A Girl

i gave my heart to a girl
to whom i loved like a pearl
she thought that i was a flirt
and blew my heart like a patch of dirt

i looked at her face and lost to some unknown place
i looked into her eyes and dont know when i will arrive
i dont know what she was like
i lady or a fairy in disguise

i wonder how god made her so nice
my morning starts when i see her with my eyes
i tried to talk to her one day
but she ignored by saying 'please another day'

the next day i tries and made my mind
to tell her everything i dont have to hide
i went to her and was about to speak
then a boy came and interrupted in between
she knew everything and felt shy
and told me that he was her guy

i thank to god that i didnt speak a word
because of her whom i dont want to hurt

xixi

When I first started I got 60 days in (out of the 90) and I had good results: if I remember correctly, lost 20-25lbs and went from 22-17% bodyfat (according to my $6 calipers, and I'm more fuzzy remembering this number than the weight). I think the best thing about it is Tony's attitude. While extremely cheesy (and somewhat annoying), I managed to stick with the workout routine religiously for those 60 days, before school and other factors left me exhausted and reduced my free time considerably. While some people use a gym membership to keep them motivated ("I'm paying for this," no non-workout distractions, etc), I found the ability to do an intense workout at home extremely motivating, as I could then take a shower (in my own shower) and immediately do whatever else, no additional commute necessary.

I've tried to pick it up a couple times between then (June of last year) and now, but only got a couple days in before giving up. I made an early New Year's resolution and restarted on Dec 28th, and have been going since. The first two weeks are TOUGH if you're out of shape (plyo, ugh), but start to get remarkably easier. Bring it!

fake edit: No comment on the diet plan, I didn't follow it. I've heard its a lot of food with lots of calories, so until you ramp up the intensity I'd probably reduce the intake a bit.

Where to now?

The old voortrekker is gone
to meet his Maker
and greeted his children, wife,
bible, gun, wagon,
horse and piece of ground
and trusts that God
will protect his nation and country
against all evil.

In the gun safe the Martini Henry, Mauser
and Lee Metford are resting now silent
and hasn’t been seized yet
like my own firearms,
for which I did not have money
to pay the ransom
and was taken by law enforcers
of the new government
that wants every thing.

The old four colour lies in a chest
with the orange white and blue
like it’s with dead things,
and will never again stream
like it belongs
for flags for which the price
was paid with blood.

I see the weather
stir up with black and grey clouds
and I wonder if the new country
really will break my people to pieces
while many thunder bolts hits around me
and some of my people
are already away and spread over the earth
and I wonder when our rainbow
will also come some day?

what can i do?

I have been doing this routine for a few months now and it still kicks my rear end. I can actually keep up with most of the workouts now with minimal pausing of the videos and my reps are actually getting near some of the people training in the videos.

It really is a great all-around workout, but don't skimp on the dietary portion of it! The diet is a huge part of your results when doing this because you are really busting rear end in a lot of these workouts.

Also in the strength training portions if you lift heavy and go for max reps on the bodyweight exercises you will see awesome gains in strength. I have a set of PowerBlock dumbbells and they work great for this. You can use the dumbbells as pushup bars which really do help in your gains doing the pushups. The extra range of motion really gets a good stretch across your chest.

All that being said god drat that yoga routine. It is still the one routine that I struggle with. Yoga is no joke.

Edit: Just wanted to add that as far as supplementation goes I would get a quality protein powder like ON 100% or Syntha-6, a good multivitamin like Animal Pak, a BCAA supplement, and a micronized creatine monohydrate powder.

That is going to cover most everything that they push in the P90X videos like the recovery drink and will be cheaper overall than their supplement products.

I got P90X for Christmas..

And seeing how I've been away from the gym for about 8 months, and have gotten just about as fat and out of shape as I'd like to let myself get, I'm going to give it a shot. I don't have a lot of room to exercise in, and can no longer afford a gym membership, so I figure "eh gently caress it, why not?".

I'd like to know if anyone has tried the program, and if it works as well as the claims I've heard about it. Beyond that, would you add anything in to the regiment to make a more complete workout? Is it worth it to enter into this program?

Note, the only equipment I have access to is a pull-up bar, a resistance band set, and a desire to end this descent into slobriety.