P90X - German potato soup!

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Hunterkiller666
Hunterkiller666 Posts: 24 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Anyone on here still doing P90X? I did it about 5 times 10 years ago and wondered if people still do this as it's a little old school now.

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  • age_is_just_a_number
    age_is_just_a_number Posts: 1,084 Member
    I tried Tony Horton’s videos. They just weren’t for me. But, as far as I’m concerned, there are lots of people doing his and other beachbody now called BODi) programs. I prefer Megan Davies, Amoila Cesar and Autumn Calabrese. But the most important part of any workout/exercise routine you do is that you enjoy it.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,106 Member
    Unless experiences across a spectrum of people suggest that it has unusually high injury risk or other negative consequences, I don't think exercise modalities have an expiration date. :wink: Heck, my favorite exercise is something people have been doing for centuries, maybe millennia, and it started out as work, or maybe even punishment. (I row, boats and machines. Boats are an old modality, machines not so much.)

    Trends move on, and the marketers may even deprecate even their own old programs, hoping that we'll buy their new ones. Back when they were Beachbody, they were promoting "body confusion" for IMO much of that reason: Can't keep doing the old things, gotta do new things to shock and confuse your body. That's nonsense. No serious elite athlete trains that way, and they have the best professional advice money can buy.

    From what I understand, the intensity of the full P90X program wouldn't be a great idea for beginners, or re-beginners. Serious athletic training is more of a gradual build process, if it's going to be effective: Sure, challenging, but progressive rather than instantly super-punitive.

    I agree with the final line of the post above, big time: Find something that's fun for you, ideally, or at least tolerable and practical. Any exercise we like and will do regularly is 100% more beneficial than some theoretically ideal thing we dislike so procrastinate, skip at the slightest excuse, or even give up altogether.

    If I were you, I'd be considering why you only did P90X 5 times, then dropped it. Maybe it wasn't because you didn't enjoy it, maybe it was something else, I don't know . . . but you do. If P90X is fun for you, tolerable, practical, manageably and progressively challenging - it'd be perfect.

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