P90X Support Group...

Hello Team X,

Just a quick check in, as I'm off to watch my Univ. Of Houston play some football..

I did a really long run yesterday morning... 8 MILES! I was pretty spent after that but I did manage to get in Yoga last night. This morning I did Legs & Back but ran out of time for ARX so I will do that tomorrow with Kenpo.

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

Team X Rocks!

~Ro

Evening folks.

Just checking in to face up to my poor performance this weekend. I had way too much to drink with my old buddy on Friday night so I had a self pity hangover day on Saturday and didn't do anything. I slept a fair bit and I ate reasonably sensibly.

So I set my alarm for 9am today and actually forced my eyes open at 9:30. The plan was to get legs/back in early as I had a few things to do today. Well I had a cup of coffee and realised that I just had no energy. Major exhausted feeling, so I went back to bed. Woke up again about noon and got ARX in with the plan to do legs/back later on. Went out and did the things I needed to (just food shopping and a few other errands) and got back around 4:30. I genuinely planned to get upstairs and do the legs/back but I fell asleep on the couch until about 7:30.

I don't know what the deal was today, I was just mega wiped out all day! So I'm a day or 2 behind. I'll plug into legs/back tomorrow and track a day behind through recovery week and pick up a double at the weekend to be back on track for the start of phase 3 next week.

6 weeks left. It'll fly by... Time to pick it up a notch if I'm gonna get my abs showing through. I'm pleased with the progress so far. I can see the outline shape of the ab muscle, the seperation is coming down the centre and my 'ken doll' obliques are fairly solid. Just need to get that last bit of bodyfat off to see the seperation between the abs and make it the proper 6 pack I promised myself for Xmas!

Alright, I'm off to bed soon to see if I can shake off this exhausted feeling. Hope everyone else had a better weekend than me. Let us know...

Jay

Weekend update....... Got my Yoga X done yesterday, and X Stretch today to wrap up the week.

Week 8 COMPLETE.

Phase 2 COMPLETE.

Phase 3 starts tomorrow morning with good old Chest & Back / Ab Ripper! I'm feeling well rested, and ready to ROCK phase 3 with all I've got.

I'm going to give the phase 3 diet a try too... or at least close to it. Instead of 60/20/20, I'm going to try 50/25/25 for a while to see how my body responds. I weighed in at only 0.8 lb from my goal weight of 175 this morning, so I'm not really looking to lose much more weight. I still have a bit of belly fat to shed, and want to cut up some more, and I'm hoping to accomplish some of this in phase 3.

Anyway, time for bed, Chest & Back will be waiting for me at 5:45am!


-Mike

Hey all! Phase 3 is underway, and I kicked it off with a bang this morning. Chest & Back felt GREAT!! I really missed that one, we haven't seen it since phase 1!! I saw large increases in almost all my numbers compared to the last time I did this workout in week 3, which made me very happy. Ready to rock Plyo tomorrow, and Shoulders & Arms on Wednesday (another lost classic LOL)

Hope you're all having a great day! BRING IT!


-Mike

Hey all!

Picked back up on legs/back today which puts me one day behind but I figure I'll pick that up at the weekend.

Love legs and back! Although the tip of the day doesn't make any sense! Quality over quantity... except almost every move is a set number of reps! Funny...

Here's another one of my suggestions for modifying a move. This time to intensify it more! Warning: this is a tough move to do!

Instead of throwing your leg back for deadlift squats, throw it forward and squat down with your leg out in front of you. It's damn hard to get low but if you're killing the leg workout by now, this is big time. Try and touch the floor each squat. These take longer to perform so don't expect 25 reps within the time on the tape... more like 4 or 5 but hell if you don't feel it in the quads and glutes!

Anyways, just checking in to say how impressed I am that I've gotten to this point. Y'know without all you guys encouraging, inspiring and holding me accountable, there's probably no chance I would've got past day 30. I'm already thinking about Day 60 shots and whether I'll be able to make out the abs by then. You guys are awesome. Thanks guys for giving the gift of helping me get in the best shape of my life.

Keep bringing it and keep checking in!

Jay

Ok Drew, now you're talking my language! The trick is to increase your calorie intake without messing up your macro split.

Carbs aint so bad, so long as virtually ALL your carbs are complex ones. Check out a couple of recipes I posted a while ago:

Protein flapjacks - great for pre or post workout:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/359279-jay-s-homemade-protein-flapjack

Protein yoghurt dessert - great for bedtime snack to keep your protein synthesis going overnight

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/335967-home-made-protein-packed-yoghurt

These have whole carbs from the oats in the flapjack and simple natural carbs from the honey honey but trust me when I tell you that you need the honey sugars to transport the protein. Mass amounts of protein without any carb to spike insulin have nowhere to go so they can risk being converted and stored as adipose tissue.

Keep an eye on your fructose intake from fruit. Fructose is converted to fat a lot easier than you'd think. I posted an explanation of the physiology behind it here:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/361396-34g-of-sugar-a-day-seems-low-to-me

I've found keeping the fat off a lot easier since I cut my fruit down to 2 portions a day and upped my veg and salad to cover the difference.

Chicken chicken chicken! It's virtually pure protein! Cottage cheese is also money! As Wendy said, nuts are very calorically dense. A handful of Brazil nuts just goes nowhere for about 3 or 4 hundred calories of goodness!

Remember when loading up on protein that your body can only process about 35g per hour. Anything more risks being converted and stored as adipose tissue. I eat 200g of chicken for my lunch every day but I eat it in 2 goes an hour apart as it totals 54g protein.

What's your supplement stack look like? Mine goes like this:

Morning - scoop of whey and water (for cutting) or skim milk (for bulking)
Post workout - scoop of whey, scoop of maltodextrin or dextrose, small scoop of L-Leucine & water on cardio days or skim milk on resistance days.

Creatine - I take this in resistance phase and drop it on non-resistance phase. Throw a small scoop in both the morning and the evening shake (along with adding the maltodextrin/dextrose to the morning shake if I'm having creatine with it). First 5 days of a Creatine phase I take double for loading so 2 small scoops in each.

Hope some of that helps buddy. It really is a game of holding your nerve with increased calorie intake....

Jay

Good Morning, Everyone...

I hope you don't mind me intruding on your thread for a few "rookie" type questions. I'm interested in starting P90X on November 1st, as I'm just finishing up Ripped in 30 at the end of October.

Is this support group a fluid group with various starting and ending points in the P90X program? Or is it a targeted group...ending in the next 30 days? Is this an open group...if so, do you mind me joining in?

That is all....Thanks in advance.

Mocha - Welcome! Yeah, there's a few folk at different stages here. I think we started out with the plan to all run at around the same time (hence the banners you see around with the round start and end dates on) but over time we've grown a bit.

I think when the main round has finished, this group will continue and just keep rolling on with people jumping in to support each other no matter where we're up to on the schedule.

With this in mind, here's a new banner for our group without any specific dates on that people on different schedules can use:



The tag for this is:



So to get this into your signature, you just need to copy/paste it into the sig editor and change the upper case

Hey guys, it's been a while since I showed up here,

mid week 9 right now, I had to delay for three weeks, because of a nasty shoulder injury, I subbed it by a lot of cardio daily (including kenpo/plyo/running) and yoga once a week, though I am now at week 9 and my shoulder is ok, not in the best shape, but my physio gave me the green light to start pushing on it again.

Looking forward to finish that first round, then I will move to a custom 5 days a week until I get my P90X2

Hey Alderaic! Welcome back! Way to stick with it through injury.

Drew - Don't think I noticed any abdominal swelling with the creatine... Although I wasn't looking for it to be honest.. Definitely noticed some great additional size and bulk through it though, compared to using whey alone. I'm on a down week for Creatine this week what with it being recovery week and all but I'll keep my eye on the abdomen next phase for sure.

So I rocked Kenpo today as I'm a day behind. I have to be honest, I'm a bit sick of this one. I'm adding 1kg weights to the punches but it still aint much of a workout anymore... Tony asked at the end if we were out of our zone and I thought "I'mnot sure I was in my zone once there..."

Anyways. All fine and dandy, just not giving me the workout I want and I don't know how I can intensify it any more. I may sub it out for plyo next week. We'll see.

Ooh. I forgot to mention on yesterday's check in but I smashed the pullups! 17 total unassisted! Including 2 lots of 5 consecutive ones! Schaboom!!! :explode: :happy:

Yoga tomorrow. I may need to sub out for Fountain of Youth One on One again tomorrow as I'm pressed for time on weekdays. We'll see...

Keep it going guys, it's awesome to read about your daily successes!

Jay

Hello Team X!!!!

I did about 35 minutes of Yoga X ....I was really getting into it but I ran out of time had to run and get my son from school. We go directly to swim practice after school, in fact, my son changes and eats a snack on the way in the car. While he is at swim practice I have 2 hours to kill so I run to a near by park that has a 1 mile track. I managed to get in 4.5 miles and again I was flying! I can not believe how much my running has improved! THANK YOU T.Horton!

Jay - Kenpo is not doing it for me either....on one of my last post I commented that I only gave a half hearted effort when I was doing it. I chalked it up to being tired but I found myself gazing out of my window durring some of the punches...I was bored! I am going to add weights next time to see if that helps.

Make your workout COUNT!!

~Ro

Hey guys. I'm working on a tough case right now, so I've been logging-in using my phone. I really wish we could look at the message board using the app, but we can't. I'm still getting up and working out at 6am. I am so happy that I was able to establish a workout schedule and forced myself to start preparing my foods ahead of time. :happy:

The next few weeks are going to be a real test to my commitment to this program. I spend a lot of time traveling with this case and my sleeping habits have been crazy. But, I really want to finish this round and win this case. So I pledge not give up on either and to become a pit-bull in a skirt. :devil: