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Assessing Your P90X Results

When you began the P90X program you no doubt had some goals in mind. Hopefully you didn’t just have them “in mind”, you wrote them down as well. Once you reach the 90 day mark, it’s time to assess your P90X results and determine how to move on. But before we get too deep into what comes after P90X, let’s talk about tracking your results before the 90 days are up.

P90X results aren’t just something that comes along on the 90th day. No, you’ve probably been seeing results from the first week on the program. These results, no matter how small or dramatic they are, are important. We cannot stress enough how important it is to track your P90X results along the way. Not only does it significantly boost your motivation, it helps you pin point areas that need a bit more work.

Once you reach the end of the P90X workout program, you should have a fairly significant amount of information on your P90X results.  Whether you tracked your measurements weekly or biweekly, you likely have a good deal of numbers written down. Also, your before and after photos are a great indication of your P90X results.

Compile all of the information you have from the last 90 days and take some time to evaluate it. Did you achieve your goals? Are there areas you would still like to improve upon? Do you feel like you did everything you could to reach the goals you set for yourself.

At the 90 day mark, it would be easy to stop working out and quickly regress back to that “before” picture. But most people who have come this far are ready for more. They are ready to take those P90X results to the next level.

Fortunately, there is another level. P90X Plus The Next Level is the obvious next step after Day 90 of the original P90X program. P90X+ adds 5 new workouts to the P90X program, sure to elevate your P90X results even further. Just when you thought you were done, Tony Horton is back to push you further and bring you the results you’ve always wanted from a workout program.

With P90X+ you get an Interval X Plus workout, Kenpo Cardio Plus, Upper Plus, Total Body Plus, and Abs/Core Plus. If you thought your P90X results were dramatic, give this program an additional 90 days and you will be blown away. Remember to track your progress for another assessment afterwards!

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When Is the Best Time To Do A P90X Workout?

If you’re just beginning the P90X program or have ordered it and waiting on its arrival, you may be wondering what is the best time to do the P90X workouts. Well, you’re in luck. There is a “perfect time” to do the P90X workouts. They won’t tell you what that time is in the P90X guidebook or the infomercial—you’ll only find it here. Are you ready?

The best time to do a P90X workout is precisely at the time you choose to do it!

“Wait. You mean it doesn’t matter if I do the workout at 5am or 7 pm?” Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. The important thing is that you do it. Whatever time of day you are able to get your workout in is the best time of day to do it. There’s no “witching hour” for P90X workouts, no special time where your progress will be dramatically increased. If you’re doing the workout, the time you are doing it is the best time!

Too many people fail to achieve fitness goals because of time issues. Whether they don’t have enough time, can’t make time, or don’t know how to tell time—time is a favorite excuse. Sure, we’re all busy. But not having enough time to work out is exactly that—an excuse. This is why the best time to do a P90X workout is at anytime.

The best time to do a P90X workout is the precise time in which you are most likely to stick with it. If you have the most energy first thing in the morning and you can get up an hour early, the best time for you would be the morning. If, however, you would love nothing more than to come home from work and workout, a sort of stress relieving end to the day, then the best time to do a P90X workout for you would be when you get home from work.

There’s something to be said to planning your P90X workouts, for wanting to make sure you are doing everything right to get the best results. But there’s also a time to stop planning and just get started. Decide what time would be the best for your schedule, your lifestyle, and your commitment, and stick with it. Plain and simple.

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The P90X Core Synergistics Workout

With P90X you get 12 unique workouts. Each of them is designed to give you a high quality routine. Some are purely cardio and others focus solely on strength training. When used together, the P90X workouts provide pure fitness and extreme results. The individual workouts are what make this system great and P90X Core Synergistics is just one of them.

P90X Core Synergistics is one of the P90X workouts that seems to combine cardio and strength training. This isn’t like Plyometrics, which is seriously non-stop high energy, but it will get your heart rate going. The point of the Core Synergistics workout is to strengthen the muscles commonly known as the “core muscles”. What’s included in that muscle groups varies depending on who you ask but is generally all of the muscles within the trunk of the body.

When your core is strong, your entire body benefits.

 

Core muscles are responsible for stability and posture, among other things. They put power behind your every movement and can speed your results when doing a fitness program like P90X. This workout keeps your body safe from injury as well. This is because all of the muscles in the body depend on the core muscles. Every connection leads back to the center of the body, where core is king.

P90X Core Synergistics is just under an hour long. Keep in mind, this isn’t a typical core workout. It is, after all P90X. In this workout you will be working multiple muscle groups while keeping a strong emphasis on the core. Also, don’t get discouraged if you struggle with it the first few times. The program will get easier with time and you will actually learn to enjoy this one.

Your P90X Fitness Guide can walk you through the entire workout, describing each move within the P90X Core Synergistics. It also includes a few hints to get the most out of the hour.

To give you an idea of how versatile this workout is—here’s a few of the moves you will do on it: stacked hands push-ups, banana rolls, leaning crescent lunges, low lateral skaters, squat run, prison cell push-ups, side hip raise, bow to boat, steam engine, plank to chaturanga run, towel hoppers, superman banana, and several others. These moves are designed to give you major results and a serious workout. Remember when doing them to really Bring It!!

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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!

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P90X Muscle Confusion

A little confused by what Muscle Confusion actually is? Well, lets break it down and see why P90X takes advantage of this strategy. The body has a tendency to adapt very well to stresses on the system, including exercise. Professional athletes train in “blocks” which consist of working out certain muscle groups in a particular way followed by a recovery phase. As you progress through the phases of each block, the goal is to alter your routine so that the body has difficulty adapting and thus you continue to get results.
 
The better shape you’re in, the quicker your body can adapt, so you must constantly be moving into the next phase or block. The process of continuously changing up your exercise routines is called Muscle Confusion and P90X utilizes this technique as the heart of the program.
 
As your body adapts it strives to achieve efficiency. The more efficient you are with any given task the easier it is to accomplish that task, and the less it really affects you, so your results hit a road block, in the P90X program this phenomenon is called the Plateau Effect.

Once you hit that plateau you have to change things up and start in on another block. The recovery phase of each block allows the body to heal and get stronger for the next block. With this technique the P90X system allows you to increase the intensity of each block, and maximize the results you get during the time you spend on your daily workouts.

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