P90X

Well I was in Louisville for a birthday party this spring and I was asking one of the guys there about his shirt. It was a shirt that had some marathon on it. So I asked him if he ran. He said yeah but right now he was doing P90X. I said what is that? He explained how it was an extreme workout that was hard and he liked it and was getting in really great shape. So I looked it up on my iPhone. it seemed pretty cool. Then I remembered that my wife Robin's friend was in town a few weeks before that and she was doing the power 90 workout and I remembered Tony Horton's face and the room and the three other people with him. And I pieced it together, it was the same guy. Power 90 was an easier version.

What really impressed me was that Kim was doing the workout at our house in the morning after partying the night before. Who does that? Plus she didn't need all kinds of space and it wasn't all kinds of goofy dance moves and techno music.

Well I was flipping through the channels and I come across the P90X infomercial. I watched bits and pieces of it and I liked it. I was especially impressed with Tony being 53 and looking like that and there was some other 50 year old. I'm 38 soon to be 39 on the 27th. I was also impressed that you could do it in a small space and that you could get ripped.

I wasn't sure though and I wanted some more time to make sure etc etc. So anyway my wife bought it for me off Craig's List. The actual workout, NOT A BOOTLEG COPY. I don't believe in that. But I do believe that a private person can buy something and turn around and sell it, just like you might buy movies at a garage sale. I don't think people should be arrested for doing that!

I started the workouts and they were tough. I wouldn't have started except for my wife just saying we're going to start tomorrow morning and at 5:30 I hear the music start and I fall out of bed and start working. After the warm up I felt fine.

I can tell you 8 weeks in I am ripped!! I have a 6 pack and my arms and back are cut!!! It's really cool! I have lots of energy. I was really sore in the beginning but then I started drinking a homemade recovery drink from this site http://www.spma.net/recoverydrinksfin.htm, Simple Whey protein and fruit juice. You need the glucose because you need the glycogen. Read the reasoning on that site. It made a huge difference.

I also went to the grocery and bought Body Fortress products. I use the super NOS blast and the glutamine before my workout and after. I just follow the directions. The NOS helps me to focus and work harder during the workout and the Glutamine has made a HUGE difference in my level of soreness afterward. Their website is www.bodyfortress.com.