Backstory

I'm your average, red-blooded, 6'2.5" guy. All my life I was a tall-ish, slender guy. A few years ago, however, at about the time I started to settle into the computer science program in college I started noticing a few extra pounds find their way into my daily life. Naturally, I started thinking about undertaking a fitness program.

I'd looked at a few programs and was talking about it with some of my roommates when my roommate, Coach, told me that the fitness program he really wanted to do was P90X. I'd seen bits and pieces of P90X infomercials, but hadn't really taken much notice. As his name suggests, Coach is a dude whom I trust when it comes to athletic stuff so I decided to watch an infomercial for the product the next time I came across one. Well, I eventually saw one (it didn't take long...even now just flip around the channels on the weekend and there's virtually always one on on SOME channel), and I was pretty impressed. P90X is an exercise & nutrition program designed to be done in your home by following along with some exercise DVDs and following a specific diet. The biggest drawback at the time was I really didn't have the funds to buy the program, let alone the gear to exercise at home and foods for the nutrition program. At the time I was a starving college student, so I opted for the cheap option of simply eating better and going to the school fieldhouse to use random exercise equipment.

Well...several years have passed now and I'm once again having the desire to start a fitness program. I'm now out of college, gainfully employed, and can afford to do it, so I'm gonna give P90X a go.