Many of you commented on my post about starting P90X, wanting to know how it was going along the way, or expressing your fears! In fact, it was quite funny reading all the comments about how many of you were scared! You all make me feel so hardcore for even wanting to try it! Here's a bullet style post so that you're not spending too much time away from your families and your new gifts the day after Christmas, if you haven't already had enough of them!
- Flexibility➜ will be important and necessary! Yes, this program is a huge time commitment. Many of the workouts are an hour long, then add another 20 minutes for the abs on specified days, and Yoga is 1.5 hours! I'm already following a training plan with 2 swims/2 runs/2 rides per week, which sometimes includes a brick. I have a child, a job and a life. I'd love to be paid to train, but I'm not, so I'll do what I can, when I can. I will not stress out if I miss a workout.
- Intentions➜ I enjoy strength training, but find that when I go to the gym on my own, I get easily demotivated, bored, and then stop. I am the type of person that needs structure, something to follow. I know that this program works better when following the diet, I'm not doing that. I'm pretty sensible in my eating already, have room for improvement yes, and am still trying to find the balance in the calories I need to sustain my body in a healthy way, and exercising portion control. If I didn't do any other activities, it would be easier to follow the program as it's intended, but I won't be -- I still want to follow the schedule as much as possible, but I won't stress out if I miss a workout. So if anyone out there is reading my updates to determine my success with this program, please do keep this in mind, my results may not be typical.
- How I'm feeling➜ Great!!! I admit, the first time I did the Chest/Back program, I was worried about how I'd manage to get into and out of my bathing suit for that night's swim! I tune Tony out a bit because, well, he's a tad annoying. As I get to know everything a bit more, I'll likely just blast music and follow along with the video, but I'm loving the workouts! Yes, they're challenging, but I am totally PUMPED after each one, I have extra energy lately, and am feeling great! I did though take a few days break to "restart". Plyometrics on my triathlon plan's rest day just DOES NOT work... poor planning when I started. I just felt like starting it one day, and really didn't think it through enough. So, I aligned the rest days to give me a full rest day off per week, and made a few swaps so that I'm not doing heavy leg stuff on long run days, and arms/shoulders/back on masters swim days.
- Progress!➜ I started doubting my scale. I was ready to return it to the store because it seemingly only liked addition and not subtraction! I've lost almost 5 pounds in just over a week... which just simply wasn't happening, even with all the cycling/swimming/running I was doing! It's enough to keep me positive and motivated. Plus, I've got a lot of support and encouragement that is keeping me going! Thank you, it's appreciated more than you know!
If you don't know what P90X is, or want more info, you can check out the website here.
Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. Terron has done it again -- reminded me how caring and gentle he is -- I'm so proud. He chose to spend Christmas afternoon and today with his grandmother, knowing that she'd likely be sad with the recent passing of her son, his dad. He's incredible, and I'm lucky to be his mom.
16 comments:
I hear P90X kicks your ass! Good for you, making some progress.
Your son is so good because of you, you know. ;)
I'm curious about P90X - having just given up my personal trainer, I fear I'm going to slack on the weight training department...but this may be too much with my Boston marathon plan running??? I'll look into it, thanks! Yea for subtracting scales!! My has certainly gone the opposite direction after the past few days of indulging way too much! Glad you had a great Christmas with your son!!
So are you bragging about loosing weight when everybody gains it over Xmas? LOL Glad to hear it's working and you make me very curious about the program. Must check it out in 2010! Happy New Year, Mel!
I planned out a schedule with the swim/bike/run plus P90x and it ended up with almost 3 a days everyday and a recovery day every 3 weeks – I just could not make it work.
That being said, I loved doing the P90x (I only did it for 6 weeks) and I felt like I was getting better. The only thing was that I felt that I really just got better at doing P90x. To be honest I already did a lot of body weight exercises (pull ups, pushups, etc) and I may have improved a little bit. I still think that I can add some of the workouts into my training plan but it would be altered quite a bit. I think the best workouts for me are the Chest/Back, plyometics and Back/Legs plus the abs. I get enough cardio as it is. These are the best all around workouts that you can do at home with little to no equipment. The workouts can really destroy you – in a good way!
Now you have me wanting to fire up the DVD player! Thanks for the motivation!
I hope you have a wonderful New Year’s and that you are able to close the door on some of the pain from 2009!
I've heard of the "famous" P90X, but as you (and the rest of the world who reads my blog) know, you know what I'm into!
I also read how people do it for 6 weeks or so and then it ends up on the shelf with the rest of the DVD's. Best of luck, sounds like you are really kicking your own a$$. I can't wait to hear how all your events turn out for 2010 with how great of shape you'll be in by then!
I agree, Terron is who he is because of how he's been brought up! You're in the running for Mom of the Year!
Wow! Congratulations! I've been wondering about P90X. I'm so glad to hear that it's working out for you... er, or you're working out for it?? I may have to try it one of these days. :D
How sweet of Terron to think of his Grandma. You have a nice kid and you have every reason to be proud.
I have heard so much about that program that I am SCARED!! That is amazing about TErron, what a good kid!
Great job!
It's certainly a structured program alright!
Terron's choices are a testament to his Mother!
Great P90X review and congrats on making the scale move in the right direction in the hardest season to do so!
Terron is very sweet and thoughtful!
yay i am glad it is going well! :) i started the "insanity" program ~5-6 weeks ago on top of running. (it's like, all-cardio, in case i need more of that haha). i like it but you definitely have to be flexible and easy-going like you said! it's not like you are skipping workouts entirely -- you are still tri-training. the program won't work at all if you don't make it work for you/your schedule, so you are definitely making the right approach!
congrats on the weightloss! hope you and t had a merry christmas and happy new year to you both!!
really weight loss always seems to happen when we change things up. Our bodoes need it! YOU ARE DOING AWESOME!!!!
Nice! Glad you like it and it is working out for you! Woo hoo!
Seriously, 5 lbs in a week? All I want to lose is 5 lbs. Geez, maybe I should get this. Great Job! Keep up the good work.
Five pounds in a week? Awesome! Hope you continue to enjoy the P90X.
That is some serious stuff! Congrats on the weight loss. Keep it up, girl! You're going to be one lean, mean, fighting machine!
I've been looking for something in the strength training dept for new years - this may be it. In fact, I just clicked over to check them out... Looks pretty hard core - which I like. The best part is that you can do it in the house!!
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