Congrats man.
I have Body Beast, but I'm still not sure if that's what I'm doing next. It most likely will be though.
After I finish today's workout (PAP Upper) I'll have ONE week left in X2.
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Beachbody Workouts |OT| Gaf Does P90/X/X2, Insanity/Asylum, T-25 and More!
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Congrats man.
I have Body Beast, but I'm still not sure if that's what I'm doing next. It most likely will be though.
After I finish today's workout (PAP Upper) I'll have ONE week left in X2.
Shrubbery?? lol!! I think I'd rather keep thinking he says the ability to eat large strawberries
Harry Potter
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Thanks. Good luck on finishing up. Towards the end of X2 I was so looking forward to being done with the PAP's. I am missing the P90X programs a little tho, I won't lie.
Yes, all you need are dumbbells. Something like the Bowflex would be fantastic because you really do need a variety of different weights. Much more than you needed in P90X.
Harry Potter
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Very nice! Where do you live now? I have a friend who's in the Air Force. He just got back from Korea. He did P90X while over there.
SteveMeister
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Couldn't tell you about the regular foam roller, but I do like the rumble roller. I watched a video review of it by a back pain specialist and he said he has his clients "graduate" to it because it can be a bit "too much" to start with, but I didn't really feel any undue pain and didn't want to buy multiple foam rollers to progress through.
Recovery progress: got hit hard by a stomach bug on Wednesday. Better now but still eating plain foods. My back is feeling a lot better. Hoping to still be able to start up again on Monday.
Thanks. It's just a little galling to drop $70 on a stubbly chunk of foam...
Excited to start X2. I was getting a bit tired of X1 workouts, and I think the approach of X2 will be refreshing.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
Just be careful in Plyocide when you do the Spartan Lunges.
You all recovered, on that note? Hope so!
Finished my 30 day "no cheat meal" thing and let myself get a couple plates of sushi at the buffet today with co-workers... carb coma incoming. Going to keep doing the "no fast food, no dessert (except fruit), no bread/pasta/wraps" thing moving forward as much as I can though. Really want to break into that under 180 lb bracket in a bad way.
With the holidays coming though, don't be afraid to pig out a little!
Along those lines, an anecdote: I actually went from 161 to 174 pounds over my two week diet break. When I saw 174 on the scale I thought it was broken, but I verified the number on another scale. After a week and a half of being back on my regular diet, I was back down to 163. Phew. But also dangerous to learn how easy it is to recover after two weeks of eating probably 4000+ calories a day (curse you sweets!). I've been good about not going crazy over sweets since then, but having a Halloween birthday means I'm going to be the recipient of a lot of candy, plus Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. Nice to know I can avoid stressing too much about what I eat over the holidays.
With the holidays coming though, don't be afraid to pig out a little!
Along those lines, an anecdote: I actually went from 161 to 174 pounds over my two week diet break. When I saw 174 on the scale I thought it was broken, but I verified the number on another scale. After a week and a half of being back on my regular diet, I was back down to 163. Phew. But also dangerous to learn how easy it is to recover after two weeks of eating probably 4000+ calories a day (curse you sweets!). I've been good about not going crazy over sweets since then, but having a Halloween birthday means I'm going to be the recipient of a lot of candy, plus Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. Nice to know I can avoid stressing too much about what I eat over the holidays.
Damn that's quite a jump up and down in a short span, but good going! How tall are you? I'm sure you've shared in the past but I can't recall.
I've found my new place is very much not P90X or Insanity friendly as you can easily hear people moving around upstairs, so I'll be taking my high impact cardio stuff to either the fitness center there or just running/biking more frequently and keeping P90X/X2 stuff to weights, yoga, and stretching between now and next Fall when I move again. Also purchased a standalone pull-up bar because my doorframe pull-up bar leaves marks on the walls (or worse, indents the wood door frames).
Tonight I will probably do X2 yoga and maybe try a run after.
Also, as far as eating goes my new marker is Thanksgiving... no cheat meals until then, and then I'll let myself enjoy Christmas some too.
The weight gain was probably a lot of water weight due to the insane number of carbs I was eating (I'd come home from the grocery store with a tray of chocolate chip cookies, brownies, chocolate milk, and some more normal food and eat a lot of it), hence the rapid fluctuation.
I'm the same height as you, which is why I feel so compelled to be your so-called diet sherpa. Also because you're a cool dude and I want to see you hit your number goals!
Cool dude e-high fives all around! Your help is always appreciated but not your ability to shed 13 pounds in a bit more than a week, you bum. Maybe I should just start mirroring what you eat.
Better go home and bring it, in any case. What's a good weight workout that isn't shoulders and arms (did it on Wednesday) that I can do without the pull-up bar which I won't have until Monday? Or should I just try the fitness center at my new place to see how it is?
Well, keep in mind that the numbers are only impressive if you ignore the context in which the pounds were gained (and lost) -- I was more offering the data up for the strict dieters around here as a way to say "Don't be afraid to indulge during the holidays, and don't be afraid if the resulting numbers are scary because the weight will likely disappear very quickly as soon as you return to your original routine."
Regarding your question: maybe check out this post for some ideas.
So tonight was suppose to be the rest night for week 4. But I decided to go ahead and start week 5. After I finished Chest Shoulders and Tris I had a lot of energy, so I started doing Plyo X. I kept telling myself that I would stop after this set was done. I never stopped. I finished both dvds. So tomorrow I'm going to the gym and work on abs and light cardio.
good on you for having so much energy, but I would really limit how many times you do these workouts back-to-back. Fatigue will set in eventually which will open the door for injuries.
Good job realizing you should probably take it easy(ier) today.
Again though, having that extra energy is awesome. I know that feeling.
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As for me. I'm starting my last full workout week before I start.....
Example of my new diet plan,
Breakfast-
1 cup oatmeal - 1 cup frozen blueberries- w/ 1 1/2 cup water - drink 1 cup of orange juice on the side
snack-
2 oz. almonds and 1/3 cup dried cranberries
lunch-
2 cans tuna with 1 or 2 tbsp of light mayo and eight kashi crackers on the side
(I'm kinda scared to use too much of the mayo, but I'm going to go with it for the first month and see how it goes)
snack-
protein drink - two scoops of whey and a banana on the side
dinner
6oz chicken - 2 cups broccoli- 1/2 sweet potato - 16 oz skim milk
Each meal is eaten 3 hours apart. I might need to tweak some things, but that should measure out to around 500 calories per meal.. And should keep me satisfied all day.
SteveMeister
Hang out with Steve.
You might try substituting plain Greek yogurt instead of the mayo in your tuna salad. More protein and no vegetable oil.
Great suggestion. I'll probably end up doing this. The mayo was suggested to me and I've been cringing by the thought of it since. Plus, I love Greek yogurt.
good on you for having so much energy, but I would really limit how many times you do these workouts back-to-back. Fatigue will set in eventually which will open the door for injuries.
Good job realizing you should probably take it easy(ier) today.
Again though, having that extra energy is awesome. I know that feeling.
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As for me. I'm starting my last full workout week before I start.....I'm weighing in at 160lbs, and I really just want to put on some mass over the winter. I'm upping my calories to ~3000 a day, which is going to feel so amazing. Eating right before bed because of cravings was killing my progress so this is going to be a natural progression.
Example of my new diet plan,
Breakfast-
1 cup oatmeal - 1 cup frozen blueberries- w/ 1 1/2 cup water - drink 1 cup of orange juice on the side
snack-
2 oz. almonds and 1/3 cup dried cranberries
lunch-
2 cans tuna with 1 or 2 tbsp of light mayo and eight kashi crackers on the side
(I'm kinda scared to use too much of the mayo, but I'm going to go with it for the first month and see how it goes)
snack-
protein drink - two scoops of whey and a banana on the side
dinner
6oz chicken - 2 cups broccoli- 1/2 sweet potato - 16 oz skim milk
Each meal is eaten 3 hours apart. I might need to tweak some things, but that should measure out to around 500 calories per meal.. And should keep me satisfied all day.
I always wonder when seeing people listing an example of their daily meal how many times do they actually repeat what they eat. I mean eating same thing more than 7-8 times a month would be really boring and potentially lacking in certain nutrients. And even that is rather high number considering all the wonderful stuff there is to eat, which is equally beneficial, and nutritionally much more diversified.
Do you have any suggestions?
My meal plan normally doesn't vary much once I get on one. There is a reason I don't make a large variety of meals, and that's because I cannot cook. At all. A meal has to be really simple for me to be able to prepare it without completely flubbing it.
I've been eating the same stuff for almost two months now (my diet is mostly fruits, beans (tons of), complex carbs, dairy and vegetables. I think I've eaten chicken and/fish maybe 15 days or so. I think I'm gonna start eating more lean proteins.
Next month I'm going back to Seattle, so I know I'll be getting shitloads of salmon
Next month I'm going back to Seattle, so I know I'll be getting shitloads of salmon
SteveMeister
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The best thing you can do is start tracking everything you eat using a tool like My Fitness Pal or Lose It. What this will do is teach you how much fat, protein and carbohydrate you are consuming. Over time, you'll just "know" and can stop tracking. It'll also help you plan your meals better. If you establish macronutrient goals, you can plan your meals to reach them.
This is crucial if you're going low carb or following a carb-cycling program like lean gains.
This is crucial if you're going low carb or following a carb-cycling program like lean gains.
I can't cook also. But what I found out is that for the healthiest way to prepare any type of food you really don't have to be a cooking expert. There are so many fruits in this world. Eat them all with joy. Also vegetables. Each day try some new vegetable. Take any type of food, and in most cases there is a really simple way to make it. For example the best way to prepare most of the vegetables is either to simmer or sauté them.
This site is so full of great information that I really advise anyone willing to learn more about healthy eating/cooking/food listing to look into it. What I like most about it is that all the info is based on references and researched stuff.
http://www.whfoods.com/
Anyway, for breakfast, to diversify it a bit you can always do different mixes with plain yogurt. I like to mix all kind of stuff in yogurt, such as lemon juice, a bit of honey, cinnamon, oatmeal, almonds, cashews, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, hazelnuts, bea pollen, throw in some fruit and that is some mean mix full of all type of nutrients.
Another breakfast suggestion is to look into green smoothies. Or do simple egg omletess with spinach, mushrooms, etc .
Regarding lunch, chicken is great, but from nutritional perspective mix it up sometimes with beef, lamb, turkey, etc It is great to include different varieties of beans & legumes (they are also rich in protein). When eating fish, you can choose from wild salmon, sardines and as many different seafood you can find. There is really hardly any bad food when found in natural state. The problem, as we all know, is the processed stuff, all the sugars, soda drinks, any type of sweets, processed bread (only eat bread if you can find one out of whole grains it is heavy and almost wet), simple carbs (white rice, white pasta), cooking stuff in oil (avoid cooking in oil by all means) and all that garbage. I hope you wont even come near all that. Eat green vegetables (any kind you can find, and there is no chance you can go wrong). Dont avoid complex carbs. Try red rice, quinoa, barley, etc It is really simple to eat healthy and get results. It is just about knowing what you mustnt put in your mouth. And then there are really no boundaries such as one day diet plans repeated to infinity. You can eat such a diversity of foods, its a shame to be missing it. Why do a limited diet which will probably not cover all essential nutrients that you need for excellent health including vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, essential fatty acids, fiber, etc
This site is so full of great information that I really advise anyone willing to learn more about healthy eating/cooking/food listing to look into it. What I like most about it is that all the info is based on references and researched stuff.
http://www.whfoods.com/
Anyway, for breakfast, to diversify it a bit you can always do different mixes with plain yogurt. I like to mix all kind of stuff in yogurt, such as lemon juice, a bit of honey, cinnamon, oatmeal, almonds, cashews, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, hazelnuts, bea pollen, throw in some fruit and that is some mean mix full of all type of nutrients.
Another breakfast suggestion is to look into green smoothies. Or do simple egg omletess with spinach, mushrooms, etc .
Regarding lunch, chicken is great, but from nutritional perspective mix it up sometimes with beef, lamb, turkey, etc It is great to include different varieties of beans & legumes (they are also rich in protein). When eating fish, you can choose from wild salmon, sardines and as many different seafood you can find. There is really hardly any bad food when found in natural state. The problem, as we all know, is the processed stuff, all the sugars, soda drinks, any type of sweets, processed bread (only eat bread if you can find one out of whole grains it is heavy and almost wet), simple carbs (white rice, white pasta), cooking stuff in oil (avoid cooking in oil by all means) and all that garbage. I hope you wont even come near all that. Eat green vegetables (any kind you can find, and there is no chance you can go wrong). Dont avoid complex carbs. Try red rice, quinoa, barley, etc It is really simple to eat healthy and get results. It is just about knowing what you mustnt put in your mouth. And then there are really no boundaries such as one day diet plans repeated to infinity. You can eat such a diversity of foods, its a shame to be missing it. Why do a limited diet which will probably not cover all essential nutrients that you need for excellent health including vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, essential fatty acids, fiber, etc
I was feeling the fatigue and was crazy hungry about 30 minutes after I was done. Today I focused on abs and obliques at the gym with some running and elliptical. I don't think I will be doubling up on p90x for a while.
Same here. I've tried many times to micromanage out what I eat, but it's just not practical or sustainable for me.
I just follow some simple guidelines now like limiting simple carbs to an absolute minimum especially at night, and also avoiding fatty condiments. Lots of chicken, fish, and Tuna, wheat bread and brown rice. I try to hit my necessary macros every day (protein, carbs, fats).
I've been doing that for about the past 6-7 months now and my gains have been kind of crazy so it's definitely working.
Now, time for Body Beast Tempo: Back and Biceps!
Btw Tempo routines are freaking awesome. 12 second rep counts x 15 reps = death.
Well, in the regular old build:back/bi routine you do 7 sets of pullups. 4 regular grip, 3 reverse grip. The last 3 reverse grip sets are max reps with 30 second breaks.
So it doesn't feel like a lot compared to P90X, but there are a fair amount I guess.
I'm actually kind of curious how many pullups people are doing around here.
I start out at around 12, but by the end of most routines I'm all the way down around 4. It seems like the people in the video stay pretty consistent so sometimes I feel like a wimp lol.
I try to stick to the 12 per set rule for pull ups. I start by doing as many regular pull ups as i can (max rep) then I add assited pull ups (with a chair) to go to 12. So usually I end up doing 12/0 (regular/assisted) for the first set, then 4-6/6-4 for the following sets, then 0/12 towards the end
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Recovery update. Last Wednesday a stomach bug laid me low so I was out of commission on Thursday. Felt better on Friday, went to work & all that, no workout in the morning. Ate bland foods still, though, and not much at that. Saturday during the day I did a few sets of pull-ups and chin-ups (including crunchy lever pull-ups), a bit of ab work, and some push-up variants. I basically returned my diet to "normal" though not the best food -- I made french toast with homemade banana bread for breakfast, had that with bacon & fruit, and for lunch I had a McDonald's bacon/cheddar/onion burger without the bread and about 1oz french fries. In the evening my stomach started feeling a little "off". Went to a Halloween party with the family. I was designated driver so I only had one glass of wine. Ate some party foods, including pizza. My stomach started feeling more than a bit "off", and got worse on the drive home. Overnight Saturday night it was bad enough to keep me awake. Not quite nausea, but pain/cramps throughout my stomach. It was pretty bad most of the day Sunday, and I didn't eat anything all day until about 6:30PM when I had a little bit of soup and a cup of greek yogurt. Spent most of the day either napping or resting on the couch, with bouts of activity to prep for the storm & play with my son.
Feeling better this morning. Got up at 4:30 to exercise. Drank some Pharm Assault, and then realized that my workout starts again TOMORROW, with Recovery & Mobility, not today. So I just did an ad-lib workout consisting of an Insanity-style warm-up (jogging variants, jumping jack variants for a few minutes) followed by an X2 style stability ball warm up. Did a couple sun salutations, then a set of pull-ups. Felt pretty good.
Everything's closed today due to the storm. Work is liberal leave but with daycare closed and the weather folks not recommending people drive after mid-day I'm expecting to stay home. LaneDS, I hope you are able to stay home & safe today as well, same goes for everyone else in the mid-Atlantic & North East. About 75 miles West of me they're expecting up to 35" of snow from this (Western MD & West Viriginia). Looks like it's going to be a good ski season out there. We might see some wet snow here in rural Loudoun County tonight but they're not expecting any accumulation. Just several inches of rain & very high winds.
Recovery update. Last Wednesday a stomach bug laid me low so I was out of commission on Thursday. Felt better on Friday, went to work & all that, no workout in the morning. Ate bland foods still, though, and not much at that. Saturday during the day I did a few sets of pull-ups and chin-ups (including crunchy lever pull-ups), a bit of ab work, and some push-up variants. I basically returned my diet to "normal" though not the best food -- I made french toast with homemade banana bread for breakfast, had that with bacon & fruit, and for lunch I had a McDonald's bacon/cheddar/onion burger without the bread and about 1oz french fries. In the evening my stomach started feeling a little "off". Went to a Halloween party with the family. I was designated driver so I only had one glass of wine. Ate some party foods, including pizza. My stomach started feeling more than a bit "off", and got worse on the drive home. Overnight Saturday night it was bad enough to keep me awake. Not quite nausea, but pain/cramps throughout my stomach. It was pretty bad most of the day Sunday, and I didn't eat anything all day until about 6:30PM when I had a little bit of soup and a cup of greek yogurt. Spent most of the day either napping or resting on the couch, with bouts of activity to prep for the storm & play with my son.
Feeling better this morning. Got up at 4:30 to exercise. Drank some Pharm Assault, and then realized that my workout starts again TOMORROW, with Recovery & Mobility, not today. So I just did an ad-lib workout consisting of an Insanity-style warm-up (jogging variants, jumping jack variants for a few minutes) followed by an X2 style stability ball warm up. Did a couple sun salutations, then a set of pull-ups. Felt pretty good.
Everything's closed today due to the storm. Work is liberal leave but with daycare closed and the weather folks not recommending people drive after mid-day I'm expecting to stay home. LaneDS, I hope you are able to stay home & safe today as well, same goes for everyone else in the mid-Atlantic & North East. About 75 miles West of me they're expecting up to 35" of snow from this (Western MD & West Viriginia). Looks like it's going to be a good ski season out there. We might see some wet snow here in rural Loudoun County tonight but they're not expecting any accumulation. Just several inches of rain & very high winds.
Infinite_Daremo
Member
I do all the required reps for pull ups. P90X made me boss of all that shit.
So I know this is something that I should have known ahead of time, but I just reached Month 3 of P90x and realized that... well, it looks like I'm going to have to schedule twice as much time to work out as I did in the first two months.
I was having a hard enough time before working 9 hours a day and attending a class in the evenings, and fitting in "Iron Chef cook time" on top of 1 to 1 and a half hours of working out every day.
How on earth can you cook your own meals, AND work out twice a day, AND have a normal job, and still have time to do... well, ANYTHING else? Am I seriously going to have to start waking up an hour earlier in addition to all that exercising and cooking? I'm getting seriously discouraged in the last month.
I was having a hard enough time before working 9 hours a day and attending a class in the evenings, and fitting in "Iron Chef cook time" on top of 1 to 1 and a half hours of working out every day.
How on earth can you cook your own meals, AND work out twice a day, AND have a normal job, and still have time to do... well, ANYTHING else? Am I seriously going to have to start waking up an hour earlier in addition to all that exercising and cooking? I'm getting seriously discouraged in the last month.
Why are you working out twice a day? Are you doing P90X doubles or something?
Personally I do all of my cooking for the upcoming week over the course of the weekend. I know how you feel, though, and it's a contributing factor to why I stopped doing P90X in favor of lifting weights three days a week; even though the P90X workouts themselves aren't that long, there's still a lead-in/lead-out period and I really disliked having a chunk of my day missing like that for 6-7 days of the week.
Personally I do all of my cooking for the upcoming week over the course of the weekend. I know how you feel, though, and it's a contributing factor to why I stopped doing P90X in favor of lifting weights three days a week; even though the P90X workouts themselves aren't that long, there's still a lead-in/lead-out period and I really disliked having a chunk of my day missing like that for 6-7 days of the week.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
My break week in between month 1 and 2 of my X/X2 hybrid was last week so I only worked out twice. This week is a short week though (going to visit parents on Friday) so I figured I'd delay starting phase 2 until next week and do some cardio videos this week. Issue now is that I may be getting a cold. I was visiting friends this weekend and one had a cold that I may have picked up.
I guess there's no harm in having a full week and a half off before I start phase 2 right? I'd rather be healthy than wear down my body further.
I guess there's no harm in having a full week and a half off before I start phase 2 right? I'd rather be healthy than wear down my body further.
SteveMeister
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No power this morning, so no Recovery & Mobility. Hopefully the power will be back on when I get home and I can get it in then. Tomorrow it's back to the "normal" P90X2 schedule. Back's feeling great and I'm finally over the stomach bug & its lingering effects.
Damn, I was close to bonking today during Chest + Back + Balance. It definitely has to do with the food (I didn't eat too healthy for 2 straight days, and I have been eating a lot less these past few days). Gotta fix that since I want to be good for the 10K in less than 2 weeks.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Glad I skipped the workout. I now have a full on sore throat.
SteveMeister
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Get well soon DC.
First workout in over a week this morning, X2 Total Body. Went pretty well, overall at least as good as the last time I did it with a few moves better. All things considered I'm happy with it.
Started feeling a little nauseous near the end so I skipped ARX2, maybe I'll do that tonight. My stomach still isn't back to 100%. That bug really messed me up. The good news is that my back didn't bother me at all.
First workout in over a week this morning, X2 Total Body. Went pretty well, overall at least as good as the last time I did it with a few moves better. All things considered I'm happy with it.
Started feeling a little nauseous near the end so I skipped ARX2, maybe I'll do that tonight. My stomach still isn't back to 100%. That bug really messed me up. The good news is that my back didn't bother me at all.
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