Karen Carpenter

So I saw a movie recently called Surrogates with Bruce Willis.

It takes place in the future after someone has built the technology to entirely recreate a robotic human shell that can be driven by a real human in a chair from a distance. The real humans create these surrogates to look like what they want to look like themselves. Kind of like choosing the extremely buff character in an online game even though you yourself are a 300lb. slob who gets winded going to the refrigerator. It goes to show that even in the future (as I know this movie was filmed and sent back from the future for our serious consideration to show us the error of our ways), people are still caught up with looking terrific and not doing much work to get that way. That being said, since I couldn't remember hurting in as many places as I have since my Wii Active session, I haven't subjected myself to such torture again. It makes me sad that working out seems such a chore.

Since I am having such a hard time with the Wii Active, I started asking around about the P90X.

I did some research online and found a few testimonials. Here is one that caught my eye:

"I've had P90X for a while but to be honest, kept it shelved until a few weeks ago. I was still going to the gym and could tell I had 'plateaued'. I'm on my 3rd week of P90 . . . Lean and am absolutely loving it. I was sore after the first workout which let me know right away that I wasn't getting everything I needed from my gym workouts. I can't wait to see the final results and I defintely plan on continuing with other Fitness Programs from Tony after my 90 day transformation."

–Lisa E Wilkins, Forest City, NC

This is a testimonial that is pretty much like all the rest, but this lady was already going to a gym. What caught my attention about this testimonial was the part where she said, "I was sore after the first workout." Have you ever seen those strongman competitions? My buddy competes in those things. He has the P90X and said, that I should make sure I have a bucket near me if I try to do the P90X. He said he threw-up after the very first workout. Hmmm . . . if I remember correctly, Karen Carpenter said that also, right? The point is, this guy is already bulky. He's just trying to turn what little fat he has gotten sitting behind a desk into muscle. This guy throws up after the very first P90X workout? Are you kidding me? Who does that to themselves? . . . um . . . OKAY! Fine. Stop looking at me in that tone of voice! I will do it. Just, . . . whatever . . . journalistic duty, blah, blah, blah. So . . . I guess I'll give the old P90X a try and report back to you next week.