P90X

Preface to P90X:

I have had the P90X Dvd in posession for the past 6 months. When I received it, I read all the success stories and was extremely pumped about trying it out. But I could not pass the fitness test. My husband assured me I would get better if I just got going. Physically I was not in my best shape. I have been pregnant the last decade, literally. I birthed 3 children of my own over a 3 year span. Then 4 years later I became a surrogate and carried a baby girl for a family as well as twins for the same family 18 months later. The twin pregnancy was the toughest. Not only was I older, but I had a Cesarean Section with the birth of the twins. The pregnancy itself was not only a heavy load on my body (the babies totaled 10 lbs when they were born 8 wks early) but the surgery just killed my lower abdominal muscles. So here I was 15 months later and I could not for anything do a sit-up. I use to do Pilates and can still remember the proud day of doing a full roll up.

Instead of doing P90X, I got back into the gym and started running again, biking and ab work. I did the Slim in 6 video Tony Horton recommends to get yourself to the point of being able to succeed with P90. Recently I read Tim Milburn's Leadership Starts With You, and the author of this book is a P90X graduate and encourages his readers to commit to an exercise program. Since Tim had survived P90X, I felt his book encouraged me to stop talking about doing it and actually do it. I think it was now time to begin. My biggest challenge with this program is it is not female friendly. And I mean that in the sense of a female that has had multiple births, c-section and even someone that is not incredibly athletic. I am beginning this program with much hesitation and even a little angst towards Tony, since he includes A LOT of jumping jacks and any woman knows after kid #2 jumping jacks are not our friend. But I am bound and determined to lose these 30 lbs from all these babies. Ok, here goes nothing.