How We Decided to Start P90X

Last month I was watching television during that awfully boring hour after lunch when every channel seems to be flooded with infomercials. I was nursing my 4-month-old daughter, Ember, on the couch and the remote was just out of reach. Of course. The infomercial for P90X came on and I thought, Great, another fake fat-to-thin success story. However, as I watched, I realized that what my husband and I had needed to motivate us was within this program: a trainer who demanded everything out of us for just one hour a day. I wrote "P90X.com" on our whiteboard in the kitchen and let those little black letters sit untouched for a while.

A few days later, Aaron asked what the Website was all about and I explained to him that it was an enticing program to get the two of us back in shape. Now, Aaron had been complaining about how he hasn't looked "cut" since we first met. I haven't been so vocal about my post-baby body, but I've felt the same way. Aaron had worked out for three hours a day back in 2007, and I had been running 4-5 miles per day and lifting weights twice a week. Obviously, that "getting to know each other" phase ate away at our workouts until "working out" was no longer in our vocabularies. Actually, that phrase was uttered quite often, but only with an air of nostalgia.

The conversation about P90X that ensued over the next two weeks led to me purchasing the program last week, and here it sits on my desktop. After recently getting married and having our first child together, Aaron and I have decided that it is finally time to get in shape once again. P90X seems like the only way to do it.

Tonight, we're going shopping to get our kitchen in order for P90X's nutrition plan, and tomorrow we begin the rest of the prep. We're a little bit nervous about taking our "before" photos and posting them here, but what could be better motivation than having the public see our pale, skinny-fat bodies, right? We won't be measuring our body fat or weighing ourselves, because we don't have a body fat tester and our goal is not to lose weight but rather to tone, build, and sculpt our muscles. We will, however, be recording body measurements and the results of our 8-step fit test prior to officially starting P90X.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's results... then Sunday, March 21, will mark Day 1 of P90X for us both. We may or may not workout together (depending on our work schedules and the baby's sleep schedule), but we're excited about the decision we've made to share this journey with you!