motivates YOU to exercise and follow that.
I couldn’t spend an hour a day in front of a TV screen exercising when it’s nice outside. I’d go insane. For me, it’s been running plus cross training with biking and some weights. Diet is still the main source of weight loss, but the exercise is an important piece of the puzzle.
She managed to break a bone in her ankle doing it, by the way. There’s something called a ‘towel jump’ or some such. She lost her balance and ended up in a cast. Actually, I believe she did Beach Body instead of P90X, but has since moved on to it. She won $10,000 for her efforts and my son won $1000 for his improvements from the company. They’re now both coaches.
My supervisor did it and lost like 50 pounds. I was thinking about it, so I asked him about the “muscle confusion” theory. He said it’s BS, the reason he lost weight was because he’s exercising 90 minutes a day every day.
Yep. It also shouldn’t be overlooked that the other half of P90X is a pretty serious diet book.
The program has a good variety of workouts that help keep you interested and motivated. If you stay interested and motivated in exercise and mind your diet, you’ll get results no matter what. That’s not dogging on the program, either. I follow, and enjoy, the upper-body portion of it (and much prefer running and cycling for cardio and legs).
Wow. That’s amazing.
I think I need to order these.
Keep in mind all the warnings above: this isn’t a magic bullet. It’s hard exercise and diet. The advantage of this over something you try to develop yourself is that it’s a prepared program you can follow.
With exercise I’m pretty good.
Working out every day, for me, is straightforward so long as I know what I need to do. I tend to fall apart when it’s time to change routines, but I’ll most likely not have problems during those 90 days. Diet is another story, but having muscle underneath the fat is still a step above just fat alone.
So basically, this is a weight-loss program that if you buy it they tell you you need to eat right and exercise a lot, and it works? Amazing! Sounds like a real miracle product.
What’s with the haters? No one here is saying it’s a “miracle product.” It’s common knowledge that exercise and diet will help you to lose weight. Everyone knows p90x is a hard core exercise regimen. A lot of people have a hard time, however, coming up with an hours worth of exercises to do 6 days a week. For people who are otherwise motivated to exercise but don’t have the time or energy to come up with the individual workouts, this program sounds like a really great thing.
I’m not really “hating” so much as saying it doesn’t sound all that revolutionary. If it helps you with motivation to buy some videos or whatever have you, go for it.
It’s pretty motivational, from what I’ve seen. If you look at the results on the website, it’s more than just a weight-loss program. For some reason, people who get into this are pretty rabid about it. Many of those people are known to my son and I can tell you that the photos are not retouched.
Hell, it’s sort of nice to hear at least they aren’t promoting a scam, unlike so many other weight-loss programs. But if you can actually motivate yourself to do it and exercise for 90 minutes a day 6 days a week, then you will probably get into pretty good shape regardless of what kind of regiment you’re doing. Like I said, I’m not judging people who need to buy something to tell them that - but we’ve known the “secret” to fitness is kicking your own ass for some time now.
But that’s the problem - so many people don’t seem to get this. They join a gym or start a fitness program, walk on a treadmill for twenty minutes a day and can’t figure out why they are not getting ripped. Using something like p90X is like doing a tough interval or boot-camp style class. It works because it’s pushing you.
Of course a percentage of people want the easy way out… but usually people who want to get into kick ass shape need direction because they don’t know how to put a program together and how to do the exercises properly. I saw Tony at a local hotel last year… and while I’ll skip that multi level marketing part of BeachBody i have to give it up to his program.
I’ve had both friends who have done it… and friends who started and quit. I plan on doing it in about three months when i fully recover from my knee surgery…