P90X Third Month Final Results

It’s finally over. I survived my first encounter with P90X. And what an experience it was. I don’t regret it in any way. I only regret that I didn’t work even harder. This program demands a lot, and I gave it a lot, although I of course know and feel like there’s still more that I could have done. Things like following the diet plans, doing Ab Ripper X three times a week. There’s plenty, but I’m still very proud of what I did. Here is my completed chart with my final results from the Fitness Test.

 

P90X Results	Day 0	Day 30	Day 60	Day 90	Original Goals
Weight (pounds)	195	184	178	179	170
Body Fat %	22	21	20	18	16
Pushups to Failure	38	50	56	67	55
Wide Grip Pullups to Failure	5	7	9	13	10
Vertical (inches)	23.5	22	23	23	26.5
Maximum Curl Reps (50 pounds)	10	14	18	21	25

 

Now to break all this down. My weight went up a little bit. I think this is pretty obvious. My last… 9 days of workouts were replaced with a hurricane, home-cooked food that couldn’t really be controlled the way I controlled my meals before, and an inability to get my workouts done. But with the weight loss I managed to achieve, I’m really happy with it. The biggest thing I think I should mention is that my weight results are kind of surprising to me. I had been lifting heavier, in an effort to gain mass. I feel like it’s pretty obvious in the pictures, and I notice it a lot more in person that my muscles have indeed grown. This means I’ve been gaining weight due to new muscle. But my weight dropped so much, which means I was still burning more fat than I was packing on new muscle. I was just really surprised I lost as much weight as I did. I expected my weight loss to level off a bit earlier as new muscle grew. To summarize, I lost 16 pounds with P90X.

 

My body fat dropped pretty big compared to the start too. Alas, this was still done with the scale and I don’t really feel like it’s too accurate, but at least it reflects the fact the my body fat was declining. To summarize, I lost about 3 % of my body fat.

 

My push ups went up significantly again, despite losing several days. It think this one is easy to explain though. Since I had been exposed to all of the chest exercises by this point, as well as experienced gains from them, I knew what I was capable of, and I really pushed myself to the limit during my chest exercises in the last month. This paid off well. To summarize, I increased my number of maximum push ups to failure by 29.

 

My pull ups went up a lot as well. I’m going to attribute this to the change I made in how I did my back workouts. In the beginning, I was using a chair to aid myself, since I was only able to do 5 pull ups max. By the third month, I had improved a bit already. But I made the command decision to abandon the chair, and to simply try and find a good number of reps per set that allowed me to get through a whole workout. And this is obviously they way to go. I saw big gains, and I also now enjoy doing pull ups. It’s such a great move that works so much of your upper body but most people avoid it because they can’t do many in the first place, so they miss out. I love it now, and I intend to continue to keep up some pull up work so I don’t lose what I’ve gained. To summarize, I increased my number of maximum reps for pull ups by 8.

 

My vertical is the strangest measurement of all here. It actually went down throughout the 3 months of P90X. I have no idea why though. It makes no sense. How could my vertical be maintained throughout the last school year, but when I workout extremely hard over the summer, my vertical decreases? I don’t really know. I do have the feeling that these results are atypical, and that most people won’t have that happen to them. But I do know something. Despite these results, I know that my legs got stronger. I got better at the workouts over time, implying improvement in my leg strength and endurance. Also, when I went and played basketball last week, my legs felt great. I felt agile, and felt like I was moving really well. Also, when I was jumping up to see how high I could reach, I was managing to grab some rim better than I recall  being able to do. While my static vertical may not have improved, I can tell my overall athleticism increased.

 

I didn’t meet my goals for curls. But I also remember that I really had no idea how to set that goal, since growth of arm strength is kind of hard to estimate. I had some good results. If I remember correctly, on my post of goals I believe I said I was hoping to be able to use 50 pound dumbbells for sets by the time I was done. I’m  not there. But I’m close. I know I can use 35’s, and I’m pretty sure I could use 40’s, although I haven’t tried. I think my best decision was to throw in those extra sets of curls and extensions on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays when my arms hadn’t been used that day. Once I started doing that, I felt like I was seeing my results much better. To summarize, I increased my maximum number of curl reps with 25 pound dumbbells by 11.

 

Here are my final change pictures. You’ll see a couple different things here. Some pictures show my transformation with pictures every 4 weeks, essentially showing my month to month progress. The other type shows simple before and after pictures, including 3 flexing poses I never posted before. You’ll notice on those pictures that I didn’t start all of them at the start since I didn’t think to take pictures of flexing right away. Another little note, the last picture has 3 pictures in it due to my 12 Week picture being slightly blurry, so I added in an additional picture. And as I always mention, these photos have not been retouched in any way, shape, or form. The only changes I made was to resize them to allow for accurate side-by-side comparisons. All of the resizing was done so as to maintain the height and width ratios, meaning all of these pictures look just as they did when they were taken. I also didn’t do the thing you see so often in infomercials where people go out tanning, get oiled up, and only take pictures from one angle in their after pictures so their results look great. I’ve got plenty of angles here, and the only major changes in looks that occurred was a haircut and shaving my chest (due to my stress test). Also, due to the blog’s format, I have to shrink down some of the pictures to make them fit in the post and not be cut off. To see them in their full size, simply click on them.

 

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