How to Make Time for Your Daily P90X Workouts
Let me start by saying, if you’re really ready to make a physical transformation and get into tremendous physical condition, you’ll find a way to make time for P90X. Okay, that being said, I realize that most people today follow a schedule that barely leaves time for sleep, much less a workout plan. So, to start, take a hard look at your schedule and figure out where you can squeeze in about an hour a day to complete the P90X program.
P90X is a home workout program. That means you get to save yourself some time by avoiding the commute to the gym. Additionally, you can workout anytime of day and you don’t even have to look good doing it! So, where can you best fit the P90X workout into your overloaded schedule?
Can you get up an hour earlier every morning? Consider setting your alarm 70 minutes earlier than you usually do. This will give you 10 minutes to open your eyes, throw on some workout shoes and put in the P90X DVD. A hard workout like those offered by P90X is usually best done in the morning anyway because it increases your metabolism, which gives you more energy to face your day. Additionally, you won’t have the whole day to make excuses for avoiding your P90X workout that evening.
Okay, so you’re not a morning person and you’d rather be out of shape for the rest of your life than get up early to do P90X. So, would it be possible to do the workout immediately following work? Consider coming home everyday, dropping everything and putting in P90X immediately to complete your workout. If you choose to do P90X immediately following work or school, you’ll need to make it a priority, as this tends to be a busy time in most people’s days. Your family, friends and even your pets will have to agree to give you that hour for P90X before bombarding you with their needs and demands.
No way, you’re too busy right after school or work. Your next consideration will be to fit your P90X workout in at night, after the kids are in bed and the dinner dishes are done. The only problem with scheduling evening as P90X time is that this is usually the time of day when most people want to relax. P90X won’t allow for that. However, if you devote 1 hour of each evening to P90X, you’ll likely find that you begin to look forward to that time throughout your day.
Other things you may consider to free some time for P90X during the week is to do most of your cooking, cleaning and laundry on the weekends. Prepare the weeks meals in advance and freeze them for the week. This can save you at least an hour a day in meal preparation time that can now be devoted to P90X. You may also consider delegating household commitments to your spouse or your kids. Figure out which times of the day you’ll feel the most motivated to do the P90X program. Then, organize your agenda to push some of your weekday chores to the weekend or to someone else altogether. Make P90X a priority and before you know it, you’ll be wondering how you ever got through a day without your P90X workouts to keep you energized!
Some great points there. I am working out early in the morning - while it’s tough getting up so late, it’s the only free time I have being married with 2 children.
Your talk about preparing the meals is very important. It almost turns into a skill in itself. Right now I spend a good 40 minutes each morning preparing my snacks, breakfast and lunch for the day. Once I get the nutrition down, I will most likely know how to cut that time down.
Yes, and if you have snacks that can be frozen you can make a whole bunch of them at once and have enough supply for a week or two.
It can be tricky I’m sure preparing all your meals including dinner, when you have a couple others in the family who may not be keen on eating the P90X way
If that’s the case you may want to consider creating all your own meals ahead of time and freezing those as well which will certainly save you time in the kitchen making different plates for you and the rest of the family (if you handle the cooking).
You could make a dozen turkey burgers at once, you could make a half dozen Lemon-Garlic chickens and freeze them individually. This way you just reach into the fridge and grab your meal, ready to go. It’s like warming up a TV dinner that’s actually good for you, and follows the plan. You could also consider a few timesavers next time you’re at the market. Buy EggBeaters, instead of separating egg whites. Buy precut chicken strips for chicken salad, or stir fry, instead of cutting strips by hand.
It’s all about finding the balance you need to make this work. Yes, you are probably going to have to sacrifice one thing for another but if you can strike a fair compromise, you’ll have your health in the end and what else could you or your loved ones want.
-Matt
staff
I was wanting to know if it is possible to break the workouts apart on the days of the ab ripper program. For example doing the main workout in the morning and the ab ripper at night? How would that effect my results. Thank you!
Brian, you will still get the same results if you decide to leave Ab Ripper X for the evening. The main concern is to make sure you do everything that is required of you for that given day (Don’t skip it!).
On the other hand we would not recommend breaking up Plyometrics for instance, doing half of the workout in the morning and half at night, this would most certainly NOT give you the best results. Because Ab Ripper X is independent you can definitely do it at night—no worries!
-Matt
Staff
I am just getting started with P90X. I am considering doing my routine in the morning, before work. This may seem like a stupid question, but Is it Ok to have the breakfast portion of the nutrition plan when finished with the work out? Or have the recovery drink - or both? The recovery drink is scheduled, according to the nutrition plan, as part of the snack. Should I take the recovery drink with breakfast and skip it with the snack? From what I read its important to have the recovery drink within an hour after working out.
I am excited to get started! Having the nutrition planner is what I have been looking for in a program. I can’t wait to see how P90X enhances my martial arts. Thank you.
Hi Mark,
The meal plan approach in the P90X Nutrition Guide suggests that you have your breakfast first and have the Recovery Drink as your first snack of the day before lunch. This would mean that if you were to do your workout in the morning it would be best to do it after breakfast.
However, if you’re pressed for time in the morning you could definitely tweak the program a bit to work with your schedule. You could go ahead and have your recovery drink right after breakfast to take advantage of that crucial hour block after your workout. From there we would highly recommend that you space out the rest of your meals, one more snack, then dinner, to ensure that you are stimulating your metabolism throughout the day. Good luck with P90X, we’re confident that it will improve your performance in martial arts!
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