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Fitness what do I eat if I feel dizzy in the gym? Nov 06 2007
19:04 (UTC)
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Original Post by safina1:

I usually workout in the evenings after work. sometimes I am tired and dizzy..... but I don't want to miss my workout. what should I eat to get some energy before I start my workout?

Tonight, I just had a cup of coffee, an apple and a non fat yogurt. is that too heavy before the gym?

Put some recovery drink in your water when you work out and you should avoid getting dizzy before you work out.   The recovery drink will keep you from crashing like that while you are working out.

 The second think you should be looking at is your over all diet.... You shouldn't be having that kind of energy crash just because you are working out.

 You should be aiming at 5-6 small meals a day with a proper combination of Protien, Fats and carbs.   If you are eating those 5-6 small meals (if yoiur on a lean out phase your probaly consuimg 1800-2000 calories) and you still shouldnt have a problem with crashing IF you are spacing your meals out properly.... eating something every 3 hours and last meal 3 hours before bed time.

Fitness P90X - has anyone tried it? Nov 06 2007
18:55 (UTC)
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Original Post by ninav:

I was wondering if anyone has seriously used the P90X routines? Would they be appropriate for women too?  I haven't seen the comercials only the advertisements on the beachbody web site. It seems more for men but I'd like to find something both my husband and I could do at our own levels.


 

P90X is an EXTREME Fitness program.   My wife and I have been doing it since September and it is by far the most intense, extreme fitness routine Ive ever been involved with.  It is NOT gender specific.  If you are just starting out with a fitness regement you may want to consider something else to get into shape first.

 It is designed to be used in conjunction a dietary program.  You work out 6 days a week.  4 of the 6 days are working on specific muscle groups that last right at 1 hour.  Unlike every other video fitness program Ive seen, this is go, go go with very little chit chat between sets.  At the end of each of the 4 regular work outs you have 17 minutes of the most intense abs work out you will have ever tried to do.  I say tried because 7 weeks into it I still can not keep up with them in the abs routine.  You have one high intensity cardio routine during the week called Kenpo X (think Tie bo but using Karate instead) and a Yoga rountie that is 1.5 hours long.

When I first started P90X it took about 2 weeks for me to get to the place where I felt I was doing about 75% of the work out keeping up with the DVD.  They absolutely do not mess around.

IF YOU FOLLOW the ENTIRE program (mean diet AND work out) you will get sensational results.  Where most people fail is they either give up too soon on the program because they dont see the kind of results they want (say at day 30) OR because they fail to follow the diet.

 You really do have to give up ice cream, dough nuts, cake, soda pop, potato chips and process foods if you expect to have the type of success that they are talking about in the DVD's 

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