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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, I'm sure I've given my 2 cents on p90x before, but I think it would need to be modified quite a bit for most people to get a lot of benefit from it... basically apply progressive overload and then cut back a ton on the smaller muscle movements (there's zero need for 100 curls per workout). It's thorough in terms of hitting every muscle group, and the plyo is insane, but far more endurance-based out of the box and never helped me progress to doing more and more pull-ups and those types of movements.
I personally don't track weight... I'm no expert, but believe there's a lot of misconception around body composition, especially if you're seeing drastic changes on the scale. You'll shed 10+ pounds of water weight and then "plateau", or start gaining it back, and so forth... I think taking measurements would be more accurate as long as you're consistent on when you do them, if you want to know you're growing your arms or whatever... but I don't worry about it, because the results are in the progressive overload.
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Exactly right.
When I was losing weight, my lifts were going up, but what I was mainly seeing is increase definition from weight loss. My main gains were from learning how to lift rather than hypertrophy. My weight has been consistent or maybe slightly going up for the last four months, and my muscles have definitely gotten bigger.