p90x Support Group

Ugh. I have been WAY too lax in my eating. It's time for me to dial it in so that the hard work I'm doing with my workouts isn't for naught. It doesn't even make sense to do that. The dumb thing is I know what to do and how to do it, and it isn't that hard. It's just easier not to do it.

Ouch. I don't know what I did, but I just finished Cardio X, and my right knee is killing me. One more day of P90X (Yoga X), a rest day, and then it's on to Slim Series Monday.

Hope whatever you did wasn't serious.... Knee pain is scary! Will you still be check

Hi everyone! I just recently joined MFP and so glad i found it! I have completed 1 round of P90X and currently doing a hybrid of P90X+/Insanity. I am in Phase 3 and added Ripped in 30 to my schedule - crazy i know but im determined to get the results i want.

Jenna

I always enjoy doing Kenpo X on saturday morning. Today no exception.
I had a great morning workout today and brought the intensity with me today.

I feel great, and it starts off the rest of the day on a great note.

Have a great day everyone, and remember "do your best and forget the rest"

I've been a slacker with posting this week, but I got my workouts in. Mon I painted all day at my neighbors house and by the time I was done I was too tired, so I did chest, shoulder, & tris with ARX AND Plyo on Tues. I think I'm crazy. I was so sore the next day I did Core Syn. instead of Back and Biceps. Thurs was Yoga and yesterday was legs and back + ARX. I am so sore and exhausted this week and I'm not sure why. The soreness is as bad as it's been this entire time (I'm at the end of my week 6) and I have really been dreading the workouts. Even while I'm doing them, I'm hating them which is totally abnormal for me.

My weight is at a plateau, but I am hoping it's because I wasn't eating enough. It's so hard finding time to make the healthy foods, and then the healthy foods only have so many calories, so I just wasn't eating enough. 1100-1300 calories a day is NOT enough while doing P90x and exclusively breastfeeding, which burns around 500 calories a day. I'm fighting to get up to where I need to be though and hoping that will help the weight start shedding. I hope you all have a great weekend!

Happy Monday!

Hope you all had a nice weekend. Now get back to working out!!!

I wrapped up this round Saturday and took a rest day yesterday (if you can call working in my mom's yard a rest day). Today I'll be doing "Shape It Up" from the Slim Series workouts. I am so excited! :bigsmile: I'll see how I feel after a five-week round and decide if I'm going to do another one or do more P90X, which was the plan, but I'm not so sure anymore. I think maybe my body is happier doing Slim Series, although I do believe it's good to mix things up here and there. We'll see...

Great job Peter. I have been quiet because I sort of stopped days ago. Feeling a little guilty. Although, I have been enjoying my running and turbo kick was fun last night.

I think I am going to re-start, and do the lean vs. the classic. I might start a new thread to see if there are others doing the same thing. Realizing I still want to get in cardio, and I need to get some outdoor exercise in b/c it keeps my happiness level high, stress level low.

Also, I think the barrier for me (right now) with P90x is that I don't like doing it when anyone else is around. Guess I prefer privacy for the weights and pull up bar / bands stuff. It's easy for me to think "Oh, I'll do it later" and "later" doesn't come. I need to get over that...

I just looked at the schedule and it looks like the difference between classic and lean is the use of cardio x and core synergistics, and not using the chest / back routines. Is this right? Can anyone describe the core synergistics and cardio x workout?

My main issue with the classic version is that my scale jumped from the moment I started using it. I know it's partly due to eating (I ate more some days) but also probably swollen muscles / water retention... all I know is that when I stopped and went back to running, turbo kick, etc, the numbers finally started to creep down again.

I'd love opinions / feedback about the best option if my key goals are to lose fat (arms, abs) and tone up. Also, some suggestions on how to (mentally) get over the scale increase. I know it should be more about size / measurements, but I feel defeated when I work hard and the numbers are HIGHER. Boo! thanks

I could have been writing this very post just a few weeks ago. In the first 5 weeks, I gained 7 pounds...and have FINALLY lost 5 of them. I sort-of kept up with my running and ate pretty well, but that scale was starting to piss me off. I just forced myself to stay with it -doing the classic program, I don't need any more cardio- and get back to the running and occasional two-a-days. The swollen muscles seem to have subsided and I am definitely getting smaller. Not the extreme transformations that other people have had, but I'm OK with that.

So, that wasn't really what you asked for...just wanted you to know you weren't alone. :flowerforyou:

I'd love opinions / feedback about the best option if my key goals are to lose fat (arms, abs) and tone up. Also, some suggestions on how to (mentally) get over the scale increase. I know it should be more about size / measurements, but I feel defeated when I work hard and the numbers are HIGHER. Boo! thanks

I think at some point you have to stop looking at the scale and get your BF % measured and go by that.

I don't know enough about the lean version to comment sorry..

I do know that this round in classic. While my diet hasn't been 100%, I've tried and done a good job. I've jumped in weight from 210 down to 206, back to 211, and this wednesday say 204.5.... It doesn't stay. I know it goes up and down. There's so many factors, from water retention, sodium to food you ate the day before weigh in. I also take supplements (creatine and post workout powder). So I know that can muscles to soak up more and cause more weight.

So I just forget about the scale and don't let it bother me, but start to notice my body more. The legs, arms, shoulders. IMO, they are some of the areas that get more defined before the mid section.

I would think for you, wanting to lose arm fat, that classic would be better because you are building more arm muscle, but I'm no expert. Good luck!

I agree. You do need to do more strength training than cardio to build up the muscles in your arms.

Smiles, I had mentioned before that once you get to a certain point. IMO, Your body starts to feel great. Your muscles are pumping, your looking forward to the workout. BUT I do totally know the feeling of missing the outside workout, and I try to get a workout outside, but not as often as before.

I'm into Phase 2. I feels SO MUCH better than I felt in Phase 1. My muscles feel great, I'm lifting more, I'm keeping up with Tony more and not having to modify.
It feels like the first 30 days were just getting used to the moves. Adapting, or modifying if necessary

Finished Legs and back today.
TGIF
Have a great day everybody.

Hi everyone,
I am just starting month 2 of p90x, and I am having a hard time balancing exercise/weight loss/calorie needs. I am 5'4" and 145 lbs. I would like to go down to 135.
I am fairly busy normally (mom of two young ones) but inactive 2 days a week at work (except for my workout). Where do you recommend to start with calories and how do you work that in to MFP?

It's been very quiet in here. Anybody still bringing it in this thread.

I'm on week 8. Day 60 coming up this week.
Just finished Kenpo X.
Not noticing much difference on the scale but noticing many other things.

Can I revive this thread?? I started P90X (officially) on Saturday. I tried to start about two weeks ago, but a knee injury put things on hold for me.


I need all of the support I can get, so hopefully someone else checks in here soon too!

I just started week 9 this week and passed my day 60. Recovery week was more or a relax week. Back at it this week.

Angie, I know what you mean about the arms feeling like noodles. 1 week after not using them, this can happen.
One thing I did notice in phase 2, was that I seemed a lot stronger in my exercises. It made me feel that the first 30 days were getting used to the exercises, and the 2nd 30 days were actually doing them right every day.

Misskortney - Welcome. Good luck - The best tip I can provide right out of the gate, is to do your best and forget the rest.
Don't expect to be able to keep up with the people on the DVD right off the start.
Some exercises you will not be able to finish, or you won't be able to complete. Modify, modify.

Use your worksheets. I just picked up a sheet that I last used on week 3. The difference of weights used and reps completed between week 3 and week 9 is a NSV all by itself.

@Thumper44 - thank you!! I haven't been recording my numbers or anything, but last night I could tell in just about a week that I was feeling stronger, so I definitely will start keeping track now!

@Frogmanjared - I modify a lot of the P90X workouts because I tweaked my knee right out the gate and I'm nursing it pretty hardcore right now. Typically I wear a knee brace during the workout, and I will attempt any move *gingerly* at first, and I will stop or back up on the intensity as soon as I feel any discomfort at all. So, last night I was doing a squat move that required my right (injured) knee to bear the most of my weight while my left leg was behind.. like a lunge but not - anyway, it turned it I could move far into a squat at all, so I just held my body in that position with my knee as bent as was comfortable and tightened and released my glutes while staying stationary. (Basically I just squeezed my buttcheeks together!) I feel like I was at least attempting the moves and getting my body moving without fully maxing out. Also, no matter what kind of exercise I do, I always ice my knee for 30m after just to make sure I'm giving it plenty of TLC.

I suffer from migraines, but never exercise-related... I"m wondering if maybe you need to really hydrate right before you start? I do get them when I'm even a touch dehydrated, and the exertion could totally exacerbate it!