P90X Help.

[P90Xyberfive]

I lost 65 lbs doing this and at first it was a little hard. One thing is that you may be gaining muscle mass faster than you are losing body fat. As long as you are eating right and doing the workouts you are getting into shape.

 

[Built]

I lost 65 lbs doing this and at first it was a little hard. One thing is that you may be gaining muscle mass faster than you are losing body fat. As long as you are eating right and doing the workouts you are getting into shape.

Uh, no.

 

[Woodrow1]

I dunno why people talk so much shit on P90X. I used it a few years ago and i got ripped up. Of course i've been in the gym lifting weights pretty hard since then lol.....and i will never go back to p90x, but it is pretty bad ass for cardio and beginners wanting to shed fat.

I was 220lb.....went down to 185lb. Now im 215lb 10% bf.

Dont use P90X if you want to get any sort of muscles though... gaining muscle on P90X is not going to happen....

 

[Built]

I dunno why people talk so much shit on P90X. I used it a few years ago and i got ripped up. Of course i've been in the gym lifting weights pretty hard since then lol.....and i will never go back to p90x, but it is pretty bad ass for cardio and beginners wanting to shed fat.

I was 220lb.....went down to 185lb. Now im 215lb 10% bf.

Dont use P90X if you want to get any sort of muscles though... gaining muscle on P90X is not going to happen....

Yeah, that's the problem. You'll lose muscle on P90X - everyone I know at the gym who used it lost weight, but none of 'em got ripped and all of 'em lost strength.

Not something I'd recommend to a beginner - and I say this as a woman who was fat and started lifting at 38. I'm glad I started off with free-weights and fixed my diet from the start, and didn't try to train off the weight with some sort of iron cardio.

 

[Merkaba]

I lost 65 lbs doing this and at first it was a little hard. One thing is that you may be gaining muscle mass faster than you are losing body fat. As long as you are eating right and doing the workouts you are getting into shape.

How did you measure that?

We need an emoticon for "brainwashed"

 

[Auden]

Well, the P90xers seem to be manifesting. I can see a complete take over of this forum within the next 12 months.
Good to hear tales of success, happiness and inner fulfilment. Actually I'm seeing some good results myself in the last week. Funny, if I had just waited it would have saved all this anomosity. Still, it's good for friends such as us to get it all out in the open. It's been emotional. X

 

[Noghri73]

Well, the P90xers seem to be manifesting. I can see a complete take over of this forum within the next 12 months.
.... X

I would love to see how many of these P90xers will do p90x for a year.

I guarantee there will be a higher percentage of weight lifters last a year with their exercises than p90xers that last that long.
And I'll give you one guess which group will hold on to their muscle better.

But seriously, I wish you the best of luck Auden.

 

[tfarewel]

p90x and p90x2 are devloped by experts that have much more credit than anyone on these boards. Im not saying that some people here dont know what they are talking about but Beachbody is NOT just made up of informercial and marketing folks. The program works great for those that want what it can get..and Yes if you do the program 100% with the diet you will get results. I have sceen it first hand, by many people.

 

[Built]

Me too. They turned into weaker, smaller (albeit leaner) versions of their former selves. Then they gave up and started eating again. Can you say "rebound fat-gain" anybody?

 

[tfarewel]

Me too. They turned into weaker, smaller (albeit leaner) versions of their former selves. Then they gave up and started eating again. Can you say "rebound fat-gain" anybody?

The people I know have just gotten better over the years with the MANY great products Beachbody offers..and no, I am not a coach or an employee of them. I just witnessed first hand how great and life changing they are.

 

[iron2]

hey if i were u...lol... i would lisen to built...lol....i am a 44 year old who used to bodybuild in my twentys and had stoped for a while due to unexpected things in life...during that time i had gained a lot of weight...fat mostly...lol....i have now resumed my training....by doing the things she has mentioned ....have been able to get my body back in the shape i want....there r guys i work with that are on ur p90x...and they r always telling me man how do u get bf down and keep ur muscle....so take it from me....lisen to built....from how she looks it would be very wise to take her advise.....but believe what u may.....

 

[Built]

The people I know have just gotten better over the years with the MANY great products Beachbody offers..and no, I am not a coach or an employee of them. I just witnessed first hand how great and life changing they are.

You know what? A lot of stuff works. People have different goals, too - if your goal is to be lean and tight, not very big, and have a lot of endurance, these types of workouts will do it for you.

Some people also really seem to enjoy that type of exertion. If these are your goals and this is the kind of training you like, go for it.

I wouldn't recommend this type of training to someone who is very heavy.

If you're fat, out of shape and 40+, there are better ways to achieve fitness - and by better I mean easier, less challenging, and more sustainable. Dieting hard while training this way is not something I would envy.

(Iron2, I'm glad you found my posts helpful!)

 

[tfarewel]

Oh god, again? Shoot me now...

dude you're not going to gain much muscle on p90x! Period. You're a victim of marketing. Period. You're not going to be lean and build muscle eating at a deficit. Period. Sorry, you've been had. You've been legally lied to by clever marketing and gimmick speak. And like others said. You're just doing circuit training. There is no magic, and muscle confusion doesn't exist! You'd be better off doing your basic core lifts(not all that jumping around "oh look how fun it is" crap) lifting heavy and manipulating your diet.

And to mirror others comments above, you might be eating clean. Doesn't mean anything. You might be eating TOO clean as a matter of fact. The human animal was built on the backs of other animals.... and their fat. And if you're truly 11.5% body fat or even close to that, good luck with doing anything but killing yourself to get thinner. At 11% or close, you're at a point where your body(or the average person's body) is going to start fighting you the more and more you want to lose. Your body doesn't care about what you see on t.v., what dieted down, water cut and dehydrated models on a commercial or anybody elses idea of what is acceptable or "cute". It's trying to survive and protect life. What do you think is a satisfactory body fat percentage? 5? 4? If you're not naturally tight, it's hard to sustain a body fat percentage much lower for any length of time. I'm not saying you can't get lower, but doing it with p90x is something I'd never tell a client to do. Shit you could do Protein Sparing Modified Fast and be at 9 or 8% in two weeks without really working out.

Welcome to the real world!

Good post..except for the fact that p90x works for thousands and is great..

 

[Merkaba]

Good post..except for the fact that p90x works for thousands and is great..

And by "work" you mean losing weight? Weight is water,fat, and muscle. Increasing V02 max? Any intense workout will. Getting ripped? you can get ripped faster if you eat properly and train properly to preserve muscle mass. There is nothing special about this stuff. It's a circuit training. Anyone can come up with a circuit workout and change intensity accordingly. The human body only works in one way, unless you have a disease.

Learning how to eat also works for thousands. Doing football training intensity workouts works for thousands. It's also seldom sustainable. Find two people that have made it 90 days. Again...you can do it and crossfit twice a day for all I care. Have fun with that. And the people who know how the body works can get the same results for their clients with half the time and half the unnecessary stress on their bodies. Why keep bumping this shit to make the same old argument. It is a great workout! So is running a marathon or kickboxing or wrestling or mountain climbing. Go climb a mountain. It works for thousands. Oh what's that you say, you don't want to? Why not? Did you buy p90x or borrow it or download it...or have you even tried it? If so, what were your statistics? And furthermore that post was in response to someone wanting to get extremely low bodyfat. Show me thousands of p90xers under 11.5% bodyfat. If they are, half of them weren't severely overweight to begin with.