P90x Questions

Where Can I Buy P90x Supplements?

September 9, 2010 – 5:37 am

The P90x program recommends several supplements that may help you achieve the best possible results.  These supplements are strictly optional and are not required.  Eating a healthy diet that provides proper nutrition and pushing yourself during your workouts is enough in itself to achieve amazing results.  Some people, however, swear by these supplements and love using them alongside P90x.  The choice to use or not use these supplements is ultimately up to you!

You can buy all of the P90x supplements at the Team Beachbody Store

P90x Results and Recovery - Refuel, re-energize, and reduce muscle soreness with this after-workout shake. Four parts carbs to one part protein ensures speedy muscle repair after intense workouts!
 
 
P90x Peak Performance Bars - These delicious, protein-packed bars will give your body all the nutrients it needs to maximize your overall performance. Enjoy them as a healthy snack, a midday pick-me-up, a pre-workout energy boost, or an occasional meal substitute when there’s no time to cook.

P90x Peak Health – Get ripped with our most complete, high-end, high-potency multivitamin, specially formulated to boost your strength and energy!

 
 

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Is P90x Hard On The Knees?

September 8, 2010 – 2:34 am

If you have knee problems you may find yourself needing to take some of the P90x workouts more lightly than others.

The Plyometrics, Legs & Back, Kenpro X, and Yoga X workouts may cause some difficulty for someone with knee problems. Plyometrics involves a lot of jumping and squatting, Legs & Back has several lunges and squats, Kenpo X has kicking, and Yoga X has a lot of lunging.

P90x may be difficult for someone with knee trouble.  However, there are ways you can adapt the exercises to not cause problems to your knees.

If you currently have knee problems, the high impact exercises in Plyometrics may be hard for you.  In the Plyometrics workout you they show you a high impact and low impact version of the exercises.  If you want to take it easy on your knees, do the low impact version.

For Yoga X, and Legs & Back you can squat or lunge as low as you can without pain or discomfort.  If you feel pain or discomfort, don’t go down so low, and if some exercises are just too much for you, don’t do them.  Listen to your knees.

With all the kicking in Kenpo X, it is important to not bang your knees when you do a kick.  Stop your kicks before your knee joint locks to avoid injury.

You can tone down P90x and adapt certain exercises to be gentler on your knees.  Listen to your knees while doing the exercises, and don’t ignore any pain or discomfort.  P90x is tough, so give your knees time to adapt, and when you feel ready, increase the intensity.

When rehabilitating a knee, exercise is used to strengthen the muscles and tendons around the knee.   Stretching is also used to loosen tight muscles and tendons.  Why is it important to rehabilitate problematic knees with strength training and stretching?  Because when leg muscles are weak or tight from lack of exercise or stretching, the knee joint is strained more during exercise or other activities.  If the muscles that support the knee joint are weak, they will have a harder time supporting the knee joint.  Tight muscles that are connected to the knee can also cause a knee to go out of place.

If you have knee problems, the bottom line is that you should take it easy and as your knees feel more capable, gradually increase the depth of the lunge or squat, or the weight.  The idea though is to prevent injury and not to cause it, so listen to your knees, and back off if you feel discomfort or pain while doing a workout in P90x.

P90x works on building strength all over your body, which includes the leg muscles.  It also works on improving flexibility.  Building stronger and more flexible leg muscles helps to stabilize the knee so that it is less susceptible to injury.  Improving strength and flexibility in the leg muscles will help to rehabilitate an injured knee as well as help prevent future injuries from occurring.

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P90x Is Too Hard – What Should I Do If I Can’t Do P90x?

September 4, 2010 – 7:09 am

Well, one thing for sure is that you shouldn’t give up on getting in better shape!  P90x is a tough program with tough workout routines that are not for everyone.

Don’t Get Frustrated And Give Up On Getting Fit!

Don’t get frustrated if you are struggling with the workouts. Understand that fitness is a journey. It takes time!  It is better to do your best and only make it through half of the workout than to not do it at all. Know that as long as you keep pushing yourself, you will get better and start to improve.  You’ll soon be able to push yourself harder, lift heavier weights, and last longer in the workouts.

With all of that said, if you think you bit off way more than you can chew with P90x, don’t fret, because there are plenty of other exercise programs that may be a better match for you.

If P90x Is Too Hard For You, Here Are A Few Alternatives

If P90x is too much of a leap for you from where you currently are, one of the programs below may be a better stepping stone.

10 Minute Trainer – This whole program is centered around improving your fitness in only 10 minutes a day.  This would be a good choice for someone who wants a short, but sweet, exercise program.
 
 
 
Power 90 – 90 day program that incorporates circuit-training workouts designed to help you lose weight and transform your body in as little as 35 minutes a day.
 
 
 
Slim in 6 – 6 week program with fat burning cardio and light resistance training that will help you lose weight and sculpt your body.
 
 
 
 

Any of those could be a good alternative if P90x is too hard for you. 10 Minute Trainer is a good program if you lack time, Power 90 is an awesome program if you want a program like P90x, but less advanced. And finally, Slim in 6 is a great 6 week, women-focused exercise program geared for slimming and weight loss.

Whatever program you decide to do, give it your best, keep pressing play and continue eating right! The results make it all worthwhile!

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P90x Fad – Is P90x Just Another Fad?

September 3, 2010 – 12:31 am

A fad is a short lived craze that booms and then busts.  Sea monkeys, virtual pets, and mood rings were all fads.  They come and go once the popularity starts to die. Maybe you remember the below exercise fad that got people off of their sofa and “Sweating to the Oldies”?

Will P90x Become A Fad?

Perhaps in the future we all will laugh at the clothing style and music in the P90x videos, but that won’t change the effectiveness of the program. The workout program will be just as effective in the future as it is now.

P90x was released in 2004 and it has become quite popular. It is 2010 now, 6 years from when it was released, and it is still going strong. Plenty of celebrities and professional athletes (to name a few; Sheryl Crow, Ashton Kutcher, Martin Prado, Jerry Stackhouse) have done P90x to get into great shape. If you check out the P90x results page, you can see tons of success stories from lots of different people.

The truth is P90x works. The principles and exercises are effective, and the program delivers results. So, while some things in it may go out of style, that doesn’t mean that if someone was to start the program again, 25 years from now, that they wouldn’t get results. The P90x program will be just as effective 5, 10, 25+ years from now as it is today- and it certainly has proven itself to be effective in getting people ripped, muscular, lean, and fit!

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Can I Still Lift Weights Or Run While Doing P90x?

August 19, 2010 – 3:29 am

Perhaps you are a runner, serious athlete, or serious about building muscle mass.  The question is, can you still lift weights or run while you are doing P90x?

Lifting Weights While Doing P90x

P90x is a serious program.  You’ll be doing hard resistance training 3 days a week if you follow the classic or doubles schedule.  Really there is no need to do extra weightlifting because if you give it your all in the P90x workouts you will need the rest.  Any extra weightlifting may not give your muscles enough time to repair and rebuild.  It is during rest that your body builds muscle, and if you aren’t getting enough rest, you will interfere with your body’s repair and rebuild phase.  

Running During P90x

With all of the resistance training and intense cardiovascular workouts, your legs will need time to repair.  The first few weeks of P90x are the hardest in terms of battling soreness and making it through the workouts.  Many people won’t even want to think about running during the first 1-4 weeks of P90x.

It Really All Depends On Your Level Of Fitness

I would suggest not lifting weights while doing P90x.  Instead, push yourself as hard as you can during the workouts and you won’t need any supplemental weightlifting sessions.  There’s plenty of weightlifting in P90x.

In regards to running while doing P90x, it really all depends on your fitness level and your goal.  Some people will be able to handle running while doing the workouts.  The doubles P90x schedule throws in an extra cardio workout that is done three times a week at times throughout the 90 days.

You can run during P90x, but I think doing extra weightlifting may be on the path towards overdoing it.  For resistance training/weightlifting, 60 minutes is more than enough time to get the job done.

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How Long Does It Take To See Results With P90x?

August 18, 2010 – 2:21 am

Who doesn’t want fast results?  When it comes to losing weight, building muscle, and toning up, people want to know that what they are doing is going somewhere, is going to be effective and will prove to be time well spent.

If you don’t see results after 90 days of P90x, you did something wrong.  The nutrition plan included lays everything out for you.  If you follow the nutrition plan and push yourself in the workouts, you may start seeing results as soon as 4 weeks.

The program asks you to take pictures after you finish each of the 3 phases.  Each phase is about a month long.  Of course the most drastic changes you will see are after the 90 days are over.  When you look at your pre-P90x picture, your phase 1, phase 2, and final phase 3 picture, you’ll be amazed at your progress over the 90 days.

Many see results after the first month of P90x.  Others that have a hard time seeing results after the first or second month feel a difference in their fitness level.  They begin doing more push-ups, pull-ups, lifting more weight, and are able to push themselves harder. There is no secret to building muscle, losing weight, or sculpting your body.

It all takes hard work.  If you focus on eating right, and working hard throughout P90x, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish.

Of course, Beachbody is so confident that you will be happy with P90x that they offer a 90 day money back guarantee.

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Can I Skip The P90x Recovery Week?

August 2, 2010 – 4:47 am

No, you shouldn’t skip the recovery week.

The recovery week is there for your muscles to recover to their full strength, so that by the end of the recovery week you are ready to meet the next phase full force.

You will not get stronger if you don’t give your muscles enough time to recover.  During rest your muscles heal, which is will make them stronger.

Don’t skip recovery week.  Recovery week is there for a reason.  It is there so you can have time to heal, get stronger, and so you can continue to achieve results and not hit a plateau..

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Should You Eat Before P90x?

July 31, 2010 – 5:11 am

I recommend you don’t eat before P90x.  Each workout is intense enough (some more than others) to require not eating a meal at least an hour beforehand.  Large or heavy meals may require you to wait 2 hours before exercising.

Why You Don’t Want To Eat Before P90x

When you start to exercise, your muscles require more blood.  Digestion requires blood too.   So when you start to exercise with a full stomach, you starve the stomach of blood and energy.  As a result, eating too much before exercising can cause you to feel sluggish, nauseated, or it can give you stomach cramps, or diarrhea.

Doing Plyometrics with a full stomach would probably be the worst idea.  With all that jumping, you definitely don’t want to do it within an hour of just completing a big meal.

In summary, wait 1-2 hours (it all depends on how much you ate) after a meal before you do your P90x workout.  Your stomach will thank you for waiting.

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I Can’t Do P90x Yoga X!

July 30, 2010 – 6:49 pm

Many P90xers struggle with Yoga X.  If you have never done any type of Yoga before, or you currently struggle with flexibility or balance, it can be especially difficult for you.

Do you give up just because it is too hard?  No!  Do you look for a substitute for Yoga P90x?  No!

You keep trying.  You keep going with the understanding that you may not be able to do it 100% right now, but by at least trying to do your current best, you will get better with practice.

Also, you cut out all that internal dialogue that uses words like “can’t” .  Whenever you talk to yourself, instead of saying, “I can’t do Yoga!”, say something like, “I may struggle with Yoga now, but I will try my best, and I will get better!”

Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.  The fact that you are struggling so much with Yoga now means that it will be highly beneficial for you to keep doing it!  You are struggling because it is targeting weak areas for you.  Enduring your struggle with Yoga will leave you stronger, and thus reward you greatly!  You will miss out on that reward if you give up on it!

You can do it!  Keep doing your best during Yoga X and keep pressing play!

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Can You Skip Yoga On P90x?

July 27, 2010 – 8:35 pm

So you hate Yoga huh?  Or perhaps you haven’t tried it, but are thinking to yourself,  “Ain’t no way I’m gonna do that weird Yoga voodoo!”.   Well, whatever your reason for not liking Yoga, lets just get to the question.

Skipping Yoga On P90x – Will It Ruin Everything If I Skip Yoga X?

Yoga Tree Pose

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P90x is a well thought out home fitness program formulated to give you the complete package.  Each workout targets a different area or aspect of fitness.  So in short, you will be slapping Tony Horton in the face (and you’ll make him cry), if you choose to not do the Yoga X workout.

Nah, not really, I’m just kidding.  The truth is that Yoga X is a tough workout, and it is long too.  It is an hour and a half long and it has a lot  of difficult Yoga moves and poses.

However, I have to say that in my opinion, Yoga is the most beneficial workout in the P90x program.  So let me sidestep answering this first question and proceed to the next question.

What Will I Miss Out On If I Skip Yoga?  What’s The Big Deal About It Anyway?

So what’s all the fuss about Yoga?  Why in the world do the creators of P90x think you need to do Yoga?

Let me tell you just a few of the basic benefits of this awesome old form of exercise.

  • Improve flexibility – Spend enough time twisting like a pretzel, and you can bet you’ll get more flexible.
  • Gain strength – Helps you gain all around strength
  • Calm your mind and body – Yoga helps you stay calm in the storm.
  • Improve breathing – Because you focus on breathing during Yoga, it helps you improve your breath control.

For me personally, the biggest benefits from Yoga that I have received are improved flexibility, focus, and control over my body.  Tony Horton talks about calmness in the storm during Yoga X.   Learning this idea has helped me in my other workouts and elsewhere in my life.

It is hard to believe that such a hard workout could leave you with a calmer and more relaxed mind and body, but with Yoga X, it happens.  The focus on breathing and staying relaxed helps you unwind.

For a more detailed explanation about why Yoga is super awesome, read – The Health Benefits of Yoga

Ok, Ok, Ok! I Get It That Yoga Is Awesome, But I Still Don’t Wanna Do It!

So you understand that Yoga is hugely beneficial for you, and that it will only help you achieve better results, but you still don’t want to do it?

Substitute For Yoga P90x – Can’t I Just Replace It With Something Else?

Well, you could substitute something for it, but then you really wouldn’t be doing P90x.  You’d be changing it.  However, getting fit is more important than not following the program 100%.  If you must substitute it, you could do Cardio X in it’s place, but I know you would be selling yourself short, especially since it isn’t nearly as long as Yoga X.

I recommend you push yourself and JUST DO IT!  Do your best and forget the rest.  Just do what you can and each time try to do a little better.  If you aim to do what you can, and try to improve each time, before you know it you will be rocking Yoga X.

Push Yourself And JUST DO IT!  The Benefits You Get From Yoga X Make It EXTREMELY Worthwhile!

P90x is a tough program.  During the middle of the week muscles are often sore and tight and in need of stretching.  Flexibility is something that is often hugely undervalued in fitness programs.  P90x is not one of those programs.  Yoga is in there to help you get a great workout, and also help you limber up- and help you limber up it will!

I suggest that you just push yourself and make yourself do it.  People get fat because they DON’T want to eat right and they DON’T want to exercise.  It is hard to push yourself during a workout.  It is hard to eat right when you are surrounded by tempting, sweet, and fatty foods.  NOT pushing yourself to do what you SHOULD do (exercise and eat right) is what gets you into trouble health wise.

It is up to you to break the bad habit of going the easy route and start pushing yourself!

I encourage you to PUSH YOURSELF and do Yoga X.  It may be hard at first (it is for many), but with practice you will get better, and the benefits you receive from it after the 90 days is up will have made doing it more than worthwhile.

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How Does The P90x System Work?

March 27, 2010 – 8:27 pm

If you are sitting on the fence about P90x and want an easy to understand explanation about how it works, keep on reading, as this page is for you.

P90x – How Does It Work?

Lets start at the beginning.  At the start, one of the first things you do is you figure out how many calories a day you should be eating.  The Nutrition Guide that is included with P90x tells you how to do this.  Once you do that, you decide which nutrition plan you want to follow.

P90x Nutrition Plans

  • Phase 1 Fat Shredder - has you eat a lot of protein and not so much carbs and fats.
  • Phase 2 Energy Booster – has you eat more carbs than the  previous phase.
  • Phase 3 Endurance Maximizer – has you eat more carbs and low calorie fats than the previous two.

The Nutrition Guide gives you a list of foods you can eat and then tells you, depending on what Nutrition phase you are on, how much of what you can eat.

Many people that do P90x and want to lose weight, choose to start with the Fat Shredder plan first, then in month 2 the Energy Booster plan, then in month 3 the Endurance Maximizer.

Others that don’t have weight to lose, may only do the Fat Shredder plan for a couple of weeks, and then move on to the next phase.

P90x Workouts – Bring It!

There are 12 P90x workout DVDs, and it doesn’t have you start with DVD 1 and then go down the line.  There is a system involved, that was created to stave off plateau.  This system uses a concept called “muscle confusion”.

You follow a workout schedule that changes each month.  The idea behind this is that by varying the workouts, results will come faster because the body won’t adapt to the workouts to the point that results are slow in coming and a plateau is reached.

There are three routines you can choose to follow, depending on what you want to achieve from P90x.

  • P90x Classic – The classic routine is the regular program.
  • P90x Lean – The lean routine has more of an emphasis on cardio.
  • P90x Doubles – The doubles routine is like the classic version, but it has extra cardio, so on some days you do two workouts in a day.

Once you pick the version you want to do you consult the workout schedule which will tell you what DVD to follow on that day.  Every 30 days the program changes to the next phase.  You start with phase 1, then after 30 days switch to phase 2, and then you end with the phase 3 workout routine.

After 90 days when you finish, you can marvel at your results.  However, don’t stop there!  Fitness is a journey and not a destination, so if you stop, you will lose your hard earned results.

After 90 days you can mix it up and start a different P90x routine, or stay on the same one, continuing to press play, and using your great results as motivation to work even harder!

The P90x system works by providing for you a healthy nutrition plan, and a grueling workout schedule to follow.

Insert the DVD for the day, follow the nutrition plan, and bring it!  You will be amazed with your results!

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