Am I retarded for thinking about starting crossfit or p90x as an incoming first-year IBD analyst? Does anyone on this forum have experience with this? I realize that CrossFit is in a class setting and so it might require missing some classes due to the banker's schedule right? But p90x is done at home so would that make more sense to do on one's own time?
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CrossFit absolutely, P90x is good but most of the workouts are at least 1 hour long as opposed to CF where workouts typically don't go past 30 minutes depending on your level. I also don't like the idea of doing the same, or series of workouts, for 90 or longer days - and I don't like listening to some dude tell me how to workout.
I'm also curious about this. Would a first year analyst have time to workout say in the evening or early morning assuming they are willing to sacrifice sleep, or is it just a pipe dream and were all gonna get fat?
I do xfit myself but it really doesn't matter if you go with crossfit, p90x, jazzercise, zumba or whatever else. As long as your diet is clean and you work out consistently, you'll get or stay in shape. I can't emphasize the importance of diet enough.
Check out marksdailyapple.com and nomnompaleo.com for some ideas for meals.
try 'insanity' workout.
amazing results
I am a D1 athlete who still likes to stay in shape.
Crossfit: Best choice if: you are already fit, and its close by. Insanity: You want to lose pounds and dont care too much about muscle mass. P90x: Want to workout at home, lose fat and put on muscle.
Iv done all of these and I find P90x saves the most time and gives the best results. (An hour workout is quicker than a commute and 45min session at xfit.
Hope this helps
Do paleo, primal, or evolutionary fitness. Check out Mark Sisson and Art De Vany.
If you want to learn more about paleo check out Robb Wolf's book, The Paleo Solution.
I did P90x and I can't see how you could possibly combine that with the schedule of a IBD Analyst. I lost a ton of weight and looked great afterward but I had more free time than you do I'am sure.
Just don't eat crap, eat healthy, and don't eat too much, don't bother with p90x. Do 30 minutes of cardio 3 times a week and eat healthy. Eat until you are no longer hungry, and then stop.
Diet. Diet. Diet.
Don't even expect to see any results if you don't watch what you put in your body.
I've always done custom workouts because of my sport but I would probably suggest you do crossfit pending if they offer classes at a reasonable time, say 6am. If you're serious about this, you can easily make it work. Having a class that you attend will make it a lot more motivating to go then say P90x at home.
First of all, eat less. 80% of your weight is determined by what you eat, 20% by how much you exercise. Average P90X workout burns 500-600 calories if you're really going hard and takes over an hour. In 5 bone-headed minutes, you could have eaten a medium Blizzard from Dairy Queen and consumed 800 or more calories. Eating the blizzard and doing P90x that day is the EXACT same as not eating the Blizzard and not doing P90X. Water retention aside, weight loss/management is ALL calories in vs. calories out.
P90X will not build any muscle, really. Building muscle and losing fat at the same time is nearly impossible. If you want real muscle you need to build it up by eating a lot (you will gain fat and muscle while you "bulk") and then "cut" where you trim away the fat. Depending on what you want and where you start this usually takes around a year. There is absolutely no way you will be able to have a 6 pack, big arms, etc. with 100 hour weeks because you will not have the time to hit the gym and build muscle. It sounds like you want to just keep off fat so you can do that by eating clean and counting calories and doing HIIT 3 times a week or so.
P90X is way too time-intensive.
This guy knows what's up. Lots of people claim to have gained muscle while cutting, but it's not possible. Losing fat can make you "look" bigger because you're more cut, but you wouldn't have "gained" muscle simply because you need excess calories to create muscle (think of it like physics: matter cannot be spontaneously created and in this case it's created by caloric surplus + protein).
Also, diet is the most important thing, really as the person I quoted mentioned. I got into bodybuilding my senior year in high school, tried all sorts of routines, rep ranges, etc. and I only have started seeing results now (even though I'm not on a proven workout and just doing my own thing) since I've been extremely careful about my diet. If you do have time to lift, just focus on trying to make consistent progress (i.e. doing more reps or increasing weight every week/month depending on your current strength level) and really hone in on your diet.
Your best bet is to learn a lot of the cross fit exercises and workouts then do them on your own when you can get to a gym. Making it to the scheduled classes will be almost impossible, not to mention it would be shitty to dip in the middle of the class because your BB is going off.
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