This is true greatness from Charles Staley. It's about the difference between being and exerciser and an athlete. Some true gems of training philosophy. My favorite is "Walking is not exercise, it's locomotion."
It's 7 short videos that excerpts from a seminar. This is a MUST watch if you have any fitness goals.
http://www.staleytraining.com/articles/charles-staley/2009/summit-videos.htm

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff.

only part i liked was the last second with the pro hot dog eater with 6 pack, how does that work

I have no idea Woopy? What didn't you like about it?

It seemed like 40 mins of him talking about nothing, I didn't get anything out of it

thanks for explaining.  And I’ll just take your word for it that yoga is recovery because wow some of that seems intense to me lol  
The P90X people aren’t models but those results are after several times through the whole program, not just once which is lead to believe.  So half BS.

From a industry professional standpoint the only thing revolutionary about programs like P90X is the marketing campaign. You become very doubtful of that.

Totally understandable and I wouldn’t even say their marketing is revolutionary…they’re into the pyramid scheme stuff these days.  What the X has to offer in it’s program has been around for forever…nothing new.  Maybe the way it’s all grouped together in one place could be considered “revolutionary“  in a stretch.  The company marketing is horrible yes.  The bottom line is the $, and lot’s of it, nothing wrong with making a buck but in actuality it’s company groupies out hump’n the product, who are told, (as so called “coaches“ UGH!), that they‘re doing everyone a favor by spewing the companies jargon.  Not stupid, just duped, imo.  But anyway, I get side tracked, sorry. 

Regardless of how I feel about the company, I can separate my feelings and don’t think P90X is as bad as it’s generally thought of in the professional world.  Of course there’s the un cool DVD factor involved which doesn’t do much for the impressing the credible professional trainer at this point in time.  My impression is it’s also embarrassing that home workouts could maybe be decent. The mind set of that is something that I would like to see change so that some day some one would put together a few programs that just left out all the ridiculous worthless time wasting fluff thrown in, because yes, there‘s where the marketing comes back into the picture, again…More hype than much worth while.  So I guess what I’m trying to point out is there actually is more meat, even with the marketing hype, in the X and it can be beneficial.  Which does make it different.  Maybe they just got lucky with that one lol   Umm, similar to what Charles was saying about just start with turning tires to begin with.  I should also mention that I don‘t agree with everything X, it‘s just not as horrible as it‘s made out to be. 

Yeah I think that happens more than people think with the fat and sloppy pictures or probably these days, a photo shop type program.  Believe me I’m not being naive in this case. In the newest infomercial they didn’t use a new test group though like they did in the first.  Most were groupies who have been at it for years.

There is one moment in that video series that was an epiphanic moment for me.  It is at 2:10 of the first segment when Chris says, "By the way, it's only been recently in human history that being sedentary was even an option, right, because throughout the vast bulk of human existence you had to be rigorously active just to survive.  So, this has only been a recent thing that you've even had that choice and that's where the term 'survival of the fittest' comes from."

It seems so many people want the body of a dancer or an athlete, but don't want to embrace a healthy lifestyle.  There is no quick fix.

Quote from: Barbaric on January 29, 2010, 08:52:55 AM

There is no quick fix.

I don't know about that, I've only been doing my workout for just over a month and I am already seeing changes in my body.

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have a past history of athletic pursuits. Never discount muscle memory.