It pushes your body Even Ryan's critics, including Washington Post political reporter Dana Milbank , acknowledge that the Congressman's personal health priorities are in the right place:. Hopefully, Ryan will inspire more Americans to get healthy. That's important, because if Ryan succeeds in ending Medicare, they won't be able to afford getting sick.
Ryan isn't the only fan of P90X, by far. What do you get in the box? Twelve workout DVDs, a page fitness guide, a nutrition plan and a day calendar to track your progress. Workouts include a range of exercises — including chest and back strengthening, plyometrics and yoga — designed to create "muscle confusion," a cross-training regimen that's supposed to keep the body from adapting to the same exercise over time and prevent plateaus. Think you can hack it? P90X's core training technique relies on "muscle confusion," which Paul Ryan credits for its success.
Can you explain what that is? Muscle confusion is a variety of exercises. Typically a lot of programs focus purely on stationary yoga, Pilates, weight training or cardiovascular — P90X has all those things. The main purpose is to avoid the three things that cause most people to stop exercising: boredom, injuries and plateaus.
In P90X, there's variety in fitness with muscle confusion, and the goal is for people to get through the whole 90 days so they have real success and real results.
When we created it, we made it for two categories of people. We had a big contingency of Power 90 [another Horton workout system] customers that it helped quite a bit, and we were trying to get people out of the gym who weren't getting results.
But it's turned out to be a workout for the military. I'm touring five military bases in two weeks because they're using it as well. It's [also] turned out to be a workout for the clinically obese — I've met dozens and dozens of people who are obese and used this program.
One of the reasons this works is that there are dozens of modifications other programs don't have. It's become much bigger than we ever anticipated. It's broken up into cycles. Each month there is a different sequence of exercises [each laid out in the DVDs]. The first three weeks you do the basic exercises we tell you, and then you have one recovery week. The second month you get a whole new bunch of routines done in different sequences and the recovery week again. Remember recovery doesn't mean you don't do anything; recovery means you are still working hard.
In a majority of the exercises the only thing required is the human body, Mother Earth and Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity. But having a pull-up bar helps. You don't need it, but it certainly enhances the program, as well as dumbbells and bands. Some people just use resistance bands, but some men who want more size will go out and get dumbbells. What if I don't want bulging muscles like the buff people in your infomercials?
The most important thing to remember is that quality is more important than quantity. Do as many reps as you can with good form and stop when your form gets sloppy. And, don't skip the stretching at the end -- you'll regret it the day after. Fitness Workouts Leg Exercises. Kim Nunley. Kim Nunley has been screenwriting and working as an online health and fitness writer since Prior to writing full-time, she worked as a strength coach, athletic coach and college instructor.
She holds a master's degree in kinesiology from California State University, Fullerton. Video of the Day. Legs and Back Workout. Exercise Order. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Topics P90X. The first ever workout plan of my life that gave me great results. Gonna start again today! I wi be starting this regimen tomorrow morning.
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