*The Official P90x Progress/Motivation Thread*

[vladdy328]

Originally Posted by Turbo>NA

anyone tried doing ap ripper x everyday? Im goin to try it starting tmrw

Bad idea, that'll work against your progress if anything. Your abdominal muscles need time to recover before you can work them again. Tony Horton himself remarks that at the end of Ab Ripper X.

[duk]

week 6 check in!

sorry for blurry pics

[-=Hot|Ice=-]

Almost a week into it and I hate myself for starting..

[Kingsley04]

I have a quick question for you guys with p90x. I recently had surgery during my first rest week and it looks like I will be missing another week before I can start over. Has anyone had any experience with missing a week or two and picking it back up? How hard is it? What helped?

[ZStig]

it it ok that I'm not doing shit for the recovery week? hahahah

[lopealle]

pll be starting this whole thing over. I was on day 40 until I hurt myself. I just did a little warm up ab ripper x this morning. Surprisingly the abs are still strong even though im 250+

[phrozen06]

im getting back into it my self.

[bhoch]

Originally Posted by Kingsley04

I have a quick question for you guys with p90x. I recently had surgery during my first rest week and it looks like I will be missing another week before I can start over. Has anyone had any experience with missing a week or two and picking it back up? How hard is it? What helped?

One thing to remember on any exercise program.. it's a marathon. You don't get out of shape in 1 week (or month, etc...) and you don't get into shape in that same time. You will get sore again, and maybe be a little slower in some of the moves, but it will come back. Missing a week here or there is fine. Life just gets in the way now and then. Just pick up where you left off and extend the total effort for 1 week. If you need to miss a couple of weeks, just start that phase all over again.

[Kingsley04]

Originally Posted by bhoch

One thing to remember on any exercise program.. it's a marathon. You don't get out of shape in 1 week (or month, etc...) and you don't get into shape in that same time. You will get sore again, and maybe be a little slower in some of the moves, but it will come back. Missing a week here or there is fine. Life just gets in the way now and then. Just pick up where you left off and extend the total effort for 1 week. If you need to miss a couple of weeks, just start that phase all over again.

That's what I thought about it. I'm glad to hear about other guys experiences though. I will be restarting it next Monday and extending the first phase. I live for p90x. The results are incredible if you follow the nutrition guide.

[Gary@TireRack]

Originally Posted by Kingsley04

I have a quick question for you guys with p90x. I recently had surgery during my first rest week and it looks like I will be missing another week before I can start over. Has anyone had any experience with missing a week or two and picking it back up? How hard is it? What helped?

Honestly, it's no different than someone transitioning from not doing anything to starting P90x. Stopping and restarting is not a big deal, it just takes longer to complete the program and the results might not be as dramatic.

It's certainly better than quitting or not doing it at all.

[DFW_MThree]

Here is my before and after shots...about a year in between the photos, the after one was taken about a month ago. I did one round of p90x as well as hit the gym hard, now ive stopped p90x and started lifting heavy 3 days a week and doing high intensity cardio twice a week. P90x played a large part in my transformation but ALOT of it is diet, without eating right theres no point in even doing the rest. Sorry the first pic is blurry.

BEFORE:


AFTER:

[richb811]

Hey guys

Just started P90X on Monday

Started at 276 and I am now down to 271 after 5 days of workouts. Doing the standard P90X (No doubles or lean)

Hoping to get back down to 225lbs

Yoga is a killer.

[vladdy328]

Originally Posted by Kingsley04

I have a quick question for you guys with p90x. I recently had surgery during my first rest week and it looks like I will be missing another week before I can start over. Has anyone had any experience with missing a week or two and picking it back up? How hard is it? What helped?

I was forced to quit for a week due to an injury. I still am not able to fully do all the workouts because my back hurts so much. But I have been slowly getting back into. The surprising thing is, during that week I was still able to lose 5 pounds. My advice is to keep eating healthy and do any physical activity possible that wouldnt interfere with your surgery

[McMuffin]

If that guy with one leg can do the workouts, so can you! Which reminds me, I did round 1 with a broken toe; no wonder it hasn't healed yet

Jpurvis, keep up the good work my man!

Duk, I still wanna see your day 0 pics. Keep up the good work!

[scs]

here are my results:
age 36
height 6' 3"

starting weight 192 with about 19% body fat (jan '10)



ending weight 166 with about 8% body fat (june '10)



current state after some bulking
180 lbs, 11% body fat

[McMuffin]

SCS, first of all I'd like to congratulate you!!

So it took you 5 months to accomplish this? Going by your 2010 dates. Now how about you take the wifey to get her nails done and you get waxed while you're there

[scs]

Originally Posted by McMuffin

SCS, first of all I'd like to congratulate you!!

So it took you 5 months to accomplish this? Going by your 2010 dates. Now how about you take the wifey to get her nails done and you get waxed while you're there

thanks man, yeah i started the end of january of 2010 and completed the 90 day program. after the 90 days, i just ran a few times per week to maintain. the after pic was taken in june or early july. one thing i didn't do was follow the died plan. i did however watch my calories and protein intake. i think the key to the program is to give it all you've got. when i started i could only do a couple of pull ups and maybe ten push ups. i was also only able to make it about halfway through each workout for the first month or so.

i'll look into waxing...lol

[vladdy328]

Originally Posted by McMuffin

If that guy with one leg can do the workouts, so can you! Which reminds me, I did round 1 with a broken toe; no wonder it hasn't healed yet

Jpurvis, keep up the good work my man!

Duk, I still wanna see your day 0 pics. Keep up the good work!

Haha I think about this everytime I have an injury and dont want to workout lol.

[JPWEraser]

Great thread. I did P90x in 2009 and lost 50lbs, went from 265 to 215. I got out of the habit and when winter rolled around I lost the willpower to keep working out so I gained back 25lbs of what I had lost. Now, I am doing my own workouts at home. I mostly do intense cardio on a treadmil or a recumbant bike and I also do some free weight lifting. So far I have lost 8lbs in 3 weeks.

P90x is a great program for teaching you how to eat and what exercizes work for you.

Keep up the hard work everyone!

[adrean8j]

Day 1 for me was yesterday....with an injured wrist at that...wish me luck!
BTW any ex-military in here? Chest and back workout reminded of P.T. in basic training....a lot of pull-ups and push-ups, stuff I did almost everyday when I was active duty....go figure I guess the Army was kinda right...LOL.

[Garduna]

Originally Posted by adrean8j

Day 1 for me was yesterday....with an injured wrist at that...wish me luck!
BTW any ex-military in here? Chest and back workout reminded of P.T. in basic training....a lot of pull-ups and push-ups, stuff I did almost everyday when I was active duty....go figure I guess the Army was kinda right...LOL.

I'm still recovering from my sprained thumb, god...... trying to test lifting weight and the pain spikes to my forearm..... le sigh. I'm only working on legs and core for the time being.

Congrats jpurvis08 and scs!

[lopealle]

Originally Posted by jpurvis08

Here is my before and after shots...about a year in between the photos, the after one was taken about a month ago. I did one round of p90x as well as hit the gym hard, now ive stopped p90x and started lifting heavy 3 days a week and doing high intensity cardio twice a week. P90x played a large part in my transformation but ALOT of it is diet, without eating right theres no point in even doing the rest. Sorry the first pic is blurry.

BEFORE:


AFTER:

Originally Posted by rbrown81

Hey guys

Just started P90X on Monday

Started at 276 and I am now down to 271 after 5 days of workouts. Doing the standard P90X (No doubles or lean)

Hoping to get back down to 225lbs

Yoga is a killer.

I have respect for yoga dude

Originally Posted by adrean8j

Day 1 for me was yesterday....with an injured wrist at that...wish me luck!
BTW any ex-military in here? Chest and back workout reminded of P.T. in basic training....a lot of pull-ups and push-ups, stuff I did almost everyday when I was active duty....go figure I guess the Army was kinda right...LOL.

Who would have thought and im still iun the Army