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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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Decided this week I needed to switch things up with my workout routine. I've been doing a hybrid P90x-Insanity program for the last 2 years and it's really become monotonous.

Ended up buying P90x2. Starting it on Monday. I'm looking forward to something new.
 
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Wearing cargo shorts to Zumba? Lesbianish... At
Minimum bi curious.

Random gym observations.

1) if you actually use correct form and dedicate yourself to the non "glamour"
Muscle groups, your biceps won't look unusually big on your body.

2) I'm still amazed at such poor form used by people squatting and dead lifting.
 
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Buckeneye;2306387; said:
Wearing cargo shorts to Zumba? Lesbianish... At
Minimum bi curious.

Random gym observations.

1) if you actually use correct form and dedicate yourself to the non "glamour"
Muscle groups, your biceps won't look unusually big on your body.

2) I'm still amazed at such poor form used by people squatting and dead lifting.
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Do yourself a favor and don't look. And yes, dedicating too much time to one particular muscle is ridiculous. I don't do anything special for my biceps nor my forearms.
 
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sears3820;2305952; said:
Decided this week I needed to switch things up with my workout routine. I've been doing a hybrid P90x-Insanity program for the last 2 years and it's really become monotonous.

Ended up buying P90x2. Starting it on Monday. I'm looking forward to something new.
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Let us know how it goes. I have a friend of a friend that did P90X a few times, but got really ripped on P90X2.

I started more with P90X workouts a couple years ago and then added in Insanity last fall when my weight loss plateaued. I started hitting the P90X strength workouts super hard in December, but ended up tweaking my lower back so I moved back to cardio with Insanity.

I dread starting the Insanity workout every morning, but for someone that is overweight, but in halfway decent shape I think it does a better job of burning fat.

Just this week I put together my own upper body workout from the P90X workouts to give me one day a week of total upper body with very little strain on my lower back. Best part is since it is just on a sheet of paper I can use the hour to catch up on something on my DVR. I don't really care to gain muscle mass right now, but I don't want to lose what I was able to build over the winter.
 
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Now down 30 pounds from my absolute heaviest simply through improved diet and cardio work (mostly staying in 2-3 soccer leagues at a time plus basketball on Thursdays).

Starting to feel really good, except I'm noticing a possible dip in overall strength. Also as the fat melts away it'd be nice if some tone started emerging.

Time to hit the gym!
 
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Merih;2307418; said:
Now down 30 pounds from my absolute heaviest simply through improved diet and cardio work (mostly staying in 2-3 soccer leagues at a time plus basketball on Thursdays).

Starting to feel really good, except I'm noticing a possible dip in overall strength. Also as the fat melts away it'd be nice if some tone started emerging.

Time to hit the gym!
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While "tone" is mainly found by lowering one's body fat %, you also do need to have some muscle to reveal it :biggrin:
 
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Merih;2307418; said:
Now down 30 pounds from my absolute heaviest simply through improved diet and cardio work (mostly staying in 2-3 soccer leagues at a time plus basketball on Thursdays).

Starting to feel really good, except I'm noticing a possible dip in overall strength. Also as the fat melts away it'd be nice if some tone started emerging.

Time to hit the gym!
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A couple of years ago when I decided to get back into shape I spent the first 6 months simply doing cardio and watching what I ate. I lost arond 40 pounds or so, When I started working on my muscle tone I figured I'd at least be able to do 10 push-ups. Wrong. My first day I tried to do push-ups right off the bat. I did 3 and was done for the day, couldn't do anything else after that. Now I do 4 sets of 35 every morning.
 
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sears3820;2305952; said:
Decided this week I needed to switch things up with my workout routine. I've been doing a hybrid P90x-Insanity program for the last 2 years and it's really become monotonous.

Ended up buying P90x2. Starting it on Monday. I'm looking forward to something new.
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That's awesome. I signed up for the Tough Mudder in Mansfield in April. After that I am switching from Insanity to swimming. My body is getting worn down from the Insanity, plus I need something new.
 
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myself, friend, friends fiancee, friends fiancee best friend signed up to do a mudrun here in May

Never done anything like it...it's funny the 2 things im worried about most have nothing to do with mud, monkey bars and rope climb :lol:


dis gun b gud
 
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BuckBackHome;2307488; said:
That's awesome. I signed up for the Tough Mudder in Mansfield in April. After that I am switching from Insanity to swimming. My body is getting worn down from the Insanity, plus I need something new.
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I'm probably in the same boat. I go swim every Friday morning since it's great cardio with no wear and tear. Stupid swim team in in the pool every other morning and I don't want to fight for the one open lane. It seems the harder I push myself the more parts of my body start to hurt and I have to modify a bunch of exercises to lower the impact on my knees and shoulders. My back is my problem right now. Sometimes I have a hard time bending over far enough to put my socks on before I workout. Once I get warmed up there is a little pain, but I have full range of motion.

I do Insanity Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday with strength work on Tuesday.
 
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