If You are Considering the P90X2 Workout, A profile of the Workouts, Part 4

This is the 4th in series of articles looking closer at both the individual programs in the p90X2 workout programs from the general concepts that drive the theories and specific programs themselves.

The P90X2 workout might be the most interesting workout program on the market today because it is the most steeped in unconventional but cutting edge exercise science. At least that’s my opinion after having done many of the big ones and reviewed them on my blog. What we must do is look at the individual workouts with in the program and then look outside of them to why they are vital.

Remember the goals of the P90X2 workoutare to give you a greater degree of total body fitness over and above what the P90X user was able to achieve and in so doing give you a ripped appearance which would not have been possible in the other program. You go in and it is assumed that you already have a great body. What is likely missing are things that make you fit beyond belief. With theP90X2 workout, we are talking about greater agility, muscle endurance, strength, functional abilities, balance, flexibility and with that the best looking body you have ever had with the feeling amazing at the same time.

P90X2 makes use of the concept of Post Activation Potentiation which is more or less a lot to explain within the confines of this article. The crux of it is the individual workouts take the idea of muscle confusion to greater more exhausting heights than what was seen in p90X causing you amazing changes at a faster rate. So when you do an exercise you fundamentally get a greater return for your efforts. The trick is to remember that your efforts are going to be different and done in a different way than with P90X. Don’t be discouraged by this.

For example, with X2 Shoulders and Arms you draw on the basic strength and development you achieved with P90X but draw the shoulders into a new level of commitment to stability, flexibility, endurance and safe growth. You’ll end up with an even better more ripped appearance than you got with the traditional P90X and this achieved through deemphasizing the traditional shoulders approach which became so popular in P90X. Instead you substitute in a totally new way of doing things where you are asked to engage the core and achieve better overall balance on the fly. It puts a tremendous amount of what I call “good pressure” on the parts you want to see improve the most.