Help with a Few P90X ?'s

P90X is intense all on its own. Two workouts a day is not a good idea, as it is likely to lead to injury or burnout.

If you insist on doing all of this training you MUST EAT, and eat a lot. I am now eating 2100-2200 calories per day on P90X strength days and 1800 on easy days. I'm 36 yo, 5'4", 131 pounds, and 20.4% body fat.

If you want to build muscle, you should do classic and lift heavy (muscle failure at 8-10 reps), but if you are under eating you simply are not going to grow muscle. Muscles need to be fed to grow.

I would add in 2 days of P90x to your week. That way you have the trainer 2 days a week,2 days P90x,, and Zumba. That should give your body an assortment of activites and time for rest. Good luck in 2013

I agree with some of the above posts. Stacking too many workouts each day is just setting yourself up for over-training or burnout. P90X (Classic/Doubles) alone is more then enough.

Also, the stats you provided (don't have age or height), 1200 cals per day is certainly not enough to sustain / promote lean muscle mass growth. You'll definitely lose weight but at the expensive of catabolizing precious muscle and not so precious fat. Eating back calories helps if you can remember to, so why not just set the correct caloric intake for the day instead? Like skylark94 outlined, she's taking in 1800-2100 cals daily depending on her workload schedule and for her stats (which appear similar to yours) still doesn't promote much muscle growth, it does preserve more lean muscle mass while continuing to lose fat.

Are you seeing good results with your trainer? Does your schedule already seem to busy without adding a home workout routine in? If you answered yes to either, I'd stick with what you already have going. Otherwise If you're not happy, or you have time, then give P90X a shot.

If you do decide that P90X is something you want to do, I would suggest starting out with Classic. This schedule and routine seems to offer the most gains if you are at a specific fitness level capable of completing the routines in their fitness test.

One last note, while P90X is a great home workout program. The real gains are ones you achieve in the kitchen with proper nutrition and hitting the correct macro percentages. Upwards of 80% of your results will be this and this alone (strength excluded).

Maybe I'm reading your post wrong. But 2 days of weight training for 30 minutes is not going to do much or is much for that matter. Now should you do P90 on those same days? No. But adding another day or 2 of some sort of resistance exercises, be it p90 or something else, is not going to cause burnout.

Not to rain on your parade (and I love your drive by the way) but that's a recipe for a serious burn out. One or the other.... I have done numerous rounds of P90X and X2, it's enough on it's own.

Good luck on your journey!

If you're going to try it, I'd do the Classic. Mondays are Chest and Back - Since you're with a trainer on Mondays, that could replace P90X that day. Tuesday is Plyo, so you could do that after your 2nd day with the trainer. Then use P90X the other days of the week. You could Zumba on the nights of the other strength training days--Wed and Fri. So it would almost be like doing doubles because you'd be getting a 2nd workout for cardio on strength training days and you're just replace Mondays with the trainer.

Good luck