Why not P90X?
Someone asked me why I was doing the Power 90 workout and not P90X that has it’s infomercials on most of the day. I guess to answer that I need to start with some background like why I deceided to loose weigt in the first place.
Like many Americans I’ve been putting on a few pounds a year since my mid thirties, so has my wife. Spring rolls around, beachcat sailing season starts up and everyone jokes about how our wetsuits shrunk over the winter. We’d chalk it up to getting older and get on with our lives.
Then one day everything changed. My wife joined a gym…. Well, there was no way she was going to be loosing weight and not me, but I’m not really the gym type. Then I remembered seeing the P90X infomercial. I’m usually skeptical of anything advertised on infomercials. I’ve also been online since 300baud modems and bulletin boards and am fairly good at researching things on the net. After a few days of looking into P90X I came to two conclusions, I works and it’s not for me. When you have guys on on bodybuilder forums talking about how intense the workouts are and you have me that got winded walking up a flight of stairs I thought it best to start out with the basics.
It turn out the same company, Beachbody, that puts out P90X also has other workout programs with the same trainer, Tony Horton. The one I chose was Power 90. I believe that this was the right path for me to take. Yesterday finished my seventh week of working out. I’m down 12 pounds, a total of 15 inches (3 around my waist alone) and went from struggling through 3 pushups to doing 51 yesterday morning. I’m now confident that once I am through with Power 90 I can take on P90X!
Another good choice for a workout plan leading up to P90X is Slim in 6.
Don’t wait, pick a plan and start to Buid a New You.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:08 am
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