14 years

of watching Tony Horton tell me to do my best and forget the rest.

In 2011, I'd graduated college and moved out to California with a few boxes and a duffel bag. After living on my own a bit realized, "Yeah, guess I should probably work out".

But this was the tail end of the era of dvds. Netflix had some streaming options, but not everything was available there yet. I had to wait for episodes of Dexter to show up in the mail one disc at a time.

So I bought the p90x dvds. And now in 2025, I've forgotten how many times I've stopped and started and just pushed play.

Sometimes I complete all 90 days, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I stream the workouts, sometimes I put the dvds in a PS3 or PS4.

But once again, today is day one.

MLM

I can't write something positive about Tony and p90x without the Beachbody caveat. Their content is good. Great. Shaun T, Vytas, and others have created a lot of fun, engaging workouts and programs.

But beachbody has historically had some very questionable practices like their MLM business model. Although thank goodness, it seems they finally ended it a few weeks ago.

Midnight workouts

Back in 2015 (and then again in 2018), a small group of us had a bet with the following rules:

• Every time a daily workout is missed, you must put $5 into the pot.
• You cannot do a workout until all previous workouts have been completed.
• First person to finish 90 days wins the entire pot. If multiple people finish the same day, the pot is split.
• X Stretch is not required (but recommended) on “Rest or X Stretch” days.

Those were definitely the p90x runs where I most consistently worked out.

Reddit

I had an alt I hardly used named u/greenbeansoup. Although, I rarely go on reddit at all anymore after the API changes in 2023 (that's around the time I dropped my main handle from the about me page on this blog).