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Originally Posted by rahl
I hate chocolate protein drinks. I can only stomach strawberry. I've modified my diet to eat 5 300 calorie meals per day. I do cheat on the weekends a bit, alcohol and pizza mostly.
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No, no actual chocolate milk. Like the brown stuff you buy from the dairy section next to the regular milk. The delicious stuff. You don't even have to add protein powder. Michael Phelps drinks it between races. The International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism found that chocolate milk is superior to sports drinks.
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Originally Posted by rahl
Also regarding yoga x, I hate it and don't do it. I substitute either cardio x or plyometrics. My goal is to get down to around 175 and have a relatively defined chest, shoulders and arms. I don't have the diet to have a six pack, but a reasonably flat stomach will suffice.
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Honestly? Bad idea. When I mentioned to me previous personal trainer (now friend) that I was doing P90X and wanted to skip the recovery week, she explained that the program was designed to work a particular way, a particularly efficient way. By changing the program, I would have been reducing its proven effectiveness. Having actually done it 3 times all the way through, I can tell you Yoga X is a better overall workout than Cardio X. While Plyo undoubtedly burns more calories, it's intended to do different things. Yoga is the one exercise in the program that's best for compound exercise, or exercise that uses different sets of muscle groups.
And for the record, about 80% of P90X is the diet.