How Power Half Hour Stands In the Effort to Resell Muscle Confusion to Fitness Consumers

Apr 18
07:49

2012

cheryl boswell

cheryl boswell

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Power Half Hour is a 30 minute workout from beachbody that actually predates P90X. It seeks to incorporate the important exercise principles of muscle confusion and short burst/high intensity movements to create great results.

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Althought it predated P90X,How Power Half Hour Stands In the Effort to Resell Muscle Confusion to Fitness Consumers Articles the 30 minute workout Power Half Hour is widely overlooked and mostly unknown in exercise circles. 

Now that P90X has matured and been so beneficial to millions of people, there is also beneficial customer feedback data emerging that could stand to make a huge difference in the future prospects for Power Half Hour.

You could write articles upon articles discussing the obvious and important distinctions between Power Half Hour and it's much more famous sibling P90X.  Some of those differences such as Power Half Hour being a 30 minute workout are obvious (P90X runs about 1 hour or more per workout)

Clearly though, the record breaking success of P90X speaks to the wisdom of trying to play up the similarities. 

Power Half Hour has the advantage in core exercise science of being rooted in the value of muscle confusion.  This means simply that the body's muscle groups will grow and change faster for the better if they are kept slightly off balance through variations and challenges.

To that end Power Half Hour grabbed on to the concept of muscle confusion in a 30 minute workout format.  Tony Horton, the popular and  lively trainer of P90X is also the brains and face of Power Half Hour. 

It can't be an accident that P90X is a bigger bolder more rigorous version of a lot of what was out there previously with Power Half Hour.

Despite the volume of reviews being significantly less than what you see for P90X program some truths emerge from customer impressions. 

First, Power Half Hour graduates are seeing good results in the 30 minute workout format. With Power Half Hour they have the same sound nutritional advice, a meticulous schedule to follow, and expert hands-on instruction from a trainer who really knows his stuff.

Second, Power Half Hour might be more the speed of a wider range of potential customers than P90X.  Power Half Hour is maybe more adaptable to the fitness level of the participant. 

For a person that has not been staying in shape, Power Half Hour gives you a heck of a 30 Minute Workout, without driving you away. Customers are saying that it is way easier to stick to the plan each day when staring down 30 very focused minutes, and not an hour.

Many people who barely or didn't get started with P90X, but wanted to, can give a look to Power Half Hour. The downside is that P90X is P90X and very hard to duplicate. Users should understand that Power Half Hour is not likely to get you those results in 60 days without modifications.