P90X Reviews: A Complete Review on the P90X Workout System

Ah 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!

So, how many calories?

The exact calorie count will vary by the brand and type of beer that you’re drinking. However, on average, a twelve-ounce can of regular beer will have approximately two hundred calories, and a “light” beer will have about a hundred calories. To put that in perspective, if you have three “light” beers, you’ve just put in half of the calories that the hardest home-workout on the market burns off in an hour. If you have three regular beers, you’ve just replaced all of the calories that your P90X workout burned off. And no matter what P90X workout products you’re using, they aren’t going to just magically melt those three hundred or six hundred calories back off of you!

What should you do instead?

We’re not telling you not to drink beer. You have some options! You can adjust your diet intake during the day to compensate for those calories – just be sure to do it in a way that also means that you get the nutrition that you need in order to optimize your workout. You can add to your workout time in order to up your calorie burn to compensate, but we’re guessing that if you’re doing P90X you don’t have the energy for much more working out! What’s the best solution? Have a single beer, then switch to water, which is healthier for you anyway!

It’s summer, and most of us are going to enjoy some brews to relax from the heat. That’s fine, but don’t get so relaxed with those beers that you work against your P90X goals!