P90X - Cardio X

P90X Cardio X Workout

Chances are 99.9% that part of your goal in doing P90X is to lose weight. While muscle toning, flexibility and balance are all important parts of the P90X workout program, nothing burns fat away like cardio. Today, we’ll be discussing the ninth P90x workout which is the cardio-focussed workout:Cardio X

Cardio X is actually considered an optional workout in the P90X series. You can add it to the mix once, twice or three times a week. However, some people find that adding Cardio X to the mix is just too much for them. We recommend that you include some type of cardio program with your P90X workouts, whether it’s Cardio X or not. The reasons that you’ll want to include a cardio element are:

Calorie Burning: A cardio element means that you will, ultimately, burn more calories. Burning more calories means that you’ll lose weight faster. Losing weight faster means that you’ll start getting ripped faster. These are all things that you want, so a cardio element is an important element for you to add.

Improved Workouts: Adding a cardio element means that you’ll improve your overall cardiovascular fitness, and that means that you’ll be able to workout even harder during the P90X workouts.

Whether you use the Cardio X workout or another way to get your cardio is up to you, but there are benefits to using the Cardio X workout. Firstly, it’s designed to enhance the program. Many of the moves that you’ll do during Cardio X are moves that you’ve been exposed to in the other P90X workouts (particularly the Kenpo X and Yoga X workouts). They’re set to a faster pace in order to get a cardio burn, but you get the benefit of getting extra practice at some of the moves. Secondly, with Cardio X, you know you’ll be getting the motivational leadership of Tony Horton. Just going off and doing cardio on your own may not pump you up mentally in the same way!

If you’re looking for a different cardio workout to do, you may want to consider Turbo Jam Live or Rockin Body instead. Both of those workouts combine cardio and muscle toning to high energy, upbeat music with a dance emphasis. If you think you need a break from Tony Horton, or you just want to mix up your cardio elements, consider those or other workouts that feature dance music.

Get out, get running, do some Cardio X and improve your cardiovascular fitness today. If you do, it will improve your fitness overall.

P90X Extreme Home Fitness - Legs and Back Routine

P90X Workout for Legs and Back

You may think that you’re getting enough of a workout in your legs and back just by doing the P90X plyometrics workout followed by the many, many upper body workouts. However, you haven’t experienced a leg and back workout until you’ve done the workout in the P90X series that’s dedicated to these body parts. Today, we’ll be discussing the fifth P90X workout: Legs and Back

In this workout, you’ll do the standard Ab Ripper X workout that makes its appearance throughout the P90X videos. You’ll also find yourself doing some of the same back exercises that you did in the very first workout. What makes this workout different and brings a whole new level of challenge to it is that you’ll also be introduced to Tony Horton’s P90X leg workout. One thing we can say for sure is that you will not feel like jogging or even standing up any time soon after you finish this workout!

The leg portion of this workout isn’t done in the two-section format that you find on most of the P90X workouts. You’ll cluster all of your leg workouts together in one section. You’ll be squatting, jumping and lunging until you feel as though your legs are about to fall off. Then you’ll squat, lunge and jump some more! The exercises in this workout for legs include:

-         Balance Lunges

-         Calf-Raise Squats

-         Super Skaters

-         Wall Squats

-         Step Back Lunges

-         Alternating Side Lunges

-         Single Leg Wall Squats

-         Deadlift Squats

-         Three-Way Lunge with a Two-Kick Option

-         Sneaky Lunges

-         Chair Salutations

-         Toe Roll Iso-Lunges

-         Groucho Walk

-         Calf Raisers

-         80/20 Speed Squats

Just a little hint – that Groucho walk is very fun (and also hard)! One thing that is impressive about this workout, if you’re already a fitness fan and have done leg workouts in the gym, is that it manages to give you an effective, difficult leg workout without the use of weights. You’ll be surprised how much muscle definition you’ll have at the end of the ninety days just from this well designed workout that’s mostly weight-free. You can read more about the details by researching some of our P90X reviews at Finish Well Fitness.

Because your leg muscles are such large muscles, you’ll need to be sure to replenish yourself after this workout. Treat yourself to some P90X Results and Recovery Formula to make sure you get everything that you need to fuel your body for the next day of workouts!

P90X Extreme Home Fitness - Shoulders and Arms

First off, I love the P90X Shoulders and Arms workout. It is probably one of my favorites. As a woman, having a strong upper body is fantastic: 1) It gives you more of an hourglass figure if you have curvy hips and a smaller waist, and 2) Strong, lean muscles always are sexy (at least in my book).

I’m going to apologize right off the bat on something about the video: I look very serious and dramatic. In short, I don’t look happy. I’ll work on that. I am much happier and am enjoying the workout much more than it appears, so in the future, smiles will be a bit more front and center. Another disclaimer: I’m 5′ – 2″ and 125ish pounds. I’ve always felt that I resemble more of a Labrador than a Greyhound and part of me feels that the video makes me look a little beefy. I may actually look beefy in real life, but I’ve been told that isn’t true. Depending on who you want to believe, I don’t think I’m really as beefy as I may look on the workout video.

Again, remember that the video cuts out the warm up, stretching, intermittent cardio breaks, and the cool down that is part of this workout. Further, the P90X Shoulders and Arms workout repeats and I haven’t shown that either. Here is the P90X Shoulders and Arms workout video for your enjoyment:

I realize I didn’t list out the shoulder exercises and arm exercises last time, so here they are for reference. Again, this workout repeats each group twice:

Group 1
Alternating Shoulder Press
In & Out Bicep Curl
Two-Arm Triceps Kickback

Group 2
Deep Swimmer’s Press
Full Supination Concentration Curl
Chair Dip

Group 3
Upright Row
Static Arm Curl
Flip-Grip Twist Tricpes Kickback

Group 4
Seated Two-Angle Shoulder Fly
Crouching Cohen Curl
Lying-Down Triceps Extension

Group 5
In & Out Straight-Arm Shoulder Fly
Congdon Curl
Side Tri-Rise

What do you think? Do you like what you see?