Duck Rodgers
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Earphones don't exactly mute the heavy breathing/ grunting and groaning either. Get a ****ing muzzle too while you're at it.
I think the point of at home workouts is because people don't like to go to they gym when they are out of shape. P90X is still just working out, you can get just as good a workout at the gym if you really want to. I'd just keep going to the gym if I were you.I've never tried the workout. I do an elliptical for 45 mins and then swim a little more than a mile. Combine that with watching what I eat (cutting out the **** and smaller portions) and I'm down 45 lbs. since Jan. 10.
My biggest hangup about trying something like p90x is that I get up at 4am to go to the gym. I've learned something about myself: If I don't get up early to work out, it doesn't happen. When I get home from work my wife and kids demand attention, plus I have other stuff to do, so the workout just doesn't happen. I worry about trying an at home workout (like P90X) that I would wake up my wife and/or kids. That would not be a good thing. At the moment, the only place to workout in my house is in the family room, right down the hall from the bedrooms. Is this a real casue for concern? Or is it something I've made up in my head? Plus, my kids are SUPER light sleepers.
Earphones don't exactly mute the heavy breathing/ grunting and groaning either. Get a ****ing muzzle too while you're at it.
I can't believe it, but I'm starting this garbage. I've decided to take two weeks and attempt to get my body into real workout shape so I don't end up dying halfway through the first video. I've done the Yoga 3 days in a row now and I've gotten a little further into the video each day. It's amazing how much better you feel after you're done, until you wake up the next day and realize you can't even sit to crap.
My. Legs. Hurt.
I've never tried the workout. I do an elliptical for 45 mins and then swim a little more than a mile. Combine that with watching what I eat (cutting out the **** and smaller portions) and I'm down 45 lbs. since Jan. 10.
My biggest hangup about trying something like p90x is that I get up at 4am to go to the gym. I've learned something about myself: If I don't get up early to work out, it doesn't happen. When I get home from work my wife and kids demand attention, plus I have other stuff to do, so the workout just doesn't happen. I worry about trying an at home workout (like P90X) that I would wake up my wife and/or kids. That would not be a good thing. At the moment, the only place to workout in my house is in the family room, right down the hall from the bedrooms. Is this a real casue for concern? Or is it something I've made up in my head? Plus, my kids are SUPER light sleepers.
Cool. Good plan. I was in decent shape, already thin and whatnot and it still took took me three weeks of doing workouts and quitting halfway through and skipping days and generally being sore as hell before I admitted that I'd been failing and had to start over from scratch. Which is what I did and since then it's been on.I can't believe it, but I'm starting this garbage. I've decided to take two weeks and attempt to get my body into real workout shape so I don't end up dying halfway through the first video.
You don't have to go all out when you are starting. I'd suggest going maybe 75% the first time you do each excercise to get your muscles loosened up the first week and then go all out after that if you don't experience ridiculous soreness.
Cool. Good plan. I was in decent shape, already thin and whatnot and it still took took me three weeks of doing workouts and quitting halfway through and skipping days and generally being sore as hell before I admitted that I'd been failing and had to start over from scratch. Which is what I did and since then it's been on.
Though just doing Yoga's not gonna be enough, tbh. Even if that workout is TOUGH. Get ready to not be able to straighten your arms for 48 hours after you do chest and shoulders the first time, start and quit legs and back a couple times and throw up during plyometrics and the like. I don't know, maybe the wifey keeps you busy enough that you won't get sore from pushups, but if I were you I'd plan on going through the whole set of week 1-3 workouts a couple/few times before you get enough of a jumpstart that you'll be able to do them completely and in succession.
I have a hot-pink yoga mat, btw. Hawt.
work your pecs + shoulders + neck, done, enjoy unlimited social success in our absurd culture
Where plyo breaks me down isn't the overall workout, which indeed does a number on me, but there'll be like 15 or so seconds at a time where I just feel like I'm going to die. Like, when Tony goes to double time on the rock star jumps and jump knee squats and you're just landing and exploding over and over and over again (which is the classic, true definition of plyometrics). That **** kills me muscle and cardio wise and then it's over and you're supposedly onto the next workout, but really, there's nothing you can do but hit the pause button.Today was plyometrics and strangely it was the most difficult it has ever been. I think that my muscles in my legs are getting more conditioned than my cardiovascular system so I find myself short of breath and having to take breaks often.