What is P90X?

12 workout routines containing hundreds of unique movements.

A 3-phase nutritional plan. (I'll be modifying this program with vegan raw/live foods and the highest quality herbal concentrated foods on the market today.)

Premier training supplements. (Again, I'll be eating whole food concentrated herbs and system specific formulations, free of heavy metals that support and empower my organ systems to function at optimal levels.)

And Tony Horton. (The personal trainer in the dvds). He's a riot! and reminds me of some people I used to train with "back in the day" in NJ and NY.

This is real training.

If you want to get totally ripped and get in the best shape of your life, develop skills, coordination, and flexibility you never dreamed possible, this is for you!

From intense weight training to extreme yoga, this program allows you to experience a variety of unique challenging moves that will slim, strengthen, tone, firm, and add muscle mass. With P90X you can take your body where you want it to go.

P90X is unlike any other exercise program ever devised. With a total of 12 separate workouts containing hundreds of unique movements, this comprehensive fitness program will vault you to the next level and then some.

How does P90X get you there you ask?
Two words: "Muscle Confusion."

By providing an extensive variety of different moves that take time to master, P90X is continually challenging the body's muscles into new growth. The more you confuse the muscle, the harder your body has to work to keep up; the more variety you put into your workout, the better and faster your results will be. The flaw with many fitness products is that they lead to a "plateau" where the body becomes accustomed to the routines, resulting in diminishing effectiveness. P90X avoids this plateau effect by switching things up to keep the body guessing for the entire 90 days. This means IT NEVER GETS EASY. By breaking old routines and opening new doors, secondary and tertiary muscles are constantly being activated and developed. P90X will continually challenge your body with its Muscle Confusion technique, utilizing what we call training "blocks."

Each training block consists of three weeks of intensity, followed by one week of recovery.

There are three training blocks in the 90 days, each building upon gains made in the previous block. Nothings stays the same for long in this program. Routines are frequently switched, and aching muscles pay the price early on if you push yourself too hard. But for those animals able to both pace their intensity, and hang in there and give it all they've got for 90 days as they get stronger, the payoff will be tremendous.

Within each training block there are also 3 phases: 1) The Adaptive phase, when the body learns how to do the new set of each exercises; followed by 2) The Mastery phase, when the body responds to these exercises and experiences changes; and finally, 3) The Recovery phase, when muscular healing occurs and your body grows strong, ready to be "confused" again.


The Recovery phase is well-designed and is essential to getting the most out of any exercise program. The P90X Recovery program can be challenging but provides a break from heavy resistance training and will allow the microtrauma (small tears in the muscle) accumulated over the prior few weeks to heal so you can push even harder during the next training block.

*This program eventually became extremely difficult for me to continue. I over-trained because my body wasn't quite ready for this type of intensity. Over-training causes frustration and lack of motivation to continue. Due to this and traveling across the states, the 2nd month of the program I quit completely and started using the eliptical machines for cardio and yoga for stretching. The best part of using this program was the motivation I felt to start moving my body more. It lead me to search for another program I would enjoy more that would be sustainable.