Morning,
Well! Today will be day 24 that I’ve been doing the P90x fitness package and let me tell you, if you’re wondering
- Is this the REAL deal?
I can say without a doubt…..YES! And you can even get it at discounts like I did like below:
I started P90x a month or so after getting surgery to remove a bone tumor on my right femur. Since then, I have faithfully done it every day and have found the claims really are true. If you follow the workouts and eat clean (she said, stating common sense), your muscles grow and your body slims.
I think the best part about P90x fitness is it forces you to work out different muscle groups each day. True, anyone can do this themselves….but I’ll confess, I’m the kind of person who needs to follow a guideline for it. Left to myself, I’d do the same routine week after week. It does help build muscle, but I’m seeing far better gains by doing it this way.
And I really love the different types of workouts that are included. One day is YogaX, fondly known by me as Yoga Death. It’s 90 minutes long and is by far the most difficult DVD in the whole package. I have become far more flexible than I thought possible! I utterly hate and despise this DVD…but wow, it delivers results.
Another fun DVD is Plyometrics, or “Jump Training”. The heart rate really zooms up there when you do all sorts of creative jumping, explosive movements. My favorite one has to be “swing the right leg over a high chair followed by the left leg and repeat” – it’s just like a crescent kick! That brings me to another point of P90x fitness – it has really helped my karate moves. The moves I cannot do due to physical limitations, I can substitute with karate kicks/blocks/etc. I really like the fact that you can modify everything to your own best abilities.
What else. Let’s see…the XStretch (60 minutes of stretching) is simply heaven – prior to P90x fitness I never realized how useful and beneficial stretching really can be. I’ve noticed vast improvements in my overall flexibility because of this as well.
Weight-lifting wise, my favorite DVDs are P90x Chest and Back because of the pullups and pushups (exercises of kings and queens!). Shoulders/arms creates an awesome burn, and Legs/back involve lots and lots of magnificent squats.
Here are some more resources for P90X:
Hope you find this useful!
Enjoy,
Barbara
ps – some great P90x discounts: