Hi all,
I’ve been asked now several times for a complete description of the P90x routine rotation…so I decided to blog about it. Side note – I got my P90x at a discount from eBay, like so:
I’m currently doing P90x Classic – it focuses upon strength training while still giving you some good cardio times. It’s broken down into 3 Phases like so.
Before Phase 1: Take Day 1 pictures of your body – front view, back view, bicep view, side view, 3/4 view. You’ll be using these pictures as a benchmark for your future successes.
Phase 1:
This is for weeks 1-3:
- Day 1 – Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2 – Pylometrics (Jump Training)
- Day 3 – Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4 – Yoga X
- Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6 – Kenpo X Karate
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
I personally always choose to do X Stretch – it’s such a treat to give to your thoroughly whimpering body.
The 4th week is considered a recovery and a focus week and looks like:
- Day 1 – Yoga X
- Day 2 – Core Synergistics
- Day 3 – Kenpo K Karate
- Day 4 – X Stretch
- Day 5 – Core Synergistics
- Day 6 – Yoga X
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
Don’t let “recovery week” fool you – you’re still doing some major work on your body, but the weight lifting focus has halted for a week. Personally speaking, I find Yoga X (fondly known by me as Yoga Death) to be incredibly challenging – it really helps build your muscles in my opinion.
That’s Phase 1. Two days after you’re done with that, you take your Day 30 pictures to see what changes happened to your body, and then continue to Phase 2.
Phase 2 is dedicated to adding size to your muscles like so:
Weeks 5-7:
- Day 1 – Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2 – Pylometrics (Jump Training)
- Day 3 – Back and Biceps, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4 – Yoga X
- Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6 – Kenpo X Karate
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
Notice how there’s two new workouts there? You don’t do the same workout every week; during this particular phase, you do Chest/Shoulders/Triceps instead of Chest/Back, and Back/Biceps instead of Shoulders/Arms. It’s a smart move.
The 8th week is a ‘recovery and ab focus’ week again and looks just like Week 4:
- Day 1 – Yoga X
- Day 2 – Core Synergistics
- Day 3 – Kenpo K Karate
- Day 4 – X Stretch
- Day 5 – Core Synergistics
- Day 6 – Yoga X
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
That takes care of Phase 2 – at the end here, you’ve completed 56 days and 4 days after that, you take your Day 60 pictures…and then go into:
Phase 3:
This phase uses all the DVDs and really puts your body to work! Here’s the schedule:
Week 9:
- Day 1 – Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2 – Pylometrics (Jump Training)
- Day 3 – Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4 – Yoga X
- Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6 – Kenpo X Karate
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
Week 10:
- Day 1 – Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2 – Pylometrics (Jump Training)
- Day 3 – Back and Biceps, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4 – Yoga X
- Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6 – Kenpo X Karate
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
Week 11:
- Day 1 – Chest and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2 – Pylometrics (Jump Training)
- Day 3 – Shoulders and Arms, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4 – Yoga X
- Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6 – Kenpo X Karate
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
Week 12:
- Day 1 – Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, Ab Ripper X
- Day 2 – Pylometrics (Jump Training)
- Day 3 – Back and Biceps, Ab Ripper X
- Day 4 – Yoga X
- Day 5 – Legs and Back, Ab Ripper X
- Day 6 – Kenpo X Karate
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
and finally on your last week, Week 13, you do the entire recovery week once again:
- Day 1 – Yoga X
- Day 2 – Core Synergistics
- Day 3 – Kenpo K Karate
- Day 4 – X Stretch
- Day 5 – Core Synergistics
- Day 6 – Yoga X
- Day 7 – Rest or X Stretch
That will take you 91 days….and on the last day, you can finally take your Day 90 pictures. By this time, you should really notice one heck of a difference from Day 1, Day 30, Day 60 and Day 90.
And that’s the P90 Classic Routine!
Enjoy,
Barbara
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