Going from Extreme to Insane.

So most of my friends out there know that I’ve been doing P90X for the past 3 months.

I’ve been doing the P90X “Lean” routine. The Lean routine is centered more on cardio and lean body mass. As you can see, P90X is an extreme workout routine that gives extreme results for those who can really commit to it. Here are my results for the first 30 days:

And here are my results for the next 30 days:

I’m extremely pleased with my results and proud of myself. However, I’ve noticed something about the program that I wasn’t happy with.

While my strength gain and weight loss has been excellent, I noticed I haven’t been getting the gains in endurance and speed that I wanted. A main goal of my transformation was to get back into shape to dance again. I’ve always loved dancing and especially break dancing and other forms of hip hop dancing. While my love for the dance grew, my health went the other way. Having an office job for years can do that to someone!

Because of the first round of P90X, I have gained so much strength that I can do break dancing freezes I could never do before. But to me, the aspects of dancing I want are speed, strength and flexibility. While P90X has made me so much stronger, it hasn’t made me more nimble and flexible in the ways I want. However, BeachBody, the company that makes P90X has a new work out routine called Insanity

Something like this seems to be up my alley. I LOVE body weight exercises. I love nonstop movement exercises. I love moving around and bouncing and sweating my ass off. I hate standing around and getting “my reps in.” I hate doing push ups and pull ups. I hate grabbing my weights and pushing and pulling my way into shape. Something that relies purely on the things I like seems to be a great routine and I can’t wait to start with this.

Once I go through my first round of Insanity, I may go back to P90X to get “ripped.” Of course I’ll keep you up to date on my last month of P90X to show you my results and I’ll keep you all posted on my journey with Insanity!

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