Well… I did it. I went ahead and ordered Power 90!!
Initially what really got me interested was the P90X commercial. I figured I would check out the reviews on Amazon and there was a lot of discussion about the fitness test involved. At the time I didn’t realize that P90X was the advanced version of Power 90. While I would love to claim I was ready to tackle it, Power 90 is now the product for me. That was actually a tough revelation as sometimes in my brain I still picture myself as the college athlete, not the 42 year old mother of 2.
Now I just have to get myself all set and psyched for Monday. I’ve started reading through the materials enclosed and over the weekend I will be cleaning out my kitchen and doing some grocery shopping. What is really interesting is that when the box arrived my boyfriend asked what I got. When I told him he said he would like to do the program with me. Having him doing it with me will definitely help with preparing dinner, but I am a little skeptical about the workout part. I am not really sure how this is going to work out as 1) I was planning on doing my workouts during the day most of the time and 2) with a young son to take care of in the evenings that mean we would be doing the workouts after he goes to bed at night and since he doesn’t go to bed until after 9:00 that would be some seriously late workouts. I will see what happens come Monday.
My first impressions:
I really like the recipes in the “Fat Burner Food Plan”. Some other people may think they are too basic, but they are food I already really enjoy, there is nothing complicated about any of the dishes, and all of them are very quick to prepare. It is a very easy meal plan: 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner, and 1 or 2 snacks. In addition they give you a large list of alternative foods grouped by “recommended” and “limited” so they even break down the categories like fruits and veggies even further based on calories and sugar (I think).
One thing I saw that was really interesting. Under the Fat-Burning Oatmeal recipe its said Optional additions: 1 scoop Beachbody’s When Protein Powder*. The * at the bottom said “We commend Beachbody’s Whey Protein Power, but you don’t have to use ours. Feel free to substitute whatever is convenient. We just happen to know the quality and content of our product, which is why we recommend it.” For some reason I really liked the honesty in that footnote. Yes it was probably worded very carefully by some marketing genius just for that purpose but I will admit it worked for me.
I will be writing about my experiences through the program. This is actually very selfish of me. By making to commitment to write about it I am so much more likely to see it through!! Stay tuned as I will share my impressions about the rest of the material I received over the weekend, then Monday is the big day! Did I mention that I already looked to see when I will be done? My graduation date if you will is October 4th. I think a trip to some warm place with blue water will be in order for October.
Did you try the 10 minute version I posted monday?
http://t.co/YIkoI43
I had a issue with my computer when I clicked the link. My IT department had to configure something weird on my RealTime Player and make it the default to record some web based training I was giving… Did you? What did you think of it? Some of the reviews of the DVDs talked about the music being “stuck in the 80’s” and I thought hell… that is perfect for me.
Did you enjoy your holiday weekend?
The person who downloaded it onto YouTube was hollering about how kick ass it was and she could feel the burn 1hr later. It’s okay. I don’t know if I’m a good judge of these things though. You know that 8 min TaeBo tape we both have? Kinda like that. It’s only 10 min and I will use it as a quick “drive by” workout but the hype didn’t meet the actual experience for me. YMMV 😀
Watermelon Slushie recipe 😀 http://bit.ly/ot34SV
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I’m assuming you’re at least a week into the program now, how’s it going so far?