P90x

[MolGenBuckeye]

My main complaint about protein bars is that virtually all of them use some carcinogenic artificial sweetener to sweeten the faux chocolate, and that stuff IS NOT good for you. Sure you'll be ripped. Too bad you'll be dead from cancer before you're 50.

The studies on aspartame are pretty conclusively safe...lots of misinformation out there. Probably safer to eat a bunch of aspartame than too much tuna if you're worried about cancer.

That said...

I totally agree with the post that artificial stuff is not the way to go when you have alternatives. You'll get just as much protein from a chicken breast as you will from a bar.

 

[PlanetFrnd]

[quote='BusNative;158542;6]Burn more than you eat. Repeat.

and also recommended factoring in what you drink into that equation, just saying...[/quote]

check.

 

[starBUCKS]

Any updates on the p90x progress?

I just bought my set, got it on ebay for $67 with free shipping, so not a bad deal.

I definitely know how to work out, I just need to shake the lift heavy mentality, so I'm going to give it a try. It's hard for me mentally to go to the gym and do high reps of lighter weights. Plus, my metabolism isn't getting any better, and I noticed that in some recent pictures. I can eat better, and hopefully this investment and new plan will give me a push in a better (leaner) direction.

 

[DubCoffman62]

The studies on aspartame are pretty conclusively safe...lots of misinformation out there. Probably safer to eat a bunch of aspartame than too much tuna if you're worried about cancer.

That said...

I totally agree with the post that artificial stuff is not the way to go when you have alternatives. You'll get just as much protein from a chicken breast as you will from a bar.

I've read that in order to get cancer from the stuff you'd have to eat double your weight of it everyday for 20 years. A few packs a day in your coffee or an energy bar or two a day won't hurt you.

 

[DubCoffman62]

This thread makes me thin back to a dude I know about 20 years ago. He couldn't score any chicks, he wasn't a bad looking guy but he was kind of an ass and didn't know how to talk to the ladies but thought that if he was ripped he'd start pulling them in. I have to give him credit, he joined a gym, worked out hard and followed a strict diet and 6 months later the dude was ripped. However he was the same immature bumbling ass that didn't know how to talk to women but now he was full of himself and he turned into "the guy" that walks around in a tank top all the time with his arms in a perpetually flexed position.
I'm not saying that anyone who works out or want to get ripped is the same him, this thread just made me think of him.

 

[osustamm]

Any updates on the p90x progress?

I just bought my set, got it on ebay for $67 with free shipping, so not a bad deal.

Good Luck! It is pretty tough work. I pulled a chest muscle with all the push ups. I have taken some time off but want to get back to it. It is tough trying to find 1 to 1.5 hours a day to work out though...

let us know how you are doing!

 

[starBUCKS]

Good Luck! It is pretty tough work. I pulled a chest muscle with all the push ups. I have taken some time off but want to get back to it. It is tough trying to find 1 to 1.5 hours a day to work out though...

let us know how you are doing!

Where do you recommend doing it, and what else do I need to buy? Can I do the workout at my gym? Or do I need to buy the pull up bar and other at home gadgets?

 

[reagdog]

One of my good buddies told me he was starting this P90X thing and I didn't see him for a couple months and then the next time I saw him, I thought he looked fatter than ever!! Hahahaha - obviously he didn't finish it.

 

[osustamm]

Where do you recommend doing it, and what else do I need to buy? Can I do the workout at my gym? Or do I need to buy the pull up bar and other at home gadgets?

You can don't need a gym. I got the push up handles to save my wrists and a pull up bar, plus i had some 15 and 30 pound weights. Those were heavy enough for most everything.

I would recomend short carpet. I tried it in my living room with some shaggy stuff and the kempo was pretty tough.

 

[OSUsushichic]

My brother got it for Christmas this year (DVDs with the pull-up bar). I'll have to ask him if he's done any of it yet.

 

[Mac]

Apparently all of my working out has paid off...I leg pressed 835lbs. today during a fitness test for my exercise phys class. Dude who tested me was astounded. and I'm in the >90th percentile in Men. I'll take it

 

[osustamm]

Apparently all of my working out has paid off...I leg pressed 835lbs. today during a fitness test for my exercise phys class. Dude who tested me was astounded. and I'm in the >90th percentile in Men. I'll take it

I heard we got a scholarship available for the football team.

 

[FrancisSoyer]

Apparently all of my working out has paid off...I leg pressed 835lbs. today during a fitness test for my exercise phys class. Dude who tested me was astounded. and I'm in the >90th percentile in Men. I'll take it

835 lbs!? Shiat, it's hard to believe the machine can hold that much.

 

[Mac]

I heard we got a scholarship available for the football team.

Have those people contact my people, and I'll sign instantly. :)

835 lbs!? Shiat, it's hard to believe the machine can hold that much.

Yeah I think I could have done a little bit more (around 860-870) but they didn't have any more 45's to put on it and there wasn't any more room to put weight on the machine they had. :(

 

[OSUGreg]

Does anyone have any links to HIIT/P90x workout plans? I cant seem to find any.