Anybody doing P90x?

kmkylemo
kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
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I'm starting P90x today and could really use the support of others also doing P90x or any advice from people who have done it in the past.

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  • Chanti1620
    Chanti1620 Posts: 92 Member
    Just got my husband on to it, i think he is into week 9!
  • missylectro
    missylectro Posts: 448 Member
    I'm starting P90X3 soon :D
    Feel free to add me as a friend.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    I just did the first day and I feel great after. How have his results been so far?
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    I added you
  • missylectro
    missylectro Posts: 448 Member
    I haven't started it yet. Will start Monday!
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    Oh ok I gotcha. Isn't P90x3 only like 30 minutes per workout?
  • di36
    di36 Posts: 13 Member
    A similar workout for free (although you can buy a coach) is the freeletics app / website. I do this on days im not running or at the gym. Its a great workout..!
  • karenj_m
    karenj_m Posts: 215
    I'm doing P90x and am in the end of recovery week of the 2nd month. Love P90x!!! 4 years ago, I did 3 - 4 rounds of it, then I did the P90x Plus (with P90x = you mixed the two together).

    Fast forward to crap ....I let it all go to hell! :( So I'm started again.

    My Tips to you:
    Do the Classic version
    Lift heavy so you are in the 8-10 reps
    Track your monthly macronutrients (protein/carb/fat) here on myfitnesspal. but don't bother with the exercise part. Use GOALS / CUSTOM to put your own numbers in.
    Track your sodium too
    Eat good as long as it within your calorie total for the day and meets the monthly macronutrients as stated in the nutrition guide.
    Get your calorie total for P90x on teambeachbody.com GET FIT / Nutrition Tools / caloric needs calculator. If you want to loose scale weight too, then knock 500 off of the maintain total calories. Use the loose "some" weight, not the loose ALOT of weight choice, or your calories will be too low.
    PS: you don't have to eat the food in the nutrition guide, just get your totals correct.

    Men do very good on this program, the ones that don't are because they don't track the calories or macronutrients.

    The yoga is way too long ...you can either start or stop it half way OR buy Tony's One on One Fountain of Youth Yoga DVD (44mins. long)

    THe scale might not move for a few weeks as water retention gets in your muscles for repair...be patient,...this is normal.

    Try to beat your previous week's numbers (from your worksheet).

    Use a pullup bar, use dumb bells. Buy some Whey protein (Walmart carries a good one).

    Take pics / measurements now for yourself....do this each month.

    PS: you're going to be sore like a ***** in about 2 days :)

    Go get it!!

    PS: I am NOT A COACH....and I'm not trying to sell you anything (you don't need shakelogy, etc.)

    There's a P90x GROUP here under Community / Groups.

    Good luck
    Karen
  • RobynMWilson
    RobynMWilson Posts: 1,540 Member
    P90X and X3 grad here! Just sent a friend request :)
  • skinnymini813
    skinnymini813 Posts: 11
    I have it sitting her collecting dust. Did you have to do a lot of the modified moves in the beginning and could you compete a full workout? I felt like I could only do it when I get more in shape which is why I took up running/gimping along outside first.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    I've been running 2-3 miles a day and weightlifting for about 2 months now so I wasn't as sore after the first day. I still couldn't do anywhere near as many push ups or pull ups as them but I did the best I could. I think after the first 2 weeks I'll start being able to do a lot more. My copy collected dust for years. I'm glad to finally be able to give it some use.
  • Boxing987
    Boxing987 Posts: 143 Member
    is p90x better than t25?
  • maizerage66
    maizerage66 Posts: 367 Member
    Oh ok I gotcha. Isn't P90x3 only like 30 minutes per workout?

    In a way, yes. You spend a TON of time before and after the workout stretching so the overall workout is really only about 30 minutes. So don't freak out when the videos show that you have 60+ minutes of the video, half of it is stretching and advertisements and the other half is the actual workout. Yoga is pretty much all stretching and you have an hour and a half of it so have fun with that. I did P90x when I got to my heaviest weight and lost a lot and got really strong from it. Good luck to you!
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
    following
  • fatkook
    fatkook Posts: 4 Member
    I am doing the P90X sort of, I use the the upper body workouts ony and supplement cardio for the others, except plyo.
  • jcwatts
    jcwatts Posts: 1 Member
    I am also doing the upper body workouts only and running on the days where you do the cardio workouts. I am pretty flabby after losing some weight and i'm hoping that P90X will help firm things up.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    The only workout I'm not so sure of is the Yoga. I started on Wednesday so my yoga day is Saturday and since I'm a single father I don't know if I'll have an hour and a half on a Saturday to spend doing Yoga.
  • maizerage66
    maizerage66 Posts: 367 Member
    The only workout I'm not so sure of is the Yoga. I started on Wednesday so my yoga day is Saturday and since I'm a single father I don't know if I'll have an hour and a half on a Saturday to spend doing Yoga.

    Get up earlier or do it later. But the good thing about this Yoga day is that you don't need to do every single exercise. Lots of people get good results from half of the exercises performed in this video. But honestly you want to find the time to do it because once you shorten or skip one day, the more likely you're going to do it more often in the future. Just my experience but as long as you're putting the effort in whatever time you have, then you'll get results.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    Yeah I'm going to try not to just skip it cause I know that will send my spiraling downhill. I'm going to do like 45 minutes of it to start and see how it goes.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    I'm in my third week of P90X.

    have fun with the plyo.
  • McCloud33
    McCloud33 Posts: 959 Member
    I've officially gone through p90x once from start to finish and got great results. I'm currently doing my own modified version where I've broken out all of the individual moves for the Mon/Wed/Fri workouts and do them at the gym and then run/bike on the other days for cardio. This has allowed me to do a couple things:

    1) Condensed the workouts from 55-60 min to right around 30-32 min
    2) Use heavier, progressive, weights. The first time I went through the program I was using bands as the heaviest weights that we had at the house were 10 lb dumbbells and I didn't have a pull-up bar either so I was using the bands for that as well.

    I think it's a great program and I remember the first couple weeks just being sore ALL.THE.TIME! But if you make it through that then you should be good. Yoga is long! I usually would cut it short when I went through it, but it did help relieve ALOT of the muscle soreness the first couple weeks.

    Hope it works for you and good luck!
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    I have the plyo today. Luckily I'm not too sore since I'm been running and lifting weights before starting the program. I know this is going to be one of the toughest days though and am putting it off until later this afternoon.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    I have the plyo today. Luckily I'm not too sore since I'm been running and lifting weights before starting the program. I know this is going to be one of the toughest days though and am putting it off until later this afternoon.

    Basically plyo is 30 sec intervals of high impact moves. I consider myself in decent shape and it gasses me hard. I would recommend rather than trying to do 30 sec of each move and burning out completely half way through you instead do 15 seconds of each move so you get that extra room to breath in between, it'll still destroy you most likely trust me.

    I mean on your first time through you can try to do the full 30 sec per move but if you can't don't feel bad about it, I can't do it. I wear a heart rate monitor and for the 60 min workout it says I'm in my aerobic range for 20 minutes. The reason it says that is that for 35 minutes I'm above my aerobic range at like 170+ bpm.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind. I always go out and try to kill every exercise so I don't want to be just drained 10 minutes in.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Thanks, I'll definitely keep that in mind. I always go out and try to kill every exercise so I don't want to be just drained 10 minutes in.

    Plyo is the one routine in all of P90X that they give an alternate routine for in case you cannot do it. So yeah, it is tough.

    If you can even do every move for half the time (15 sec) I think you are doing damn well. Oh well, you will see.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    Yeah I'll post back on here a let everyone know how it went. I'm sure after I lie on the floor for half an hour recovering lol.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    One thing I will say about P90X is I think it is a fantastic way to really push yourself and take your cardiovascular fitness and muscle endurance to new levels. I do not, however, think its particularly a good muscle-building or strength-building routine. Seems like the moves come to fast and furious without adequate rest so you are forced to use lower weight as a result.

    I think its great for your endurance and fitness and for weight loss along with diet. I very much doubt I will be making muscle or even strength gains with this though given I'm at calorie deficit for weight loss.

    Don't get me wrong I think its great, but I also think all those "before after" pictures that end with a greek-god body what you are seeing is someone who had a greek-god body and a little bit of pudge covering it losing that pudge and that's it. Don't expect miracles.
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    Yeah I'm going to be realistic when in comes to my expectations. I really just want that shredded look. As far as strength is concerned I just want to be able to control my own body like with push ups, pull ups, jumping and stuff.
  • missylectro
    missylectro Posts: 448 Member
    I'm in my third week of P90X.

    have fun with the plyo.
    There's plyo? Urgh...
  • kmkylemo
    kmkylemo Posts: 1,103
    I just finished the plyo and it is definitely tough. The 15 second idea really came in handy. There were times I got really tired right at the beginning of one of the moves but I just told myself to get at least through the first 15 seconds of each and for the most part I pushed myself past 20 seconds. I really liked the sports part at the end too. Being a former pitcher in baseball I found that part a lot of fun.

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