Hiya, my name is Joey and today is my first day of P90X. I received the kit last Friday and have been preparing myself since then by purchasing a dumbbell set and reading the Fitness Guide and Nutrition Plan.
I spent an hours reviewing the forums on the Beachbody.com website. Mostly reading about nutrition but also any other threads that caught my eye.
One of the issues I came across was trying to select which dumbbell set to purchase. I read many positive reviews for the quick adjusting dumbbell sets and would have loved to pick up a set but I just couldn't afford to spend at least $350. I also searched for the cheaper non-adjusting sets online but wanted to have the set asap so I could start working out. So that left me with searching the local retail stores. Most of the sets I found were either 40 or 50 lbs. sets, that ment that at best I would only have 2 25 lbers. (is that a word? LOL). These sets ran about $50 to $60. So I figured I would just pick up 2 sets but doing so would mean that I would have pieces that would likely never get used. I checked out quite a few stores but finally purchased a set from Sports Authority. I was looking at the 40 lb. set there and was going to buy 2 of them and by chance happened to look at the barbell w/dumbbells sets. They have a 100 lb. set which includes a 60" barbell, 2 14" dumbbell bars with the squeeze clamps. This set allows me to adjust the dumbbells from like 7.5 lbs. to about 48 lbs so the only piece that will go unused in the set will likely be the 60" bar but I can live with not using the one piece. I only mention this because someone else might be going through the same thing, so hopefully that will help. I start using them tonight so I will report back if I have any issues with them.
I will try to post a post-workout update.
jofis
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