I’ve been using P90x workouts for about 2 months now. I’ve lost a total of 5 pounds, and dropped 8 % body fat. When I started I weighed 275 lbs. For those of you out there that are deficient in math, that means that I currently weigh 270 pounds, still a lot, but I’ve gone from carrying 110 pounds of body fat to only carrying 81 pounds. That’s pretty significant! My lean body mass has also gone from 165 lbs. of lean muscle to 189 lbs. of 100% lean muscle. Holy smokes! Al in just 2 months. Wait, it gets better. My left knee is almost bone on bone at this point in my life, thanks to a skiing accident when I was a teenager. As my weight climbed up the scale, so did the pain and swelling in that knee. When I first started with the P90X DVD’s I’m ashamed to admit that I couldn’t even do a simple jumping jack because of the sharp pain in that joint. Here I am 2 months later and I can do those jumping jacks without any pain whatsoever. To me, that’s a big deal. I have more energy, more strength. My arms are over an inch larger than when I first started the program. That’s what I call gaining muscle and losing fat. Muscle burns more calories than fat, so I’m actually starting to see the weight fall off on the scale in the morning. I actually gained about 8 pounds during the first 3 weeks of the program and it was a bit frustrating. I didn’t have Jillian, the fitness Nazi screaming at me for cheating or being stupid or whatever, but I could still hear her in my head yelling at me for not dropping the weight fast enough. My goal however, isn’t to drop the weight so fast that I can make a GUCCi purse out of my leftover skin…….yuck, that was gross…..sorry. I don’t want to just get skinny. I want to be fit. I want muscle, and I want a lot of it. I’m not in any rush. I want to make sure I do this for the long haul and don’t end up putting the weight back on. This is a lifestyle change for me. I’m doing P90X training at least 5 days a week. I’m riding my recumbent bike for 1/2 to 1 hour a day and next week I will start playing racquetball again. Wish me luck. To answer anyone’s question about whether they should give Tony Horton’s P90X a try, let me just say this…..YES!!!!!!!! It’s an amazing gain muscle and burn fat workout. It’s frankly, the best fitness training DVD series I’ve ever seen. Give it a 90 day money back guaranteed try. If you stick with the program and really work with it, you’ll see amazing results. Have a great time sweating your butt off!

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