P90X Reviews: A Complete Review on the P90X Workout System

Shaun T.’s Insanity Workout is a sixty day workout plan that uses the principles of plyometrics to shape your body into a lean muscle, low fat machine! To make sure you know what you’re getting into when you enter the Insanity, we’ll be reviewing each of the workouts on the Finish Well Fitness blog. Today, we’ll talk about the third workout: Cardio Power and Resistance.

The Cardio Power and Resistance workout pretty much does what it says it’s going to do. It alternates between high-energy cardio training and resistance strength training, all while utilizing Shaun T.’s special method of max interval training. You won’t be surprised by the way this workout starts out. There will be a ten and a half minute warm up that feels like it should be the main workout. It’s intense, and your heart rate is definitely in for acceleration. After that, you’ll do the standard seven minute stretch routine, only to call it “standard” is misleading. These stretches will push your limits, though one of the reasons we love the Insanity Workout is because of the emphasis on stretching, which is often overlooked in strength and toning programs designed to work in condensed periods of time. Now you’ll get into the remainder of this forty-minute workout!

The next part of the workout is a two minute activity that features the following four exercises each done for an interval of thirty seconds: Power Jumps, Belt Kicks, Hit the Floor, V Push-ups. You’ll take a thirty second break. Then, in true Insanity Workout fashion, you’ll repeat all four exercises at a faster rate. After another break, you’ll repeat the exercises for a third time at your maximum intensity level. From there, you’re going to move into a full minute of working your triceps.

Think you’re done? This workout isn’t called the Insanity Workout for no reason. You’re not done yet!

The pattern now repeats but with a new set of exercises. In this second set, you’ll do Hurdle Jumps, Globe Jumps, Moving Push-ups and Floor Sprints. Instead of punishing you with triceps after this phase, you’ll instead jump into eight Hop Squats and eight Push-ups. Yes, you do that eight and eight series three times. Nobody said having a near-perfect body was easy.

As you can see, this is a crazy hard workout with a ton of jumping, so you may want to consider a Plyometrics Mat to preserve your knees. On workout days that are this intense, having the proper nutrition, such as the Insanity Nutrition Products, in your system is a key element.

If you’ve already done the Insanity Workout and want something new but just as challenging, the P90X workout also utilizes plyometrics along with yoga, martial arts and strength  moves.

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