Hello everyone, I just received my copy of P90X and plan on starting the lean routine on 4/14/08. I was wondering if anyone would like to start with me for a little added support, possibly make a little club out of it. Let me know if you are interested.

I'll be starting on 4/7 with my wife so I think it's close enough! My delivery is scheduled for today and we have been doing some prep work to be ready for Monday.

I took the fit test and only did really poorly on the the pullups. My goals are to get stronger for golf and look good. I'm 5'11", 171lbs and 18% BF and would like to get it down to 9-10% with some added muscle.

Brandu, will you be doing your workouts in the mornings or evenings?

ready to start already,

Court

I was planning on starting on the 7th, but we're going out of town for a week and I know temptation will be around every corner there (family). So I decided to get started when I get back.

I'll be doing most of my workouts in the mornings after the kids get off to school. However, once I start my new job, I'll probably switch to evenings.

I took the fit test as well. Kind of reminded me of my army PT test days, except the push ups were much harder in the army.

Sounds like you're starting out much better than I. I'm 5'7 200 lbs. with about 25% body fat. I'm trying to get down to about 15% by mid July. After a quick rest, I'll start the classic routine. Once that is complete, I plan on trying doubles. Once all that is done, I'm going for P90X Plus.

Advise - If you have some time, try to do some of the workouts to get a feel of it.

Thanks, that's a great idea. I'm going on vacation next week, so I'm currently in the process of transferring the videos to my ipod. It'll probably take me all night, but at least I'll be able to do the workouts with some travel bands while I'm away. Thoughts?

Yes, thanks Kenny. I think we should be able to get through some of them before Monday. Which ones are the hardest to get a hang of?

-Courtland

Courtland wrote:

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Yes, thanks Kenny. I think we should be able to get through some of them before Monday. Which ones are the hardest to get a hang of?

-Courtland

I can't tell you which ones are the hardest, for all i know you're Addict little brother and just as motivated. but some of the more demanding ones are Plyo and Yoga.

My favorite is Plyometrics so I'd suggest that one for tryout but it is high impact so No Go On Bad Knees.

brandnu76 wrote:

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I'm currently in the process of transferring the videos to my ipod.

That is simply ingenious.

Courtland wrote:

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Yes, thanks Kenny. I think we should be able to get through some of them before Monday. Which ones are the hardest to get a hang of?

-Courtland

Welcome aboard everyone. Les is right about plyo and yoga being the toughest in my opinion...but if you have time, give core synergistics a shot too. You don't do it much in the classic version, but it's a challenging workout. My problem wasn't getting the hang of them, my problem was getting really sore from them. I did plyo 4 days before my start day and I was glad I did.

Day 1 is in the books! My body feels like a wet noodle, but I feel great. I definitely need to up the weights since I ended up doing sets of 15 instead of 8 as planned. Tony had us cursing and laughing throughout the Chest/Back, and we were just cursing during Ab Ripper X.

Looking forward to plyo tomorrow!

Courtland wrote:

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Day 1 is in the books! My body feels like a wet noodle, but I feel great. I definitely need to up the weights since I ended up doing sets of 15 instead of 8 as planned. Tony had us cursing and laughing throughout the Chest/Back, and we were just cursing during Ab Ripper X.

Looking forward to plyo tomorrow!

Keep smiling it gets better

Courtland wrote:

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Day 1 is in the books! My body feels like a wet noodle, but I feel great. I definitely need to up the weights since I ended up doing sets of 15 instead of 8 as planned. Tony had us cursing and laughing throughout the Chest/Back, and we were just cursing during Ab Ripper X.

Looking forward to plyo tomorrow!

You and me both, last night was my first night and holy crap! "I can barely lift my right arm, cause I did so many." But seriously, I was dead after I was done, tried to take a shower and could hardly lift my arms up to wash my hair.

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"I can barely lift my right arm, cause I did so many." ;) But seriously, I was dead after I was done, tried to take a shower and could hardly lift my arms up to wash my hair. :laugh:

Any day that you have to crawl from your push up position to write down your reps is a good day, means you have ripped up some muscle tissue! And thats a good thing. I would be careful doing that many reps to start, if you are in the 3-5 range and you discover that the weight is to light, stop your video and go grab some bigger weights, but you can count the reps that you already did or you can start again. You will see bigger resuslts faster if you change it, then wait for next week to up the weight. In addition, you will be really surprised at how fast you progress with upping the weights, by week three your gonna be killing it !
Congrats on making the decision to change your life, and welcome to the sweat train...next stop..rippedville.

Greetings all,

Days 2 and 3 in the books!

Day 2 Plyo: Wow, that was an asskicker! I dropped to the mat in the middle of 2 of the sets due to my quads just maxing out. That was awesome. A few years back I did endurance cycling training and it was nearly impossible for me to burn out my quads. I always had problems with my heart rate getting too high before I would ever reach lactic threshold. This brings me to another question: Where should I keep my heart rate during Plyo? I kept bumping up to 170-175 within 15-20 seconds into a set. I'm 35. I know I should be around 157 for aerobic zone, but I don't get much muscle burn in that range. When I cycled I could keep 165 bpm for 3 hours with some cool down breaks. My coach would be at 120 bpm while I was at 160. I did a stress test 2 years ago and was able to get up to 205 bpm without a problem. Should I try to keep it around 157 bpm It feels like i'm dogging it there?

Day 3 Arms/Shoulders/ARX: Amazing arms workout! There was so much variety I think I need some more weight plates to get the best out of it. I used 2 sets of weights and I think 1 more would let me get the best out of all of these without compromising form. Ab Ripper was much better today. I sat on a towel for some of the exercises. My lower back was burning up before I got an ab burn early on and the towel helped.

Diet: I need to add more calories, but I'm so full all day long just getting to 1800. My protein intake has been 200-211g/day. My mother is a naturopathic doctor and we worked out a new supplement plan for us today. It maps pretty close to the P90X supplements, but all of the ingredients are 100% natural without those nasty fillers and binders. I also got some new flax oil that is cold pressed and fresh so it doesn't taste so fishy.

I think this is the longest post ever so I will end it now

PS: Good work Chadwick! What did you think of Wednesday's workout?

-Courtland

courtland, I'm glad you started on 4/7 b/c thats when I started. I was hoping someone would start then too. I have another post about it back in the forum. My girlfriend keeps hearing me talk about P90X and now she wants to try the Lean. I think she will be starting on the 14th as well but I dont know if she'll ever get on here and post. She doesn't get on the internet a whole lot

discoV,

Welcome to the forums! It looks like 3 of us started on the 7th, so we can keep each other motivated.

brandnu76 started this thread because he is starting on the 14th -- just like your girlfriend. Looks like all of us can team up together and bring it!

-Court

So last night was Yoga X. I loved it even though I struggled with the entire middle section. My face thanked me over and over for using a pillow during crane.

I was talking to my neighbor the other night (he does a lot of training in his garage and I see him doing intervals on his bike all the time) and we started talking about P90X. He had seen the infomercial and I was telling him about my first week on it. He sounded interested so I invited him over to try it out with us.

He came over yesterday morning and I threw in Cardio X. He rocked it 100% I did more of it than last Saturday (about 80%). My heart rate still gets too high and I have to back off even though I want to push more.

When we finished he said it was one of the best workouts of his life. Wouldn't you know it -- this morning he rang the doorbell and asked to borrow another disc. I chuckled as I handed him Plyo X. When I went back over later in the day to get the disc from his wife she said he got his butt kicked.

So I ended up doing a double yesterday, and I felt pretty weak today. I had a doctor's appt and the nurse was cleaning my ear out and I think she poked my brain. I had an earache during legs/back so I didn't get all the way through it. I called them and they called in a prescription of antibiotics for me to pick up tomorrow.

I hope it works quickly so I can bring it next week.

I upped my diet to level 2 today because I was feeling pretty weak. No energy loss, but I just didn't feel right.

Cheers,
Courtland

Courtland wrote:

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we started talking about P90X. He had seen the infomercial and I was telling him about my first week on it. He sounded interested so I invited him over to try it out with us.
Wouldn't you know it -- this morning he rang the doorbell and asked to borrow another disc. I chuckled as I handed him Plyo X. When I went back over later in the day to get the disc from his wife she said he got his butt kicked.

Careful, make sure he returns them!! He's not one of those neighbors that keeps a tool you loaned him right? You will get alot of that now that people know you are on the program. I have seven friends and two neighbors on it now or starting very soon. Tell him he's not P90X ready and to get his own
Crane will take a while to master, but make it a goal, and by Phase 3, your gonna be holding it longer than Tony and his toe touches. You should try to make Wheel a goal too, that one still kills me, but I hold it.