Get ready, get set, GO! P90X Week 1 [closed group]

Hey ladies

Just reporting in after day 1 of P90X and I really enjoyed it - although I think I'm going to ache later! The chest & back part felt really good but ab ripper x just killed me! I used bands for the pull up sections as I've tried a proper pull up but can only hang there! My goal is to start using the pull up bar within 1 months time.

I hope it all goes well for you today

Stacey x

ps Katie, thanks for the calendar!

Good Morning group,
I am excited to get this started. I will be starting tonight after work and before Zumba. I had started P90X before with some friends and they all stopped then so did I. it will be nice to do it again. I can't do pull ups at all so I used bands before. I love the plyometrics that was my fav. So excited for great change.

Ok, what do you do when you get to the chin ups / pull up stage ?????????? Apart from stand there looking like a tw@t proclaiming to the TV that you are in your front room, not a gym ???

Ok, what do you do when you get to the chin ups / pull up stage ?????????? Apart from stand there looking like a tw@t proclaiming to the TV that you are in your front room, not a gym ???

Have you got any resistance bands that you can hook over a door frame? Thats how I got round it in my very tiny front room!

Have you got any resistance bands that you can hook over a door frame? Thats how I got round it in my very tiny front room!

I have a resistance band - but I have no idea how I am supposed to hook it??

My boyfriend had been using a coathook screwed in at the top of the door which worked fine - but you need to make sure you keep the bands flexed so it doesn't pop off!

He then bought a pull up bar set from argos which hooks over the top of the door frame so I just threaded the band through that.
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500002901&langId=-1&searchTerms=PULL+UP+BAR

Hope that helps hun x

Well, I completed it, I found the 1st section really hard - like really really hard, it's not the type of exercise that I normally do or enjoy or particularly WANT to get good at !!! The Ab Ripper was more my cup of tea, but then the disk kept jumping and I was getting quite annoyed with it !!!

I don't think I burnt anywhere near 500 calories so not too sure how I'm going to log this.

I ended up just wrapping the resistance band around my door handle and sitting / leaning back for all the pull up type exercises !!!

Hello all, How are you all logging the exercise?

Hi all, Just wanted to add my 2 cents for what it's worth. I'm on my second round of P90X and love it. I went from 26.7% bodyfat to 18.2%, which is not bad for a middle aged lady. The best advice I can give you is to follow the nutrition guide that came with the program. Healthy eats all the way, you won't be hungry and you will lose bodyfat. The "money" time is the very last phase so don't give up. During phase 1, you will probably want to give up because there is a good chance your scale will go up instead of down. Mine did. Hang in there, I can honestly say that program changed my health and my life. Just keep pushing play.

Hello Lovelies!

Thanks for including me in your group! I showed up, pushed play and believe it or not... I finished the video. Sweet! I found that my wrists hurt a lot form the chest/back. He mentions in the video that you can use push up bars to ease that pain... Does anyone else have this problem? Do you guys use push up bars? The abs killed me. Hahaha... But that's okay, because next time it will be better, I hope

BTW, I am from Oregon and work out at sporadic times because I work from home. I am also attempting to train for a marathon in December. I haven't decided if I am actually going to do it, but I thought I would start training and see how it goes. I think building some muscle through P90X will really help this effort. I amazed myself by finishing a 1/2 marathon in June and it has motivated me to continue to push myself to be healthy and strong.

I'm looking forward to Plyos tomorrow! I haven't done plyometrics since... high school maybe?! Yikes.

West Coast rules!

So, what's the verdict on pushup bars? Do they help your wrist not ache?

I don't have any extra equipment - just me and my band lol.

I'll be able to do Plyos during the day today as I only have my youngest and can do it when he naps (what exercise will this be logged under)?

I would say I burnt around 250 - 300 (MAX) calories yesterday.

C&B I wasn't doing anymore than 10 push-ups (and on my knees) !!!

Hey ladies, good job for yesterday everyone!

I've just done day 2 Plyo and OMG I found it hard and wanted to quit sooooo many times. However, I made it through to the end and am very pleased about that!! Let me know how you all got on

I have just taken some pictures of me "before" - will get my fella to help me do my measurements later on this evening.

I'm going to check-in every 2-4 weeks I think, check measurements and take new pictures.

When I did JM30DS, I didn't see any difference in my body shape - even though there was a really noticeable difference - I just never saw it at the time, until I had put the weight back on. So I'm hoping this will keep me going when I can see differences in pictures etc.

Finished today! I like this one... but it was hard Toward the end I think I just sorta looked like a goofball throwing myself in different directions, hahaha.... The twists helped stretch my back/chest from yesterday so that felt good. I think I will be sore. I have started a marathon training schedule so I'm going to try and do P90X in the mornings on the days that need to run. I am not sure if it will overexert me or be perfect... time will tell.

Insofar as wanting to strangle Tony, our fearless leader... it's not so much that I mind him, he sorta reminds me of a beefy version of that guy on the office, but, more that exercise for me is a time just for myself without phones, e-mail or people jabbering at me. When he's chattering I find it a touch stressful. BUT, you can actually turn the cues off so you don't have to listen, there is an option at the beginning of the DVD. I think I will do that after learn the routines so I can listen to some good tunes and just go through the work out with visual cues.

GOOD JOB EVERYONE!!!!

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