Anne Dovel brings us our forty-first Tonyism. Thank you Anne!
41. “Happiness is this right here.”
I love what she says after that. “I’ve heard that so many times..I start swaying when I hear it!”
Do you have a Tonyism you’d like to contribute. Or do you have a favorite you’d like to blog about. Send me some text and I’ll post it here.
Blessings,
Dave
Wow in just two days we’ve gone from 36 to 40 Tonyisms. Thanks to Dave we have our 40th!
40. Don’t bite your toes…I recommend foot spray… (YogaX)
So, we only need 61 more! Do you have one that isn’t on the list yet? This week I’ll repost them all in one long list so you can see them all in one place.
Blessings,
Dave
WOW lots of traffic to the blog today. We have three more Tonyisms submitted by readers today. I’ve listed them below. They make numbers 37-39. We’re getting there folks!
The first two are submitted by Terry and the last one by Steve. Thanks Guys!
37. “You can do anything for 30 seconds” (I like looking at Pam the Blam’s face when he says this!)
38. “Jesus – I mean jeepers”
39. “I’m gonna show you perfection my brother. You wanna see gorgeous, (points at face) well not this, my back.”
(During backs flys in back and chest) (This one makes me laugh every time!)
Well we’re getting there. Do you have a Tonyism you’d like to send?
Blessings,
Dave
Our most recent Tonyism comes from Dominic Encinias. It’s a good one. Thanks Dominic!
36. Get Your Mind Right!
What a great one. Do you have a Tonyism you’d like to share? Leave a comment.
Blessings,
Dave
Our thirty-fourth Tonyism comes from Scott Pratt. Thank you Scott!
The thirty-fifth Tonyism came to me at the end of Ab Ripper X today!
34. Here’s another where he pokes fun at his level of activity during the workout: ”I’m shaking out, like I’ve actually done something.”
35. ”The tip of the day… Don’t do this every day.” Tony’s encouragement at the end of Ab Ripper X.
What is your favorite Tonyism? Would you like to write a post about one of the 35 we have thus far?
Blessings,
Dave
Greetings All,
This is our first post of 2010. Hope you all had a great and safe New Year’s Eve. As I have been watching P90X traffic on Twitter I see that many of you are starting today. I decided that my best chances for starting and sustaining my second round of P90X is to start on Monday, so a couple of days off.
So we’re here for two more Tonyisms brought to us by Coach Anna Gray.
32. ”Get the turtlehead out of the shell” from YogaX
33. ”I’m gonna lower my load a little, you know, cause I’ve been talking” from back & chest.
I have been waiting for some Tonyisms re: Tony’s comments about his talking, so #33 is the first.
So who would like to write another post like Scott did several weeks ago? What one means most to you? Write a post and we’ll get it published.
May you all have a GREAT time working out with Tony and the rest of us this year!
Blessings,
Dave
How many times have we heard Tony Horton state, “Do your best and …” to which we reply “.. forget the rest?” For me I’m all alone in the lower level of our town home, with just the DVD playing and me sweating up a storm, and verbally I reply with “forget the rest!” I know you’ve done it too! Well today Scott Pratt has written a post about this famous tonyism. I was challenged by Scott’s post, hope you are too!
“He said he’ll do his best…that’s always enough.”
Tony Horton said those words during Plyo X, the mother of all X workouts. The group was about to tackle Mary Katherines for the second time, and Tony chose to give Dominic a break and let him put his hands on his hips. Eric, on the other hand, was to put his hands in the air. Eric, you’ll remember, is the person who performed the entire plyo workout with a prosthetic leg. Tony told him to put his hands in the air, then joked how Eric didn’t know that was coming. Eric said he’d do his best, and Tony responded with perhaps my favourite Tonyism of all.
We’re all familiar with “Do your best and forget the rest”. While that sounds like a catchy slogan, if you take the time to really let the meaning of the words sink in, you begin to see the power of them. To me, to paraphrase Tony’s quote above, “Do your best, that’s always enough” is even more powerful. It signifies a fact that we can all too easily forget when we try desperately to keep up with Tony or Dominic or anyone else, whether in fitness or some other aspect of life. If you are truly doing your best, truly giving a task everything you have, it WILL be enough. How far you get doesn’t matter. Maybe you can’t do double-time jump knee tucks. Maybe you can’t do airborne plyo pushups. So what? Give everything you have, so that when you’re done you can drag yourself to a mirror and be proud, knowing that you didn’t hold anything back, and that will be enough.
The problem we run into is when we try to measure “enough” by some external standard. By doing this we guarantee ourselves failure and frustration. If the “enough” we feel we must achieve is currently beyond our reach and we fall short, we feel like we’ve failed. At the same time, if the “enough” is too easy for us, we stop before we should. We must look internally to find our own individual “enough”, and then do our absolute best to get there. My exercise performance is different from yours, and different from Tony’s. That doesn’t matter. As long as we give it all we’ve got, we’ll all reach our goals, and we’ll all have the satisfaction of knowing that our best really and truly is “enough”.
Scott Pratt
Twitter username: fitinthebalance
Here we are with Tonyisms 30 & 31. These come from Anne Dovel. They are ones I really like. Oh yes, I thought of number 32. I heard it I think while doing triceps, arms & back … I think. Anyway, hopefully these will spur you on to thinking what your Tonyisms are favorites for you.
30. Drink your water people!
31. ARX #P90X. Feel the burn! I hate it but I love it. 
32. Oh Mommy!
I’m starting to look for people who’d like to write a post on some of the Tonyisms we’ve listed on this blog. If you’re up to it let me know. You can leave a comment and I’ll follow-up with you. Scott is doing a post soon on one of the Tonyisms.
Blessings,
Dave
Greetings Everyone,
Scott has given us Tonyism number twenty-nine. It’s a restatement really of number one, but I love his commentary on it and where he cites it being used. So it’s worthy of standing on its own. He has offered to write a full-length post about it and I have taken him up on that offer. So sometime soon you’ll be hearing from Scott.
So here’s number twenty-nine with Scott’s commentary!
29. In Plyo X, when he tells Eric to put his hands in the air to do the Mary Katherines, Eric says he’ll do his best. Tony replies “he said he’ll do his best…THAT’S ALWAYS ENOUGH”. That comment has stuck with me; so long as you do your best, it WILL always be enough.
I hope you are going to be doing P90X today!
Blessings,
Dave
- Do your best and forget the rest.
- Don’t smash your face.
- Water break….but don’t be going down the hall and getting a Crispy Cream.
- Don’t forget to breath people!
- Let’s burn some goo.
- Like a pterodactyl backing out of trouble.
- Man-o-manischewitz
- I’m going to stop now and see how the kids are doing.
- Rome wasn’t built in a day and your body wasn’t either.
- When it comes to biceps I’m in. Ego, HUGE.
- Run, Forest, Run!
- German potato soup. If that’s not P90X soup, I don’t know what is.
- Get READY … cos it’s COMIN
- Go ahead and laugh, these are excellent jokes
- Drop your head to the opposite side of the arm you’re pulling on…WHAA?
- Got your tickets? (To what?) The show. (What show, Tony?) THE GUN SHOW!
- Oh, if I only had this exercise when I was a lad
- During Shoulders and Arms, pointing to Joe Bovino’s triceps “Check THESE out, Diamonds of Gold”.
- If you’re feeling tired of hopping on one leg (Eric: or only HAVE one leg), you can do the jump rope version”
- The magic, the money comes in the last three reps!
- A little nuance a little change.
- MAXIMUM, MAXIMUM, MAXIMUM Reps.
- Yes, I know it’s hard! It’s supposed to be!
- He/She makes Gumbie look like the Tin Man!
- In the words of @Tony_Horton I just crushed chest and back, but I feel like chest and back just crushed me.
- Clear your mind of all the bad things. (Yoga X)
- It’s going to burn. It’s suppose to! (Warming up with arm circles)
- What’s WOW upside down? MOM!
So there are the first twenty-eight. Thank you all for submitting really good Tony Horton sayings. I look forward to the rest of the 101 as they come in. And let me know if you’d like to write a post on one of those above.
Blessings, and keep working out!
Dave
