| It seems that P90X is still mostly considered a weight | | | | exercises and after and why sleep is indeed very |
| loss program by many. Before and after stories still | | | | important. That you shouldn't freak out when you gain |
| get the most attention if you can see a huge drop in | | | | a bit of size as a girl when you first start out to |
| weight. I am honestly a bit annoyed about that fact. It | | | | exercise and how to properly work with my |
| reduces an amazing fitness program to the bare | | | | hyper-extended legs. Lots of additional things you hear |
| bones. Of course the weight loss is really important to | | | | daily but it just does make so much more sense if you |
| a lot of people and I can understand that but on the | | | | actually experience it yourself. It's just sad that despite |
| other hand it really does sell the program short. | | | | my athletic background with competitive sports at |
| I myself was quite thin to start with but I admire | | | | younger age, it took me almost 35 years to realize |
| everyone who does lose a big amount of weight with | | | | and believe in all this knowledge. All this due to the |
| P90X. I am not sure if I had the willpower to push | | | | program itself and the communication with people on |
| through if I didn't have a certain amount of fitness to | | | | these boards. |
| start with. | | | | Since I started P90X I improved from being able to do |
| I am coming however from a different background. | | | | 2 normal push-ups to 20 normal ones. I went from 0 |
| One which you don't really hear about that much | | | | pull-ups to 3 unassisted ones, I went from 0 seconds |
| because you can't really show it in before and after | | | | of crane to 20+ seconds, I went from not being able to |
| progress pictures: | | | | put my fingertips to the floor during standing hamstring |
| Besides the fact that I am toning down, I mostly love | | | | stretches to almost completely contracted, from not |
| P90X because it taught me a new lifestyle and gave | | | | being able to touch my toes during seated hamstring |
| me a huge boost in overall living quality. My knee pain I | | | | stretches to needing a yoga block for additional range. |
| used to have during other workouts has been going | | | | From not being able to go through one whole set of |
| back steadily to the point where I don't have to worry | | | | moves in ARX to being able to do the whole routine |
| about it any more. I am positive that this is mostly due | | | | with only a few pauses here and there. |
| to the Yoga workout and the fact that it does work | | | | More importantly, I went from being scared to walk |
| on the muscles I normally don't use. Funny enough, I | | | | down the stairs to not having to worry about it. From |
| always knew that not eating breakfast is a bad thing... | | | | being overly tired and unmotivated to very energetic |
| a lot of things I DID know but I never really saw the | | | | and adventurous to the point where everyone around |
| difference it makes if you START doing all those | | | | me gets exhausted before I even consider stopping. |
| things and the positive changes that come with it. It | | | | From not being able to properly paint, back to |
| taught and showed me why you should do all those | | | | accepting freelance commissions again. Or in short, I |
| things you hear about but maybe never really decide | | | | went from being a MS patient with several |
| to start doing. | | | | impairments that seriously hindered my day to day life |
| It gave me control over my body back. Something I | | | | to feeling the best I have ever felt before - including |
| was seriously missing after my first Multiple Sclerosis | | | | any time before my diagnosis. |
| Attack three years ago. Since then I have been in the | | | | I went for several runs recently while enjoying some |
| hospital 4 times, had huge troubles with my balance | | | | vacation at my parents place including a 10km run I |
| and chronically felt tired and without energy. I | | | | didn't even know if I can make it through. I did, without |
| constantly felt cold, overwhelmed, stressed and like I | | | | problems and I went running out of my own initiative |
| had cotton in my brain. Not to mention every move felt | | | | which never EVER happened before. Just thinking |
| sluggish and delayed to me. | | | | back to that makes me water up because I never |
| During these 90 days I have learned why Yoga is | | | | thought I would feel that feeling of being in control over |
| important, what resistance training does, the different | | | | my body ever again. |
| type of muscles and fiber types, why drinking enough | | | | My before and after pictures will never look as |
| water is essential, how you eat healthy, that people | | | | amazing as some others but people around me, |
| get educated wrongly by reading magazines that tell | | | | friends and family can clearly see the progress I made |
| you, you can lose your saddle-bags with specific | | | | and the changes I went through. That's all that counts |
| exercises only (right..), why both cardio and strength | | | | for me. |
| training are important, how your body works during | | | | |