Battletard wrote:
I guess it'd be good to mention I have back injuries...no official diagnosis but I suspect a herniated disc, at minimum. The injury has been ongoing for like 2 years now..and the symptoms seem consistent with R5/R6 root nerve damage..bleh.
Not to thread jack..just feel it's important to mention since I'm not sure if that will affect my ability to complete the full routine. I've mainly just been sticking to cardio, and planning on resuming next week if the weather picks up in temperature.
I understand. I'm noticing a huge difference in what I can and can't do because of my whiplash injury, but I'm just trying to modify the best I can and keep moving during routines I absolutely can't do.
Aestu wrote:
...Does this...program, or whatever...actually work? I've been seriously considering getting into working out.
What is involved, just committing to these exercises? Is any hardware needed?
It really does work. I'm not a great case to make an example out of because of my Hashimoto's, but Jeff/Maudin really lost a TON of weight on it. My sister is also a workout fiend and is the one who loaned me the discs, she looks fantastic as well. Most of my gym-type buddies refuse to do it because it kicked their ass when the tried it, idk.
Hardware involved is generally a chair, towel, free weights or resistance bands, and a pull up bar. A yoga mat also is incredibly helpful. I don't use the pull up bar though. There's a way you can drape the resistance bands over a bar or something similar and still get a pretty good back workout + costs nothing, so I do that.
Jubbergun wrote:
P90X is actually really good, but most people can't stick with the program. My friend, Brad, did it with great results, and I think he's planning on doing it again soon. I'd try it, but I hate having my diet dictated. Sometimes I have to have Tiramisu...or Key Lime Pie...or ribs. The exercise part of it doesn't seem that intense to me, but the only time I've really ever exercised in my life I was already in fairly decent shape and we got our asses worn down for something like six hours a day, with breaks for lunch, so my standards of "intense" are a little out-of-phase with reality.
I don't really follow the nutrition guidelines because that healthy shit's expensive and I'm broke as hell. But I do know a lot of people who either get spooked after one workout and stop, or get spooked before ever starting. The ones that have made it through tend to love it. If you went from working out ridiculously to this, I can see why it wouldn't seem so bad. However, 45 minutes of pretty much nonstop jumping really beat the hell out of me today. The BF helped me to the shower cause my legs were all like lolfucku