quadriplegicjon said:How is your wife holding up with it? Was she in generally good shape before hand?
I'm trying to motivate my fiance with this.. so I am thinking of getting the P90 instead.. she is a bit out of shape...
negitoro7 said:Depends what you do in the gym. p90x gives you functional strength that can applied to sports and everyday (tough) tasks. Whereas, if you hit the gym and do nothing but curls, you won't look or perform like an athlete, you would just look like someone who has a lot of time on his hands.
VelvetMouth said:It's good. When Mr Mouth and I started we could hardly do the push ups :lol but it's amazing how quickly you build strenght and are able to do more in just a week or two.
We used to have a whole gym set up and treadmill at home but we're both losers who are too intimidated to try and work routines out for ourselves. P90 really works best for us. The diet for P90 is also less extreme than for P90X. You get tiers of what to eat from which is not a problem for us as we eat pretty decent already. We have to work on portion control though.
Jokergrin said:can someone elaborate on P90 vs P90X?
Jugendstil said:Totally agree. It's definitely a good beginning, especially if you're starting from zero. My only issue is I haven't been completely sticking to the diet. No major slip ups, but I did eat a cheese burger last weekend. :lol
There's a pre-test guide thing in the manual/book. A sort of minimum requirements. After giving it a quick gander... I can't imagine a human being not being able to meet them unless they are in terrible shape+grossly overweight.AbortedWalrusFetus said:I guess my question is, what activity/fitness level do you need to get started with P90X? Can you start it and perhaps repeat the first two weeks, using them as a guide to get you ready for the real deal? I have some dumbbells and a curl bar at home (I have a nice 400lbs weight set), but I have no chinup bar. Is it recommended that you get a chinup bar, or will bands be good enough for that?
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SnakeSlashRO said:It comes down to you. You will not make progress by missing days. I think p90x is set up to make you go and work out everyday.... But even then you have to get off your ass and do it.
p90x is for people who don't wanna just use a personal trainer to gain some mass and continue alone.
EDIT: I used a personal trainer for 5 months, increased my max bench from 90 to 235, squats from 120 to 275, dead lift from 80 to 215. Metabloic rate is sky high and I just do cardio and small weights high rep to cut. Will use trainer to bulk again during winter.
I think that is a good way to go... this is coming from someone who hated weight training and just did cardio all day long and never losing a lb.
p90x, solo, trainer, whatever... It all comes down to making a daily commitment... For me it was seeing a live traininer who could make fun of me if I missed days.... XD a video cant do that. :lol Remeber Cardio twice a day 45mins, and Weights 3-4 times a week will get ANYONE in shape (If you have never trained before and you are young)
Yeah, it's almost cult like disturbing.Anth0ny said:I have it. I did it. IT WORKS.
I didn't even follow the diet plan and the results were absolutely phenomenal. A bunch of friends are doing it as well, and it's working great for all of them. Teens, adults, males, and females, the results are there.
Now I feel like Tony Horton advertising this thing :lol
Hari Seldon said:Alright you bastards talked me into it. :lol
What is the best place to buy it? Just from the beach body website?
garks said:I tried the Chest + Shoulders P90X exercise and couldn't get past the 25 minute mark. Afterwards my triceps were swollen - like very visibly much larger - for about 3 days. Maybe I did it wrong but I'm definitely going to start this soon.
captmcblack said:Where is the cheapest place to buy this thing?
what? no matter how you're working out, it's going to create more muscle and strength and of course be functional. the point of p90x is it changes the routines so you don't plateau. anyway, everyone worksout differently and whatever works for you go with it.Soka said:Exactly.
Curls are mostly realistically mostly worthless outside of aesthetics, imo.
Now let's see someone on P90X push their broken down car a few miles vs. someone that is at the gym squatting, deadlifting, and benching. I'd put my money on the gym rat in getting there the quickest. I have heard nearly universal praise for P90X, though I wonder if it's just that Tony is some how very motivating and that is the key to the programs success. I'm glad to see something mass market that seems like a relatively solid routine helping to get Americans or whoever off their ass and working out; not sure I buy into "muscle confusion," but I haven't really looked into it much honestly.
Mr. Snrub said:The problem with programs like P90/P90X and even Crossfit is that while people say they are "functional", they don't know how to define functional. A curl is functional if it lets you carry more wood from the wood pile to the stove inside. The word "functional" needs to die.
P90X and workouts like it are GREAT at what they are intended for: getting "in shape". Which, for 99% of the population, is losing fat and gaining some muscle. For most of the population, a ripped 160 lb'er is the pinnacle of being in shape, and this is fine. People will get stronger on P90/P90X, because of progression and adaptation to the movements, and because most people who try it are beginners, and beginners adapt to everything.
P90X is not going to increase your squat, increase your vertical, increase your 400m time, etc., better than specialized training will. And that's fine. P90X is good at what it does and that's all that matters to most people.
Soka said:Exactly.
Curls are mostly realistically mostly worthless outside of aesthetics, imo.
Now let's see someone on P90X push their broken down car a few miles vs. someone that is at the gym squatting, deadlifting, and benching. I'd put my money on the gym rat in getting there the quickest. I have heard nearly universal praise for P90X, though I wonder if it's just that Tony is some how very motivating and that is the key to the programs success. I'm glad to see something mass market that seems like a relatively solid routine helping to get Americans or whoever off their ass and working out; not sure I buy into "muscle confusion," but I haven't really looked into it much honestly.
Chichikov said:You'll be hard pressed to find a system that doesn't work for untrained individuals.
So yeah, if you're not doing any exercise, getting on it will most likely yield great results.
However, everything I know about p90x left me extremely unimpressed, and some of its basic principles like "muscle confusion" are just ridiculous pseudo-science.
Also, the best tell that a program might be BS is that it makes claim about getting you "cut".
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Theres absolutely no science to back up these claims.baultista said:P90X's super-amazing "muscle confusion" concept is just based around the fact that your body adapts to movements over time and becomes more efficient at them, causing your rate of improvement to slow down and eventually flatline. When that happens you need to use the muscles in a different way, which "confuses" them. You're now doing something that your body is relatively inefficient at, thus creating more muscle fibre tears and caloric burn (essential for muscle growth and fat loss, respectively). Over time your body adapts to the movements and becomes more efficient at them, and the cycle continues again.
ChiTownBuffalo said:P90X works different muscle groups/aspects of fitness everyday. So, example, day one you do chest and back. Day 2 is plyometrics and Day 3 is Arms and shoulders.
So you are resting the specific muscle groups, well, resting them from primary usage anyway.
Doing it 6 times a week ups the intensity and encourages your metabolism and stamina.
I had to wake up a couple hours before normal so I could do it. But now, it's kind of second nature to me, about 6 months into it. And I have enough energy to incorporate training in MMA in the evenings.
JB1981 said:Great post, Snrub.
methodman said:I want to get this too, but I'm kind of on the skinnier side. Would I still be able to gain weight while doing this? I'm 6'2 175 trying to get up to 185 or more.
Chichikov said:So in short (and take it with a grain of salt, I have no personal experience with this program, I base it on what I read and what I see at the gym) it's a program I would not recommend, but if it's that or nothing, go for it.
suffah said:Maybe it's lack of knowledge and discipline, but again, for the common J6P, I think a system like P90X is perfect. If your circumstances allow you to join a proper gym with the proper instructor/instructions, then that is a more than a viable solution. For the isolated and ignorant individuals such as myself, I wish I started with P90X from the beginning.
Futureman said:Why not just play some baseball with friends, go shoot some hopes, go for a jog, eat healthy?
Why are people such psychos over this stuff? Don't mean to offend, just confuses me the extremes people take.
Futureman said:Why not just play some baseball with friends, go shoot some hopes, go for a jog, eat healthy?
Why are people such psychos over this stuff? Don't mean to offend, just confuses me the extremes people take.