P90X

Back on track today. Diet was good and got in Chest and Back and AbR X. The recovery drink is awesome! I hope it really is good for you, because I love the stuff.

Do you guys have any thoughts on drinking it late at night after a workout? The last couple of days, I haven't been able to workout until after 10pm. Is it bad to drink all that sugar and then go to bed within and hour or so? One of the things I picked up from the nutrition plan is 'no undigested carbs in your belly when you go to bed.' Wondering if it's different if you just worked out.


CJ - good to hear you didn't get the pizza. I may not lose another pound, but there is no way that I am sweating this much and not going to see results. I am confident they will come. Keep it up.

I finished 90 days of P90X about a month ago. I loved it and it worked pretty well for me. I didn't lose any weight, but I went from 23 is percent body fat down to 16% body fat. I had to buy some skin calipers to measure and use some fancy equation to calculate. If you get to where you are not losing weight, I would recommend the skin calipers to measure fat. You may be losing fat and adding muscle, and if this is the case you might not see it on the scales. I am still trying to get a little more lean and the only way to measure this is the skin calipers. I am constantly going up and down a couple of pounds on the scale. The scale just doesn't give you enough information, there is a lot more to your progress than weight. Skin calipers can be purchased for less than $15.

I now have a gym membership and I am doing Fit-for-Life for 12 weeks to see which I like better, it or P90X.

gfr3228- I didn't want to spend the money on the recovery drink either. I have been using Super Advanced Whey Protein from Walmart (around $13). I like the chocolate, and I mix it with milk. Taste pretty good to me. This works for me and you can have one scoop for two scoops depending on how many grams of protein you want.

Plyo is a killer, I was able to do it all the way through from early on, but it never got much easier. I started to count down the number of times I had to do the plyo workouts. Now that I am done with the 90 days, it and the ab ripper are the two workouts that I continue to do the most. I need to do the plyo workout with my new heart rate monitor so I can estimate how many calories it is burning. I would also like to see how high my heart rate gets. I know it has to be close to max heart rate!

I would stick with P90X as well, but my wife doesn't want me doing it in the morning because I might wake her and/or the kids up and she doesn't want me doing it when I get home because I need to spend time with the kids (which I agree with). So my only option is to leave the house early and go to a gym. Since I have access to all of the weights, I thought I would use them. Fit-for-Life uses 1 minute rest between most sets ( going progressively from 12 reps, 10, 8, 6, 12, 12) except for the last set of each muscle group you do 12 reps at max intensity and then find another weight and do 12 more reps at max intensity with no rest. Then you take 2 minutes and go to a different body part. Then you do cardio every other day, 20 minutes cycling between medium to high intensity. My heart rate stays pretty high during the 20 minutes, then I do the Ab ripper on cardio days as well. So far my % body fat keeps decreasing each week and I have stayed at the same weight, if I can maintain a good diet this should continue.

how many times a week do you do the program i am consiering buying it but i don't want to spend the money if it is not going to work

It is a 6 day a week program (although the 7th day is stretchX day or rest depending on what you want to do). Most workouts are an hour long and you also do Ab Ripper X three times a week which is about 16 min long. It's an intense program but you will see results!!!

Jess

My brother has it but hasn't used it ONCE. So I might "borrow" them from him to check it out. I've heard nothing but good about the program!

Oh yeah, if he isn't using it then definitely *borrow* it!! It's an awesome program!

Jess

Back on track today. Diet was good and got in Chest and Back and AbR X. The recovery drink is awesome! I hope it really is good for you, because I love the stuff.

Do you guys have any thoughts on drinking it late at night after a workout? The last couple of days, I haven't been able to workout until after 10pm. Is it bad to drink all that sugar and then go to bed within and hour or so? One of the things I picked up from the nutrition plan is 'no undigested carbs in your belly when you go to bed.' Wondering if it's different if you just worked out.

If you are working out at night, definitely take the recovery after. Good idea to wait an hour before bed. You need those nutrients after the workout to help refuel! I'm a morning exerciser so I don't have that problem!

Jess

Hey Jess, have you tried the P90X extreme? I ordered it yesterday to try after phase 3. Just curious.

I finished 90 days of P90X about a month ago. I loved it and it worked pretty well for me. I didn't lose any weight, but I went from 23 is percent body fat down to 16% body fat. I had to buy some skin calipers to measure and use some fancy equation to calculate. If you get to where you are not losing weight, I would recommend the skin calipers to measure fat. You may be losing fat and adding muscle, and if this is the case you might not see it on the scales. I am still trying to get a little more lean and the only way to measure this is the skin calipers. I am constantly going up and down a couple of pounds on the scale. The scale just doesn't give you enough information, there is a lot more to your progress than weight. Skin calipers can be purchased for less than $15.

I now have a gym membership and I am doing Fit-for-Life for 12 weeks to see which I like better, it or P90X.

Thanks for posting this. I've been stressed big time about not seeing my scale budge :grumble: so I think I'll get one of those skin calipers to measure my body fat. Congrats on finishing P90X! I'm on day 19 and I can't wait to say I've made it all the way through!

WOW! Are you guys ever encouraging!! I hate to admit it, but I haven't posted on here (much less read) in a while, due to guilt! I just got caught up on everyone's progress, and have been re-inspired!:drinker: I missed 4 workouts (mostly because of sleep!:yawn: ), and cheated badly on my diet for 2 days! I wasn't seeing much change after 2 weeks on the program (P90X), so started getting into a "funk"...but after getting caught up on this thread, it seems that everyone has the same issues, that you guys are over coming! GREAT JOB!!! And thanks to all for keeping me going! :bigsmile: