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anymore, you have to be balanced and you have to use your
brain.
One particularly gruelling exercise requires you to get into the
plank position and raise the alternate arm and leg. Sounds
easy? It is so painful by the fourth rep
that it becomes almost impossible to
remember which arm and which leg you
just raised.
After three weeks of this, you enter the
Strength Phase. This is much more like
P90X, but the cardio has been culled to
make way for more muscle work. Stable
leg exercises have been replaced by
Plyometrics - or jump training - which is
alternated with pull-ups. The one purely
cardio day of the week has been given the slightly sinister
name Plyocide, which redefines the term “bone-jarringly
exhausting”.
Off in the distance gleams a rest week, which combines
yoga (a constant and much derided element of the program)
and stretching to prepare you for, as Horton would call
it, the mother-in-law of exercise routines: PAP, or Post
Activation Potential. According to Beachbody, the science is
this: “P.A.P is based on a unique combination of traditional
resistance training and total-body plyometrics. When
performed in a specific cadence, P.A.P. trains muscles to fire
more efficiently, significantly increasing explosive strength.”
Translation: jumping until near death.
But that is the beauty of these work-outs: you leave the
thinking, the timing, and the form up to the experts. It is very
much a case of when Tony Horton says “jump”, you say
“how high?”
Another area where you allow P90X2 to make your decisions
for you in is the stretching and recovery. These workouts
are intense. Beachbody needs to protect you from injury,
because they need to protect themselves from lawsuits. In
each hour block of exercise, at least 25 minutes is given
over to stretching, warming up and cooling
down. One of the newest developments is
the foam roller.
Now, I was dubious. Not even Horton and
his uber-fit acolytes can make foam-rolling
look graceful or effective. They seem to be
just lolling about on the floor, doing not very
much. I finally stumped up the money for
the roller, and immediately saw the point.
You effectively knead out the pain and
knots, a very important part of the process
when engaging in extreme exercise.
One criticism I have heard leveled at the P90X series is in the
name: exercise is a life-long commitment, so you shouldn’t
be using targets such as 90 days. I think this is countered
by the fact that once you follow this system and you start
seeing results, it becomes very difficult to go back to being
slightly overweight and breathing heavily at the third landing
while walking up stairs. To that end, it is a gateway option.
P90X2 has everything that P90X had and more: there is no
reason why this product won’t sell in the millions.
Who knows: one day I might even make the Impossible
Possible.
Verdict:
Exhausting, gut-churning and terrifying for the lady who lives
in the apartment below me. I love it.
It is so painful that
by the fourth rep
that it becomes
almost impossible
to remember which
arm and which leg
you just raised.