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P90X Nutrition: The Importance of Greens

p90x and the importance of green leafy vegetablesHow far along are you in your P90X journey? Have you started, gotten over the hump of feeling over-challenged and started to realize how amazing the workout program is? Or are you on the Finish Well Fitness Blog because you want to learn more about the P90X program because you’re considering doing it? In either case, you’ve certainly learned about P90X nutrition, which is a three phase nutrition plan that’s designed to teach you how to eat in a way that not only helps you lose weight but also helps you optimize your workout program. If so, you’re learning about what foods you should and shouldn’t eat, and you’ve certainly begun to realize the importance of eating greens. Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Nutrition: Swapping Good Food for Bad Food

p90x and junk foodWe’ve said before how one of our favorite things about the P90X program is that it not only provides you with ninety-days of hard, challenging and ultra-effective workouts, but it also teaches you about P90X nutrition, which is a three phase nutrition plan that will help you not only lose weight but also optimize your workouts. You’ll have flexibility with the P90X nutrition plan. You can use your own vitamins and supplements, or you can make it easy by just getting the P90X Peak Results Package, which has everything that you need. And much like you’ll have a great deal of control over your supplements, you’ll also have a great deal of control over your food. Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Advice: Missing Workouts

If you’re currently doing P90X, or if you’re right now reading up on some P90X reviews in order to decide if you want to step up to the challenge of extreme home fitness, then you’re aware of the time commitment that’s required with P90X. You’ll be on a six-day on, one-day off schedule for the bulk of the three months that the program runs. In addition to a person who wants to get into fantastic shape, you are probably also a realist who knows that it is unlikely that you will go that entire time without missing a workout. So what should you do if you miss a workout? Or even two? Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Review: Don’t Lose Your Beach Body

p90x and keeping your beach bodySometime last spring, you realized that it was about to be bathing suit season. And, like many Americans, about that time you started a workout program. Maybe that program was the extreme home fitness program P90X, and maybe it wasn’t. Hopefully, you were successful with your swimsuit preparation workout program and you went through the summer looking amazing in your bathing suit and feeling confident. But now, fall is creeping up on us. The season of bulky sweaters and coats that hide many of our body flaws is upon us! Don’t put back on all the weight that you took off this summer! Start a fall workout program and stick to it! Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Results: Lunchtime Activity Rule

p90x and the lunchtime activity ruleIf you’re doing P90X, then the last thing that you want to hear is somebody saying that you should sneak some extra exercise in. However, that’s exactly what we’re about to do. No, we’re not going to tell you to take your P90X Chin Up Bar to work with you and rip out twenty at your lunch hour! However, what we are going to tell you is that, particularly if you have an office job where you spend the large majority of the day seated at your desk, adding some light to moderate activity to your lunch hour, even while doing P90X or P90X Plus, can have an impact that improves your P90X results exponentially. Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Nutrition: Calories in a Beer

p90x and the calories in beerAh summer! It’s a time when we attend lots of barbeques (usually with beer). Camp (usually with beer). Even just enjoy the warm weather by sitting on our porches (often, with a beer!). However, as we all know, those beer calories can begin to add up. Even on a challenging workout plan like P90X, which burns upwards of six hundred calories per workout, those extra beer calories can add up. P90X Nutrition doesn’t require you to entirely give up any type of food or beverage but instead teaches you how to eat and drink in a way that supports your workout goals. That, of course, means that if you don’t want to, you don’t have to give up your beer. But when you realize how many calories are in a beer, you may want to curtail your beer drinking in order to meet your P90X goals! Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Advice: Choosing the Right Home Workout

choosing the right home workoutThere are so many home workout videos and dvds out on the market today that we can barely keep count! Of course, by far the most popular (and most challenging) is P90X, a ninety day program by celebrity fitness trainer Tony Horton that combines workouts and the P90X Nutrition plan to transform your body. But perhaps you’re not sure if P90X is right for you, and perhaps you’re comparing it to other home workout programs and trying to establish which home workout is best for you. The following is a list of things to consider when deciding which home workout is the right home workout for you. Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Nutrition: Do Multivitamins Make a Difference

p90x multivitaminsP90X isn’t just a ninety-day workout plan. Sure, the extreme home fitness workouts that you’ll do during the three months of P90X are the bulk of the program and the main catalyst for transforming your body. However, P90X is a much more complete program than just workouts! It also comes with the P90X Nutrition plan, which teaches you how to eat, what to eat and when to eat in order to not only lose weight but also to optimize your workouts. As part of the P90X nutrition plan, it’s recommended that you take a multivitamin, particularly P90X Peak Health Formula, which was created to perfectly complement the P90X program. But do multivitamins really make a difference? Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Advice: Correct Workout Posture

p90x workout postureHave you ever watched somebody exercising with poor posture? If you’ve spent any kind of significant time in the gym at all, chances are that you have. The person running on the treadmill while hunched over or lifting weights while throwing their back into a “swayback” position. With any challenging workout such as P90X, people will often try to power through the exercises just to “get through” them without thinking of components such as posture. Unfortunately, that doesn’t yield the results that you’ll be looking for. In this Finish Well Fitness Blog entry, we’ll briefly touch on how bad posture can work against you and then tell you how to make sure you maintain perfect P90X posture. Read the rest of this entry »

P90X Advice: Proper Workout Breathing

correct breathing for p90xWhen you’re doing a workout as challenging as P90X is, every little thing that you can do to give yourself an advantage or optimize your workout can have exponential results. This can range from something as extreme as switching from floor push-ups with an improper form to perfectly corrected push-ups using the P90X Powerstands to something as simple as learning to breathe correctly when you’re working out. Yes, breathing! Something that we all do every minute of every day and most likely think that we do naturally perfectly. However, there are specific breathing techniques that you should use when working out that will optimize your P90X results (or those of any other workout plan). Read the rest of this entry »