you might want to pick up some 5 pound weights definitely, and maybe some a little heavier. For some of the leg exercises, you can use heavier weights. Maybe a 15 pound should be your heaviest.

-Mike

Trina

Gaining weight can be just as tricky as losing weight. The nutrition plan really helps you lose weight, so you could omit that part, but I would still try and eat healthy foods. Whey protein can help to build muscle mass.

-Mike

taking the P90X plus workout and replacing some of the P90X workouts is the best way to go in my opinion. You keep the P90X schedule and way of doing things, but you are adding intensity and difficulty to take your results to another level.

-Mike

you won’t get any side effects from exercising and eating right. You are still young, but there are no age limitations for this program. Of course you have to be old enough to know what you are doing, but you will be fine!

-Mike

you can use P90X to add muscle mass, yes. You just have to choose heavier weights and do 8-10 reps at the most. The last two reps should be really hard, so if you can do 11, you need something heavier. Keep in mind, you aren’t going to get body builder big, but in 90 days if you really push it, you can get some great size and definition.

Classic, Doubles, and Lean:

These are different approaches to doing the P90X all included in the same package. Classic is the normal schedule of resistance and cardio. This approach is for those who would like to improve their overall fitness, build muscle, lose fat, and improve atletic abilities. Doubles is that same classic schedule with one cardio workout added to each resistance day to give you two workouts for those days. So you will do cardio twice as much as classic for that extra calorie burn. Lean is one workout per day as classic, but some of the resistance workouts are replaced with a cardio workout. Lean is for people who aren’t really interested in building muscle. This approach is cardio based and for those who’s main concern is weight loss.

You would need the fitness guide or calendar to know what workout to do on what day, whatever approach you choose.

-Mike

1. Start from phase 1 if you want to do a full round, or start where ever you like if you want a more custom workout.

2. For maintenance, the guide recommends that you do Yoga X at least once a week, a cardio workout (core, kenop, or plyo) once or twice a week. To maintain muscle mass, do the first round of the resistance programs. You know you usually do every exercise twice? One round would be doing each exercise once.

Doing phase 3 over and over also makes sense to me. You might have to switch it up and add some P90X Plus workouts to the mix to avoid hitting a plateau after a while of doing this.

OR you can come up with your own schedule! By the end of 90 days, you will have a better understanding of what you need to do to stay in shape or to improve further.

3. Yes…….I kinda answered this for #2!

-Mike

1. if I did a second round of p90x , where do I start? Do I start literally from beginning (week 1) or do I start from week 5 , or do I just do phase III over and over again, since it is a mix of phase I and Phase II?

2. If I wanted to make sure to maintan what I have , but if in additon anything improves I will not complain, Can I just do the last phase of P90X over and over again for the rest of my life?
The reason I am asking is because week 1 is like Phase I and Week 2 like Phase II, and so on. it is a cofusion I guess in it self, and i don’t need to try to come up with anything new.

3. This is kind of continuation to previos question and it is for maintenance,- for the excercise where you do a seocnd repetition, can I just doe 1 repetition, and for the exercises of 1 repetition but 24 excerciese, can I split it in half and do it in two different days?

Thank you very much for your help.
Ban

1) there is a calculation in the book that will dererming your nutritional level. You are supposed to follow the plan for your level only.

2) The P90X Plus has different workouts that will give you a greater challenge. They similar to the P90X workouts, but harder and with less instruction.

-Mike