P90x

Originally Posted by Jjaden

This might be true but it depends on your goals. If you want to get huge and bulk up just eat tons of food, lift very heavy weights 3-4 times a week and use some steroids. It's a pretty simple formula.

Your cardio will also suck, your athleticism will be crappy, and your strength will not be functional. I am not ripping on you, because to be honest you look very muscular and in good shape, but most of the big guys at the gym who do their best to get huge and are always panting and out of breath after every set in the gym.

I compete in MMA and I used to weight train bodybuilding style. Bodybuilding it's 'pretty boy' muscle, which means it looks nice but is useless when competing in a lot of sports. I can't tell you how many guys who have tons of muscle on me, I can submit in under a minute because they gass out so fast.

P90x not that unsimilar to how many MMA athletes train with short explosive circuits and active recovery between sets. It is the BEST way to increase overall health, but you are right, it will never make you get huge and muscular, which I don't think it the goal of P90x, but may be misleading because all of their Male models on TV are juiced up fitness competitors who do a lot of bodybuilding training on the side.

You can expect THIS type of physique from a P90X/MMA routine, which I think is much more functional, much faster, and much more practical. But again it all depends on your goals, your diet, and your dedication.

Originally Posted by Pitz

I did it for 4 weeks, but I found out that I was just getting weaker and loosing muscle, I guess it's good for somebody that doesn't exercise regularly. now some people are going to say that I was not doing it right and my diet was not set up properly, but all I have to say is that I've been working out for 13 years and I wanted to mix it up with p90x, so I dropped my weight training and got on the p90x program and I just felt like crap everyday, I was loosing fat, but I was also loosing muscle. pretty much every workout program you do will work if your diet is on point and that's all there is to it, it's all about calories in vs calories out, meaning in order to loose weight you have to burn more calories than you take in. anyways after doing p90x for 4 weeks and not getting the results that I wanted, I got off of it and got back into my regular workout routine and right now I'm where I want to be as far as fitness goes, here is a picture of me now, with p90x you'll never get this big, I don't mean to sound cocky, but that's just my experience with p90x

Originally Posted by oleg

P90x I would say is mostly cardio, ya you get sore nut you won't be gaining muscle from it. If you want to loose fat and gain muscle just get a good weight lifting program going instead as weight lifting will speed your metabolism up for a longer amount of time than cardio as long as your doing it intensly. As far as the supplements go (saw a few people mention it) I would say stay off that crap you can easily get the same results and better without any of that in your body.

Originally Posted by Pitz

about supplements go, food is the best supplement there is, but something funny I read on bodybuilding forums is that some people are taking test while on p90x.

Originally Posted by phelan

^ exactly. And even for people like me the full result of P90x isn't really what I need for playing soccer and basketball. I'm not looking for the absolutely 'ripped' look, but after I did about half the program, then adjusted my training, I'm maintaining enough muscle to bully around larger people in the post, while still maintaining enough speed to burn people out on the soccer pitch.

Originally Posted by phelan

^ while still maintaining enough speed to burn people out on the soccer pitch.