We all fail at some point. If you haven’t failed, then you haven’t tried. You’ve heard all of the quotes about dusting yourself off and getting back at it, but the truth is, those quotes are true! Unless you workout for a living, there is no way you can stick to any workout program for an extended period of time. Life gets in the way. When you get sidetracked, or stop working out for whatever reason, the important thing is to get back at it. No matter how long you have been off the saddle, it always feels good to get back on. Life got in my way and I haven’t been able to work out for a few weeks. However, I have made up my mind to get back at it and start a new cycle of P90X. All it takes is the motivation and courage to start again.

Sometimes its not life that gets us offtrack, sometimes its doubters and people projecting their problems. I have heard, more than once, that “P90X is a scam” or “how can you get in shape from a infomercial?”. The reality is, P90X works and those people have issues of their own. This reminds me of a quote from Franklink D. Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Basically, don’t let those watching from the sideline have an impact on what you are trying to do….they aren’t even in the arena!

Keep at it, keep pressing play and keep ignoring the critics!

To be successful with anything, you need to have the proper tools. Just like carpenters needing good hammers, you need good equipment to workout with to be successful. In my quest for the perfect P90X workout, I have found the absolute best equipment.  I will be spolighting these products on a weekly basis.

This weeks product spotlight is the Bodylastic Resistance Bands. The resistance bands made by Bodylastics are above and beyond the best on the market. Your entire P90X workout regiment (sans Yoga X) can be administered by the Bodylastic Resistance Bands. They are strong enough to be used as a pullup bar replacement, and they hold up for all of the arm workouts.

One aspect of a good product is durability. I have used many resistance bands and time after time, they begin to weaken over time. I have now had my Bodylastic bands for quite some time and they are still as resistant as when I first bought them. This is the ultimate sign of quality and a product that I feel good about recommending.

Please click on the image below to get more information on this amazing product. As you can see, the Bodylastic bands are promoted by Terrell Owens. Now, you may not be a big fan of T.O., but he is in amazing shape. There are several videos out there that detail his workout using the bands.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I will respond. Trust me, you will take your P90X workout to the next level with the Bodylastic Resistance Bands.

P90X is a funny thing. Its a legitimate workout regiment, but there is a following that is almost cult like. P90X is either known by people who are on the program, people who only know it as an infomercial, or people who know nothing about it. 

The people who know it only by the infomercial will almost never give it a try or listen as you try to explain it becase “how can an infomercial ever be for real?” I don’t waste my time with these people, becasue they probably don’t work out to begin with and aren’t open to changing their bad habits.

The people who know nothing about it are the people that I love to talk to. They are usually stuck in the same routine of going to the gym and working out with no purpose. They are usually openminded and looking for a regiment that works. They usually will listen.

The people that have worked out with P90X understand its power. They get it, they really understand what its about. They understand that not only does it change their lives from a fitness perspective, but it can change their lives from a life perspective. 

BeachBody, the creators of P90X, have created an entire industry around P90X. Hundreds of people are employeed via the coaching opportunity, while others have become personal trainers inspired by amazing transformation from P90X. When you enter the world of P90X, you are given every support tool possible to be successful. 

You can sign up to have a BeachBody coach assigned to you, for free. You also have access to the forums that have thousands of people on hand to give you support and answer any questions you have. There are numerous videos on YouTube of people giving their weekly updates. 

What I am trying to get at is that the only way you can fail at P90X is within yourself. If you give to it, it will give back tenfold. You are given all the tools and support that you will ever need. Its out there for you to take………..go get it!

Do you want to take your daily workout on the go? At first, I was happy working out and doing my daily P90X routine at home. After a while however, it became hard to workout at home as I wasn’t motivated after I got home and sat on the couch! Or there were chores around the house that I needed to tend to. I felt much better going to the gym to get my workout in. I started by watching every video and writing down the workouts. This is cumbersome! I also would leave the paper at the gym from time to time so I had to rewatch the video and write everything down again.

In comes my iPod!

I took my P90X DVD’s and ripped them to my computer using Handbrake. I then put the ripped video on my iPod and now I have Tony Horton in the gym with me. I love doing my P90X workouts at the gym!

Get plenty of lean protein with every meal
Lean sources include fish, poultry, beans and vegetarian alternatives. Protein should be the building block of every meal. It gives you the stamina you need to “bring it” to your P90X workout and make it to the next meal.

Eat five to eight fresh fruits and vegetables every day
The P90X philosophy is: Don’t ever hold yourself back from enjoying all the fresh fruits and veggies you want!

Enjoy whole-grain carbs
Ditch white breads, bagels, doughnuts, cookies and the like. Tear into a hunk of all-natural whole-grain bread instead with gusto! You don’t have to eat carbs at every meal, but you should have at least one serving of carbs every day. That’s because your brain relies solely on carbs for its energy source. Sure, you’ll be trim if you don’t eat any carbs, but you’ll come across as a ditz! Your protein serving should always be larger than your carb serving to prevent your blood sugar from spiking, then plummeting. The last thing you want is to feel weak and shaky during your P90X workout!

Enjoy good fats
Good fats are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated; some sources include avocados, olive oil, fish and nuts. The P90X fitness system recommends fish as the most lean source of protein and as the best source of omega 3 oils. Wild Alaskan salmon is best. Saturated and trans fats are bad; some sources include meat, dairy products and hydrogenated oils.

Drink at least six to ten 8oz glasses of water every day.
Water flushes away excess fat. That’s a good thing, because you’re going to crave tons of water after your P90X Cardio X, Plyometrics and Kenpo X workouts!

Avoid these items at all costs:
fast food burgers and fries; hydrogenated oils and high-fructose corn syrup. When you follow the P90X fitness mindset, you don’t even regard them as food. Think of them as poisonous artery-clogging and liver-taxing toxins.

Never, ever skip meals or starve yourself.
This will only slow down your metabolism anyway. You are going to need plenty of energy for your P90X workouts! Never leave the table hungry, and never leave the table miserably stuffed. Eat until you are full, but not overloaded.

Carbonated water

Ingredient-wise, this is cola’s get-out-of-jail-free card. Carbonated water—water injected with carbon dioxide gas—has received a bad rap over the years, but current studies suggest there’s little wrong with it. The idea that the phosphorus (the “fizz”) in bubbly water drains calcium from bones was shown to be untrue in a 2001 study by the Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center in Nebraska. So if you give up the soda and stick to the soda water, you’ll be in good shape.

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

For the uninitiated, HFCS is corn syrup that has gone through enzymatic processing to increase its fructose level. It’s then mixed with un-enzymatic processed corn syrup to make a combo of fructose and glucose that can be used as a sweetener. Due to the massive amount of corn our country produces, HFCS is cheaper than white cane sugar and, therefore, the sweetener of choice for just about every American junk food you can think of.

There have been all kinds of theories and studies over the years claiming that HFCS is worse for you than other sugars. Conversely, the Corn Refiners Association has gone to great lengths to dispute this information, but it’s a losing battle. They have yet to comment on the latest studies, one published in Environmental Health and another from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, both showing that HFCS can contain mercury.

Whomever you believe, this stuff just isn’t good for you. One 12-ounce can (and who drinks just a can anymore?) contains 39 grams of simple carbohydrates, all from HFCS. With no fat, no protein, and no fiber, it’s 140 calories of blood-sugar-spiking sweetness. It’s like eating 9 teaspoons of table sugar. So no matter what you call it, what vegetable it’s derived from, or how you process it, it’s bad for you.

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I have read quite a few forum and blog posts where people have substituted Plyometrics or Kenpo X for Cardio X. While I love and highly enjoy both Plyo and Kenpo, I decided to try Cardio X since so many people liked it.

What I liked about Cardio X
I really enjoyed the fact that the workout was not borning. Cardio X mixes in exercises of all different sorts: Yoga, Plyo, Kenpo, Ab Ripper etc. This workout really kept my attention and the workout seemed to fly by.

What I didn’t like about Cardio X
This workout was not as intense as Plyo or Kenpo X. While Kenpo X isn’t as intensive as Plyo, it is much more instensive than Cardio X.

I think Cardio X is a really great workout, but I htink its a better substitute for your Rest or Stretch X day than it is for Plyo or Kenpo X. To me, Plyo is the greatest workout in the P90X program due to its intensity.

Studies have shown that in several groups of people who were given a diet that was low in calories, the group that was given the most protein to eat, lost the least amount of muscle mass overall. When trying to lose fat by dieting, you want to make sure that you keep as much of your muscle mass as possible. This keeps your metabolism from slowing down too much. It is for this reason that you shouldn’t take part in any kind of diet that asks you to give up all or most of the protein from your diet.

Muscles burn fat because they need calories for maintenance. You will burn more calories for the more muscle you have on your body. People who frequently use crash diets tend to lose lots of muscle mass. When these people return to normal eating habits, their metabolism will actually work slower from the lost muscle mass. They will tend to put on even more weight than they initially lost from dieting and losing weight becomes even harder and frustrating.

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For many years, fitness experts thought that the only way to lose body fat and improve cardiovascular fitness was by doing long, steady aerobic workouts. While there’s no doubt that long, steady aerobic exercise is effective, many fitness experts are now also recommending high intensity interval training (HIIT).

HIIT consists of alternating high intensity “work intervals” with low to moderate intensity “recovery intervals” over a 15-20 minute time period. For example, you sprint 40 yards and then walk 40 yards, and then continue to alternate these work and recovery intervals. Or you run for one minute and then jog for three minutes, and then continue to alternate these work and recovery intervals. You can also perform HIIT on almost any piece of aerobic exercise equipment by adjusting the speed, incline or resistance level up and down during your workout. There are many different ways to structure a HIIT workout.

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Many of you may be asking the question, “How to lose your tummy fat?” regularly. After all, this is a common problem that many people face. Losing fat in this body area is made more challenging by the fact that this is usually an area where fat is last to go.

When human beings gain weight, their bodies accumulate fat in different body areas. Generally, for males, fat accumulates in the stomach area first. For women, on the other hand, extra weight manifests in the butt and thigh areas. Contrary to what some people say, there are no specific exercises that can effectively reduce fat in a particular body area. Before you can melt the fats in your tummy area, there should be weight loss occurring in all body areas. Muscles in some body parts must also be exercised regularly for a leaner and more chiseled appearance.

A change in one’s diet will promote weight loss and may stimulate the body to have a firmer look. Oily and fried food, as well as junk food, should be avoided and should be replaced with healthy alternatives, like fruits and vegetables. Moreover, to get rid of those unwanted fat fast, make sure to engage in physical activities regularly. Exercises need not be complicated and strenuous though. Even a 30-minute walk done regularly will do wonders for you. When you exercise, your metabolism works faster in delivering food to the cells to produce needed energy for physical activities.

When coming up with an exercise plan, remember that it is impossible to spot reduce fat. So, when you happen to see advertisements that compel you to buy something that will particularly remove tummy fat fast, think twice about buying it. This way, you will not be brainwashed into buying something that does not really work. Working out your abs every day is not the solution to your problem. It might work for a few, but most people just end up frustrated after having subscribed to the spot reduce myth.

As previously mentioned, the combination of a healthy diet and regular exercise will help you get rid of excess body weight. To make these even more effective, make sure to drink 10 to 12 glasses of water every day and refrain from eating at least two hours before you sleep. By following these tips, you will surely be able to lose your tummy fat fast.

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