Quote:
Originally Posted by Bearcat
It didn't do shit for me except probably cardio (plyo was legit), but there's a lot that goes into saying that.
I didn't have the fundamentals down, such as progressive overload. I ate like shit and didn't get enough sleep. I wasn't nearly consistent enough long enough to see real results.
Buut... I also think it just ****ing hammers muscles that don't need nearly that volume, like doing three hundred curls in one workout when you're probably fine doing like a 5th of the volume. There's also a lot of cheat shit in there (while he tells you don't cheat on form), like "just stand on a chair do 20 pull ups!", that was just pointless for me (far better to progress with bar hangs, negatives, etc, IMO). Six days/week us also extreme if you're a n00b.
I've thought about going back and doing it again now that I have a clue of what I'm doing, even if it's not a full 6 days/weeek.... I do think it's a very comprehensive program, if nothing else, and would be interesting to revisit to see if I could keep up now and overload, and see results in a fairly short time.
|
The amount of push ups and pull ups and all the different variations...that shit helped me a lot. Also helped that when i went to work, i'd be hanging off of everything like a goddamn monkey.
Everytime i'd walk into the shop i'd bang out some pullups on the 4-post lift. I had a pull up bar hanging over the doorway to my office. Made a rule that if i walked by it, i had to jump up and bang a few out.
And yeah, Plyometrics was a ****ing BITCH. God...hated Plyo day...
But yeah that shit had you working out 5 days a week + Stretch day, so 6 days total. Guess i just had more time when i was younger.
Kinda funny you mention coming back to it....a couple of years ago i had found my old P90X DVD's (they were ripped copies) and i popped in Chest & Back.
At this point, i had already transitioned into doing traditional lifts. I was using the bench press frequently, doing barbell squats, deadlifts etc.
So i was thinking, "Pffff, ive been hitting the bench press hard....Im well past this P90X shit....this will be easy"
HA. Nah. Nope. That shit STILL kicked my ass. Aint gonna lie, made me feel kinda bad tbh hahaha.