I featured Kyle’s great results with losing body fat and getting totally shredded using P90X and Asylum a couple months ago. Now he’s back again, but with the results of a round of MASS BUILDING P90X in which he gained 12 lbs of muscle in just 90 days and is still totally shredded! This is the kind of results people love to see because we hear the knock all the time that you can’t build muscle mass with P90X. I showed you can. Kyle showed you can! Thanks for the update man! Keep setting the standard!
Kyle’s Muscle building Update:
After I finished Asylum in the best shape of my life and the lowest body fat percentage (3.2%), I wanted to put on some muscle mass. I had completed P90x before in 2009, and you may have noticed from my Beachbody transformation video, my P90x results were nothing spectacular. Part of the reason I felt my results weren’t as great as the could have been is because I did not follow any sort of nutrition plan. I figured working out every day was good enough so I ate the same way as I always did (frequenting the McDonald’s dollar menu a couple times a week). Well, I was wrong and I think my results showed this. Having followed the nutrition plan with Asylum to the letter and achieving the results I did, I felt afterwards that the nutrition piece is just as if not more important than the actual workout.
My approach to this latest round of P90x was to follow a nutrition plan just as strictly as I did in Asylum and also try to max out my workout intensity each day. I’ll discuss the specific diet I followed as well as my approach to the workouts in a different post. I think it’s important to note that two people can do the exact same P90x workouts and achieve completely different results and I think nutrition and the workout approach are the major factors impacting your results. The first time I did P90x, I lost around 10 lbs, which I think is typical of most people doing P90x. The overall design of P90x is focused on slimming down and losing weight. At 3.2% body fat, I wasn’t interested in losing weight, I wanted to gain weight, namely lean muscle. If you frequent bodybuilding forums, many naysayers are under the opinion that you cannot get ”big” or put on muscle with P90x. With my ectomorph, hard gainer physique, the odds were against me already, but I was determined to prove this so called slimming down P90x workout, with the correct approach, can in fact help you gain lean muscle.
My goal for the 90 day completion was to put on 10lbs of lean muscle. To my surprise, I ended up putting on 12 lbs of lean muscle and actually decreased my body fat percentage. I followed the P90x Classic schedule with a couple minor adjustments. Instead of Plyo on Tuesdays, I subbed in a variety of Asylum and Insanity workouts. On Thursdays, I used the One on One Fountain of Youth Yoga instead of the Yoga X. On Saturday, I did a 3-4 mile run instead of Kempo X. Everything else was identical. Check out my video below for results. It doesn’t stop there for me. I’m going to do a hybrid round of P90x next with a goal of gaining another 10 lbs of lean muscle. Check back later for the hybrid calendar I will be using.
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