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Dartful Dodger:
Started week two yesterday and did the ab ripper for the first time.  I feel like I've been hit in the stomach with a sledge hammer. I ended up skipping Yoga and legs last week.

Today my buddy pointed out that we started this thing last March and we're still in phase 1.
I need to finish the 90 days in under a year.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on November 25, 2008, 12:10:07 pm ---Started week two yesterday and did the ab ripper for the first time.  I feel like I've been hit in the stomach with a sledge hammer. I ended up skipping Yoga and legs last week.

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Why did you skip yoga and legs?  I have yoga tonight.  My least favorite so far but it did really loosen up the sore shoulders and back.

How many reps are you doing of the ab stuff?  For the time being I'm only doing 10 of each set focusing on quality.  I figure I'll up it by 5 in phase 2 and again in phase 3.

CCM:
For curiosity sake, what is the approximate total cost for everything needed for the P90X system?  From what I've read here, I need the dvd's/books, dumbbells, and a pull-up bar.  

I have a gym membership, so I don't want to spend a lot of cash for this, but I am interested.  If I were to start this, it probably wouldn't be until January.  I know myself too well to think I will stick to any kind of diet with all of the holidays coming up...

ChadTower:

Well, there's the retail cost of the DVDs if you buy them... but everything else can be improvised on the cheap.  My pullup bar is a 3/4" steel pipe held under a floor joist by some 3/4" screw in hooks.  Total cost would be around $7.  I'm using mostly iron plates for the weight work and unless you're already really strong you won't need anything bigger than tens.  That could easily be improvised with some gallon jugs full of water or sand.

By far the most expensive thing I'm using is the projector.  I'm projecting the vids onto the newly drilocked basement wall.  That stuff makes a damn fine projection surface, all perfectly flat white.   :laugh2:

shmokes:
I bit torrented it.  The package included rips of all the DVDs, Scanned PDFs of every page from the nutrition and fitness guides (including all the worksheets, recipes, etc.), and the excellent homemade Excel spreadsheet that Chad attached to an earlier post in this thread.

I purchased a pull-up bar that takes about 2 seconds to mount/dismount it on a standard doorway.  That was about $40 shipped.  Other purchases were stretchy bands that act like dumbbells ($8), yoga mat ($20), push-up bars (pushups without bars eff up my wrists - $10).

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