p90x

[ChadTower]

Heh.  I took Xmas week off because of long work hours and family Xmas stuff to do.  I was going to get back to it last night and had a wicked back spasm getting out of a chair.  First one in many months.  So now it will be a couple more days.   

[shardian]

Chad, you'll be happy to know karma bit me in the ass and I am now doing power yoga. It is pretty damn neat to get a full body workout, stretching, and cardio done all at once.

[ChadTower]

Chad, you'll be happy to know karma bit me in the ass and I am now doing power yoga.

   How did that happen?  Did the wife convince you?

[shardian]

She wanted a yoga video for Christmas. I tried it during my regular workout time on Friday and liked it. Wife is pretty good at Yoga and it worked her butt off too.

The way it had me moving thru poses, I felt like I was doing those 'hit the dirt' football drills...but harder. 

[ChadTower]

The thing about Yoga is it never gets easier.  The better you get at Yoga the harder Yoga gets.  As the flexibility increases you just end up deeper in poses and in more advanced poses.  I'm at the point now where if I want to move on I have to lose the rest of my belly fat.  It actually gets in the way of some of the movements and limits breathing while I'm all twisted up. 

[shardian]

I'm at the point now where if I want to move on I have to lose the rest of my belly fat.  It actually gets in the way of some of the movements and limits breathing while I'm all twisted up. 

NO CRAP!! Hopefully losing bellyfat will be a byproduct of doing yoga.

[ChadTower]

 

Now I have antoher week, maybe two, before I can start again.  Sprained my ankle last night. 

 

[ChadTower]

Did you injure it during your trapeze routine at the circus?

I missed a couple steps carrying some things downstairs into the basement.   

[CCM]

These look like they may be perfect for the P90X system.  Seem to be backordered at the moment, but it's a great price!


http://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2950590

[shmokes]

That is a really great price, but keep in mind it's only one dumbbell.  So it'll cost you twice what it says.  Still a really good price.  Also there's a note that free shipping does not apply to this product.  A couple of those will be 100 lbs. to ship.  Can't be cheap.

[CCM]

I just checked the website.  Total with shipping and tax for 2 dumbbells is $129.90.   Regular price for 1 dumbbell before shipping and tax is $199.99, so it does seem to be a great deal.

 

[shmokes]

Yeah . . . the cheapest I found them on Amazon was a seller that had them for $260 for a pair with free shipping.  Most sellers had them for well over $300/pair.

[ChadTower]

Try CL.  It may be useless for most stuff but it's a goldmine of twice used exercise equipment at half retail. 

[danny_galaga]

Look at it this way - a lot of this stuff is the same type of stuff you have to be able to do to achieve advanced belts in most martial arts.  Is that not manly either? 

nope. real men use guns 

[Ummon]

These look like they may be perfect for the P90X system.  Seem to be backordered at the moment, but it's a great price!


http://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2950590

You'd be better off with kettle stacks, not just price-wise, but exercise-wise, too. Oh, I don't think those exercises are in P90x though, huh? <shrugs>

[Dartful Dodger]

A year ago at a family Christmas party a cousin of mine told me about p90x.  He's a runner and does p90x during the cold months.

This year I told him I was doing it.

He uses these dumbbells:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8477371&findingMethod=rr

He said his son and his friends who were all in HS bet they could do more pull ups than him.

He did 50 pull ups, before p90x 10 was the most he's ever done. A skinny Korean kid came in 2nd with 48. 

He's done the 90 days twice since he told me about a year ago. 

I'm still trying to get through phase 1.

[ChadTower]

I just use combinations of 2.5, 5, and 10lb plates.  They're easy to grip for this stuff.

[shmokes]

He uses these dumbbells:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8477371&findingMethod=rr

Those are the same dumbbells that GNC had on sale for $120 for a set of 2.  Walmart has them for $180 each!!!  Too bad the GNC deal appears to be dead.

[ChadTower]

Seriously, guys, you don't need to pay all that.  Save a couple of empty milk cartons and put sand in them.  That's way more flexible than those dumbbells anyway.

[shardian]

I saw some of these variable dumbells at K-Mart the other day. They were only 25lb max though, but were either 60 each, or 60 for the set. I'll have to look again.

Unless you are a bodybuilder, 25lb is more than enough. You just do more reps, or slow them down. These would also be awesome for 'peel the puppy' set styles.

[ChadTower]

Unless you are a bodybuilder, 25lb is more than enough. You just do more reps, or slow them down. These would also be awesome for 'peel the puppy' set styles.

There are definitely movements for which 25lb isn't enough for bigger guys or guys with a strength background.  Simple things like lat pulls.  You can slow them down, sure, but after 15-20 reps you really should just have more weight. 

I'm surprised we're having this discussion on a BYO site.     Buy the 25lb dumbbells and if you need more weight stick a magnet on the side.  Wrap a small chain around the handle.  Hang a small bag of token off of it.  It's pretty damn easy to find a random 5lb object you can wrap around a small bar. 

[Dartful Dodger]

I agree, 25 pounds will be get to light very quickly, but BYO adjustable dumbbells, sounds like a way to build yourself into a dumbbell.

I use to hold two lower weights in one hand to create a heavier weight, and even while I was doing that, I thought it was a bad idea.

Tip for today:
Don't smash your face.

[ChadTower]

You're not going to be doing heavy weights for skullcrushers in the middle of these workouts.  Even if you got that strong you could do them one handed instead or substitute in more diamond pushups.  Diamond pushups are brutal for tricep work.

[ChadTower]

If anyone wants a decent heart rate monitor at a really good price, check out today's Woot.  I have that one, got it from Woot last year, and it works pretty well. 

[ChadTower]

I think my ankle is healed up enough to get back to work now.  This weekend I'll probably start the whole thing over again.  I'm going to mod the diet, too, so it fits my lifestyle more and is a bit less food.

[Ummon]

Ya all just need to do this:

[AmericanDemon]

Kenpo done.

Dartful?  American Demon?  shmokes?

What an adventure.  I just got out of the hospital.  I was in a car accident right after Christmas and broke both of my legs and suffered a severe concussion.  A laundry list of other complications have helped to keep me in longer than I should have been.  So yeah....  my p90x workouts have really skidded to a halt.  Good job guys for sticking with it.  Maybe in about 6 months I can get back into things.

[Dartful Dodger]

Hopefully you got the worst times for this year over within the first month, so now you can just skate through the next 11 months without any worries.

I caught a horrible cold after the holidays so I haven't done it in weeks.  I'm now healthy, I haven't sniffled at all today, but in general I feel lethargic,(crappy).  I miss the p90x induced energy.

Tomorrow I'm starting it up again.

[shmokes]

I have been very bad.  Only one time in the last week, and before that I went a stretch with no working due to various things like finals and other stuff.  Lately I've been trying to get the hang of my new class schedule, and figure out when the best time is to fit in p90x.  I'm starting to get into the rhythm of my new routine, though.  I'll go tonight, and hopefully keep it up.  In-laws come into town Saturday night, though, and will be here all week.  That complicates things some because I have to take over the living room to do p90x and the in-laws would have nowhere to go really.  I may have to just work out at the gym rather than p90x.  But the holidays were NOT good to me.  Very bad eating and very little exercise.

[Dartful Dodger]

I ended up pulling something in my back yesterday, while just driving home from work.

After a month of no P90X my age and laziness caught up to me.  I forget how important it is to keep working out.  When I do it's that much harder to get back into it.

A ear ago I accepted aches and pains as part of being over 30.  A month ago I felt better than I did when I was 20.  Today I feel like I’m close to 40(which I am).

[Dartful Dodger]

Started back up this morning.   Just 89 more days to go.

[Jouster]

What's up yall?

I got the full P90X set about a week ago, and started it Monday.  I won't lie...I was unable to complete the Chest & back DVD the first day.  I got light headed and really didn't feel good at all, so I passed on the ab ripper X also.  However, since then, I have more or less finished the workouts.  I say that because today I did the ab ripper, but only started at 15 each set instead of 25...I know I simply couldn't have made it all the way through the disc.

I'm anxious to see how it turns out in a couple of weeks...a month...and then obviously 90 days.

I have been unemployed for the last two months and really wish I had gotten it sooner!  I'm hoping that I have a job falling into place here in the near future, and really don't want to falter on finishing the workouts.

Who else is actively doing the program now?

Jouster

[Malenko]

we think it killed ChadTower, if thats true then m going to buy it and support the company

[Dartful Dodger]

If by “actively doing” it you mean once a week then I am.

I did it today, like every other time I feel great and I plan on following through...

Don't skip the Ab Ripper.  I would always skip it, but then got guilted into doing by Chad.  It sucks, I can barely do half the sit-ups, but I felt results from it by the second week.

[shmokes]

I just started again too.  Did it three days this week.  We'll see how it goes.

[Malenko]

Don't skip the Ab Ripper.  I would always skip it, but then got guilted into doing by Chad.  It sucks, I can barely do half the sit-ups, but I felt results from it by the second week.

I did the Ab ripper last night, there were no sit ups. do you mean the sideways thingies where you do 20 reps on each side?

[Dartful Dodger]

Don't skip the Ab Ripper.  I would always skip it, but then got guilted into doing by Chad.  It sucks, I can barely do half the sit-ups, but I felt results from it by the second week.

I did the Ab ripper last night, there were no sit ups. do you mean the sideways thingies where you do 20 reps on each side?

I'm calling all the exercises (fifer scissors, mason twist, leg climb...) sit-ups.

[Jouster]

Funny...I call them torture.

Jouster

[Dartful Dodger]

Hello fellow fatties.

Has anyone finished the 90 days?


I've been down to once a week and some times I’d skip two weeks at a time.

I weighed myself today and I was pleasantly surprised to see I'm only 9 pounds over my goal weight.

I haven't been working out and I'm still getting McD's(or other fast foods) 2-3 times a week.  The only thing that’s changed is I gave up candy for Lent, so I'm going to try and stop eating candy altogether.

I still look like a fat slob, so I need to get back on this program for real.

Am I the last one still doing this?

[shardian]

I gave a copy to my brother-in-law, and he has been faithfully doing the program since the beginning of January. He only does upper body though, so maybe that means he doesn't count. 

Me personally? Never messed with it. I'm a lazy son of a gun.