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Wednesday Workout: P90 Sweat Cardio 1-2

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I got the whole set of P90 video tapes from freecycle a few months ago and finally pulled out one today. I did Power 90 Sweat Cardio 1-2. I had watched some of this a while back and thought it looked pretty easy. WRONG (as usual). At least partly. I should have watched the whole thing. The first few minutes are stretching, then power yoga (which was fun though I hate those plank to pushup to updog parts because they're so hard for me (room for improvement is a good thing though). The next 10 minutes or so is pretty intense but extremely simple cardio. Had I known it was only about 10 minutes I would have not slowed down towards the end of it or paused the tape at the end of that segment. I thought it was going to be another 15 minutes or so of it and I wouldn't have lasted at the intensity I was working (following their pace doing the higher intensity and impact moves). The next 10 minutes or so turned out to be very wimpy (in my humble opinion) kickboxing. It was fun, but definitely not cardio intensive like the first part. Had I just pushed through the entire first part, this would have been harder work but the way I did it (slowing down so much before this part), even though I really threw my body into all the moves, it was not much of a cardio workout at that point. Oh well, I'll know for next time. Then there's a 2 minute cool down which is mostly walking around, shaking things out and drinking water. That seems like a rather dumb cool down (and I didn't particularly need a cool down at that point either, maybe I will next time if I do the whole thing without pausing before the kickboxing). Then there's some nice stretches. The last part is his Ab Ripper 100 workout. 10 different kinds of crunches, 10 reps of each for 100 crunches all in about 6 minutes. THAT was tough for me. I just have not been consistent with abs workouts and I can always tell when I do something like this. I love the workout and segment countdown timers. I wish all videos had that! This moves quickly from one exercise to another and that keeps things interesting too. I did notice the production quality was much different (not as good) from the Power Half Hour videos but it didn't bother me. It will be interesting to see what this is like the 2nd time through, knowing what to expect and where to push it.

I really like Tony Horton despite others who find him obnoxious, I think he's funny and enjoy his workouts. I'm considering trying to do a P90 rotation for January, moving up to the 3-4 workouts as soon as I think I can do it. I can't see myself doing an entire 90 days with just 2 videos though, I'm not that motivated to "get ripped" (just want to make steady improvements to my physique and endurance levels and especially maintain my weight loss) plus I have way too many other videos I already enjoy and way too many others I want to try (including way too many of those in the 2nd category that I already own). It would be amazing if I could stick with something like this for an entire month, the longest I've lasted so far with a "rotation" was 3 weeks. I went on the Beachbody website, to the forums, and found out the recommendation is to do Sculpt Circuit every other day for 3 days each week and Sweat Cardio the alternating 3 days, then rest on the 7th, moving up to the 3-4 workouts when the 1-2 workouts aren't challenging enough so I'm thinking that might be my January rotation with the 7th day possibly being for yoga. (I vaguely remember someone here giving me this information a while back too, but then I accidentally deleted all my old exercisevideos mail and that would have included that posting so whoever helped me before, thanks!). I don't normally workout on the weekends just because I have no real weekend routine and it is harder for me to fit in a workout with no plan for the day but this might help. Hey, I actually worked out at 7:30 tonight because I didn't fit it in earlier so if I can force myself to do that, I can fit in a Saturday workout too, right?! :-)

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