re: Arkansas health and fitness thread

Nope, is it worth the expense. I have Insanity and it is ok. Gets a little repetitious for me.


Weighed in at 260.4lbs this morning. Had fastfood for dinner last night, was coaching basketball until about 8pm and had to feed the kids. I did foregoe the fries, does that help?

SLC where you coach?

CrossFit will change your life. Perfect balance of strength and conditioning. Will literally transform your body. They can scale it down for any fitness level. I had done for 3 years until my kid was born last Fall which derailed my shite big time (get ready college fricks!).

Recently started D1 bc my wife and some friends cut a group discount. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Field type training 4 days a week. One week circuit mixture training. 4 days/week have an option to lift with a set weight program/option provided every day.

If you can afford either it's the shiz. Much better than the traditional run/lift/abs routine. Turbulence training/muscle confusion, etc. is the new world order. Try it.

Good results? Made it through Plyo today...barely. Didn't make it through last weeks Plyo

So far I'm liking it

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Good results? Made it through Plyo today...barely.

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Yes, very good.

Yeah, plyometrics are pretty rough, it was the last of the routines I got through completely.

As I said, I have completed it twice. I'm now doing it again but I've added a few things and modified a little just to keep it interesting.

I didn't follow the diet plan, I'm a pretty thin guy with a high metabolism so I take in a lot of calories while doing P90X, a lot more than the diet plan calls for (any of them).

Weighed in this morning, down to 259 lbs.

I was 263.2lbs on New Year's Eve. Just losing it by changing diet a little. Salad at lunch instead of cheeseburger or chicken fried steak.

Still looking for a workout program. Maybe I'll start Insanity again.

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What is the best home training routine? I'm not trying to train for any event, marathon, iron man, etc....., just want to improve my health & conditioning and burn some stress.

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It depends, there's no single routine that is best for every person. A lot of it depends on what kind of equipment you have at home. If you have a rack, bench, barbell, and lots of weights, the 'best' routine you can do will be a lot different than if you just have a bench, dumbbells up to 45 lbs, and a pullup bar like I do.

Personally, I think the 'best' routine is whatever you can do that will let you:

1) make incremental progress on a regular basis

2) hold your interest and challenge you enough to be fun, and something you'll actually do regularly

3) flexible enough that you can change things up from time to time, partly to keep your body guessing and partly to not become too routine or boring

Personally, I like to have a core set of exercises that I'll do every week so I can track my progress, set goals, set personal records, etc. I have secondary exercises that I use to work on whatever I feel like. I can do these regularly for a month or two, but if I feel like doing something else, I can. These lets me have a little fun and keeps things from getting boring.

The absolute most important thing is to work out regularly. You don't even necessarily have to have a 'routine', but it does really help to have at least a core of exercises that you do regularly so you have a benchmark for your progress and accomplishments.

What makes you say it's water weight? To me, losing water weight means dehydrating, which isn't desirable.

Carry on then.