Mike Tyson is doing P90X. I am not sure what to think about this yet.  Is this a publicity stunt on “Iron Mike’s” part?  Is he really going to try and tackle 90 days with P90X?  A few days ago he commented on his twitter status that he is starting P90X and this is his day one picture.  I really hope Mike committing to the program.  Personally, I would love to see what P90X would do for this athlete.

Mike Tyson is only 44 years old so I am sure if he sticks with P90X he is going to have some awesome results.  Maybe he will be inclined to think about a comeback after seeing his awesome P90X results.  (Well, I guess that’s a long shot)

This is just another example of the reach that P90X is getting.  I would be willing to bet that someone referred Iron Mike to P90X.  Maybe he order it from the infomercial. (Nahhhhh)

Hopefully he doesn’t plan on getting his protein source from biting off people’s ears!  (LoL, bad joke)  Actually I can’t wait until he posts his 30 day update.  Mike says he will be updating and posting pictures every 30 days at Mike Tyson’s P90X pictures.

This guy is a legend.  He has had some of the best knock outs you would ever want to see. I think this will be a good commitment for Mr. Iron Mike.

Combining Shakeology® with P90X

By Steve Edwards

“I often get questions about adding Shakeology to the P90X regiment ans what benefits Shakeology will provide.  So instead of trying to explain it all myself I found this article by Steve Edwards that explains it all.”

The whole Beachbody community is buzzing about Shakeology and all the great health benefits it provides. Today, Steve Edwards answers your questions about how to best incorporate it into your P90X exercise program.

Can Shakeology replace one of my meals in the P90X nutrition plan?

I’d hope so, given that it’s a meal replacement shake! [laughs] But seriously, X’ers do have a different nutritional equation to consider than most people. Generally, meal replacement shakes are designed so that you drink them instead of eating a meal to help you lose weight. Of course, Shakeology fits into this mold just fine. In fact, given how nutrient-dense it is, I’d say it’s better than anything on the market. And even though it contains an entire day’s worth of many nutrients, it’s still only 140 calories.

Aren’t most of the meals in P90X nutrition plan in the 400 to 500 calorie range?

Exactly, and the average X’er won’t be served well to cut out calories. The reason is that as you get fitter your nutritional requirements change, along with your body composition. When you first start to exercise, you can lose weight by just restricting your caloric intake. But as you gain muscle, you need to eat more to continue losing weight, and this is often a lot more than you ate when you first began losing weight—sometimes it’s more than double. If you eat too little during P90X, your weight loss will plateau, along with your ability to do the workouts.

This is why we give you a lot of smoothie recipes and options. Shakeology, like any other meal replacement shake, can be a component of something larger. For meals, we suggest adding more calories from healthy fat sources, like nut butters (almonds, cashews, etc.), along with more standard smoothie-like ingredients such as fruit. This not only brings your calories into line with your diet plan but balances meals so they digest more slowly, as normal meals would.

Can Shakeology replace one of the snacks in the P90X nutrition plan?

Shakeology is a ridiculously nutrient-rich snack, a perfect snack for X’ers. Because it doesn’t have much fat, its nutrients are put to use very quickly by your body. This makes it an ideal pick-me-up snack when you’re on the go. It’s better, in fact, than a lot of energy drinks. While something like Red Bull might give you more up-front punch, Shakeology will give you sustained energy because it’s providing nutrients your body needs to get things done.

Shakeology’s macro-nutrient ratio splits the difference among sports drink, protein shake, and recovery drink, but it can substitute for all of them in any given situation because it also has an excellent micro-nutrient profile. Most people are focused only on macro-nutrients (proteins, fats, and carbs), but they’re only part of your nutritional equation. Micro-nutrients are things like phytonutrients, adaptogens, and other scientific-sounding stuff. While we refer to these as “micro,” nutritionally, they are anything but small. Many of them are absolutely essential for a healthy life. Shakeology speeds these micro-nutrients into your system, which enables you to perform better.

Why don’t we hear more about the importance of micro-nutrients?

Not to dwell too much on conspiracy theories, but “big food,” as we call the American food industry, doesn’t want us focusing on micro-nutrients because they’ve been destroyed in most of the foods we eat. Things like food processing and pasteurization kill most of the micro-nutrients in food. These processed foods are then sprinkled with what have been lobbied to be “important” ingredients, which in reality only provide enough nutrition for surviving, as opposed to thriving. As you can observe by watching society grow larger, this is leading to all sorts of problems.

In nature, food doesn’t come this way. It has a balance of nutrients that help sustain life. It’s possible for food scientists to recreate this balance in processed foods, but this is expensive. Essentially, if it doesn’t fit the numbers, shareholders want to see it doesn’t happen. So they make cheap food and keep us in the dark about nutrition. This is exactly why we’re in the predicament we’re in today (with obesity), because we can make calorie-rich but nutrient-poor food cheaper than we can produce natural food.

This is why Shakeology is designed the way it is. There is no one food in nature that has all the micronutrients we need to fill the nutritional gaps in our diets—that’s why we need to eat a variety of foods. But most of us don’t do that. So at its core, this is what Shakeology is doing—filling in our nutritional gaps.

I’m doing the Portion Approach in P90X. What block(s) could Shakeology replace?

The portion plan is basically little chunks of macro-nutrients portioned out to help you easily balance your diet. Shakeology is equal parts carbs and protein, with almost no fat. So Shakeology can replace one block of protein and one block of carbs.

Can Shakeology substitute for Results and Recovery Formula?

It’s not an exact swap, but you could do a lot worse. When you’re training very hard, like those times when your body is shaking during, say, P90X Chest & Back, Results and Recovery Formula is better because your body is bonking—essentially out of glycogen, or blood sugar. Any time you’re in this state, the quicker you can recharge your glycogen, the less damage you’ll do to your muscle cells, and hence, the faster you’ll recover. It’s the one and only time sugar is a preferred nutrient in your diet.

Shakeology doesn’t have nearly as much sugar as Results and Recovery Formula. It only has a little for nutrient transport. But because its other ingredients also support your digestive process, you have rapid assimilation of nutrients. The science from the ’90s showing that a small amount of protein can “piggyback” sugar and be put to use more rapidly, during or after exercise, holds true for Shakeology. It’s not as effective as a Results and Recovery Formula for your hardest workouts, but at any other time, it’s pretty darn good.

How about as a protein shake?

Shakeology has an ample amount of protein. While many protein shakes on the market may have more grams of protein, the type of protein they use often digests so slowly that you can’t drink them when you’re active. Shakeology uses whey protein, which is one of the most (if not the most) bioavailable sources of protein. That means it absorbs quicker into the system than other proteins. Most proteins, especially when you get them in a whole food, take forever to digest. This means that eating protein right before, during, or right after exercise is generally a waste because your body is using energy to digest something that won’t help you for hours, energy that it could be using to enhance your workout or recovery. But when you combine whey protein along with Shakeology’s other nutrients, you have a high-protein shake that can fit into many different nutritional slots in your day, something lacking in a standard protein drink.

Should I still bother taking P90X Peak Health Formula or ActiVit Multivitamins if I’m drinking Shakeology every day?

We get the vitamin question a lot because Shakeology has so many vitamins in it already. However, using my above example of processed foods, most of us only get a fraction of the nutrients that we should consume on any given day, even when we’re eating more calories than we should. This is exactly why we have vitamin supplements in the first place. Throw exercise into the equation, which accelerates your body’s usage of nutrients, and you can see why we recommend so many times the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for certain vitamins and minerals.

For an average person, Shakeology might eliminate the need for a multivitamin. But if you remember that movie Supersize Me, the average American takes about 600 steps a day—which isn’t even your warm-up for a P90X workout! No one doing a Beachbody program is average. Xers, especially, are advised to take additional vitamin supplements.

It’s also great to take your supplements along with Shakeology because they will digest more easily. One of the limiting factors with supplements is how well your body can assimilate them, so adding them to something that you know is broken down easily by your digestive system is a plus.

It’s important to mention two other variables here as well. First, many—if not most—of our customers are trying to lose weight. This requires reducing caloric intake while adding exercise, which increases nutrient requirements. Starting to see an equation where multivitamins and supplements make sense? The body can be a complex organism, but this comes down to simple math. The key to losing weight is not just about reducing calories; it’s about finding a way to reduce your caloric intake and still get enough nutrients to keep you body functioning at its highest level. The key to doing this is to seek out nutrient-dense foods. As I said before, you’d be hard-pressed to find something as nutrient-dense as Shakeology.

Then there’s the RDA, which is the “recommended daily allowance” for everybody. Imagine one nutritional number for every person on the planet, from a 100-pound computer programmer who sits all day to a 350-pound NFL lineman. How absurd is that? Anybody who is doing P90X is no longer an average individual. So chances are the RDA won’t fit the bill if you want your body to perform as well as it can.

When’s the best time to drink Shakeology during a P90X day?

One of the beautiful things about Shakeology is how versatile it is. Because it helps you digest anything you consume along with it, there isn’t really a wrong time to have it. Ideally, its best slot in an Xer’s day is as a pre-workout snack, taken about 1 hour prior to your warm-up. Your impending workout will help you get the most out of Shakeology and it will help you during the latter part of your workout, especially if your glycogen stores are slightly depleted. It can be effective pre-workout, post-workout, or any time during the day when your energy is flagging and you need a pick-me-up. Or you can make smoothies and simply replace your meals. You basically can’t go wrong.

Is there anything else you’d like to add about Shakeology?

Price holds a lot of people back, and I can understand that it looks expensive on the surface. We tend to look at foods in a cost-to-calorie ratio, instead of a cost-to-nutrient ratio. Sure, you can buy a Big Gulp and you get 800 calories for a dollar (or something like that). But what good are they? There are no micronutrients. It’s man-made sugar, chemicals, and by-products of genetically modified corn and soy production—no nutrition whatsoever. Whereas if you tried to find all the nutrients in Shakeology, you’d spend forty bucks.

If you’re serious about your health, you should consider what you spend your money on. People drop three to four bucks a day on things that are a detriment to their health without batting an eye. We’re talking the price of a latte or smoothie or any number of things that are much worse than that. The consumer is at war with a lot of corporations that are trying to poison them to make a quick buck. The obesity trend will only stop when we take some responsibility for our health and begin to make better food choices.

P90X is in the news again.  P90X has been on a ton of news broadcasts now, too many to even count.  All over the country and on all different networks.  Why do you think a program like P90X is getting so much press lately? (No, Beachbody is not paying for it) P90X get results! If you bring a quality product to market it will catch fire , go viral and sell like crazy.  That is what happened with P90X.  There are thousands upon thousands of people who have had awesome results with the P90X exercise program and now their friends want to do it too.

P90X works because it provides you with a step by step system for success. When doing the P90X program you will know what work outs to do on what day and what to eat daily.  For most people, the nutrition part of their new work out regiment is the toughest part to figure out. Not with P90X.  The P90X nutrition guide spells it all out for you and gives you three approaches to tackle your new healthy diet.

If you can commit to the P90X program I can almost guarantee you will love your results.  If you don’t, just send it back for a refund. That’s how much Beachbody stands behind their products.  You have to love them or get your money back.  Sounds good to me!  Now go and buy P90X and get i the best shape of your life.

Can you run a Beachbody coach business part time? Of course you can.  The majority of Beachbody Coaches are part time.  I always tell people,”We don’t go out and do Beachbody, we just do Beachbody while we are out”.  What does this mean? Well, if you are doing a program like P90X there is a very good possibility that the subject will come up while you are out.  When this happens, the door has been opened, you just have to walk through it.

It really is amazing what someone can accomplish if they stay consistent.  Even if it is only an hour a day, consistency always wins.  In your business, in your work outs and in your life, consistency is a key factor.

The Beachbody coach business is designed for average people to make a positive impact on their own lives as well as the lives of others.  The “Game Plan” system Beachbody has in place is a step by step plan to help you be successful.  All of the tools are here.  You just have to get the word out.

So yes, you can become a Beachbody coach and work your business part time.  Down the road, if you want to take it to full time, then you can do that as well.  If you want to take 2 weeks off, no problem.  You are the CEO of your own business and your time is yours.

That’s right, Michelle Obama works out with P90X.  How do I know? I know because the President himself told, Carl Daikeler, the CEO of our awesome company at an event put on by the Democratic National Committee.  It was a dinner event and when President Obama entered the room and shook hands with Carl Daikeler he mentions P90X and the mission that Team Beachbody is on to help stop the trend of obesity in this country and how what we are doing  is very similar to what the First lady is doing with her “Let’s Move campaign“. The president goes on to say that Michelle does P90X and that he can barely keep up with her. In Carl’s blog post he goes on to mention how the President wants to hear more about what Team Beachbody is doing and what we stand for.

It really is awesome to hear things like this about the company you represent. It is nice to know that our company agenda and the White House agenda on health and obesity are so closely related.

Who knows, maybe the Obama family will be in the next P90X infomercial. (Well, I doubt the Secret Service would allow that ) Michelle Obama definitely looks in good enough shape to give any P90X grad a run for their money.

If you would like to read how Carl’s whole night went you can check out Carl’s blog.

This is another great example of P90X results in women. Heck, if it is good enough for the first lady then maybe it is good enough for you. I know P90X has put in in the best shape of my life and I still continue to do it to this day. Are you ready to get in the best shape of your life?

Will P90X help me look better naked? Just ask Sheryl Crow, not sure who she is dating at the moment but I am pretty sure he smiles from ear to ear when he looks at her naked. (Remember, Sheryl Crow is 48 year old) You could also ask Jenn Brown from ESPN, Pink, Erin Andrews from ESPN, Roselyn Sanchez and you could even ask Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice guy.  I bet they were wondering about P90X results in women so they decided to give P90X a go. End result,  all of these women look good. I will even go out on a limb here and say I bet they look good naked.  Why is P90X getting so much press?  Why is everyone (including celebrities and professional sports players) talking about P90X?  Simple, because it works.  You are told what to eat and what to do and the end result is you looking better naked.

Can P90X help you look better naked?  Absolutely without a doubt in my mind you will look and feel awesome after 90 days with P90X.  The best part about P90X is if you are not happy for any reason then just return P90X for a full refund.  How’s that for a guarantee?  Funny thing is that I do not yet have any customers that have returned P90X. To put it plainly, if you do P90X you will look better naked and you will get results.

First thing you have to do is make the decision and commit to the program.  You will also get two free P90X One on One work outs when you buy from my site.  That’s is about a $40 dollar value.

So what are you waiting for.  You want to look better when you drop the towel? Do P90X.