02-11-2014, 05:38 PM
Hey, Fonz.
If my posts contributed even in the slightest to your motivation in doing P90X, I'm very honored. It's a great workout and it's really rewarding at the end.
With High Intensity Interval Training, my experienced were rather mixed. I've had days when I felt I really had to stop doing the plyometric exercises, where I felt my spleen would just burst out of my body; somedays I feel really tired, but very energized after. Other than that, it's all good with the other exercises, they really pump me up afterwards. Also, maybe the food I ate had a say in it, so there's that. But I still did it until the end, only once I skipped the bonus round in plyometrics, but that's it.
And while we are here, in regards to nutrition, it's very important, but at the same time I've rarely kept track of what I ate, because my metabolism is just awesome. At 5'11'', I weigh 148 pounds and eat like I've never seen food in my life. At the beginning, I've counted the calorie intake and monitored the 4:1 carbs-to-protein ratio, but that's just about it. I didn't stop counting, it just became second nature. I eat protein bars (2-3 a day, depending if I skip lunch or not). I mainly avoid processed/pre-cooked food, eat whole-grain oat meals in the morning, I eat whole foods ( if a type of food has more than 5-6 ingredients, it's out of the question; ex : salami, which is also processed meat ). No "recovery drinks" that fitness companies recommend or multi-vitamins or any of that stuff, water during exercise and low-fat chocolate milk after the workout will do just as good, if not better.
If my posts contributed even in the slightest to your motivation in doing P90X, I'm very honored. It's a great workout and it's really rewarding at the end.
With High Intensity Interval Training, my experienced were rather mixed. I've had days when I felt I really had to stop doing the plyometric exercises, where I felt my spleen would just burst out of my body; somedays I feel really tired, but very energized after. Other than that, it's all good with the other exercises, they really pump me up afterwards. Also, maybe the food I ate had a say in it, so there's that. But I still did it until the end, only once I skipped the bonus round in plyometrics, but that's it.
And while we are here, in regards to nutrition, it's very important, but at the same time I've rarely kept track of what I ate, because my metabolism is just awesome. At 5'11'', I weigh 148 pounds and eat like I've never seen food in my life. At the beginning, I've counted the calorie intake and monitored the 4:1 carbs-to-protein ratio, but that's just about it. I didn't stop counting, it just became second nature. I eat protein bars (2-3 a day, depending if I skip lunch or not). I mainly avoid processed/pre-cooked food, eat whole-grain oat meals in the morning, I eat whole foods ( if a type of food has more than 5-6 ingredients, it's out of the question; ex : salami, which is also processed meat ). No "recovery drinks" that fitness companies recommend or multi-vitamins or any of that stuff, water during exercise and low-fat chocolate milk after the workout will do just as good, if not better.
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