So you want to have an awesome workout and you are pressed for time, or you don’t have a gym membership, but you are ready to take a step towards weight loss and athletic greatness.
The following is just my opinion and feelings of my experience with theses 2 programs. These workouts are fantastic.
The PRO’s
-Both P90X and Insanity are complete workout and nutrition plans. They both take care of the 2 most important aspects of attaining your goal physique, whether that be to lose weight or get really fit, and Insanity requires no external equipment. P90X requires only a minimal amount of home gym equipment (some dumbells and a pull-up bar). So ulitimately, you can work out without a membership to a gym.
-The programs are both effective. They will work if you commit to the program 100%. And even if it seems too far above your current fitness level, you will still have excellent positive results from just trying to hang in there for as long as you can. In the words of Tony Horton, P90X’s video host and exercise leader, “do your best and forget the rest”.
-Workouts are fun and challenging!
The CON’s
-Both require an average of 6 workout days a week to complete the program as designed.
-Both programs require the user to have a moderate to high level of self-motivation
-Both programs are kind of pricy at around $200.
-Working out at home 6 days a week can become boring. Working out in various locations, having a gym membership, cross-training- can all have great intrinsic benefits and rewards. If you have a laptop computer, you can do the workouts in a public place. Talk about motivating the people around you and pushing yourself!
As for me….
I have never gone through with the full P90X 90 day program. I respect the program and believe in its effectiveness because I have done some of the workouts and really enjoyed them and saw the value in them. To this day I still do the “mother of all P90X workouts”, the Plyometric Training workout, as a part of my normal exercise routine.
Now then if you do the P90X 90 day program as they suggest, you will most likely lose a lot of weight and get lean, toned muscles. I just prefer to work out 4 days a week and not 6 days a week as my normal thing. I also enjoy a lot of different kinds of exercises and routines, with a focus on interval training and anaerobic activity.
My normal exercise regimen for the average month includes weight lifting, uphill sprints, shuttle run and straightaway sprints, uphill mountain sprints, jump rope, timed circuit training with weights, plyometrics from P90X, and jujitsu and muay thai once a week, while alternating the other workouts.
I really enjoy the workouts themselves and have gotten better at them to where now they are fun and I look forward to doing them.
Plyometrics are such a great workout because they are fun and they build your body’s overall athleticism, quickness, springiness, power, and agility. They are a classic, possibly as classic as weightlifting and running, and still very effective.
