P90X3 Week 4 Progress

The 30-day results are in and I could not be more excited to share. This P90X3 Test Group is doing amazing, we have all been keeping each other accountable, swapping meals and encouraging one another daily. When you surround yourself with the right community of people, nothing can stop you.  We all of course have had our bad days (or week), our ups and down, but the good news is that we all kept going and pushing forward.

Yes, the weight that we see on the scale, seems most important - but really it is the non-scale related victories the challengers have experienced that mean the most. Here is some of their feedback:



- Increased balance
- Improved strength
- Increased awareness of food choices, reading more food labels
- Water intake improved
- Eating whole, natural foods and not feeling deprived
- Feeling satisfied and eating adequate calories is essential for sustainable weight loss
- Low calorie diets are not sustainable
- Shakeology is really a life-saver, its a quick, no think, go-to healthy meal
- Increased muscle definition
- Legs look smaller
- Clothes fitting looser
- Unassisted pull-ups
- Increased energy

Two of the challengers went snowboarding this past week and said they went for 4 hours and did not experience the soreness in their legs that they typically do. Another challenger travels frequently and now, choosing appropriate foods and packing the essentials needed to stay on track are becoming second nature to her. One challenger noticed that she needs to be more honest about her shortcomings and being in an accountability group enabled her to recognize these and work toward correcting them. She also realized its much easier to eat the right food and exercise to maintain a healthy weight, then to try a quick fix where you starve yourself and exercise like crazy. Realizing that this is about a lifestyle not a diet. A challenger who is 53, said she really surprised herself with how many of the moves in the videos she did not need to modify. She had really been selling herself short with cardio only workouts and was amazed to see how well she could do muscle focused exercise.

One of the best non-scale rewards I have gotten from this experience is meeting new people, supporting one another, learning about each other and really becoming a community through this process. Most of us live in the Denver area so a few of us got together this past weekend and did a meet-up and clean eats swap. We each brought a dish of choice, with recipe details and tupperware ready to bring home servings of each dish. We were able to catch-up, talk about what we like/dislike some of the items we have found helpful and really get the opportunity to feel the sense of accountability first-hand.

P90X3 calorie guide is not going to allow anyone to consume less than 1500 calories, you heard that right - 1500 calories. I know some people have done programs where you are attempting to stick to 1200, 1000 or even 800 calories a day! Talk about feeling deprived with low energy. This program is designed to shed weight, but mostly build muscle. To build muscle you have to fuel your body. The pounds lost may come off slower then other "diets" but that's because its sustainable.  Typically losing  1-2 pounds a week is healthy and can be continued long term. We just completed week 4 so, let's get to some of the numbers.....

Female, Age 53: -3 lbs


Female, Age 24: -5 lbs

Female, Age 27: -3 lbs

Female, Age 24: -5 lbs

Female, Age 38: -5 lbs

Female, Age 35: - 9 lbs

Female, Age 28: -9.5 lbs

Male, Age 30: -15 lbs


Onto my own personal results. I can say my body has never felt this strong, I am seeing definition in my arms, legs and abs. I am able to do several pull-ups and chin-ups unassisted. I am improving in flexibility and balance and my yoga is slowly improving as well. I am personally focused on leaning up, not necessarily on weight loss. I have lost 2 pounds and 2% body fat so far. I am finally seeing definition in my abs and core.

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AFTER:

I cannot wait to see what the next 60 days has in store for us. This week we are starting a new line-up of workouts, so we are ready to take on the next block of this series together, stronger then ever.

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