P90X Workout Review

Depending on what you are trying to do for your own physical fitness levels the resistance bands for the P90X workout may be the way to go. If you are struggling getting through the P90X DVDs with dumbbells than maybe you should look into buying a set of resistance bands. I use both dumbbells and resistance bands depending on the exercise I am about to do. Beachbody has quite a selection of resistance bands you can buy. Here are the best deals they have for their resistance bands.

B-Line Resistance Bands Standard Kit

3 Resistance Bands
Popular With Women
15, 20, and 30 Pound Resistance Bands
$39.95

B-Line Resistance Bands Super Kit

3 Resistance Bands
Popular With Men
20, 30, and 40 Pound Resistance Bands
$39.95

B-Line Resistance Bands Complete Kit

10 Resistance Bands
10 to 50 Pounds of Resistance
$119.95

The resistance bands can be used in pretty much every P90X DVD available except for the cardio workouts like Plyometrics, Yoga X, Cardio X, and Kenpo X. The cardio workouts do not call for any weights to be used during the workout so you do not need them.

You will get a very intense workout using the resistance bands. You might not get the full range of a workout as what you would do with a set of dumbbells but you can expect to really work your muscles out. I use the resistance bands for some exercises more than others mainly because I just cannot use the dumbbells at all. I have a kink in one of my shoulders and when asked to do arm curls in a squat position I just struggle to do it. My form gets very messy and I really get no benefit to the exercise. I then added the resistance bands and it makes it a little easier to control while still giving my biceps a good workout. There have even been times where I just have nothing left in me and the dumbbells are going to be too much regardless of what weight I use. So I bring out the resistance bands and use those instead.

If you struggle doing pull ups and chin ups when doing P90X you can use the resistance bands to simulate the motion you would do when doing a pull up. Even when you watch the P90X DVDs you can see the people in them do this. They will wrap the resistance bands around the P90X pull up bar so its as tight as they like. Then they do the workout as if they were doing pull ups. If you do not struggle doing pull ups but just cannot seem to do anymore in a set anymore, try this. Do as many pull ups as you can during the one minute or so the routine is doing. Then when you can't do anymore drop off the bar and wrap the resistance bands around the P90X pull up bar and get in another 5 or 6 reps in that way. This should really burn up your muscles and start conditioning them for extra gains. I did a P90X review of when I started adding the resistance bands after I could not do any more pull ups and my numbers told me that I had a 8% increase in all of my P90X results. If you are serious about getting in shape with P90X you should get a set of resistance bands and a set of Bowflex Selecttech 552 dumbbells. Both of these pieces of workout equipment will help you reach your fitness goals and make it easier for you to keep pressing on.

	Bowflex SelectTech 552 Dumbbells List Price: $549.00 Sale Price: $398.99 Used From: $395.00 Average Rating:
	Dial up results! The power of 30 standard dumbbells is in these redesigned SelectTech Dumbbells by Bowflex. Each dumbbell adjusts from 5 to 52.5 lbs., allowing you to build strength, loose weight and feel great! Compact and durable.

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	Create the ultimate strength building workout with Bowflex Select Tech 10-90 lb Dumbbell. Two 1090 dumbbells (each sold separately) replaces up to 34 individual dumbbells. With just the turn of a dial, you can automatically change your resistance from 10 lbs all the way to 90 lbs, in 5 lb increments.

A couple days ago I wrote about me having a bunch of energy to be able to do a two a day workout. I went swimming around lunch time for about an hour. I did a little less than a mile of swimming. After getting done swimming I went back to work for a couple of hours and then came home. When I got home I still felt like I had a lot of energy to burn so I decided to to the P90X legs and back dvd. It had been awhile since I had done that P90X workout so I decided to do it.

It was actually one of my better workouts. I did more pull ups and chin ups than I had ever done before and was quite proud of my improvements. I know all of the swimming I have been doing lately helped out with my back muscles which leads to more strength to do pull ups and chin ups. Let's just say that the P90X results are speaking for themselves right now. I checked my log book and can see how every week my results are getting better and I am feeling stronger.

Fast forward two days and I can barely walk. My legs are arms were feeling so tight that it hurt to move. It was some soreness that I have not felt in awhile. Probably as much soreness as when I first started doing P90X. I think I might have pushed myself a little too far two nights ago and now I am paying for it. I decided to do P90X Yoga X yesterday morning before my softball game last night to hopefully stretch out my body so I did not feel so tight. All it did was make me more sore through out the day.

I made it to my softball game and it took my a half an hour to get warmed up. My body was so sore. It wasn't tight anymore but just sore. I was really trying to hit a home run last night because the there was a 15 mile per hour wind blowing out to the left field fences but it was just not meant to be. My body was just not loose enough to get the power I needed to hit it out.

A good piece of advice for any extreme P90X people out there would be to not try to do too much at one time. I know that day of working out woke up my body but I probably could have done just half of P90X legs and back or half the amount of laps in the pool. This was I would have been able to walk.