I think the first two weeks are the most critical. Your body is being surprised by this crazy workout you just started and by your diet. I started the P90X the first time not following the Nutrition Plan without any results. I stopped after a month, then started again the right way. Following the diet very strictly. I lost the most weight in those first two weeks. I think it was about 7 pounds. That’s not a huge amount, but every week after that I lost about 1 pound per week. You can gain strength and improve performance with the workouts alone, but you might not see a difference in your appearance because of the body fat percentage you might be holding on to.

It’s the combination of diet and exercise that gives people awesome results with the P90X.

-Mike

you don’t have to start over unless you haven’t been sticking to the schedule, missing a lot of days. Otherwise, keep doing what you are doing. Stick to the diet and stick to the workouts, you will lose weight and get into great shape. This might sound shocking, but many people don’t start to see results until week 8 so hang in there!

-Mike

are you too wide? Try to bring them in a bit. Ab Ripper is also a core workout which does include your thighs, back, abs and gluteus. If you engage your abs, you can direct some of the effort toward them. Know what I mean? Squeeze your abs tight during this workout and you legs should last a bit longer.

-Mike

the recovery drink is important. It really helps with muscle soreness and helps repair the tiny tears your muscles get when you work on them. If you can’t wait a whole hour to eat, it’s ok to eat. I think it’s more important to wait an hour after you eat before you workout so you don’t get sick. Maybe try and wait 30 minutes. I didn’t always have time in the morning to wait a full hour to eat breakfast because I had to run to work.

Do what you can to make this program work for you. It’s better to make adjustments than to give up on it!!

Good luck!

-Mike

-Mike

Also, some of the abripperX program exercises seem to work out more the upper legs, I lose leg power quicker than ab power am I doing something wrong?

I forgot to ask, how long I should wait to workout after I eat?

I am supposed to be doing the nutrition plan at Level 2, but I just couldn’t eat that much so now I’m doing it at level 1 until I can do the whole workout, I’m also not eating the protein bar and recovery shake are those necessary? because now it looks like i’m only eating 1400 cals a day without those, i’m doing ok on that many calories energy wise but again I’m not doing the entire workout yet.

My other concern was when to eat, I work out either before work or right after so I usually eat a meal right after my workout, but I was reading in the nutrition guide and it said the only thing you should eat an hour after your workout is the recovery shake, I just can’t wait a couple hours after my workout to eat some days especially the days i work out after work because I’m usually hungry when I get home.

Any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated, I really want to do this properly and lose my extra padding.

Thanks

if you main concern is weight loss, go with the lean approach. This will give you more fat burning cardio than classic. The classic approach alternated between cardio and resistance giving you more opportunities to gain muscle.

-Mike