One of the items on my 10 things to do before my 30th Birthday list is two complete 2 months of the P90x workouts. Well this is something I have started right away, so I can try and stay on track with it and get the two months completed.
I first heard about P90x from my cousin, my first thought was ‘oh another lame workout video.’ I never really have heard p90x about before he mentioned it and after his description of it ’90 days of hardcore workouts’ my interest got the better of me and I started googling away.
P90x Community
Well turns out P90xers are kind of a group of there own, many blogs and you tube videos out there, some detailing the whole program and sharing everyone’s experiences with it. The more I watched the more interested I got in it. I got seriously addicted to the Youtube videos!
I guess word in the blogging world is you should already be in pretty good shape to even do the videos. You can even be expected to complete some pull ups by the end of the program. Which is already of interest to me, since I need to try and pump 8 out by my Birthday!
The Program
Tony Horton is your “personal trainer” through the videos, some may know him from other beach body workouts and he is pretty ripped. Anyhow there are like 12 different videos to do and you rotate through them during the week. The videos are couple weight workouts, plyometrics, one that is sorta like tae bo (kenopa) a yoga, and a hardcore ab.
My Thoughts
Okay by now I’m saying to myself wow I can’t believe I’m interested in this infomercial workout videos. My cousin even lent me his when he was done with them and I took them and set them in my closet that was about half a year ago. I mean I’m more of outdoorsy, biker, runner, snowboarder type of person, when was I actually going be able to dedicate like1 hour and half to these videos everyday, I would much rather go for a jog.
Really it was reading others blogs and watching their personal you tube videos that sold me on trying it out, it sorta looked fun (seriously if you have any interest in the videos go check out the post for them on you tube there are 100s of them to view). Plus I could use some strength training, I haven’t been doing any in the last year and didn’t really want to fork out money for gym right now.
So I figured I would put it on my “things to do before I am 30” list. I only had 60 days though, until my 30th Bday, but I figure hey if I make it 60 days, that’s better then nothing and maybe I’ll possibly stay motivated for the last 30 days. So I figured why not give it try and see how it goes, it just felt like the right time to do it.
Conclusion
I thought I would do possibly weekly (maybe more often at first since I’ll likely have more whining to do) updates on the program; I already completed day 1 and 2 yay! More thoughts on the program to come.
