HELP ME! I need to get in shape. P90X Sucks!

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I know I am a women but my husband and I decided to try Power 90 BEFORE we do P90X. Our research showed that Power 90 was a better choice for us to start off with since it was not quite that intense as P90X. When I first viewed the video (without trying it), I thought there was no way we could get any real results. After doing the fat burning video for five days, I am now more of a believer. The first two days I put everything into it and I was sore everywhere. The next two days I eased up to see if that helped and I am no longer sore. Today I went all out so I maybe sore tomorrow. It also raises your heartrate. We will see. I recommend it.

Just got the biggest loser cardio max at walmart for like $9. Love it! Has both men and women in the video and it kicks your butt if youre not in shape.

You can do P90X Lean you have options...but if it 'sucks for you'....You can start with the pre P90X program...called 'Power90'....!

It's called pushing yourself. I guess you didn't follow Tony's advice to modify. Just because you could not do it does not mean it Sucks!

You stole the words right from my mouth! I could not do TurboJam either, but each day, I pushed it and now you can't stop me.

Modify, modify, modify! I am on my 2nd week of Insanity right now, and believe me, I did not think I would make it through the first fit test! It's all about pushing yourself to your own limits. Don't give up on P90X just because you thought it was too hard. Modify the moves if you need to. Stop and rest when you need to. In time you will find your endurance increasing and it gets easier so you can modify again to continue to push yourself. ANY movement is better than none at all so you WILL see results, even with a little modification.

I've been doing Walk Away the Pounds for 2 weeks now....she has 1 mile, 2 mile, 3 mile, and 4 miles walks you can build up to. They are for everybody, there is a guy in the vids too. Doing this has helped me tremendously, I was sooo out of shape before I started and now I have endurance and it prepared me to do the 30 Day Shred....try it out! I've lost 6 pounds so far!

I know you said you didn't want a video hosted by a woman but Jackie Warner is amazing and def does not stop to do a "booty drop" or "*kitten* shake" during the program. she is no frills and will work you to the bone. Also Jillian Michaels is pretty hard core as well.

as for P90X being too hard, well you are right. it's a tough workout, meant to make you sweat and work muscles that you don't usually work. if Tony says do 25, and you can't push out 10 then just do the ten and then take a breather while he finishes the work out. i can't do a pull up to save my sole, and there is an entire video dedicated to pull ups...but it's about taking it to the next level. After a few work outs, i was able to do as many as 3 pull ups without stopping and without assistance! i was wowed!!

believe in yourself! you cannot fail when you have a little faith and determination!

I want to do P90X as well but I thought it would be way to hard for me and I would just get demoralized and quit so I'm doing Power 90 first. There are 2 different levels so you start off slow with Level 1-2 and then when you're ready you move up to Level 3-4. Still great exercise (and not girly ) but gets you in to working out more gradually and actually if you look in the book that comes with P90X they advise doing the equivalent of Power 90 before attempting P90X. Hope this helps! Good luck and don't get demoralized!

sometimes i move the furnitur to the side and jog back and fourth through the house for 30 to 40 minutes.

I might be interested in the video? $?

You tube and some of the fitness magazines have workouts online you can watch for free. As for the hardness of P90X. I agree it's hard. I'm in week 5 and literally I'm still struggling. It's hard but I just keep at it. I can do more now than when I started.

Hang in there it's hard to find something that you like and can stick too. Make it work for you and you'll be great. You could always look for bootcamp type of workouts so you're not shaking your booty and such. Maybe try that Kenpo workout from P90X. I like that one.

Videos like P90X and insanity are not designed for you to complete your first time around. They are to help you build up to a better and better level of fitness. I've never done one, but seen a few videos, and clips. I think they all have test to see where you are, and if you're ready to move on or repeat. So in short don't scrap P90X, you can make it happen, just be patient. Oh, I almost forgot. While your body is adjusting to the intense workout, you will probably drop a significant amount of weight.

It's called pushing yourself. I guess you didn't follow Tony's advice to modify. Just because you could not do it does not mean it Sucks!

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P90X is amazing! But you have to have will power and actually want to work out. You can't even finish the first video, but yet complain there is not any "manly" workout video's?

I've done two rounds of P90X and I am currently doing a 3rd round (w/insanity). I see your frustration with just starting out because I was there as well. I started doing all the pushups on my knees and often just fell to the ground in sheer exhaustion/agony over some of the moves. But I kept plugging along.

After 2+ rounds I still can't keep up with Tony and his crew but I look for little improvements every time I do one of the sessions. Maybe it's adding upping the weights I'm using, doing one more chair dip then the time before or being able to do 1 more pushup (which I can now do on my toes not on my knees) but its progress. I honestly think people want to look chiseled or cut or whatever term you want to use, they just don't want to put the effort or time into getting into that shape. It's not easy but as Tony says, "no one said it was gonna be easy"