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Originally Posted by JediKooter
I think I have the food part (excuse the pun), licked. Working exercise into my commute is not possible. I live too far away from work to ride a bike or something like that. Another thing I thought about, was taking some Kung Fu classes after work. There's a dojo about 3 blocks from my place.
The P90X thing doesn't seem to be what I need. I'm more interested in losing weight than building up any muscle at this stage in the game. When I'm below 200, then I'll think about the muscle part of it.
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You may want to rethink that. I'm not saying the dojo isn't a good idea, but simply put you burn more fat with muscle.
I figured I'd do the extreme cardio to lose weight before I started weightlifting. I'd been working out for a year consistently and wanted to ramp things up a bit. So I did Insanity - the
ultimate cardio workouts - for 30 days and didn't lose a pound. I saw good endurance gains, but nothing from a weight standpoint and no real change in body shape. I worked my ass off doing it, too. It got a bit discouraging.
So rather than go 30 more days with Insanity, I switched to P90X for my weightlifting. I've lost over a pound per week for the 6 weeks I've been on this P90X rotation thus far. The physical changes are much more pronounced - the gut is getting noticeably smaller while my chest/back/arms are getting larger.
I'm not saying P90X is for everyone or that everyone will get the same results. But personally, I see better results in all aspects - muscle definition, strength, weight loss, etc. - when I work with weights combined with some cardio rather than going with a straight cardio routine. In fact, the results aren't even close.
Another option to P90X is
Chalean Extreme. Those workouts are around 40 minutes each, with fairly heavy lifting as the focus of the workouts.
Yet another option is
Supreme 90. You can find this occasionally at Walgreens, Targets, Bed/Bath/Beyond or online. It's a cheap P90X knockoff, but for only $20 for 10 workouts it's pretty decent. I'd suggest that anyone who does this be at least somewhat familiar on how to properly lift because the instruction isn't all that comprehensive.