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Goodbye P90X, Hello StrongLifts

My love affair with P90X lasted for about 3 months before I gave up. Why? Because I was simply not seeing any more results. I am not saying P90X is flawed. Neither am I endorsing it. It just did not work for me. I think P90X works for people who are very fit at some point in their life, but have since become overweight. Even in the infomercial for P90X, they mostly show people who were rowers or athletes or runners or well trained people who slacked and then took up P90X and saw good results. I am not one of them. I was never fit. Never lifted weights, never ran more than 100 yards never lifted more than 30 lbs using any known muscle nor was in rowing, boxing, tennis or any other physical activity ever.

I just have a weak body. And it has always been that way. So I could not use P90X to get back to my fit state. After discovering that it is not working well for me I started searching for some workouts for skinny folks like me. I came across stronglifts. This workout was different. And not as intense as P90X. I did not need to do my workouts for 1 hr straight with very little rest time in between sets or exercises. This is more like 1 hr of workout with adequate rest. Just 5 reps per set is very encouraging. I started out strong lifts 5x5 on February 23, 2009.

Initially the workouts felt very easy. I was feeling very motivated. I could see my graphs going up every time I workout because strong lifts 5x5 starts with a very low weight initially and every workout day you increase the weights by 5 lb. I felt very confident. I continued this for about 3 months. But then had to stop and move on to another workout plan.

In my next few blogs I will write about
  • My workout logs for stronglifts
  • Body Fat % and weight changes due to my increased eating habits
  • Why I had to quit stronglifts 5x5 and what I did next
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