My back injury was a severe contusion and not a strain or disc thing, so I’m not worried about my back, but if yours is a risk of re-injury, you should probably ask your doctor.

If you are not opposed to stealing it, you can find it on torrents and then just burn it. Not saying its right, but I am recently unemployed so I said F@&# it

I second the Optimum Nutrition Whey recommendation. It’s inexpensive and the taste/texture is more thna bearable.

Although I stopped doing it after 6 weeks. I stopped doing Yoga after 2 and Kenpo after 3 and realized since I do plyo’s on the side anyways, I was only doing their workouts 3 of the 7 days so I decided to just do my own so that I could work out 5 or 6 days a week. I still do Ab Ripper X, that’s bad ass.

PS Dude in the video’s is HILARIOUS, I looked forward to listening to him make a fool of himself.

You do em like 3 or 4 days a week if I remember correctly

I think the first days were the worst for me, then my body realized its only like an hour of punishment a day and it got much better from there. I forgot another note from my post above

5. Get a towel…a big one

my friends and i had been planning since last week to all get together tonight at my house and do the fitness test, then have a last meal (juicy burger) before starting the program. crazy that we picked the same day to start this thing up.

a few years ago i sorta started my own workout/weight loss thing, lost 60 pounds in 4 months and got into great shape so i’m dedicated to doing the same level of hard work. i remember that after the first two weeks working out becomes part of your daily routine and you actually feel weird not doing it, so i’m looking forward to that feeling again.

good luck and every gameday thread when we strike out with a runner on third and less than two outs lets knock out 20 push ups.

Its definitely doable if you are capable of following the recipes when preparing food. Hardest part for me is sticking with it on weekends or on nights out with friends

The idea of having so many meals per day is to increase your metabolism and keep your blood sugar steady. If you don’t do it, you will still get in MUCH better shape than doing nothing, but its kind of silly to work your ass off in the gym for 1+ hours per day and then lag on the eating part that doesn’t require sweating or more than a few minutes of time

Protein is a big part of the diet plan, but its not a liquid diet. The nutrition guide gives you info on how to figure out your optimum calorie, fat, protein, and carb intake for each of the phases of the workouts. It lists how many portions of each type of food to eat each day and lists what foods satisfy that requirement. At first glance its like 150 pages and its a little overwhelming, but its mostly recipies. Its pretty easy once you find recipies that you like and figure out that they are itemized to what portions it fulfils. Also has a guide of what you can order at fast food places and what nutritional value they have

This program requires over an hour a day. If I had to drive to the gym and back, it would be over an hour-and-half. I look at this as more efficient, less expensive (especially since Mrs. Goofus, Goofus Jr and I are all doing it with one purchase) and has a “program” element.

Elitist.

Hmmmm. Mine was like 44 gigs. It usually downloaded fast though because so many people were hosting it