Working nights, I often see the the P90x commercials displaying their regular people with extraordinary results. I've always been weary about these programs that make you shell out 300 or so dollars for an exercise plan. So when I saw a "used" copy of P90x for only $30 at the bootleg central known as "Frank and Sons", I decided to get it.
I'm glad I did.
The program starts off with the Chest and Back routine. And it's damn hard.
It focuses so much on the chest and back muscles as I'm writing this, my entire upper body is shaking. . With so much effort put on doing push ups and pull ups your upper body is going to get the workout of a lifetime. The P90X Chest And Back routine goes like this: chest, back, chest, back until you're done.
The chest part of the routine involves doing standard push ups, military push ups, diamond push ups, wide fly push ups, dive bomber push ups, and decline push ups. You will do all of these workouts twice through out the one hour. Tony Horton demands you to go all out for each push up routine for at least one minute. You are working on so many different areas of your chest during this time period.
The back part involves lots of pull ups and since I can do very many I opted to us the lat pull down machine. The variety of pull ups and chin ups are wide front pull ups, reverse grip chin ups, and closed grip overhand pull ups and you do these twice. Your pull up bar gets a lot of use here. A couple of other back workouts are “lawnmowers” which is where you get into a lunge with a weight of your choice and pull it up like your trying to start a lawnmower. Back flys are where you get a weight and sit on the edge of a chair with weights behind your heels and you bring the weight up pinching your shoulder blades together at the top. Heavy Pants refers to a workout in which you have one foot forward with bent knees and you lift the weights up in a motion like you are trying to pick up your pants.
This hour long workout is fun and exhausting. If I'm not sore tomorrow I'll be fairly surprised
Starting Weight: 230
Current Weight: 199.0
Workout: Chest and Back 2 rounds
- Standard Push ups 20 - 20
- Wide Front Pull ups 120lbs x 10 - 10
- Military Pushups 15 - 10
- Reverse Grip Chin ups 120lbs x 10 - 10
- Wide Fly Push ups 10 - 10
- Close grip over hand pull ups 120lbs x 10 - 8
- Decline Push ups 12 - 10
- Heavy Pants 30lbs 10 - 12
- Diamond Push ups 10 - 7
- Lawnmowers 30lbs 15 - 15
- Dive Bomber Push ups 6 - 6
- Bent over rows 95lbs x 10 - 10
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