The P90X Plan...

For those of you who do not know what P90X is, you can visit their website and learn all about it. In simple terms, it is a fitness program that is designed to kick your trash up one side and down the other. It's not your typical "Sweatin' to the Oldies" type of workout. They have disclaimers all over the site, all over the books, and all over the DVDs that warn you that it could kill you. In some countries it is illegal to own, in other countries it is used as a way of extracting information out of hostile combatants. Ok, I jest, but it seriously is not your Momma's fitness video.

I personally have some experience with this level of intensity. I paid big bucks last summer to attend two 6-week sessions of a local fitness program called "Boot Camp With Jess", which was a phenominal program. After 12 weeks of that torture, I knew I could accomplish anything. I lost a lot of weight, and gained a lot of strength. It was awesome. I *almost* bought the P90X program back then, but I was afraid I would never do the workouts. So I enrolled in the Boot Camp. It made me go every day and give it 110%.

Now a year later, I feel I have trained myself with the discipline to jump in and do it, so I got P90X. A few friends joined in, and now here we are, getting ready to start this killer program together.

We will begin officially on August 3rd, and end on October 31st, just in time to go trick or treating with our kids. We plan to use the days leading up to August 3rd to run through the workouts once or twice, and become familiar with them. The nutrition plan is pretty hard core too, so we need time to figure out these new recipes, and get every thing all lined up so that we can be successful during the program.

We are taking before and after pictures, weights, and measurements, but due to Internet regulations, we may not be posting our before pictures until we have some awesome 'after' pictures to put along side them. :-)

Follow us along as we share our experiences, and feel free to join in if you want! We'd love to grow this group beyond just a few guys from Utah. We hope that our success will help others want to do this as well.