P90x

[Merkaba]

The female and male female bodies work the same way! The bottom line is you would be better off changing your longterm goals and slowly learning how to manipulate your workout and diet. the 90 is a marketing catch. People like abbreviations and catchy titles and the idea of "fast". We're a generation of "now" or we want it yesterday. So "getting ripped in 90 days" is great. What are you going to do on day 91? what about day 289? Are you still going to be pushing yourself in strenuous exercise in an attempt to control your body composition? hell 90 percent of people don't make it past day 30!

And body weight squats, lunges, pushups, jumping jacks, can all "get you ripped"...losing fat is mostly a function of dietary intakes...or at least it should be. Using exercise to control your weight is no fun, more taxing to your body, and usually not sustainable. Get a pull up bar and some dumbbells and you're set.

 

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How could you not appreciate what it's done for some people? Especially this guy in the video...

I am not in any way saying P90x is good nor bad, but I will say you can't believe those before and after pictures. It's all about marketing and it works.

Ever see how perfect those burgers look on TV, now tell me when have you ever seen one like that in person....their all sloppy...

I remember a few years ago some company was exposed using a bodybuilders after pic on a bulk as a before pic.

 

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I can go on with these fake before after pics...

Meet Nicholle, Kathy and Jenny!

Notice the photos of Nicholle Stevenson, Kathy Thompson and Jenny Conrad? They look quite similar, wouldn't you say? Also notice that they lost 35, 23 and 25 pounds respectively.

I copied these images (took screen shots, to be exact) from three different websites designed to look like personal blogs of women who are telling the world about their diets and weight loss success.

 

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Wow....

YouTube Video

 

[petesearle]

P90x Success

HI all,

Let me just start by saying..YES p90x does really work! Me and my buddy have been hard at it for about 40 days now and are seeing amazing results. We have also been following the strict nutrition guide. With results come many benefits. For instance, tonight i hooked up with the girl of my dreams! If i can do it YOU CAN TOO!!

 

[DiGiTaL]

HI all,

Let me just start by saying..YES p90x does really work! Me and my buddy have been hard at it for about 40 days now and are seeing amazing results. We have also been following the strict nutrition guide. With results come many benefits. For instance, tonight i hooked up with the girl of my dreams! If i can do it YOU CAN TOO!!

You should get an Oscar for your cock sucking speech.

 

[TMag]

P90X Success

P90X works, you can see and feel the success with this system. The key is to find the right workout plans that are comfortable and challenging for you, stick with it, and it will be rewarding. Building lean muscle mass, burning excess calories and proper nutrition are the most important things you can do to attain a lean physique.

 

[taiyed7210]

The workout portion of the p90x program are weak. The other stuff is pretty cool for flexability and stamina.

 

[DiGiTaL]

P90X works, you can see and feel the success with this system. The key is to find the right workout plans that are comfortable and challenging for you, stick with it, and it will be rewarding. Building lean muscle mass, burning excess calories and proper nutrition are the most important things you can do to attain a lean physique.

You're post would be perfect if you didn't include you're first sentence.

 

[Merkaba]

I can go on with these fake before after pics...

I'm stealing these

 

[Merkaba]

P90X works, you can see and feel the success with this system. The key is to find the right workout plans that are comfortable and challenging for you, stick with it, and it will be rewarding. Building lean muscle mass, burning excess calories and proper nutrition are the most important things you can do to attain a lean physique.

EVERYTHING works! some are safer and more efficient than others.

Jumping rope ropes too

 

[carter1990]

I personally think this program works but as with anything its relative to how well you put the effort in. I appreciate that this program has helped many people to workout again or for the first time. Tony Horton is a guy I like very much but it should be understood that the creator of beachbody is a multimillion dollar company, they are trying to sell products. Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with beachbody and they create great products one of the realizations I have come to irregardless of how much success you create there will always be people challenging and supporting you. I believe if followed the p90x can create dynamic transformation but if you are driven to success you will find a way and the p90x isn't the deciding factor your internal effort is.

 

[bit14]

haha wow theres a p90x ad on this post

 

[Merkaba]

haha wow theres a p90x ad on this post

Most ad services are automated and rotate out common products, and sometimes based on keywords.

 

[calaja52]

Until you or anyone else gets the program and follows it you don't have anything worth saying. How can a person put down a program not to mention the people on the videos without having done it? None of those people are actors. The people on the videos are not athletes either. They have all gone through the program themselves. Ab ripper may sound like every other thing out there but it is not a walk in the park. The workout is super intense. All the workouts in P90X will make you work for it. As Tony says" This ain't some silly little class from the 70's. Everyone can have an opinion but don't trash P90x until you have gone through it. It will never quit working for you unless you quit. Nuff said

dont get me wrong, i started out with p90x as well, and it got me into nutrition and really caring about what i put into my body, then i carried that over with me and started lifting weights, however i heard a radio interview with tony horton and he talked about how they mix models in with the real people for the commercials. Now granted it is a fad workout to an extent, but anything that gets people off their ass is better than nothing.

 

[TJTJ]

This kid I knew did that sh*tty Pussy90x before he went to boot camp. He did drop weight but come on man, anything thats being sold at 3am is made for suckers.

 

[archanasheth]

My boyfriend and I are on our second round with P90X. We love it. We follow the meal plan and we work out everyday. the first round I went from 112 to 107 pounds in just the first phase. I put some back on during the holidays (typical of most people) and during my 2 week vacation to India. We are back on track with our second round and I feel good. It's a great workout...you just have use a little self-discipline to keep the momentum up.

And I did not buy it based on a 3-am infomercial. I'm not even awake at 3-am. I had heard about it from my personal trainer at the gym I attend twice a week, and I saw the infomercial for it on a Saturday afternoon. I'm glad we decided to do this.

 

[DiGiTaL]

My boyfriend and I are on our second round with P90X. We love it. We follow the meal plan and we work out everyday. the first round I went from 112 to 107 pounds in just the first phase. I put some back on during the holidays (typical of most people) and during my 2 week vacation to India. We are back on track with our second round and I feel good. It's a great workout...you just have use a little self-discipline to keep the momentum up.

And I did not buy it based on a 3-am infomercial. I'm not even awake at 3-am. I had heard about it from my personal trainer at the gym I attend twice a week, and I saw the infomercial for it on a Saturday afternoon. I'm glad we decided to do this.

You said you started you are on your first week of P90X in September 2010. Now you reached your 2nd Week?

Please shut your spamming mouth before I make you and your boyfriend gag on my shlong.

 

[archanasheth]

Clarification

Perhaps I should clarify, second round means this is our second time doing the program. We already completed it once.

 

[Merkaba]

Perhaps I should clarify, second round means this is our second time doing the program. We already completed it once.

So tell us why you're doing it a second time? is it something you wouldn't or couldn't do for a long period or time? Was it not sustainable for a long period of time? What happened to your body in between cycles?

 

[DiGiTaL]

After me bashing about p90 so much on twitter, he still decides to follow me. Asshole!

 

[elbkind]

It works, if you wanna slim down a lil and not worried about bulking

 

[Merkaba]

It works, if you wanna slim down a lil and not worried about bulking

You're talking about slimfast combined with Hiking through the wilderness, right? Because "It works, if you wanna slim down a lil and not worried about bulking"

 

[coach5]

I did P90X last year for 6 months and was able to lose 58lbs. I went from 269lbs down to 211lbs. My bodyfat went from 36% down to 12.5%. I would have to say the actual key to the program is the diet. It was a great jump start for me to getting back into the gym. I was able to tone up very well with P90X, but the size I wanted in my chest just would not come. I will say though that the AbRipperX is by far one of the hardest ab workouts I've ever done....

My personal opinion is that P90X is great for losing weight, strengthening your joints, gaining flexibility, and improving cardiovascular function so that your body will be prepared to start a REAL weight-training program.

 

[Merkaba]

I did P90X last year for 6 months and was able to lose 58lbs. I went from 269lbs down to 211lbs. My bodyfat went from 36% down to 12.5%. I would have to say the actual key to the program is the diet. It was a great jump start for me to getting back into the gym. I was able to tone up very well with P90X, but the size I wanted in my chest just would not come. I will say though that the AbRipperX is by far one of the hardest ab workouts I've ever done....

My personal opinion is that P90X is great for losing weight, strengthening your joints, gaining flexibility, and improving cardiovascular function so that your body will be prepared to start a REAL weight-training program.

You're not going to get size in your chest while cutting calories, dropping weight, and doing 1000 calorie workouts. You just get what you have left over at the end when it's all said and done.

Difficulty of a workout has 0 to do with effectiveness towards a particular goal...why is this type of mentality still perpetuated? Well by programs like p90x and magazines. I guarantee you I or anyone could make a more difficult ab workout! All you have to do is just make up a bunch of movements and bunch them together. That's nonsense, and also has .1 percent to do with actually "ripping" the abs, but you have to give people what they want and what they THINK they want. I mean Tony is 50 and has abs, and everyone in the vids or after pictures do, so they must know what they are talking about. Too bad they don't mention a word about balancing out all of that spinal flexion huh?

Hopefully you'll now move on to more safer and sound work and start mastering the complexes that make up the strong foundation of all effective gym paradigms. Squats, deads, presses, and pull work.

Kudos on the weight loss and for continued work.

 

[coach5]

You're not going to get size in your chest while cutting calories, dropping weight, and doing 1000 calorie workouts. You just get what you have left over at the end when it's all said and done.

Difficulty of a workout has 0 to do with effectiveness towards a particular goal...why is this type of mentality still perpetuated? Well by programs like p90x and magazines. I guarantee you I or anyone could make a more difficult ab workout! All you have to do is just make up a bunch of movements and bunch them together. That's nonsense, and also has .1 percent to do with actually "ripping" the abs, but you have to give people what they want and what they THINK they want. I mean Tony is 50 and has abs, and everyone in the vids or after pictures do, so they must know what they are talking about. Too bad they don't mention a word about balancing out all of that spinal flexion huh?

Hopefully you'll now move on to more safer and sound work and start mastering the complexes that make up the strong foundation of all effective gym paradigms. Squats, deads, presses, and pull work.

Kudos on the weight loss and for continued work.

Oh I've definitely moved on....today is my push day...chest/shoulders/tri's.... but every now and then on my "target day" which is on Saturdays, I'll do the chest and back video from P90X just to help build a little more definition, but most Saturdays are spent targeting my weakest areas which are my upper inner chest and my lower outer chest. As for the ab video....my reasoning for saying it is one of the hardest is because of the emphasis it puts on the lower abs. My favorite ab exercise now though by far is hanging leg lifts.....I can really feel and see the difference after doing those....they just seem to tighten all of the rectus abdominis.

 

[Marat]

An increase in definition is a result of a decrease in bodyfat. Fat loss is most effectively modified by diet. The exercises themselves do not "cut up" or "tighten" or "tone" any muscle tissue.

In order to enhance your muscular definition, you would be best served to reevaluate your diet and drop some (more) body fat.

Following the numbers that your provided, you've lost about 70 pounds of body fat while simulataneously gaining about 13 pounds of lean body mass. That's either miraculous newbie gains or your stats are a bit inaccurate (probably because of bioimpedence bodyfat measuring, yes?).

Either way, good job with the fat loss.

 

[coach5]

An increase in definition is a result of a decrease in bodyfat. Fat loss is most effectively modified by diet. The exercises themselves do not "cut up" or "tighten" or "tone" any muscle tissue.

In order to enhance your muscular definition, you would be best served to reevaluate your diet and drop some (more) body fat.

Following the numbers that your provided, you've lost about 70 pounds of body fat while simulataneously gaining about 13 pounds of lean body mass. That's either miraculous newbie gains or your stats are a bit inaccurate (probably because of bioimpedence bodyfat measuring, yes?).

Either way, good job with the fat loss.

Thanks for the compliment....

As for my measurements...the initial BF% was done with an online calculator so it may be a little high or low, but the final BF% measurements were done with calipers.

I know it seems drastic, but the changes I made in my diet and exercise was drastic too. When I started I looked 8 months pregnant and by the time I finished, 4 of my 6 upper abs were showing. Now this didn't happen in 90 days....it took 7 months of hard work and a clean diet. I lost about 2-3lbs per week almost every week except for the first 2-3 weeks where I lost about 5lbs per week. I did hit a plateau, but when I did I just tweaked my diet a little and added some more HIIT.

Here is an attached picture of me from what I looked like @ Day 1 of P90X and after 120 days of P90X. I had be eating clean and walking about 3.5 miles every other day and already lost about 26lbs when I started P90X.

 

[Marat]

Putting in as much effort as you have will beget positive results in nearly any training program. The heavier one is to begin with, the less likely they are to catabolize muscle mass.

Losing as much as you did is a substantial accomplishment. If you haven't lost a large amount of fat before, you may come to notice that keeping the weight off can fall somewhere between an easy thing to manage and extremely difficult.

Glad you moved on from P90x. That's probably the best step you could have made in terms of losing a bit more fat (if you are interested in doing so) and ultimately keeping it off. As probably covered somewhere in the older posts, P90x is a pretty awful program for setting a foundation that can sustain long term maintenance.

 

[bit14]

i did p90x for like 6 weeks then quit and got a gym membership and got way better results the good thing about p90x is the nutrition plan