Product Description
P90X2 includes training so cutting edge, so outrageously effective, you'll be blown away by your visible results and your performance. While P90X is based on Muscle ConfusionTM-to break normal 30-day training plateaus so you get results fast-P90X2 ups the ante with a training technique developed by professional sports trainers for world class results: P.A.P., or Post-Activation Potentiation. With P90X2, you get 12 groundbreaking workouts focused on chiseling your body while building your balance, agility, core strength, and athleticism. It includes new customization with an all-new, highly flexible nutrition plan to help you excel. In addition to the 12 new workouts, P90X2 comes with a comprehensive three-phase nutrition plan, with vegan and grain-free options; specially designed supplement options; a detailed fitness guide packed with valuable information about how to get the most from your program; a How to Bring It Again video that provides a quick overview of the system; a workout calendar to track your progress; online peer support; and much more. The Workouts: X2 Core Plyocide X2 Recovery + Mobility X2 Total Body X2 Yoga Balance + Power Chest + Back + Balance X2 Shoulders + Arms Base + Back P.A.P. Lower P.A.P. stands for Post-Activation P.A.P. Upper X2 Ab Ripper V Sculpt X2 Chest + Shoulders + Tris P90X2 Power Your Performance Fitness Guide P90X2 Fuel Your Performance Nutrition Guide Tools to Keep You Motivated P90X2 90-day workout calendar to set your workout goals, track your progress, and stay motivated. Free Online Support Tools for access to fitness experts, peer support, and motivation. What's in the Box? 14 workouts, nutrition plan, fitness guide, How to Bring It Again video, a calendar to track your progress, a RumbleRollerTM, a 55cm premium stability ball, two 8-lb. medicine balls, and a set of Tony Horton's PowerStands®. RumbleRoller is a trademark of Ronald Johnson. PowerStands is a registered trademark of Tony Horton.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #34343 in Sports & Outdoors
- Brand: Beachbody
- Released on: 2011-12-15
Features
- P90X2 continues your progress after P90X® with cutting-edge training based on powerful new sports science
- 14 new breakthrough workouts that include more emphasis on your core, athletic function, balance, and agility
- Includes a comprehensive, customizable nutrition plan with vegan and grain-free options
- Includes premium stability ball, 2 medicine balls, RumbleRoller®, and Tony Horton's PowerStands®
- Personal trainer Tony Horton delivers the workouts with his unique blend of motivation and humor
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The result of two years of research & development conducted by a team of the most qualified experts in fitness, P90X2 includes training so cutting edge, so effective, you'll see visible results and enhanced performance. While P90X is based on Muscle Confusion--to break normal 30-day training plateaus so you get results fast--P90X2 ups the ante with a training technique developed by professional sports trainers for world class results: P.A.P., or Post-Activation Potentiation. With P90X2, you get 12 groundbreaking workouts focused on chiseling your body while building your balance, agility, core strength, and athleticism. It includes new customization with an all-new, highly flexible nutrition plan to help you excel. And with an emphasis on your abs/core, powerful athletic function, and lightning-bolt agility, it'll help you blast through your plateaus.
In addition to the 12 new workouts, P90X2 comes with a comprehensive three-phase nutrition plan, with vegan and grain-free options; specially designed supplement options; a detailed fitness guide packed with valuable information about how to get the most from your program; a How to Bring It Again video that provides a quick overview of the system; a workout calendar to track your progress; online peer support; and much more.
The Workouts:
X2 Core
The core is your body's foundation: the point where all movement begins. By working your core using instability, you force your body to fire both its prime mover and stabilizer muscles in harmony. As you master this routine, all of your movement patterns will improve.
Plyocide
Combines traditional explosive movements with mind and coordination drills to increase not only your speed and endurance, but your entire mind/body connection, as well. Don't do this one more than once per week.
X2 Recovery + Mobility
You learned with P90X that your body only grows stronger while at rest after it has been challenged. The P90X2 Recovery + Mobility workout takes this a step further by not only enhancing recovery, but also forcing your body to realign to promote better overall functionality. The key is a myofascial release technique called foam rolling. Expect to get a whole new understanding of the phrase, "hurts so good." This workout also provides you with a complete stretching routine for those days you prefer to work without the foam roller.
X2 Total Body
Combines resistance and instability to ensure that your body uses the correct muscles in the given movement. Old school isolation movements that can lead to muscular imbalance not welcome here. In this workout you'll earn every repetition, and form is king.
X2 Yoga
Yoga's traditional benefits of relaxing the body and restoring the mind are present but will take a back seat to increasing isometric power, improving your range of motion, and building vital stabilizer muscle strength. This is yoga, X2 style. Yoga is a fountain of youth and to us, staying young means staying strong and supple.
Balance + Power
The moves in this workout force core rigidity under duress by incorporating strength and explosive movements. As you improve your body's connection between balance and power, your body alignment will improve, nagging aches and pains will lessen, and you'll be able to push far beyond the limits you once thought you had.
Chest + Back + Balance
The same mega pump that was P90X Chest & Back now gets an added bonus, an array of unstable platforms designed to make your body earn its muscle. As you improve at this workout, your strength gains will be superior to those made with any traditional weight-training workout.
X2 Shoulders + Arms
Shoulder instability leads to an assortment of injuries experienced by many of us as we age. By keeping our shoulders and arms strong and in balance, we can avoid breakdowns. And that, along with looking good in short sleeved shirts, is the philosophy behind the creation of X2 Shoulders + Arms.
Base + Back
Working the body's two largest groups of muscles in one workout may seem sadistic but most people seem to find this pull-up and plyo extravaganza very entertaining. It's the sweatiest "weight training" workout you'll ever experience, according to the manufacturer.
P.A.P. Lower
P.A.P. stands for Post-Activation Potentiation, but all you really need to know is that it is the cutting-edge technique that translates into performance. Two four-round complexes of seemingly straightforward movements don't look like much on paper but these workouts have destroyed the fittest athletes on the planet. The same ones who swear by them just as soon as they finish swearing at them. Just wait 'til you see what they can do for you.
P.A.P. Upper
The same complex training format as P.A.P. Lower but this time focused on your upper body. Remember when you were a kid and bounced around jumping fences and climbing trees? Post-Activation Potentiation training will bring back your youth. Over time you'll feel loose, springy, and young.
X2 Ab Ripper
Squared. Tony takes you through a series of core movements that'll upgrade your concept of what an ab workout is supposed to be.
V Sculpt
Works the back and biceps, or the "actor muscles" as they're called in Hollywood. The movements are all done from an athletic stance, so strength gains will be applicable to real world movements.
X2 Chest + Shoulders + Tris
Known as your pushing muscles, the chest, shoulders, and triceps will learn to function better than ever before with this workout. This is accomplished with creative uses of instability and always forcing movement out of an athletic position.
P90X2 Power Your Performance Fitness Guide
This is your road map and your plan of attack for using P90X2. The guide provides guidelines for getting started and essential tips for how to make the most of the program. It also includes in-depth information about the science behind P90X2, a complete overview of the three training phases, a fit test, and an overview of the recommended supplements and equipment.
P90X2 Fuel Your Performance Nutrition Guide
Following the P90X2 nutrition guide is just as vital to your overall success as any of the extreme workouts in this program. Specifically designed to work in tandem with the P90X2 workout routines, the guide includes three eating plans, with vegan and grain-free options, which allow you to customize based on your personal needs, plus over 50 recipes. P90X2 is not about quick fixes or miracle diets. It's about selecting the healthy foods that you want to eat and determining the portion amounts that will provide your body with the right amount of fuel to excel during exercise. Since everyone's body is different, the three plans allow you to pick the balance of foods that work for you. Plan 1, Fat Shredder 2.0, is a high-protein-based diet designed to help you strengthen your muscles while simultaneously and rapidly shedding fat from your body. Plan 2, Energy Booster 2.0, emphasizes a balanced mix of carbohydrates and proteins with a lower amount of fat to achieve additional energy for performance. And Plan 3, Endurance Maximizer 2.0, is an athletic diet of complex carbohydrates, lean proteins, and lower fat, with the emphasis on more carbohydrates. You'll need this combination of foods as fuel to get the most out of your final few weeks and truly be in the best shape of your life.
Tools to Keep You Motivated
P90X2 90-day workout calendar to set your workout goals, track your progress, and stay motivated. Free Online Support Tools for access to fitness experts, peer support, and motivation.
What's in the Box?
14 workouts, nutrition plan, fitness guide, How to Bring It Again video, a calendar to track your progress, a RumbleRoller®, a 55cm premium stability ball, two 8-pound medicine balls, and a set of Tony Horton's PowerStands®.
RumbleRoller is a trademark of Ronald Johnson. PowerStands is a registered trademark of Tony Horton.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
By Mike S.
I recently completed a round of P90x2, and I love it. I actually like this a lot more than the original version. Since most people who are considering this have already been exposed to P90x, I will highlight some of the differences for you.
1) Like P90x, it is a three phase program. The big key for me in X2 is there is more variety. For example, in P90x aside from the recovery week you did the same legs and back workout every week. In x2, the only program you do more than one month is the plyometrics workout. That is in phases I and II, but not in III. There is a recovery and mobility DVD that you can also use on your rest days.
2) X2 yoga is much better. It takes all the good stuff from the original p90x yoga, but compresses it into 61 min as opposed to 90 minutes. It flows much better, and I never found myself getting bored or wishing it would stop.
3) Foam rolling is awesome. In P90x you had a stretching DVD that you could use on your rest day. Here, there is a recovery and mobility DVD, the bulk of which is foam rolling. It is hard if you have never done it before, but if you stick with it, it will make your body feel so much better. The rest of recovery and mobility is stretching and low impact movements.
4) There is less cardio in X2. X1 had the karate workout, plyometrics and an optional cardio DVD. The only traditional cardio workout in X2 is plyometrics, and it is very different than the X1 version. The circuits in the regular workouts however kept my heart rate up so I still burned a lot of calories. And, in phase III you basically alternate two different workouts which do have quite a bit of cardio in them, and you do the 4 moves in the circuit back-to-back without stopping, then repeat the circuit 4 times. While it does not get your heart rate up like Insanity does, it does make you winded.
5) They focus a lot on the modifier in X2. They really set the workout up so you do not need all the equipment for people who are not ready to be balancing on medicine balls and stability balls, or travel and cannot take all the equipment with them.
6) While some of the workouts are similar to what you saw in X1, they are more challenging. There are still lots of pull ups and push ups, but push ups on medicine balls or stability balls are much different than they are on the floor. Even if you have done several rounds of P90x, there will be somewhat of a learning curve in X2.
Obviously the best workout for you is the one you can stick with. I like rotating the beachbody workouts because, lets face it, the same workout over and over gets boring, and even when split into phases your body will begin to adapt. The price on Amazon is pretty steep (you can find it for a lot less), and you always have to watch out for bootlegged copies from third party sellers. There is always some subjectivity in what you are going to like or dislike. For people who are fans of the original, I think X2 definitely will have something to offer.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Robert Scott Byrnes
I've really enjoyed the P90X2. I never tried P90X and was a bit worried about starting out on 2. It has done wonders for me. It is nice just using the videos and not have an instructor breathing down your neck making you work out.
Thumbs up from me.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By William Cgoss
I won't break down the DVDs for either P90X or P90X2, and I don't care who you are, P90X has something to offer. Any routine has something to offer, whatever you put IN to it. For me P90X introduced the concepts of plyometrics, set breaks and yoga. Tony is initially entertaining but he does get old after a while, especially when you can recite along word for word, but hey, that's the reason they have the Music & Cues option for audio. So now we have P90X TWO. I got it, and I must say, I'm still not sure I heart it as much as the original. Tony seems more serious this time, maybe because of all the online complaints that he was a cheeseball? There are some new concepts Post-Activation-Potentiation, foam rolling for recovery, and no more regimented phases, you break when YOU want to. Do I like the new concepts, meh...can I maybe gain something from? Surely. I even think the production value is down from last time, I'm not sure though. Maybe it's just me being resistant to change. I really liked the P90X layout, but maybe in order to avoid stagnation and what not, its time to evolve the system. Cuz with change, comes progress.
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