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Do the yoga.

I just finished a round of P90X and I'm into about week two of Insanity. I recommend starting with P90X. Insanity is great, but you have to be pretty good shape to get anything out of it, you can't just jump in. Honestly, If I hadn't just finished P90X I wouldn't be able to handle Insanity. P90X is more of an overall…

I just finished my first round. P90X absolutely works, but you've got to go all in. Most workouts are 55 or so minutes. On strength days you include Ab RipperX which is another 15 minutes, and YogaX is 90 minutes. 90 days doesn't seem like a long time, but it requires a definite lifestyle change (at least it did for me).…

I have the Powerblocks, not the Bowflex. For me, they were worth it for the space savings. I did sometimes have to hit pause to make the adjustment, but it wasn't too bad.

Jillian Michaels is FOS. And I say that without reservation. It is easy and common for an untrained person to gain muscle while losing fat. I know that from my own experience and well the number of posts your see here on MFP and elsewhere of people freaking out that they have just started an exercise program and they can't…

This. None of us are perfect by a long shot, but if the person you are married to doesn't treat you with respect on a day-to-day basis then THEY are the one with issues, not you. You deserve better. Everyone deserves better. Tell the bum to go take a hike.

I believe it. I almost always go over 1000 when I do PlyoX.

Michael Pollan has been hugely influential on my thinking regarding diet. He is persuasive without being preachy, which makes him a delight to read. I highly recommend people take the time to read his books. Appropriate to this thread, he has a great discussion of primitive diets in one of his books (I believe in the…

Have you ever worked on a farm? It is a lot of work. SE Asian rice farmers spend 3000 hours a year farming. By contrast, tribespeople like the San Bushmen and Amazonian Indians spend as little as two hours a day in pursuit of food and spend the rest of the day telling stories, socializing, playing, and interacting with one…

I'm sure your arms look great. You don't "need" heavy weights to build muscle. Look at the upper bodies of swimmers or the legs of soccer players. They didn't get those physiques from lifting weights, they got them from spending hours and hours using their limbs. In order to look like Michael Phelps, you don't you have to…

I'm currently in week 7 of my first round of P90X. The workouts are intense, but you will absolutely get results if you follow the program.

Yoplait t is to Greek Yogurt as rocks are to diamonds.

I started off with bands for the same reason, I didn't want to take a lot of room with dumbbells (not to mention the cost). However, I never really felt like I was getting great results with the bands. I switched to dumbbells and feel like they are much better. I got some powerblock adjustables and they work really well.

Probably never. That hungry feeling is your body telling you that you need to eat. You would be wise to listen. If you eat just real food--and by real food I mean veggies, meat you cooked yourself, nothing processed, etc.-- you can eat a lot of food without a lot of calories. 1000 calories a day will put any adult's body…

I started Feb 21. But I actually did a "soft start" a few weeks earlier. I took it easy, learned the exercises, learned the proper technique, and got into shape so I could sort of get through the discs without dying. Then on Feb 21, I started the program for real. I must finished the first phase and started phase 2…

My wife dragged me to yoga class for the first time a couple years ago. I've been practicing since then, some classes but mostly from DVDs so I'm not like an expert or anything. However, I find yoga hugely beneficial, for the reasons everyone mentioned. I'm doing P90X right now, and P90X includes a yoga day, so I'm doing…

Generally speaking, you don't need or want to drop back into a lower zone. What the zones are really telling you is the ratio of carb to fat loss. In lower zones, you burn more fat in relationship to carbs. As intensity increases and you cross the anaerobic threshold, you're simply no longer burning additional fat. Still…

I've heard nothing good about Jillian Michaels kettlebell video. From the article linked below: "Her technique is appalling," Cheng told me. "What she says in the video and what she demonstrates are two different things. She doesn't break things down into manageable pieces that prompt people to get the correct form, so…

That was the best explanation I've ever read. Thanks!