P90X & RUNNING??

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  • j2cool2
    j2cool2 Posts: 7
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    LOL. Lifting weights and cardio is all P90x is. That's why it works because there's no gimmicks just fundamentals in structured sessions. If you're not an expert in what to do at the gym, most aren't, it's a perfect place to get grounded in what to do, and in a lot of cases, certainly not at all, excel further than a lot of strictly gym folks who tend to focus on certain areas of the body instead of all.
  • Euroboss
    Euroboss Posts: 56 Member
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    P90X is bodyweight. Like doing push-ups and pull-ups.

    Pull-ups are cool, but this is 2013. Lift free weights and use machines. Unless you're in the military and stuck in a tent with a gym nowhere near by, load your muscles with more than your bodyweight. They can take it, you'll grow and you'll chuckle at the twinks that don't.
  • j2cool2
    j2cool2 Posts: 7
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    It's three days resistance, two days cardio, and one day yoga. Unless you want to burn more calories, then after a month there's an additional cardio exercise on the resistance days. On the resistance days you have to use free weights or resistance bands. Only one resistance workout is primarily push ups and pull ups, you still have to use weights or bands, and that workout alternates after a month with one that's more of a balance between push ups and free weights. Also, there's no limit on the weight of the free weights you use it's based on your personal level of fitness. So whatever you can handle is what you pump. What you're saying and what the program about are the same fundamentals. I used to turn my nose at the idea of getting fit from a video, but after doing some research I realized the reason it works isn't because of a gimmick but because it combines everything considered fundamental about physical fitness and places it in a structured format for everyone. Can't go off hearsay. LOL
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
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    P90X is bodyweight. Like doing push-ups and pull-ups.

    Pull-ups are cool, but this is 2013. Lift free weights and use machines. Unless you're in the military and stuck in a tent with a gym nowhere near by, load your muscles with more than your bodyweight. They can take it, you'll grow and you'll chuckle at the twinks that don't.
    LOL wut?
    They use weights. It's not heavy big compound lifting- but they DEFINITELY use weights.

    And news flash- not everyone wants to do heavy BB lifting- not everyone LIKES doing such things.

    that's okay. Neither one is wrong or right- they are two different programs.

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