P90X Diet
One of the most common questions that I get from people about P90X is about the diet. Everyone always tells me that it is hard to follow or they do not like any of the foods in the nutrition guide. I thought I would make a blog to show people how simple the diet can be.
FAT SHREDDER the first phase is the fat shredder diet. during this phase you are going to want to take in a high protein low carb diet. The reason for this is your body is going to be burning off all the extra fat in your body and build muscle with this diet. The high protein will help build muscle where the low carbs will help you not put that fat back on. You are going to want to have a intake ratio of 20% fat 30% carbs 50% protein a 20%/30%/50% ratio. a very easy way to do this is by logging everything you eat into a website called www.fitday.com this is a great website where you can log your food intake for each day and at the bottom of the page will give you a pie chart with the ration i talked about above so you can see the percentages. it's that easy!
ENERGY BOOSTER The next phase is the energy booster. During this phase your are still going to have a high protein intake, but you will be upping your carb intake just a bit. The new ratio for this phase is 20% fat 40% carbs 40% protein. a 20%/40%/40% ratio. During this phase you will be upping your carb intake because with the previous fat shredder phase you have burned off a lot of fat from your body and build muscle. Now that you are in the second phase of the workout and diet plan you will be taking in a higher carb intake to help you with your energy during your workouts. Carbs help you gain energy and helps improve workouts due to the increased energy in the body.
ENDURANCE MAXIMIZER The next and final phase of the workout is the endurance maximizer phase. During this phase you are going to be upping the carb intake once more to a ratio of 20% fat 30% protein 50% carbs a 20%/30%/50% ratio. At this point your body have burned off most of the fat in your body that you are trying to get rid of. The final phase of P90X is the toughest because it is constantly changing workouts each week, and your body needs the extra carbs for the energy. During this phase you are still going to be building muscle and burning fat even though you are increasing you carb intake.
One final thing about the diet and this has to do about the foods in the nutrition guide. If you are one of those people out there like me who looked at the guide and said I don't like any of these foods don't worry you can change it to fit your likings!! All you have to do is substitute the foods that you do not like with foods that you do like that are equal in nutritional vale and fall under the category that food falls under like proteins, vegetables, etc. For example I do not like fish and the nutrition guide called for fish as a meal. All I did was replace it with a high protein rich meat such as grilled chicken. I love grilled chicken and eat it all the time. There is nothing wrong with substituting foods in the diet with foods that you like I don't care what anyone tells you!! Just make sure though you still FOLLOW THE DIET PLAN AND FOOD RATIO INTAKE!! A good friend and fellow coach of mine told me it is 80% diet 20% workouts to obtain the best results and I could not agree more with him. You can lift weights and do pull ups and push ups all day, but if you don't have the proper nutrition then you will not see the results you are looking for and become very frustrated period!
Once again here is the website to log your daily food intake in and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you do this! I promise it will make it so much easier for you to keep up with the diet and get the results you are looking for.
