The P90X Plyometrics routine is the real calorie burner of all the P90X workouts. It does not matter what sport or activity you do it will help you. The interesting part of this workout is that it is a high impact workout. Over the past couple of years there has been a move to low impact workouts to prevent injury. What Tony Horton stresses is that if youdo not work on those muscles that are suppose to take a beating than you actually a prone to injury faster. A good example would be people with knee injuries. If you never work on the muscles that surround the knee you have nothing that can support you if you were to get hit or make a weird pivot while running.
What Is P90X Plyometrics All About?
Plyometrics is commonly called jump training. During the one hour of the workout you will be doing a lot of jumping around the room. You will need a little bit of space when doing this workout. You will not need any weights when doing Plyometrics because you are using gravity and your body weight to provide the resistance. This is beneficial because you need to be able to get your own body weight around first before you start incorporating free weights.
Some of the exercises involve jump squats. What this entails is you jumping as high as you can and coming down to touch the floor. This will go on for about thirty seconds non stop. Oh yeah, you do this exercise and its variations about four different times. Your legs are going to be burning and those are just the first fifteen minutes of the workout. Lunges will work on every muscle in your leg and it doubles as a balance posture. Your quads and calfs will get the brunt of the workout and all of those little connector muscles around your knees.
What Kind Of Moves Are In P90X Plyometrics?
The P90X Plyometrics workout will get you doing some side to side lunges and run stance speed squats. By getting off of the ground you are training your body to get comfortable in the air and working on your balance. Your whole body has to work together on these moves to make sure you do it properly. You will be twisitng and moving for the whole thirty seconds and then you switch it up to work on the other side of your body.
Plyometrics will give you some of the biggest results out of all of the P90X workouts. You may not be able to see the results when you strike a pose but when you get out on the field, court, dance floor, mountain, or whatever you do your legs will thank you for doing P90X Plyometrics. To show you what P90X Plyometrics is all about I made a short video showing a brief taste of the moves involved. Do not try to replace my video as the workout is about an hour long and each move is about 30 seconds. Plus, you’ll miss out on Tony Horton’s training tips.
If you do not want to buy the entire P90X DVD set and only want a single workout then go to the Beachbody Store and click on P90X One on One. There are 3 similar workouts to P90X Plyometrics that you can buy individually.











I just went through the whole plyo video and dam it is an ass kicker. Made it the whole video without a pause anywhere.
try it.
its almost as addicting as ab ripper X
Nice work Mike. Plyo is brutal but its such a good workout.
After about 9 months of loosely doing the P90X workouts, I was finally able to do the entire plyometrics workout without pausing it to catch my breath. Not bad for a 48, almost 49-year old!
Nice work Elizabeth.
I completed p90x twice. It’s hard but it’s all mental. Keep a positive attitude and you will finish
LOL @ Sara…. you must be the butch… I couldnt finish the vid… i called it quits for the day lol…
@ Sara
You will not be able to finish the Plyometrics video. Promise.
Haha! She won’t. I’m a former Marine and I couldn’t finish everything but I felt it the next day!
hey that looks too easy,that is a pathetic workout.you little girls need to try the shakeweight!
@ Sara
Shakeweight. LOL. I’ve actually seen people get decent results but they plateau with it. If P90X looks easy then could you please buy P90X and take a video of you doing Plyometrics for us.