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Here we go again… On the May 12, 2012 episode of The Jillian Michaels Show podcast titled “Jillian has some great ideas on how to reach your fitness goals,” Jillian discusses several practical tips. For example, the first one is “Be honest with yourself.” Are you really eating as healthy as you should, or are you sabotaging yourself with poor choices? Are you really working out on a regular basis, and putting in the proper effort?
Her second tip starts out in the same way: Be clear with your trainer about how they can help you. If you don’t have a trainer, you have to figure out what your goals are. Sounds great! Then, we seem to wander into bashing a certain popular fitness program again… Jillian says, and I am summarizing here, “I don’t want to bash this workout product, a series of DVDs. I’ve often watched this program and wondered who it’s for. Is it for someone who wants to get smaller, or someone who wants to gain mass?”
Here is the audio clip, if you want to listen for yourself.
As if to answer Jillian’s question (before she even asked it), there are testimonials in the P90X infomercial from people who lost a lot of weight, people (primarily men) who bulked up, and other people (men and women) who got a toned, lean, muscular but not bulky look. In the P90X Fitness Guide, there is the P90X Classic workout schedule, which balances resistance training with cardio, and the P90X Lean schedule, which reduces the resistance training and increases the cardio for maximum weight loss. So the answer is that P90X is adaptable to several fitness goals, but of course you have to choose which one you want to pursue.
By the way, by the time P90X2 came along, there were several men in the workout DVDs who lost over 100 pounds with P90X, and they looked pretty muscular to me. Monica Parodi is an example of a woman who did not have a lot of extra weight to lose, but who had lost muscle mass due to an extended period of bed rest during pregnancy, and after the birth of her twins. Tony Horton points out in the X2 Shoulders + Arms DVD that she’s got toned muscles, but she certainly isn’t bulky.
The P90X Nutrition Plan enters into this discussion as well. The plan as written has received some criticism for being an extreme low-carb diet, too high (or low) in calories, depending upon who is talking. Here again, there is room to make adjustments according to a person’s goals and metabolism.
Other tips in this podcast:
- Find your mantra (that is, your motivation to exercise)
- Be patient with the exercise program, and with yourself
I enjoyed the fitness segment of this podcast, and I know she didn’t mention P90X by name. Maybe I am jumping to conclusions here, and perhaps she was talking about some other fitness program. In any case, whether the infomercial is clear on this point or not, P90X is adaptable to fitness goals such as weight loss, muscle gain, building strength, increasing athletic power, or a balanced combination of these goals.
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