Two More Reviews of The P90X2 DVDs and What We Learned?

What we know about the P90X2 DVDs to date from users has been about who is completing it (or who isn’t).

If you are completing the P90X2 DVDs front to back you are much more likely to give the program high marks then if you don’t. If you don’t finish it is normally because you aren’t liking how it is going. The reasons that we were seeing early on for why users don’t like the P90X2 DVDs have a lot to do with the lack of familiarity with the type of exercises you are being asked to do on a workout to workout basis.

While we know the ways of push ups and pull ups or basic lifts, we don’t know a lot about total core engagement, balance moves with perfect form, much less the PAP (Post Activation Potentiation) The moves also are so demanding that if we aren’t fully prepared with lots of P90X mastery, you might end up in a situation where you are just giving out.  This was the early reviews from the early days.

Interestingly the newer reviews on Amazon are bringing some new thinking and impressions to the discussion while also bringing up some of the criticisms people have had with the P90X2 DVDs since early on. One thing from a very recent review from a woman that was interesting is her willingness to take on P90X2 without the necessity of being the total master of P90X. She went ahead and did it and stuck with it. She lauded the weight loss components which are often overlooked by the critics. You are using your full body in such a way that the P90X2 DVDs shed the pounds like many workouts can’t. I include P90X in this analysis. When you are pushing your total body requiring balance and hold type breathing and also weights for resistance, it is magic. 

I think the other conclusion we might be able draw from this positive experience is that being tied to P90X too much might poison our outlook for P90X2. This might be an unfortunate consequence of P90X being too good.  People were so loyal to the original and believed in it so deeply that a departure from what people are used to might do that. So we still have the people who aren’t liking the program and those people normally aren’t finishing it. At the same time we are seeing the beginnings of people who looked at their P90X experience pragmatically and as a stepping stone.