P90x

Killa-B

Killa-B

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Alright, I'm sorry if this isn't the right section for this post, but it seems as if it fits in this section the best.

So, P90X, a system workout of muscle confusion so you never see your results flatline.
Does anyone know if this really works? I can see how muscle confusion works, but I do not understand what you would do after the 90 day program to keep gaining at such a high rate (if it works as well as they say anyways.), but I was wondering if I were to do such a program what else should I induce as a supplement into my diet?
Here's the site http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/p90x.do?code=P90XDOTCOM
Any other advice you guys could throw at me would be great, as I am here to hear the people's vioce, not the damned TV informericals blaring results.

Thanks bl
 
don't waste your $ on that , get under a squat rack, learn to make love to deadlifts and enjoy military presses. If your diet is good, you will never stop gaining until your body says this is it's natural max. Then it's up to you :)
 
Haha, I never intended to buy that, I was wondering if it was worth burning the DVD's from a friend. But, thanks I've been powerlifting for the past 2 months, and I'm loving the results so far. I just had a fear of not gaining at as much of a steady rate I currently am.
 
Yes, with a good diet someone can achieve great potential. In high school i deadlifted 605lbs at 159lb body weight as a freshman. Benched 375 end of sophmore year and squated 550lb at the same time. Just with a good diet and getting to know your body's limits. As well as i kept everything in writing to use in comparison to other work outs/ time recovery period , g of protien per lb of body weight etc.

Only used protien drinks and aminos.

When sticking to powerlifts/mass building exercises, know your limits. Now i am 21 and have to have back surgery noted due to my 605 lb dead.

Do not rush yourself.
No need to push total limit
"treat your body as if it were a temple and the temple will be built as if it were one">my father told me that N i believe it is true


Harm reduction on your body you must.
 
I do the abcore and abripperx sessions because they incorporate some interesting ab and core exercises that are at least worth taking a look at.

Other than that, I'd just keep things interesting at the gym. Its easy to fall into a rut with workouts. Watch people around you, if you see someone doing and interesting exercise, give it a go. the P90 series is based on muscle confusion. Just use the same principles up at the gym.
 
Basically to get the most out of the 90 days, they steer you away from doing the same exercise over and over. Changing weight and reps often would actually be a good example, but they tend to go for varied exercises. For example, the abripperx routine has some very interesting exercises in it. At first I thought it'd just be different ways of hitting the exact same muscles, but I was completely wrong. Serious thought has gone into the order of the various moves. They play off each other and sort of move around the abdomen so that when you lower abs are starting to give out you kind of flow into obliques...etc

Its about avoiding adaptation. I personally seek out sore muscles. I find that if I can develop a slightly different technique for exercising a muscle, be it as small of a thing as rotating my wrist during a curl, then it seems to change the movement up enough to provide me with some good soreness for awhile. That is until my body gets used to it.

Lifting heavy is key. Lifting smart and heavy is my goal.
 
. In high school i deadlifted 605lbs at 159lb body weight as a freshman. Benched 375 end of sophmore year and squated 550lb at the same time.
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Seriously? I find that a little hard to believe.
 
^ those stats are a joke bro, lol - add up the total and then his body weight, he would've been winning comps nation wide.
 
yeah that is physiologically impossible.

freshman in highschool means 13 or 14 yrs old. no 13 or 14 yr old possesses the strength to deadlift 4x bodyweigh and squat over 3x body weight and bench over 2x body weight.


bullshit...

not to mention that getting to that amount of weight requires a few years of training so he started at what..? 11? 10? lol..
 
My boy competes at 185lbs - his total combine is around 1300-1450 - that's good shit, he is also in his late 30s.... don't even want to acknowledge horseshit like I was deadlifting 605lbs at 13 hahahahaha.
 
Yeah I'm at 270 lbs body weight, 26 yrs old, been lifting without a break for ~3 yrs and those numbers (605, 370, 550) are just about my exact best lifts through my years of lifting. I outweigh that kid by 110 lbs and am twice his age and those weights are HEAVY for me. So yeah. Calling total bullshit on that.

Unless he's talkin about.. hex bar deadlifts, benching on a machine, and squating on a horizontal machine... roflmao.
 
250 here, I was pulling 405 for reps (6-8 then my lungs basically gave in haha), bench was 325 for 4-6 on good days, squats never went bellow 8 reps because of my knee (I have to have surgery :( ) - plus I do front squats and stiff leg deads, not normal squats - this is just my own method, dunno why but it saves my other knee.

He prolly is talking about a leg press and adding his own weight into a smith machine decline press rofl :)
 
muscle confusion is a scam/myth... but P90x as a program seems to work, and it's probably less boring to do with all the different things. If I were you, and wanted it, I'd just torrent it :)
 
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