P90x Reviews - Chest, Shoulders and Triceps

In my last P90x Reviews, I wrote about P90x Kenpo X, in that review I mentioned that it was probably the weakest workout of the whole P90x System, and I still stand by that remark. But now I am writing about P90x Chest, Shoulders and Triceps, and let me tell you, it is a whole new story. Where I did not feel challenged enough in the Kenpo workout, I felt pushed beyond my comfort in the Chest, Shoulders and Triceps routine. I have done a lot of push-ups in my life, and mostly I have done the just normal ones, like wide, standard, military, and even diamond push-ups. When I did those push ups in the past I usually just try to pump out as many as possible till I cannot do any more. It was different in this P90x workout, Tony has you do slow motion push-ups, which is just torture for my mind and body, because it wants to go fast, just like Ricky Bobby from the Talladega Nights movie. Doing slow motion push-ups was like a culture shock to my body, but even more on my mind. I found myself exhausted after the first P90x exercise, and that has not happened to me at all, ever. Sometimes they even mix in slow motion push ups with fast motion push-ups, or in my case slightly faster than slow motion push-ups. But Like a trooper I pressed on and made it through the workout.

The P90x Chest, Shoulders and Triceps workout is 55 minutes and 44 seconds long, it is an extreme upper body workout and you will not be disappointed when you finish this workout, if you do you should up all your weights and do more push-ups. This routine will provide you with a mixture of muscles pumping moves that will target new muscles so you can build your strength and definition. In this P90x routine you will mostly be doing push-ups, triceps kickbacks, dips, and flys, making sure that you hit ever part of your upper body. No muscle gets left behind!!

You will probably encounter workouts that you have never done before like Two-Twitched speed Push-ups, and then you will do some of the old and faithful workouts like Chair Dips and Overhead Triceps Extensions. You will pretty much do everything in this workout and that is why the P90x exercises are so great. They bring so much to the table; it is like a feast on Thanksgiving, because there is such a wide variety of food or exercises that you can feed on.

At times you will probably use weights or bands during this workout, I found it more comfortable to use dumbbells for most of the exercises in this routine. But you can do whatever you feel like, I know dumbbells are pretty expensive, so resistance bands will probably be the way to go, and they work just as well, maybe even better. Just make sure you go at it with all you got and do not give up.

P90x Reviews - Kenpo X

Today my review is on the P90x Kenpo X workout routine, this is one of the cardiovascular workouts for P90x. To give you a little history of what Kenpo actually is, it was created by a man named Ed Parker Sr. and he founded Kenpo after he was exposed to a wide variety of martial arts around the world. He brought a new concept to American fighting, using your whole body as a weapon in every motion, nothing is wasted. P90x decided to bring this into the system for it intensity, balance, coordination, stamina and of course fun.

With my own experience with P90x Kenpo X, it was okay for the first few times I did it, but I felt with this workout that it was definitely the weakest of the whole p90x system. Now it is still a lot of fun, I mean you are punching, throwing elbows and knees, and kicking, you feel like you can kick someone's butt afterward, but if you are already a cardiovascular type person, this workout might not get your heart rate up like you want it too. I will say this, the great thing about this workout is that it brings a different flavor or a nice change from all the other workout routines.

The workout itself starts with some nice little stretches, so you can get the tendons and joints all warmed up before you being the next section. It is very important with this P90x home workout that you do not fully extend with your punches and kicks, because you do not want to be banging your joints, you can get injured that way. It is also very important to know if you are doing too much on your hamstrings so do not try to kick so high that you tear your hamstring apart. The first exercise you will do is called Twist and Pivot, in this exercise you will stand in a fighting position, but you will just be turning your torso, and pivoting on your feet, you should feel your hips exploding like you are swinging a bat. After this exercise you will begin to do a series of exercises that have you do hooks, uppercuts, and jabs. It might take a little bit to get used the motion of it all, but once you get it, go after it with all you got, so you can get your heart rate up. My favorite routine in this workout is called the knee kick. You being in fighter's stance, you then reach out like you are grabbing someone by the collar pulling them down, and at the same time you are bringing your knee up. It is pretty much like you are bringing someone's face to meet your knee.

Even though I thought this was the weakest workout that p90x has to offer, I still feel like out of all my P90x reviews, I had the most fun with this Kenpo X.