Hey everyone. Didn't want to start a whole "blog" thread just for myself, so I figured I'd just chime in here now and then.
Just started P90X yesterday, and it's already kicking my ass. But I'm determined to follow through on this.
As of yesterday:
Height: 5'11" (just a smidge under actually)
Weight: 275 (Heaviest I ever got was 290 [end of college 3.5 years ago], was down to 265 about 6 months ago but hurt my knee and got back up to 275 during the recovery)
Age: 25
I honestly don't eat that unhealthily, but I eat too much, that's for sure. And I have an extremely unhealthy addiction to french fries. God damn do I love french fries. So I'm working on making better choices and trying to go for slightly smaller portions (it's a work in progress). I would hate life on some hardcore diet, so I'm working with reality as best I can to both lose weight, and enjoy what I'm eating. Luckily, I'm not at all picky, and I do generally like a lot of healthy foods, so I can find stuff I enjoy that isn't gonna keep killing me (I'll just really miss the french fries
).
As for the P90X, I'm doing the "Lean" variant, since obviously my need is weight loss much more than strength training. My best friend is also doing this with me (he's doing the standard variation), so it's nice to have another person to help keep me on track.
Observations so far: THIS **** IS HARD!
My first day (Monday) was Core Synergistics. I struggled through some of the excercises, mostly because you can only do so many push ups when you weigh 275. But whenever I ran into something I couldn't do, I'd try to modify it in some way that made it a bit easier for now. I expect after a few weeks I'll be able to do everything, but in the meantime, I'll just power through as best as I can.
Today was Cardio X. That was pretty intense for me. Best I usually do is a 25 minute walk/run, so a full 45 minute cardio workout kicked my ass pretty hard. Also, I was so damn sore from yesterday, that some of the things in todays workout were near impossible! Again, I powered through as best I could, always making sure to do SOMETHING even if I couldn't quite do it as well or as intensely as they did on the video.
All in all, I'm feeling great, although incredibly sore in places I didn't know I even had muscles. I'm enjoying the program though. I always struggled with motivation before I think because I find running/biking/treadmills/whatever to be very boring. In this, you're never doing any one thing longer than 2 minutes or so. I like that a lot.
I'll check in now and then and update my progress and what I think of the program overall. Mostly just wanted to make this post so I have one more thing I'm accountable for. Just that extra little bit of motivation to keep me going.
2 days down. 88 days to go. I'm even more determined than when I started!