Question about P90X

Hawkeye11en1

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I "acquired" both P90X and Insanity over a year ago but have never tried either. I am not in bad shape and already work out 4-5 times per week, but I'd like to try one of these in order to get into summer shape a little faster before taking a few vacations (work off that beer gut).

My main concern has always been the people who live below me. Our upstairs neighbors are loud as hell and **** us off constantly. I'm afraid that if I did either program I would be that annoyance to the people under us. Would anyone recommend one program over the other, in terms of which has less jumping? Also, if you were to do either could you easily supplement other movements for jumps, or is jumping a pretty integral part to the workouts?

You jump quite a bit in Insanity. I would say tell the people below you that you are going to do it, and if it too loud they can let you know. I could see how Insanity could be loud in that circumstance, however.
 

Farnsworth

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It's only 40 minutes a night let them deal with it.

well I forgot the part how she's a psychotic ***** and calls the cops/landlords on someone at least once a week. And scratch the idea I had above about asking her when she is away from the apartment, I know she is currently out of work, she is never away from the building.
 

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I didn't read through every post in this thread so I apologize if someone else mentioned it already. I gave up soda for lent because I drink a lot of it. I crave it every day, but I have dropped some weight by just doing that. Exercise is great, but cut out stuff like soda and replace it with water; it works well
 

Hawkeye11en1

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well I forgot the part how she's a psychotic ***** and calls the cops/landlords on someone at least once a week. And scratch the idea I had above about asking her when she is away from the apartment, I know she is currently out of work, she is never away from the building.

Well if you don't mind cops coming over, just go ahead and do it then. Cuz screw her. Show them the Insanity DVDs and they probably won't give a ****.
 

dmclone

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I "acquired" both P90X and Insanity over a year ago but have never tried either. I am not in bad shape and already work out 4-5 times per week, but I'd like to try one of these in order to get into summer shape a little faster before taking a few vacations (work off that beer gut).

My main concern has always been the people who live below me. Our upstairs neighbors are loud as hell and **** us off constantly. I'm afraid that if I did either program I would be that annoyance to the people under us. Would anyone recommend one program over the other, in terms of which has less jumping? Also, if you were to do either could you easily supplement other movements for jumps, or is jumping a pretty integral part to the workouts?

P90x would make less noise. Plyo in either would be loud.
 

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I didn't read through every post in this thread so I apologize if someone else mentioned it already. I gave up soda for lent because I drink a lot of it. I crave it every day, but I have dropped some weight by just doing that. Exercise is great, but cut out stuff like soda and replace it with water; it works well

1 12 oz soda each day is worth 10 lbs per year. which means that one big gulp per day is almost 40 lbs per year of fat maintenance.
 

cloneswereall

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I "acquired" both P90X and Insanity over a year ago but have never tried either. I am not in bad shape and already work out 4-5 times per week, but I'd like to try one of these in order to get into summer shape a little faster before taking a few vacations (work off that beer gut).

My main concern has always been the people who live below me. Our upstairs neighbors are loud as hell and **** us off constantly. I'm afraid that if I did either program I would be that annoyance to the people under us. Would anyone recommend one program over the other, in terms of which has less jumping? Also, if you were to do either could you easily supplement other movements for jumps, or is jumping a pretty integral part to the workouts?

P90X has less jumping than Insanity; 1 day of plyos/week vs 6 days of jumping around. However, I think the only way it would be annoying would be the time of day you do it at. If it's at 530-6PM, it's not so bad; if you're doing at at 830... yea, you'll **** people off.
 

jdoggivjc

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You jump quite a bit in Insanity. I would say tell the people below you that you are going to do it, and if it too loud they can let you know. I could see how Insanity could be loud in that circumstance, however.

There is no way I'm doing Insanity until my wife and I buy our house. I've already had the lady living below us get upset with me for doing X2 Plyocide. I now have to do that in the apartment's workout facility, and while it's not a crap facility it's not ideal for P90X/P90X2 workouts (all machines, no free weights, no pull-up bar, etc). I'm just glad I can do the rest of the workouts in our apartment.
 

jdoggivjc

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That's funny - Erik Stolhanske, the guy who played Rabbit in Super Troopers, was the guy doing plyo on one leg...
 
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Alright day one done yikes I'm out of shape (and that was only the fit test).
 

Doc

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Alright day one done yikes I'm out of shape (and that was only the fit test).

I never did P90X, but don't get down if you're really sore tomorrow. It will get better. It's not the worst thing in the world to take a break before really getting going with the program if need be.
 

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