Builtlean: Guidelines to Lose Fat, Not Muscle

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JayWood2010 said:

FrancisNobleman said:
how does this compare to p90x ?

This is a routine that will get you results regardless of what you want it to be. 

P90X is something that I do not like because they don't tell people what it is for.  While it is a good program it is targeted for people who are over weight.  IF you are a person trying to build muscle rather than lose weight then P90X is not what you want.  there is also better ways to lose weight than p90x.  It is just a program that people who don't know very much about working out buy into because of the infomercials.

Programs like that always gives like a time limit too like 3 months and you will be ripped or somethign like that.  That is also false.  that depends on the effort and ability you are from the beginning.  That 3 months is how long each cycle is.  Then you repeat it over and over again.  Building muscle also takes time.  20lbs of lean muscle a year is spectacular so the things they say in the infomercials is borderline lying.

I think you are approaching P90X with too much unjustified hostility. I seriously disagree that the program is targeted at overweight people and is mainly about losing weight - among other arguments, it wouldn't put such a strong emphasis on pull-ups if that was the case. It's a program that has the target to give you a great beach body and it delivers. I don't know where could your confusion about it come from, I don't know a single person that shares your feelings, neither do I understand why you would make such a fuss about something like that. If you want to do some bodybuilding, you have other programs from the company (like Body Beast) targeted at that, so your arguments really seem to be groundless. Just by getting through the site of Beachbody I can easily tell which program is supposed to do what. P90X doesn't cure cancer and nobody says it's supposed to.