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Jumped on the P90x bandwagon yesterday, particularly since that pussy Colin Cowherd did one day then called in sick. Since everytime I read about P90x somebody is moaning about how sore they are, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Did Day 1 yesterday.

My arms and shoulders were burning so bad this morning when I woke up I felt like I had a sunburn. Can barely raise my arms above my head and struggled just getting the girls out of the car to drop them off at daycare. My triceps have never hurt this much in my life, and I did conditioning programs for sports all through grade school and high school.

Holy hell, this program is going to kick my 35-year old ass. :yow1:

But I must soldier on. No way in hell am I going to let Cowherd and Greenberg outdo me. I must do at least two days.
 
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Dryden;1675535; said:
Jumped on the P90x bandwagon yesterday, particularly since that pussy Colin Cowherd did one day then called in sick. Since everytime I read about P90x somebody is moaning about how sore they are, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Did Day 1 yesterday.

My arms and shoulders were burning so bad this morning when I woke up I felt like I had a sunburn. Can barely raise my arms above my head and struggled just getting the girls out of the car to drop them off at daycare. My triceps have never hurt this much in my life, and I did conditioning programs for sports all through grade school and high school.

Holy hell, this program is going to kick my 35-year old ass. :yow1:

But I must soldier on. No way in hell am I going to let Cowherd and Greenberg outdo me. I must do at least two days.
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Awesome. If that pussy Doug Gotlieb can do it - you definately can.

Question for those who have done it or are doing it - How big of a room do you realistically need and how are you hanging up the pull up bar?
 
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BigWoof31;1675557; said:
Awesome. If that pussy Doug Gotlieb can do it - you definately can.

Question for those who have done it or are doing it - How big of a room do you realistically need and how are you hanging up the pull up bar?
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Gotlieb, Golic, Stuart Scott ... according to Gotlieb, who is posting on the Beachbody/P90x forums, it's swept through the network. Everybody is doing it.

You don't need a very big room. I'm doing it in my living room in front of the big screen. I just picked up one of those $25 Iron Gym pull up bars that hang in a doorway (As Seen on TV!) and I already had dumbbells. You'll want a 2'x6' non-slip rubberized mat for the plyometric stuff and ab ripper, and of course some resistance bands and a regular chair for some of the incline drills.

Not a lot of equipment and doesn't take up a lot of space. Really, if I had to work around the family, I could haul everything out into the three-season room or down to the basement in one trip if necessary.

In my house, I think I'm going to be challenged more by clearance on the ceiling than room size. My home was built in the 50s so all the ceilings are only 7'.

Also on the pullups, you could always pick up a power-tower for around $100, they're not that expensive. Another option is if you have a room with exposed ceiling joists, you could install a heavy-bag bracket and then do the pull up drills with resistance bands to the ceiling while sitting on the floor. This method is demonstrated in the videos.
 
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Did Plyometrics today. Wife joined me for this one. It was a fun workout and a relentless cardio routine.

A lot of people complain about the Plyo, either the intensity or the fact that if you're older and have bad knees a lot of what's demonstrated just isn't possible. I'm probably in the minority for those in their 30s, but since I grew up playing soccer and have always enjoyed endurance/distance running as a hobby, I didn't struggle with this one nearly as much as I thought I might from other peoples' complaints.

Liking P90x so far. I think my wife is sold after today too, and she's always a skeptic.
 
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CentralMOBuck;1676643; said:
Are you all doing the diet with this program or just the workout? I'm going to start p90x(diet as well) on Monday.
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I'm not doing the P90x diet according to the book, no. Personally, I feel that that is just one nutritionists' opinion. I don't think it's that difficult though. I subscribe to the Jillian Michaels school of thought: If it doesn't have a mother or didn't come from the earth, don't eat it.

A high protein, low fat diet isn't a P90x-specific plan either. It's what we should all do all the time anyway in conjunction with our daily exercise.

What Should You Eat? - The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health
 
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Well, I'm not generally one for fads, but I did the first workout today. At 5'9", I've been hovering around 166-170 for several months, and I want to tone up significantly. I've been hearing about it so damn often, I caved.

I had to stop running a few months ago due to runner's knee, and I got sick of the elliptical very, very quickly. I'm hoping that my existing diet (if I can cut out the unreasonably high level of alcohol intake) will do me well: 1400-1800 calories a day, lots of chicken, tuna, black beans, Odwalla bars, and oatmeal and grapefruit juice for breakfast. I keep hearing "diet is the key;" is this presuming that you had an average/unhealthy diet to begin with?

As far as equipment goes, I got a mat, and I found the Perfect Pullup apparatus at a second hand store for $35 and installed it. Found the videos on...uh...they were a gift? Yes. And a couple 8-pound weights were another $15. I suspect I'll need larger ones fast, but for the one-armed exercises I figured I could just hold both. The weights double as push-up bars.

All in all, I'm getting started for just about $70. Finished the first workout about 30 minutes ago. No soreness yet, but as I reached muscle failure on 4-5 of the second series of Chest and Back exercises, I anticipate unpleasantness tomorrow--so goes the story.

osustamm--did you finish? How did it all end up?
 
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vrbryant;1680371; said:
And a couple 8-pound weights were another $15. I suspect I'll need larger ones fast, but for the one-armed exercises I figured I could just hold both. The weights double as push-up bars.
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It doesn't matter how skinny (scrawny?) and out-of-shape you are, if you're doing the Chest & Back DVD and are male I would think you should be able to pull 25 - 30 lbs minimum for 15+ reps on the Heavy Pants and Lawnmowers, so I don't know how you're going to get by with 8 lb weights. I've tried those with both resistance bands and dumb bells and there's just no substitute for iron, IMHO.

I've shopped around locally for the cast iron Weider or CAP hexagonal dumb bells, and the cheapest place to get them is Wal*Mart. Wally World is anywhere from $2 - $5 cheaper per weight over Dunham's, Dicks, Sears, and all the "superstores" that carry weights (KMart, Meijer, Target, etc).

I'm going into Week 2 this week and have Plyo again today. Hooray, I like Plyo! I don't hurt nearly as much this week as I did last week. I already noticed my reps went up considerably on all the exercises through the Chest & Back DVD yesterday. The only thing I "missed" last week was I skipped the Legs & Back routine on Day 5 as prescribed and instead went outside and enjoyed the weather and ran a 5K. My running stopped completely last week since I was already doing the P90x, and I wanted to weasel in a day somewhere, so Legs & Back got the boot.
 
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Dryden;1680484; said:
I've shopped around locally for the cast iron Weider or CAP hexagonal dumb bells, and the cheapest place to get them is Wal*Mart. Wally World is anywhere from $2 - $5 cheaper per weight over Dunham's, Dicks, Sears, and all the "superstores" that carry weights (KMart, Meijer, Target, etc).
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No idea what brands they'd have, but another good place to check for cheap weights might be Play It Again Sports. Those seem to be one of the more common impulse buys that get sold off soon after the excitement wears off.
 
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MolGenBuckeye;1680504; said:
No idea what brands they'd have, but another good place to check for cheap weights might be Play It Again Sports. Those seem to be one of the more common impulse buys that get sold off soon after the excitement wears off.
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That's where I went. They had a very small stock of used weights; 'new' ones were stil $0.89 per pound, which seems crazy to me. I will admit that the 8 pounders were inadequate for the Heavy Pants, Lawnmower, and Back Fly exercises, though I'm told some of the other routines are much more difficult. I will probably pilfer a couple 20s at some point, but again, I'm already satisfied with the bulk in my arms and shoulders.
 
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