I’m going to start this little story by telling you where I was at almost 1 year ago; I was 30 years old, 5ft 9inches tall and 195lbs. I’m not saying I was fat, I’m not saying I was obese, but one this is for sure, I definitely was not where I wanted to be, and found myself to be sadly out of shape, and had taken on the infamous pear shape. The problem I found was that all throughout high school, and my younger years, I was active, and never had a problem with weight. As I grew older I became less active, and carried with me HORRIBLE eating habits, drinking anywhere between 10-15 soft drinks per day, raiding the local buffets. To top it all off my only form of exercise was…well…there was none. I was a business owner, who spent the majority of my day in my vehicle, when I got home I felt like I did not have the time to exercise and I sure did not have the desire.

So one night I was sitting around watching TV and the P90X commercial came on. I remember watching this commercial sitting there thinking there’s no way, it’s not possible, and to get those kind of results in 90 days. So I asked myself if I believed what I just saw, and found myself wondering if this program could actually work? So I decided to give it try, I figured I could devote an hour a day for 90 days, if I thought I could better myself. So I made the call and waited for my new exercise program to arrive in the mail, I was ready to start losing the flab, burning some fat and building lean muscle or at least I thought I was.

In the past I’ve done rather should I say attempted many exercise programs, and for some odd reason I always fell short of my goal. Who am I kidding I did not even make it anywhere near my goal, the video’s never even made it into the DVD player, mainly because I’m lazy, and un motivated. For whatever reason these were different, maybe it was because they were not super cheap, or maybe it’s because I was just tired of going downhill who knows why, but I was determined this go around. So I patiently waited for my video’s to arrive, all the while convincing myself that in just 90 short days I was going to be a lean mean fighting machine. Yes I know, I’m gullible and I believe in little fairies that fly around and grant people wishes.

After about 7 days I got the video’s, I opened up the package and was amazed at everything that came along with it, I was starting to think that this could be a little more than what I bargained for (and it only took about 10 minutes of the first P90X video for me to KNOW this was more than I bargained for).

At the same time I started the P90X workouts, and gave everything I had to the program, the very first day I thought I was going to pass out, or throw up, I can never remember working so hard, even when I was in the military and doing push-ups and what not every day, I found myself more winded doing these workouts. It was truly grueling, but I got through it, and thought to myself how glad I was to have that over, only to wake up the next morning to find muscles I did not even know I had were sore. Do not get me wrong even though I was in pain, it felt good in a strange way, I knew I had accomplished something and was on my way to a better me.

At the same time I started the P90X workouts, the very first day I thought I was going to pass out, I can never remember working so hard, even when I was in the military and doing push-ups and what not every day, I found myself more winded doing these work outs. It was truly grueling, but I got through it, and thought to myself how glad I was to have that over, only to wake up the next morning to find muscles I didn’t even know I had were sore. Do not get me wrong even though I was in pain, it felt good in a strange way, I knew I had accomplished something and was on my way to a better me. Let’s fast forward 10 months later. I’m now in the best shape of my life, I continue to do P90X 6 days a week, I feel better, have more energy, and am definitely in the best shape of my life from following through with this program.

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