P90X Reviews: A Complete Review on the P90X Workout System

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If you’re doing P90X or just researching to decide if it’s the right workout program for you, then you’re aware that the program is not without its cardio components. And that’s a good thing, because any successful workout also has cardio involved in it in order to burn fat and calories. In the case of P90X, while you’ll always be doing some cardio in every workout, the bulk of the cardio comes from Cardio X, Kenpo X and the Plyometrics workout. How do you maximize the effects of the cardio portions of P90X? Here are some tips! Read the rest of this entry »

Previously on the Finish Well Fitness Blog, we talked about the idea of keeping a journal to document your P90X journey or, alternatively, photo documenting it. We can, however, understand why you may shy away from either of those ideas. After all, if you’re doing P90X or P90X Plus, you’re already devoting a huge amount of time to your P90X workout and P90X nutrition plans. The idea of doing something time consuming like a journal or photo-documentation may seem like just too much extra effort. If that’s the case, we recommend that you keep a workout log. It’s quick, and it accomplishes lots of the same goals. Read the rest of this entry »

P90X isn’t like any other workout program in that it’s the most extreme home fitness program ever and also that it combines elements of nutrition into its ninety-day plan. However, P90X is exactly like all other workout plans in that, if you don’t take the extra effort to protect them, you’ll potentially do damage to your joints. This is just the name of the game with any fitness program. You’re putting stress on your joints, and therefore you need to be aware of the risk of injury. However, before you use that as a reason to not begin P90X, remember that carrying around extra weight or having bad posture puts your joints at just as much risk, and P90X will eliminate you from both of those categories. Here are some tips for protecting your joints when you workout with P90X! Read the rest of this entry »

There are many things that you can do in order to make your P90X experience more productive and yield better results. One of the more surprising ones, however, would be to strengthen your hands. Throughout the P90X workouts, you’ll be doing lots of exercises that require you to keep a grip, from chin-ups to pull-ups. You’ll also be using the P90X resistance bands, and while the P90X resistance band handles can help you keep a firmer grip and make exercising more fluid and with better results, strength in your hands is ultimately the best thing for an overall effective workout. Here are some tips on making your hands and your grip stronger. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve previously discussed on the Finish Well Fitness blog how important it is to workout with good posture, particularly when doing a workout that emphasizes strength training and isometric exercises like P90X does. However, while we gave you advice on ways to improve your posture while you’re working out in that blog entry, working on your posture in your day-to-day life can have huge benefits on not only your workout technique but also on your overall core, muscle, pulmonary, circulatory and spinal health. Here are some tips on improving your posture for both daily and workout improvements! Read the rest of this entry »

Whether or not you yourself are taking  the P90X challenge with its ninety days of extreme home workouts, it’s almost certain that you know somebody who is doing P90X. After all, hundreds of thousands have stepped up and taken the challenge (and many of them have succeeded!). If you do know somebody who’s doing P90X, but you don’t want to undertake the workouts yourself, you can still contribute to the P90X vision of creating a thinner, healthier America. All you need to do is to be supportive and encouraging. Here are some tips on how. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

There 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 »

Have 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 »

When 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 »