While its XXXTREME qualities are a little overblown and you can definitely modify every move based on your abilities, you’re not going to get the most out of it if you can’t do a single pull-up or push-up. This may have seemed like a concession or a weakness years ago, but with the popularity of CrossFit and its WODs nowadays, P90X remains a viable option.
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It’s also good for guys who (and this is why I like BeachBody products, personally) may know how to work out, but would rather have someone else tell them what to do every day. Either way, it promises gym-quality fitness without the need for a gym. Maybe you don’t live near a gym, or don’t have the money to pay a fee every month.
Maybe you’re embarrassed about your current physique, and would rather no one else saw it. As far as why that may be, the reasons are myriad. At it’s core, P90X is still designed to appeal to the person who, for whatever reason, would rather workout at home than at a gym. I revisited the programme (I’ve done it before) to see if time has been kind to it. Given that BeachBody (the company behind the programme) sold some 4.2 million copies by 2010, I’d say it worked.īut despite its history, how well does a 14-year-old home workout product hold up today? Ignoring minor quirks like the fact that it wasn’t shot with HDTVs in mind, or that some of the cast’s workout attire has no business outside a turn of the century frat house, the question is the same now as it was then: can you get results from a workout without ever leaving your living room? Its simplicity was used to underscore a kind of sinister sales pitch: if you can’t get fit at home with minimum equipment with very explicit instruction, what chance do you have at an endless, sprawling gym? Equipment? Just some dumbbells and a pull-up bar. While hard, it’s also simple: 11 workouts, spread over a 6 days-a-week, 90-day schedule that switches things up every 30 days. This was not “6-pack abs in just minutes per day.” This was supposed to be hard. More broadly speaking, it was designed for people who were already in shape as opposed to couch potatoes too lazy (or embarrassed) to go to a gym. The “X” stands for “extreme,” after all, which I assure you was a savvy marketing ploy back in the TRL days. For starters, it was one of the first programmes of its kind to be all but explicitly targeted at men. Launched in 2003 via inescapable infomercials that every night owl at the time was familiar with, P90X (and Tony Horton, the trainer and co-creator) is now synonymous with home fitness the way long-forgotten names like Tae-Bo and Jane Fonda used to be. I am starving.It’s entirely possible that younger readers haven’t even heard of P90X, and for good reason-it’s nearly old enough to be an antique.
It is still in rough form, but is beginning to develop. Then from May - October it is all about maintenance, working on form, and continuing to shave time off my runs. Starting in March I can then begin my 10-12 week half marathon training program that will have me ready to go by mid to late May. During this time I hope to become more flexible and to also knock out some base running. By that time I will have hopefully dropped some weight(down to racing weight which will help with training and injuries) and be more fit to push myself harder during my training runs. I decided to go with this program because it is 90 days. I will burn out before any races start and I have several I plan on running in the summer and fall. I was looking for a race in early April, but just could not find one. I am going to need to be home the last week of April and the first week of May as little Hoosier #3 will be coming into this world. Why P90X? I chose this because as I charted out my plans for running this year I realized that the month of April just does not have any half marathons close enough to my home that are not the last week.
Today is the day I go grocery shopping and begin to eat healthy. It is one thing to know it mentally, but quite another to see the numbers down on paper. Let me just say that I was not too happy with myself and how much I have let myself go. I recorded all the initial tests to chart my progress. The chest and back was first up on the workout schedule. I just go done with my first P90X workout.
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