Why Plyometrics is Some of the Best Cardio You Will Get

Power Half Hour is on the way to being a super workout along the lines of what we saw with P90X.

One aspect that P90X does exceedingly well is the creative way they maximize cardio within the confines of the home workout concept. Working out at home means you can’t really do much running except in place.

It also means that you don’t have a huge amount of space to work with.  Inevitably if you combine strength and training and cardio workouts in one program, the cardio isn’t as good or effective.

With P90X the cardio workouts not only measure up, they are some of the best you will see in home workouts.  The workout that stands out  in P90X is the Plyo-X which is a form of limited space jump training.

Plyometrics gives perhaps one of the best cardio workouts available anywhere.   The reason that “Plyo” the P90X way is such an amazing total body conditioning workout is that you have two different types of conditioning going on at once.

On one hand you are exerting heavily going through the leaps, lunges and squats. You get the double exertion of having to use large muscle groups, especially the quadriceps and hamstrings.

Your exertion level is way higher than with weightlifting along or standard cardio alone. It shapes your whole body and gets your lungs, heart and legs in shape for any sort of athletic activity you might find appealing.

Power Half Hour actually introduced the concept of Plyometrics in the home workout before there ever was a P90X.  Power Half Hour is a 30 minute workout that you do daily according to a set schedule. 

It forces your body to go through various different workout disciplines, often within the 30 minute workout you are doing that day.  Than the next day, it shifts gears and works other areas of your body.

The key is each day you work the whole body in whatever 30 minute workout you are being led through.   This is how Power Half Hourreopened recreated the idea that a half hour or less workout couldn’t be effective.

The folks at beachbody.com determined that time was overrated and it really came down to more important considerations about intensity and variety.

Now you see lots of copycats out there. What you don’t see is the amazing results of people with ripped bodies like they never had before.