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Despite being skinny as a young child, I was overweight by the time I was ten years old. I continued to be overweight throughout middle and high school. At my heaviest point, I weighed in at 256 lbs. After high school, I had enough and decided to do something about it. At 17, I started working out. I stopped drinking soda and eating fast food overnight. I also started drinking about a gallon Despite being skinny as a young child, I was overweight by the time I was ten years old. I continued to be overweight throughout middle and high school. At my heaviest point, I weighed in at 256 lbs. After high school, I had enough and decided to do something about it. At 17, I started working out. I stopped drinking soda and eating fast food overnight. I also started drinking about a gallon of water per day. By the time I was 19, I had dropped to about 180 lbs. It felt great not having that extra 76 lbs hanging on me!
Throughout the next 6 years I stayed active to varying degrees, but fluctuated between 175 and 200 lbs. In the last 5 years I have stayed consistently active and right around 175-180 lbs. (Despite a demanding job, a beautiful family, and community involvement all vying for my time.) I have felt good and fairly fit, but I never completely got rid of the love handles or achieved the “X-like” fitness or physique that I targeted when I started this journey at 17.
I saw the P90X infomercial a few times, but was skeptical. After hearing more about P90X from a friend who was seeing great results, I decided it was time to really discipline myself and reach my goals...maximum fitness and the elusive six-pack. It won't be easy with all the demands on my time....but the added challenge will make it even more fulfilling in the end.
My Progress My fitness goal:
Transformation story
I started week 1 at 175 lbs. Man, did I sweat this week. The workouts were great, but the plyo quickly showed me that my legs were the weakest link...what a burn! When is that rest day More ...
I started week 1 at 175 lbs. Man, did I sweat this week. The workouts were great, but the plyo quickly showed me that my legs were the weakest link...what a burn! When is that rest day coming? I started week 2 at 177.5 lbs. I was up 2.5 lbs, but I followed the meal plan carefully week 1 and could already see positive changes in the mirror. I already felt stronger starting this week, so I'm not going to worry about the numbers. I started week 3 at 174 lbs. Down 3.5 lbs from week 2, but only 1 lb from my starting weight. It doesn't matter though because the mirror, my wife and friends are already telling me how much leaner and more toned I look and it's only day 15 of 90!! (In spite of a lot of overtime this week and only 5.5-6.5 hours of sleep a night.) My clothes are getting loose and my weights/reps are going up. I feel great and it only makes me want to work harder! (And sleep more! ha, ha) It is week 4 and the first "recovery week". The scale sill says 174. I didn't see as much change in the mirror this week, but I did improve in reps or weights on almost every single excercise! I also felt much stronger/better form in Yoga and Plyo! All this improvement in spite of a seriously challenging week and very little sleep! I hope to see even better gains with better sleep in the coming week. Oh yeah, and Thanksgiving is in a few days...don't even care about the "normal holiday food" that I won't be eating this year! Bring it! Starting week 5 and my day 28 measurements show that I have dropped from 18.1% bodyfat to 16.4%! Moving into phase two I feel ready to take on whatever Tony is gonna throw at me! Week 6 is here and the scale still rings in at 174. I like it though, because lines and ridges are beginning to emerge all over! They are still just beneath the surface, but the "fat blanket" they've been wearing is quickly thinning out! The phase 2 workouts have been kicking my tail...it's time to kick back! No mercy! I can't believe it's week 7 already! I'm at 173 lbs, but more importantly I am almost one-to-one with Tony and the kids on ab ripper x and I can now do corn cob pullups for the first time! Ahh, week 8 - Recovery week is here. The scale says 172, the mirror says improvement, my clothes say that it's time to go shopping....but not yet. I have one more phase to go after this much anticipated break. Working so hard never felt so good! Week 9, day 1 of Phase 3 and I just rocked chest and back! The reps keep climbing and my body fat keeps dropping...I now have two co-workers and two family members X-ing it with me! Oh yeah, the scale is at 173, but the body fat is down another pecent to approximately 15%!
Workout programs: P90X® - primary program Gear: P90X Chin-Up Bar Push-Up Stands Resistance Bands Supplements: ActiVit® Multi-Vitamins Whey Protein Powder P90X® Peak Results and Recovery Formula Strength & Muscle Men's Formula Slimming Formula
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