P90X Workout – Why Start? Part 1

By P90X Workout · Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It’s a good question.

It’s been almost four years since I’ve exercised on a regular basis. I did the “Body for Life” transformation challenge about 6 or 7 years ago (man, time flies) and experienced some decent results. I’ve always been partial to bodyweight exercises and functional strength training, so I did the whole BFL challenge with bodyweight and kettlebell exercises and dropped roughly 30lbs. From 225lbs and 20%+ bodyfat to 195 @ 10.5%… (this is also the reason why the X90P workouts resonated with me).

Just to give you a bit more background… I’ve been training in martial arts for most of my life (such as boxing, judo, karate, brazilian jiu jitsu and JKD). And over the years I’ve sustained my share of bumps and bruises… and when I switched to training in primarily combat sports some years back, I managed to sustain a bit more serious injuries – tears in my shoulder and knees, dislocations, fractures etc. And about 4 years ago I sustained several injuries almost at once (probably due to overtraining) and had to cease training… and my weight ballooned back up to about 220lbs.

Enter P90X.

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I travel quite frequently for business, and while sitting up late at night in a hotel room in Philadelphia I saw the P90X commercial the first time.

I was impressed. It was unlike any of the other fitness infomercials I’ve ever seen on TV – here were these guys and gals really bringing it to their workouts. AND nutrition was a big aspect of the regimen as well. So I took note and wrote down “check out P90X” in my day planner and went to sleep.

The next morning I turned the TV back on to check out the news and the P90X infomercial was on again (I ended up watching the whole thing again). I was really tempted to pull out my credit card to buy the program, but resisted the temptation and decided that when I get some time I’d do some more due diligence…

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