I Love p90x and I hate it. I am a fatty. It is hard to even admit it to myself. some say I am just stocky. but at 5'11 250lbs the truth is the truth. I'm fucking fat and reallly sick of it!!
Anyway, I have made 3 attempts at this program. I have gotten about 6 weeks into it each time but never really made it to phase 2. in other words, I did the work outs and despite my weight and overall lack of fitness I did pretty good. But it was painfully hard. I had to make some modifications. I couldn't do yogaX. I replaced it with CardioX. And, I didn't feel like I earned phase 2 that's why I said I did 6 weeks but no phase 2. basically I would do the program for 2 weeks, then I would run out of juice and start skipping days. Then I "Start"over for another couple weeks, repeat then I stop all together for months before getting even fatter then trying again.
Just entering this phase again. One one hand, my health is going down the tubes, getting older, lot of stress in my life, I am on BP medication and I am fat. On the other hand I have learned how to do this program in some ways. I have the bands just for the pullups. I couldn't do a single push-up without the chair trick. Using the strongest band seems better. I know how to pace myself a little better. Like, for instance rather than trying to crush 15 diamond pushups knowing it will kill me, I just do 5. Same with divebomber. I even do some of the pushups on my knees. But, getting through the whole workout this way, seems better than pooping out and puking
Plyometrics is absolutely brutal. Jumping sucks. at my weight it really sucks. I feel pretty proud getting halfway through this honestly.
The hardest thing for me is sticking with it enough to turn the corner with my weight. But I love the concept of the whole thing. I feel like there should be a "warmup phase" for people like me but you can kind of invent it yourself.
The thing nobody can help me with is the mental part. I need to start this again and break the hump! Starting Sunday. Wish me luck.
My last attempt was weak sauce. I only did it for like 2 weeks and was just like....meh. I just couldn't get into it.
Changing my schedule though this time. Each other attempt I tried all the workouts at night. This was hard. I am sorry but chest and back FOLLOWED by ab ripper is just hard to not gas out. Eat too much you get sick. Don't eat enough you have no gas....and if your heavy like me, it's twice the work!
So, this time I am going to get up at 5:30 and do the main workouts then. I figure this time of day will be easier to just have a very light snack before the workout, then recovery drink. At night I will do the ab ripper portion. Saturdays off. Wish me luck and motivation!