Tony Horton visits FOX 35

Latest P90X installment challenging yet approachable. – ABC News Los Angeles 

Weight-loss guru Tony Horton created this special miracle plan just for Dr. Oz viewers. In only 10 minutes, trim and tone your body.

P90x creator stops by home state for event at URI

‎Tony Horton shows fans how they can exercise right from their seat during a Giants game! 

John Salley talks with Tony about his success with P90X.

GSeriesFIT Live with Tony Horton

TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie gets a fitness lesson from trainer Tony Horton, whose best-selling P90X DVD series has helped many people turn their gut into six-pack abs.

Fitness expert Tony Horton with tips from his new book, “Bring It.” – GMA Health

Rachel Maddow Points and Laughs at Politicos Coverage of P90X Workout on Capitol Hill

Featured Articles with Tony Horton

Tony Horton: How Exercise Can Make You More Successful 

Tony Horton is featured on the Mark and Brian Radio Show Podcast.  Download the podcast today!

Fitness Guru Unveils Latest Home Exercise Program P90X2

P90X2: A Home Fitness Program Designed For Endurance Athletes | Active.com

Tony Horton’s workout is anything but confusing | Chicago Tribune 

Interview with Tony Horton of P90X | Fitness – Health and Fitness Advice | OutsideOnline.com

P90X creator tries to make exercise fun!

Interview: Tony Horton Talks P90X2, the Magic of Yoga and Training for Extreme Sports

Tony Horton’s workout is anything but confusing.- Orlando Sentinal

DO THE THING: The Bondo Fitness Blog

Cory Hart of the Milwaukee Brewers stays fit using P90X and Insanity.

P90X Factor: The Childhood Secret To Fitness Guru Tony Horton’s Success 

90 Days to a New You! P90X2 is Coming!

My Google-friendly fans often get confused when they look to the internet for advice on how to eat like Tony. They find articles on my vegan ways. They find opinions on the benefits of organic meats. They may even stumble on the P90X2 Nutrition Plan, which features a “grain-free” modification with a strong Paleo feel to it.

“So which is it, Tony?” you demand. “What’s the right diet for those wanting to eat the Horton way?”

The answer to that, my friends, is, “All of them.” Yes, I was a vegan for years — and I felt great doing it. But the problem was that I couldn’t keep weight on, eating just veggies, fruit, beans, and nuts, so I had to rethink my strategy. I still eat tons of veggies, but I’m now a free-range chicken, wild salmon and other healthy fish-eating type of guy, too. I’ve also cut back on my grains, having discovered that the less gluten I eat, the better it is for my body and brain chemistry.

You see, even if you think you’ve found the perfect diet, it won’t always be perfectly perfect. Making adjustments based on your ever-changing needs — especially as you get older and wiser — is normal. I like to refer to this philosophy as “flexitarianism.” Some define this as a vegetarian who occasionally eats meat. I beg to differ. To me, it means you eat with an open, observant mind, shifting your diet as needed to suit your personal nutritional needs.

For some strange reason, this style of eating is news to most of us. As a society, we’re compelled to segregate diets into rigid categories, like we do religion, politics, or sporting team loyalties. Vegan, Paleo, raw, macrobiotic, pescetarian, pollotarian, or vegetarian. They all have their benefits. When it comes to food, there’s no shame in being a  flip-flopper and taking advantage of all of them.

That said, I think there are a few simple rules to keep in mind. First off, why do you eat what you eat? Hunger? Survival? Cravings? Boredom? Performance? It’s important to find the balance. If you don’t stay accountable, then cravings for addictive comfort foods will cause all kinds of problems. On the other hand, overly restrictive diets will almost always lead to problems as well. Sooner or later, you’ll crack and binge. So, to keep your hand out of the proverbial (and literal) cookie jar, it’s important to design an eating plan that makes you feel good while eating it. If you do that, then you’ll stop the weight-loss-weight-gain cycle.

The diet guide in P90X and the one in my book Bring It! may seem entirely different, but they aren’t. The strategies vary, but when all is said and done, they both recommend that you eat healthy food. P90X2 takes that philosophy a step further with grain-free, vegan and high-protein plans — all healthy, varied options. Note the key word here: healthy.

If you’ve found the perfect diet for you, great, but it might not always work, so don’t be afraid to experiment. Think of it this way. Over the course of your life, do you buy the same car over and over? Probably not. As your needs change, you might go from junker, to sports car, to family wagon, back to sports car (midlife crisis), to roomy sedan. As your tastes, needs and economic situation shifts, you require different vehicles. The same goes for food. Your 20-year-old body and your 50-year-old body have totally different needs. It’s important to honor that.

Of course, I may be 100% wrong. Maybe there’s some magic diet out there that’s perfect for everyone. If you know about it, please tell me, because I’m willing to give it a try. After all, that’s the whole point of being a flexitarian, right?

Read more: http://www.askmen.com/sports/foodcourt_700/717_the-perfect-healthy-diet.html#ixzz1n2ZStK5b

Why do you guys work out? Is it to look like a linebacker and score the ladies? And ladies, how about you? Maybe what you’re looking for is a quick and easy fix to drop a few pounds so you can squeeze into that little black dress and turn some heads at your 20-year high school reunion? While I support each and every one of you in your endeavors, I have to be honest here and say that I’m a little disappointed.

Anyone who’s ever trained with me knows that I’m the first guy to lift up his shirt at the drop of a dumbbell. That said, the reason I show up six days a week isn’t so that I can have laundry scrubbing abs; it’s because exercise makes me a smarter, happier, high-energy man willing to try things that used to scare the hell out of me. This comes from a guy who spent much of his time watching reruns of “I Dream of Jeannie” and eating far too many double cheese burgers and pizza.

Millions of people the world over wake up on any given day and say, “enough is enough!” They want to make a change, so they search for the “next big thing,” the magic key to turn their life around. This initial impulse often has nothing to do with health and productivity. Rather, it has everything to do with numbers on the scale and your refection in the mirror. There are hundreds of high profile muscle magazines, diet books, and weight loss programs willing to show you how to turn things around with little or no effort. But before you plop down your hard-earned money to begin yet another program, I want you to ask yourself this. What next?

Seriously, think it through. Let’s say you’re that guy looking to “look good” so you can land that special lady. What if this strategy works? Jump forward 15 years. You’re married to the love of your life, no longer having to keep up appearances (you’ve completely let yourself go) and one day, your son suggests that the two of you throw the old pigskin around. Sounds like a great idea, but by the time you’ve run your second down-and-out, you’re wheezing and huffing like you’re down and out.  No one plans on becoming a fat couch potato but, well, this is how it happens.

And what about you ladies preparing for that big reunion? You lost the weight, you look good and you’re the talk of the night. What more would you want? Turns out, the next morning, you’re a little hung over so you blow off your run and dive into a bucket of coffee and gobble down a donut to counter that headache. Here we go again until you start planning for your sisters wedding in June. This cycle repeats itself right up to your 30-year reunion. You pull out the little black dress and, much to your horror, there’s no fitting in that thing, sister. Might as well use it as a handkerchief to wipe away those tears of dismay.

My point is that shortsighted goals lead to short term results. Is your motivation about ego or health? Is Priority One your desire to look good or feel good? Exercise is so much more than building muscle or losing weight. It’s life altering in every way and the greatest byproduct is how it changes your perspective, how it alters your beliefs. It releases chemicals in your brain so that you can be happy and productive. It improves your outlook and helps you spend less time struggling and more time living a full, exciting, and adventurous life. Yup – regular exercise (and healthy food) does that!

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look good, but how you look is just part of the bigger picture of your overall wellbeing. So when you’re looking for the program or diet or piece of equipment that’s going to change your life, make sure it’s something that’ll change your whole life. In other words, don’t pick something that you’ll probably hate but you know will be effective. Pick something fun! Something that makes you feel great and that you just might want to do for the rest of your life. A surfboard, a pair of rollerblades, or a yoga video might not tone you up like the Ab-o-Matic 6000, but they’ll probably compel you to keep on truckin’ past that pastry shop and into a lifetime of vitality and good health.

Also, you’ll look super hot at high school reunions for the rest of your life, not that I’m saying that should be your priority…

I’m working on a play about how we got into this mess in the first place. I’d like to run it by you.

Act One: Poor diets and lack of physical activity.

Act Two: Depression, stagnation, and lethargy.

Act Three: Finger pointing and/or the constant pursuit of the quick fix.

Dénouement: the aforementioned mess.

Think of it as Arthur Miller by way of Tony Horton. I plan to call it Death of an American Work Ethic: How we try to get what we want with the least possible effort. I’m hoping for a Broadway opening this spring. What do ya think?

My inspiration, obviously, came from pondering what a lazy lot we’ve become. For some reason, too many of us have forgotten (or have never been taught) that joy, happiness, health, fitness, loving relationships, and financial success all stem from hard work, persistence and the occasional bit of physical, mental or emotional discomfort.

Remember the aches of childhood growing pains? How about stress of cramming for finals your senior year of high school? What about the terror of your first job interview? Your first broken heart?

None of these were especially pleasant experiences, but you benefitted from all of them. You grew stronger, bigger, wiser, and smarter. You learned grace under pressure. But despite these benefits, we’ve become a society that avoids discomfort like the plague. The Buddhists like to say, “Life is pain.” I don’t know if I’m ready to be quite that absolute, but I will admit that a tenant of The Human Condition requires you to sometimes take painful steps to get what you desire.

Ironically, avoiding suffering just causes many of us to suffer all the more. Obesity. Ignorance. Heart conditions. Diabetes. Depression. Millions of Americans suffer needlessly because they don’t have the right formula for success. These are not stupid people; they just don’t know how to work for what they want. Somewhere along the way they (wrongly) learned that the good things in life come from playing the lottery, having affairs, manipulating the truth, risking quick-fix surgeries, or riding somebody else’s coat tales whenever they have to deal with something important.

I call this misguided method the Pleasure from Pleasure Technique. It’s a short-term, shortsighted shortcut strategy that is ultimately short on results. Furthermore, it inevitably backfires. The end result is mental, physical, and emotional pain with no real pleasure in sight.

Luckily, I’m not done writing my play yet. That last, depressing Act Three is up for grabs, so take a cue from the millions of Americans before us who made this country great. Roll up your sleeves and get busy. Need a place to start? How about getting a little exercise every day and making a few healthier food choices? It won’t be easy. You’re gonna sweat. You’re gonna ache. Your tummy’s going to rumble. But your hard work will pay off quickly, inspiring you to apply the same work ethic to other aspects of your life. Soon, you’ll discover that whatever you’re working on — be it your business plan or your body, your wellbeing or your wallet – will be richly rewarded with a little effort.

And you’ll be helping Tony win a Tony.

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