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P90X Shakeology

January 21, 2014 By Coach Bob

P90X ShakeologyMany of our team members on Sweet Life Fitness ask if they should drink shakeology with P90X, P90X2, or P90X3. This is an interesting question, because if you haven’t been here to Sweet Life Fitness before, you’ll quickly find out that I find nutrition as that secret key to fitness success. When it comes to P90X Shakeology, it is only helpful if you use it to benefit your workout program. I’ll explain what I mean by that today along with sharing my own personal “power shake” recipe that works well with the P90X series.

P90X Shakeology : How to Eat Right to Benefit your Workout Program

Instead of leading you on a wild goose chase of how great Shakeology is, and how you should buy it with my unintelligent, slimy sales pitch, I’m going to give you some actual facts. My hope is that it will be valuable to you.

When I first started P90X, I didn’t use Shakeology. I decided; why not just eat “healthier”. More chicken, more salads, less bad fast food.
It worked to a point, but not to the point that I wanted it to work. I then learned that how you eat, once you know HOW to eat, is what gets you to be successful at programs like P90X.

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You can eat healthy, but it’s about the right blend and balance, which is what P90X Shakeology can provide

You need a healthy balance of protein, carbs, and fat. For P90X Fat Shredder, it’s 50% Protein, 30% Carbs, and 10% Fat. For P90X3 Nutrition: 30% Protein, 40% Carbs, 30% fat. (For tips on how to track this, check out How to Use MyFitnessPal).

For ultimate success with P90X Shakeology and your daily nutrition, listen up. Even if you are on a calorie-deficit to lose weight, you MUST space out your meals. Every 2.5-3 hours you should be eating, and always avoiding that “hungry feeling”

Why?

Because studies have shown time and time again that eating small meals through the course of the day speeds up the metabolism.
If you and a buddy eat 1900 calories per day to lose fat, and you eat every 2.5-3 hours, and he/she only eats 3 large meals equaling 1900 calories, you are more than likely to lose more fat.

This is because your friend only feeds their stomach when it’s hungry, so our body naturally stores the food energy as fat in order to make sure it has enough to survive.

Crazy right?

But how does this fit into P90X Shakeology? Because Shakeology boasts the 70 healthy ingredients and 23 vitamins and minerals. These are things you just don’t get in your daily “eating healthy” diet.

More and more doctor’s urge us to supplement if we want to live a healthy and lean life, and combining P90X and Shakeology is one viable option. But how do you get the most out of it? Through my Power Shake that I’ll talk about next.

My P90X Shakeology Recipe

I have crafted my own P90X Shakeology power shake. In order to eat every 2.5-3 hours, I have to make sure that I have stuff to eat! Not only that, I aim to fit it into the protein/carb balance so I know I’m getting the best nutrition for P90X and my other workouts (like the new P90X3!).

I use Shakeology as my lunch, so that I’m not tempted with fast food (which ends up costing more than all of my “Power Shake” ingredients combined).

Check out the video for my P90X Shakeology story and shake. I’ll also post the ingredients below the video along with where you can get them and the nutritional facts.

In order to make the P90X Shakeology “Power Shake”, here is what you do:

FIRST – make this for Breakfast or Lunch. Don’t use it for a snack or for dinner as it isn’t optimized for later night eating. If you need help with figuring out how to balance your meals, feel free to Contact Me and we can work together to figure it out. If you want to use Shakeology for dinner or snaking, just use the shake alone without my extras.

P90X Shakeology power shake

This is my power shake nutrition facts (estimated but not exact) For those doing Plans D-F in P90X3, or a healthy lean mass diet

POWER SHAKE Recipe (for those wanting to get lean muscle mass or are on Plan D-F P90X3 Nutrition)

  • One Scoop of Shakeology
  • One Tablespoon of Planter’s Natural Peanut Butter (you can use any brand, this is just what I happen to use. Aim for natural peanut butter though)
  • Two Scoops, Optimum Nutrition Natural Whey Protein
  • One Medium-Large size Banana
  • (Blend to Taste, add Ice if you want it to taste like a smoothie)

LEAN SHAKE Recipe (for those on P90X Fat Shredder or Plan A-C on P90X3 Nutrition)

  • One Scoop of Shakeology
  • One TEASpoon of Planter’s Natural Peanut Butter
  • One Scoop, Optimum Nutrition Natural Whey Protein
  • One Half of a Banana (or one Small Banana)
  • P90X Shakeology Lean Recipe

    For those wanting a more lean version of my Power Shake recipe

    (Blend to Taste, add Ice if you want it to taste like a smoothie)

  • Want it even more lean? Do Everything and subtract the banana completely.

 

So that is what I use for P90X Shakeology. I love this recipe, and quite honestly drink it everyday. It doesn’t really get old for me (but then again I tend to be a bland eater!).

If you have any questions, let me know below. You can also try Shakeology yourself by getting it below and saving on Shipping with Home-Direct (you can cancel Home Direct anytime and still save on shipping).

=>Click here to Learn more about Shakeology<=

If you want to get a discount on Shakeology, get it in the P90X Challenge Pack. You’ll get the P90X program and Shakeology for only $91 (vs $129). Just click the banner below.

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Questions? Just comment below and let’s chat

Yours in Fitness Success,

Coach Bob

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Comments

  1. jacobsmmrs1 says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    I am doing the p90x lean program. I usually do a whey protein shake with banana in the morning, protein bar for snack ,  turkey sandwich for lunch, pistachio for 2nd snack and recovery drink after workout. and sirloin or salmon with broccoli for dinner. Im focused more on the fat shredder diet as you can see. Im looking to replace a meal with shakeology but do not know what to replace. if I replace a big meal, am I using too many supplements? (with the recovery, protein bar, and protein shake).
    The nutrition plan has way too many ingredients for the meals and im a simple eater!
    help!

  2. SweetLifeCoach says

    May 18, 2014 at 10:30 am

    jacobsmmrs1 No worries! I am a simple eater too and don’t really bother with many of the meals in the guide mainly due to time, ingredients, and plus the fact that I am fine with a nice grilled chicken without all the pizazz. I would recommend adding Shakeology into either your Breakfast or Lunch. if you want to get the most out of it, you can do what I do in this post and add it into the protein shake (1 or 2 scoops of protein shake) each day. As long as these things adjust to fit into your fat shredder calories and macros, you are in a great position and aren’t technically using too many supplements since its fitting.
    Keep me posted on your journey!

  3. cmcqxx says

    May 7, 2016 at 10:11 am

    Doesn’t the peanut butter alone put you above the 1 portion of fat for the day on level 2 Fat Shredder?

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