Comments on: P90X Week 11 Update

By: Jeff R

Jeff R — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:13:32 +0000

I’m on Week 11 myself right now (starting this AM) and I must say your pros and cons breakdown is spot on so far. Legs and core are worked hardest w/ chest lagging way behind. I’d say upper back/traps get worked out nicely as evidenced by by increase from 1 to 6 wide fly pullups from week 1 to now.

A couple of other notes for those beginning:
- I’ve substitutted Carido X/Core Synergistics for the Yoga X routine. Yeah, I know Yoga…blah blah…it just is boring and time consuming. Cardio actually has a 10-15 minute Yoga warmup for a little taste. I know the diehards disagree w/ this one but 90 mins of Yoga? Uh uh.

-Do the Ab Ripper BEFORE the other workout on those days. Believe me, it saved me quite a few times. For me, the ab workout was probably the most important one and a lot of times I was 100% wiped out after doing the first workout.

-Buy this stuff called Muscle Building Milkshake by Six Star and take it after workouts. I’m telling you, it works MUCH better than Whey by itself and the Chocolate tastes good (but it doesn’t mix well). My strength gains have been amazing. No, I don’t work for the company.

-I didn’t do the diet plan either but here’s the key to success in this whole thing:
a) Work out in the morning before eating
b) Eat a healthy breakfast/shake after workout and eat healthy through lunch and into the mid afternoon time.
c) Throw in a sweet snack or two each day so that your mind doesn’t go crazy from lack of sweet. Believe me you’ll need it.

If you can do this EVERY day, you can afford to not be eating tuna fish for every meal and with your body in a ‘healthy’ mode for 6-8 straight hrs every day you’ll build muscle and burn fat.

That’s all…good luck to everyone.

By: Jeff P

Jeff P — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:18:10 +0000

Brian – nice blog post giving your ups and downs for P90X. I’m starting Week 8 tomorrow and loving the results thus far. You’re right – if you stick with it, the shredding is there. I know from my waist and chest, there is bodyfat that has fallen off. Like Tony Horton says in one of the DVD’s, it’s “DNA removal.”

Looking forward to more posts!

By: briancromer

briancromer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:00:49 +0000

Drew, you and your wife will definitely need two set of dumbbells. Heather and I have 3 sets and it works perfectly. We have a 5lb set (Heather light weight), a 12lb set (Heather heavy weight, my light weight), and a 25lb set (my heavy weight). You can get by with one pull up bar. They give you plenty of time to both do pullups to failure going one after the other on the same pullup bar. And if not, you can always hit pause until you both finish.

Hope that helps. Thanks for reading.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:30:41 +0000

Hey dude, thanks for the break down my wife and I just ordered our copy and getting ready to start. question for you, if we do it together do we need to have two sets of dumbbells and two pull up bars?

By: Bailee

Bailee — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:57:50 +0000

OMG!!!! brian, you touched your toes!?
haha
i’m definitely doing this in the spring right before i do my physical aptitude test for west point. i think it’ll help me get a pretty good score..

and hey, maybe after these next two weeks you’ll be able to do the splits. dream big

By: Benjamin Addison

Benjamin Addison — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:29:18 +0000

Thanks for the wrap-up. Kara and I have been kicking around the idea of doing this for weeks now. We will probably start after we get back from Asia.

By: Colin Dennis

Colin Dennis — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:25:48 +0000

Dude I have P90x but I think I’ve worked out maybe 10 times with it since christmas! Ha Its SUPER hard!

By: briancromer

briancromer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:36:30 +0000

It’s not happening, Lane. Go Vols.

By: Lane Kiffin

Lane Kiffin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:41:28 +0000

Let’s see some pics!