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!

Chest and Shoulder Workouts For Building Muscle Fast

This is one of the best workouts for building maximum muscle mass to your pecs and delts. Chest and shoulder training are closely related as they both tend to involve some sort of pushing exercise or flye. 

When it comes to training the chest, the king of all exercises is the bench press. This pushing exercise hits the largest area of your chest muscles and also works your shoulders and triceps as secondary muscles.

There are 3 main types of bench press movements, incline, decline and flat. They can be done with a barbell or dumbbells. Personally i like to use dumbbells because it allows for a greater stretch of the muscles and you don't often need a spotter.

For the shoulders the best exercise for overall development is the barbell or dumbbell shoulder press. Heavy shoulder presses are key to building muscle on the front of your deltoids. You chest and shoulder workouts should include some form of shoulder press.

There are 2 chest and shoulder workouts that i want to share with you. Both are demonstrated on the videos below. They can be done as a standalone workout or as a post workout blitz to truly burn the muscles.

They can be done on separate days or if you can handle it then you can do them both on the same day. By adding the two together you will get an amazing pump feeling in the chest and shoulders and will no doubt ache for a few days after.