20 days into P90X and I still hate Legs and Back. It’s staged so poorly for you to really get a good legs workout. You’re legs are still beat from Plyometrics, then you hit them again with Yoga X before you finally get to Legs and Back. I’m so fried by that point that I do a half-ass job at legs.
One of the primary downsides of P90X from other reviewers is the danger of overtraining. I think this kind of staging for the P90X workouts could easily cause that problem. Be careful to avoid overtraining, as it could kill your workout program in a hurry.
We’re moving into another phase soon, so maybe in that phase the staging of workouts will change in such a way that this issue disappears.
However, the one positive from Legs and Back is that I dropped two more pounds!! I’ve been checking my weight every day. I know that goes against all fitness advice, but I like to track the P90X results. This means I’m down 15 pounds since starting P90X 18 days ago. Pretty close to a pound per day, even though that’s not how the weight has come off.
As I mentioned in my first P90X post, I had lost a little weight before starting the program, so I use 243 lbs. as my starting weight. Let’s take a look at the data:
- Starting weight: 243 lbs.
- Starting P90X weight: 232 lbs.
- Current weight: 217 lbs.
- Total weight loss: 26 lbs.
As I mention in the video, I’ve modified my diet quite a bit. To summarize and make it simple, I’ve basically cut out carbs and increased fat intake. It’s sort of a modified Paleo diet. I like to call it primal, based on Mark Sitton’s site, Mark’s Daily Apple.
Some other sites that I’ve used to guide me on my diet include
- Free the Animal
- PaleoNu
- PaleoNu 12 Steps — This was an excellent jumping off point for altering my diet.
Take a look at the resources at all these sites to get a great idea of what you should be doing for your diet. A lot of misconceptions about diet flood the media and the marketplace and these guys do a great job of debunking those myths. Also, I read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes to start my diet changes. EXCELLENT BOOK! I highly recommend it. Everyone should read this book! Gary did a TON of research to write the book (almost half the book is just references to where he found the information). If you want an easier to read, down-and-dirty version, you may want to check out his new book, Why We Get Fat.
To get your own copy of P90X: http://bit.ly/P90XTruth