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Randy Savage is no ordinary Macho Man!  He was a regular, out of shape guy like so many of us were.  But he decided it was time to change.  He started with Power 90 because he didn’t think he was ready for P90X.  He did an amazing job.  Then he moved on to the X and rocked it as well!  His video is super cool too (he does voice over and you can tell by how well he put this together!).  Thanks for sharing your journey with us man!

An excerpt from Randy’s blog, savagemuscle.wordpress.blog =

It’s an AMAZING feeling to make it through your first Round of P90X. It’s like winning a damn game show or something (cue the applause and streamers.) I’m feelin’ SO juiced right now – so satisfied and just a little bit proud of my damn self for keepin’ it real and going the full 90 with this next phase of my transformation. It’s been a challenge, yes, but it’s also been a helluva lotta fun going week by week, tracking my results, pushing “play” and not making any excuses.

I started this year at 169 pounds and 26% bodyfat, with just a dream to get myself back into the shape I knew I was capable of. I was tired of feeling TIRED all the time, even after a full night’s sleep. I was fed up with hurting my back just bending over to plug my cell phone charger into the wall (embarrassing but true – didn’t feel better for a week!), or being worried about giving my daughter piggyback rides because “Daddy’s back isn’t feeling too good right now.” I was DONE with dragging myself through life and letting my environment dictate how I felt or what I ate. I needed to feel CONFIDENT again, STRONG, and EXCITED about life in general. I changed my diet first, dropped those comfort foods and the sugar, and lost a few pounds. In March, I finally got serious and committed to Power 90 (I knew I wasn’t ready for P90X just yet.)

Completing Power 90 was an amazing thing for me – it gave me back the confidence in knowing that I could live up to the promises I made to myself, and follow through to achieve a worthy goal. That first 90 days did SO much for me mentally and emotionally, and as a bonus I made some decent progress physically as well. After that, I was ready to rock the “X” and couldn’t wait to get started! As the weeks went by, my body got stronger, leaner and more flexible. Around halfway through this first round, I got even more serious about my nutrition and started using an app to track EVERY bit of food I ate, EVERY DAY. I watched my ratios, keeping it right up in that 50% protein, 30% carb and 20% fat range for the last 45 days, which taught me just how important nutrition really is when you’re fighting a daily battle to lose fat that’s accumulated for years. Thanks to online inspiration over at Team Beachbody, and guidance and advice from Coach Wayne and TeamRipped (best resource on the planet, HELLO!), I blasted through 90 days of P90X, and I’m damn happy with my Round 1 results!

How do I feel? How would YOU feel if you were able to commit 100% to a task and GET THE JOB DONE? How would you feel if you dropped over 25 pounds of toxic FAT from your body, and 30 pounds overall? If your waist size went from 36-3/4″ down to 30-7/8″? If you were able to KEEP IT OFF and KEEP IT DROPPING week after week, stay focused meal after meal, day after day, all the while keeping your long-term goals in sight? Yup – it feels THAT great! I gotta say, even before I started this round, I saw my results in my head, clear as crystal. I KNEW how these 90 days would end up, just as I knew how my first 3 months with Power 90 would go. It’s ALREADY DONE – all I needed to do was get myself from Day 1 to Day 90 so I could LIVE the results I saw in my mind.

Most importantly, this is JUST THE BEGINNING of a life-long journey of health and fitness for me. It’s pretty wild how my attitude towards food and exercise has completely turned around over the past 8 months. I went out last night to celebrate finishing Day 90 – Outback Steakhouse – and ended up ordering the grilled chicken and veggies! I even felt BAD taking a few dips of the BBQ sauce hahaha! Clearly a whole different perspective than I had at this time last year, when I’d think nothing of putting away a half gallon of pumpkin pie ice cream, or watching TV while munching on cookies and crackers and god-knows-what-else. My “Recovery” Week (Week 13) even had me itching to do some more resistance training and not just the Core, Yoga and Cardio stuff, but I stuck to the plan

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Now DON’T get the impression that Round 1 has been all flowers and unicorns, ‘cuz it hasn’t. Like I said, I didn’t dial in my nutrition until HALFWAY through – I was eating good food, just not tracking calories and ratios. I indulged in a cheat meal almost every Friday night during the past 90 days (pizza is quite a tasty invention.) I skimped a few times on Yoga X and only did an hour’s worth (but ALWAYS Yoga Belly 7 – love that one!). I STILL can’t hold the damn crane pose more than about 2 or 3 seconds, but I’ll get there dammit! There’s always room for improvement, and those are a few things I’ll be tightening up during Round 2.

What I did RIGHT during this round was BRING IT every day – even on the days I dragged myself into the workout room with a bad attitude when I’d rather be chillin’ on the couch after a long day of work. When I felt like this, I just put that DVD in the player and started the workout. In under 15 minutes, I was back into it with the right attitude and I ALWAYS felt 100% better after finishing the workout. Always glad I went through with it and just GOT IT DONE.

I’ve still got quite a journey ahead. The love handles may be smaller, but they’re hangin’ on for dear life… and there’s still enough belly fat clinging to my stomach to hide those ripped abs that I know are in there dyin’ to be set free! There’s always more work to do, more stuff to learn, more techniques to try – your body, like mine, becomes a testing ground… and when you finally look exactly like you wanna look, then you have to be even more diligent to KEEP those results and not let yourself slip back into your old ways. That’s my plan at least.

Speaking of plans, I’m taking a 2nd Recovery Week since I’m between rounds here, which will be made up of some Power 90 and P90X+ cardio/interval routines, at least 2-3 rest/stretch days, and MAYBE one Power 90 Resistance routine with some light weights.

Round 2 begins October 17th with a P90X Classic/Insanity hybrid (substituting an Insanity cardio routine for the Kenpo workouts in P90X Classic). I MAY go for even more variety by add in P90X+ – I found a great Classic-Plus-Insanity hybrid online that I’m dying to try out. This next week I’ll be planning the workouts and nutrition for Round 2. I know I definitely want to change up the food a bit – add in some more variety, and – if I can afford it – try out Shakeology for 30 days and see what that does. I also plan on eliminating cheat meals completely (OK, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I’ll keep it to SMALL portions!) And my goals for the workouts are just to show up every day and give it all I’ve got!

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