P90x Day 1

My wife and I decided to finally start p90x this week. I decided tonight to write about our progress.

So here are my beginning stats. Weight is 180. Body fat percentage (taken from the scale that supposedly can calculate it) is 21.5%. Chest is 40". Waist is 38". Hips are 38.5". Right and left Thigh each 23.25". Right arm (measured at bicep, flexed) 13.75". Left arm (measured same as right) 13.5".

So the first day is Chest & back, and then ab-ripper. Chest and back is basically an hour of push-ups and pull ups. There was a few "rowing" type moves that involved the weights as well, mostly used for the back. Ab ripper...ugh. That is an intense workout, and it's only 15 minutes long. They said there are ~340 individual moves that work your abs in that 15 minutes.

All in all, it's a great workout. I'm excited to be working out again, and I am really hoping that this will give us some great results. From what I've heard, it really will. Even without doing the diet. We decided to not really follow the diet plan. We're both not really going for weight loss, more for toning up. That's not to say I'm going to just eat ice cream every night. We're already eating relatively healthy, so there won't be too much in the change of diet.

I'll try to update this each day with the workout results.