Bring it !!! New beginning ~~~ P90X ~~~

Sunny · **Posted:** Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:16 am

This morning was my first day of "P90X", WOW... what a workout. :eek:

Pull-ups , push-ups , fall on your face from exhaustion, I managed to do between 10 and 15 of each, thats alot for me. :shock:

I told my son I want the bands like one guy was using, he just laughed. :lol:

The weights were the easy part for me, I am used to those moves, no problem, all though I did need to use a heavier weight. :cool:

Then after all that the "AB Ripper X" starts next ~~~OMG~~~ I do crunches, but this is just pure evil :twisted:

My abs are still burning from that workout. YIKES!!!! The crazy part the instructor Tony, he never seems to sweat, does the guy have sweat glands :question:

All in all I feel pretty good now, tomorrow is Plyometrics that should be fun. :-D

I'm being optimistic here :lol:

hope101 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:41 pm **Posts:** 1941

I am so glad you are posting this. Between you and groundhogg you are going to inspire me to new fitness heights. Either that or develop my abs from laughing at you guys. :eek:

Our local "saw it on TV" store might be getting the p90x in. I would rather get it that way than pay the customs from shipping from the States. I don't have much left pectoral muscle (born that way) and can't do even one push up. Honestly, would there even be a point to me contemplating this program?

Sunny · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:01 am

Hi Hope,
Push-ups are only one part of the whole scheme of things, there is a modification for push-ups, you are on your knees which helps, your pushing less weight. You should check out the website and if you can find an infomercial that would be great, also on the website the P90X is not the only work out system they have, there are many others, one might suit you better. :-D

groundhogg · **Posted:** Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:32 pm

Cool, Sunny! I think you seem to be taking it better, MUCH better, than I did!!!

Hope 101...I have no excuses, but have always found pushups extremely awkward and near impossible. I can't seem to get it to do them on my knees either (although I did do that during day 1 of phase II, because I just couldn't go on otherwise, it was so tough...then got blistered knee caps becuase of it!!!).

Anyway, if you can manage them from your knees...you might do okay. Also...I think there is a lean option (groundhoggie has the book in her possession...so I'm not sure) in which you replace their cardio X for the pushups ones, for people who don't want to build the big arms, etc. I don't know this for certain, and I've never done their cardio x routine, so I don't know how that is either. Maybe Sunny has the book and can aswer that one better!

hope101 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:41 pm **Posts:** 1941

Okay, good to know there might be some modifications. In dance class we do pushups, which for me consists of being on all fours. I can't even do it from my knees.

Oh well, I guess some is better than none.

Sunny · **Posted:** Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:48 am

Hi guys ~~~ When I was in Junior High we had another option to push-ups, you stand in front of a wall, with feet together, arms length away, hands on the wall, press in elbows out and push off, and repeat so it was a standing push-up, not as strenous. :-D

hope101 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:41 pm **Posts:** 1941

Sunny, that sounds like my kind of push up. :thumbsup:

DianeR · **Joined:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:29 am **Posts:** 1279

OK, I've decided to try this out -- just placed the order. (Is the process annoying or what? You press the button to order ... but wait there's more ... just click here & we'll throw this in ... on and on). There are enough of us now, maybe we should all go over to their discussion board and argue about nutrition :lol:

I don't know if this program will be better than the ones I already have. But I'll at least do it because I've spent the money. :cool:

Plus I'm the sort that if there is a list saying do this on day 1, do this on day 2, etc., I'm more likely to do it than figuring, hmmm, what should I do today? The latter leads me to spending too much time on the internet & too little time exercising

slugmom · **Joined:** Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:47 pm **Posts:** 1407

Alright DianeR and Sunny, did YOU TWO take before pix?
If not, take them, quick!
Those of us getting buff in our imaginations, vicariously, through your effort would like to see before & after

Sunny · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:47 am

Hi Diane,
I'm glad you are going to give it a try. :-D

I love it, I look forward to working out. In just the few days I have been using it I feel great. :-D

Hi Kim,
Yes I took a picture UGH !!! :-D

groundhogg · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:33 am

DianeR...

I can just about guarantee this'll be better than whatever you've been doing.

I mean, well I've been pretty sedentary, mostly, for the past several years, but I used to work out regularly, and pretty hard, I thought! For me, p90x is beyond any workout I've ever heard of.

We're seeing good results so far, even though I sure got pretty fat after going gluten free

-- now I'm also trying to not eat so much anymore, which is getting easier...I mean, to just eat like a normal person instead of the chronic, pigging out I'd gotten into before. That's the reason I didn't take any before pictures...I'd never been that fat since I was pregnant...scary! Anyway, between eating more like a normal person, and doing the p90x, things are changing pretty fast.

One of my friends who came up to visit us over the weekend was subjected to my chronic whining about p90x (groundhogs just never shut up

), thought we were looking pretty good, and then decided to order one too...then she e-mailed us and said she had fears of not being able to keep up...groundhubby answered the e-mail...I told him just to tell her if she got the DVDs and actually could keep up, we'd be scared of her!!!

The thing is tough. Groundhubby and I were talking last night about how it's pretty amazing when you see some of this stuff, and you think, "Well, I'll NEVER be able to do that particular exercise, or that many reps, that much weight..." whatever...and then, by the 3rd week of that phase, you see yourself improving a lot more than you thought possible...and you realize that we just don't push ourselves hard enough...Tony is a good coach...he pushes...you get really fed up and exhausted and feel like there's just no way you can keep up...and then you see results, get motivated to try even harder next time around, Tony encourages you in his own funny/odd ways...and it all just gets better and better from there.

Congratulations!!!!!! You'll be BRINGING IT with us, very soon.

I do plan to take AFTER pictures...not sure my weight will be pre-deglutening level by then...but as long as I'm seeing some nice muscles growing...it'll be okay...I guess I can stand it!!!!

Let us know when your DVDs arrive!

DianeR · **Joined:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:29 am **Posts:** 1279

I'm sure it will be better than what I've been doing because I often haven't been doing it

I was far more motivated when I was trying to lose weight. Now that I want strength, toning, more defined muscles, or whatever it seems easier to put it off.

I won't be able to do the full 90 days all together because of a vacation the first two weeks of June. Hard to believe we're that close to summer ... the weather can't decide if it's spring yet. I think there will be a gym available & I can take my exercise bands.

I haven't quite figured out how the bands are supposed to substitute for pullups. All I can find on the web site is that you attach one to a door (but in the middle??) We'll see ... I suppose if I get all strong and ripped and all I can get one of those pullup towers & put it in the corner of the room. My husband doesn't want to put a pull up bar in a doorway, because he would be banging his head against the thing. I also want to make sure that I can at some point actually DO one of the things ... I know when I've tried before I've just hung there :oops:

I don't know how well a picture could gauge my progress. I've lost all the weight I want to lose, so I expect my skin will tighten up on its own over time. That won't be because of the exercise. I am going to use a tape measure & some calipers to see what happens to my body fat percentage & muscles, take some heart rate measurements, etc.

Now I wish I hadn't dithered so long. It would have been nice to start at the same time as you, Sunny. We could commiserate at the same time.

Anybody else out there on the fence? Order now & we can start at the same time.

groundhogg · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:58 am

I can't do pullups, or more exactly A PULLUP :oops:

, either.

I tried doing them backwards to learn...i'd read somewhere that if you get yourself up there and then try to slowly lower yourself back down, you can sort of learn to actually do pullups...I tried that and my body just snapped down like it was a hanging...my shoulders did NOT appreciate that at all!!!!

P90X shows you how to use a chair to assist yourself with pullups UNTIL you can get it, or, for those who are exhausted after doing real pullups ad nauseum...as those beasts do on the DVDs, then once you reach exhaustion you can begin using the chair to continue with the reps.

I use the chair and do more reps than they do on the DVDs...I look forward to the day, IF it ever gets here, when I CAN do even just one lousy REAL PULLUP!!!! We have a pullup bar...it is a bummer in a way...I mean, we should really take it down between workouts (yeah, but we're too lazy to do that, I guess, cuz we don't

)--but when anybody tall comes over, we have to warn them to duck when they go into the kitchen, or, WHAM, right across the top of the head! :shock:

Our pullup bar has two sets of jobber-doobs that it fits into...so it said on the instructions you could either put the second set down low to anchor feet for situps, or put it waist level to do a variation of pullups from lying on your back. We placed them waist level, and tried that and thought those were reasonably difficult, yet easily do-able pullups like that...lying on your back and pulling yourself up. Once we get done with our first p90x, straight through the 90 days, we plan to begin it once again at a slower pace...and throw in our own various workouts in between the p90x days. At that point, we'll include the lying-from-the-floor style pullups on our own, and then continue with the regular style pullups (with chair as necessary---ALL THE TIME FOR ME :cry:

) when we do the p90x workouts.

Ugh...feel like I'm writing lots of stuff!!!!

DianeR · **Joined:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:29 am **Posts:** 1279

groundhogg wrote:

Our pullup bar has two sets of jobber-doobs that it fits into...so it said on the instructions you could either put the second set down low to anchor feet for situps, or put it waist level to do a variation of pullups from lying on your back. We placed them waist level, and tried that and thought those were reasonably difficult, yet easily do-able pullups like that...lying on your back and pulling yourself up.

I may try that. I read on the Beachbody discussion board when I was trying to research this issue that Jack LaLaine used to recommend putting a pole on top of two chairs & then pulling up from the floor. I have a dowel for use in Firm videos. I tried this trick & I can pull up. Maybe there is some way to elevate my feet so my butt isn't on the ground & I would then be -- theoretically

-- pulling up more of my weight. I'll have to play around with this a bit.

What kind of pull up bar do you have? I had one years ago but it was cheap and kept slowly falling down & scraping the paint from the door jamb. Hence, my husband's thought that only a permanent one would work & he doesn't want that. If I can find something stable that can easily go up & down it might work!

hope101 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:41 pm **Posts:** 1941

Hey, DianeR, a possible solution to an expensive pullup bar is what my husband did for me in the basement so I could stretch out my shoulders. He is an engineer, so of course, it would support an elephant. He took a length of pipe (the grey kind that has to be at least an inch in diameter), put some attachments on the end and suspended it from a chain and then bolted both ends in a beam. There is no way that sucker would give way. You'd have to have someone who knew what they were doing to make it very secure, but it was cheap and quick and out of the way.

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