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Jim Figgins - Bio

Prior to Power 90, I was an average 70 year old - not in terrible shape at 6'2" and 212 lbs - but still "out of shape". I always tried to be active doing the house maintenance, working on my cars, and occasional go kart racing whenever I could talk my son and his friends into it. But I still had the dreaded ponch and could tell that I was losing a little stamina.

I tried to stay in some semblance of shape by running the treadmill and doing the above activities along with running my industrial supply business.

During my Dr checkup in May 2008, he said my blood pressure was high. It had been for several years. The doctor suggested that I go on some pills, which I didn't want to hear, cause I HATE taking pills. My oldest son had been doing Power 90 for several weeks at that time. And, my youngest son (Phil) and I had been on him about working out to an infomercial workout. Like, what in the world could that do for you? But, with the Dr's suggestion of pills I thought "what could it hurt to give P90 a try".

So Phil, Amy, and I all embarked on the P90 journey!!!

We got the info from my oldest son and sent for P90. After a few grueling weeks we all 3 were "hooked". After the first 3 weeks, I saw that I could keep up with everyone on the DVD's and just kept Pushing Play throughout Power90, Power90 Masters Series, and finally P90X.

Time flew and we completed round 2 of P90X on 7-15-2009, we all 3 had GREAT results.

Acquaintances and family alike remark about how much better shape I'm in now. I went from being able to only do 2-3 pushups to doing 160 in week 12 of P90X and the same type improvement on pullups. I even did 12 airborne plyo pushups the last workout which was amazing to me!!! The first time I saw those I said "are they nuts?" but it just goes to show you what P90X will do for you!!! Really, the only obstacle to overcome was that of being "OLD", but I've never thought of myself as that. 

With the help of all my kids, Derek Heikes, his fiancee Kim, and others on the boards... everything has gone very smooth. Just showing them that an old man of 71 could complete the workouts has given me great satisfaction. 

I'll currently doing a maintenance program, planning to go One on One w/Tony this winter.  

I am now a young 71 year old, able to do more with much more stamina than I had when I was 40-50. I now weigh 180 down from 212. Blood pressure has gone from 138/95 in May 2008, down to 117/70 as of May 2009. Also LDL has gone down from 112 to 96, cholesterol from 186 to 168, triglycerides from 93 to 61. My Dr. now just says "Keep on doing whatever you're doing", so I won't have to take any PILLS!!! By the way, I'm trying to get him excited about the programs also. I believe so much in these programs that I have now become a COACH, and there are now 7 of my immediate family doing them. My daughter and son-in-law just completed P90 and lost 23 and 28 #'s respectively. My wife is doing a hybrid of SHAKEOLOGY and P90 Masters Series and has seen great improvement. Oh, make that 8, as my sister just signed up!!!!

My son Phil has been a never ending source of info on the programs. He, his wife Amy, and my wife have kept me in line.

AND, BEST OF ALL, I WAS JUST NAMED A $1000 JULY 2009 WINNER IN THE MILLION DOLLAR BODY GAME    !!!!!!