The P90X Ten Minute Workout is Tony Horton’s Ten Minute Trainer

Jul 4
07:32

2012

cheryl boswell

cheryl boswell

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A closer look at the Tony Horton workout with P90X elements: Tony Horton's Ten Minute Trainer.

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I have written on numerous occasions about P90X and the amazing benefits it brought me and many,The P90X Ten Minute Workout is Tony Horton’s Ten Minute Trainer  Articles many others. I had my physical life transformed and felt like I hadn’t since probably high school or early college.

Probably even more importantly I looked like I did back then too. P90X of course isn’t for the timid or people who like a regular moderate pace workout they can do a couple times a week.  It is high intensity, initially very painful and demanding. What keeps people coming back is the results. People will work hard if they can see fast results.

Ten Minute Trainer also by Beachbody and Tony Horton is an effort to create a P90X ten minute workout using the principles that make P90X so hard to beat.  

How do you take the muscle confusion, variety, intensity and translate it to 10 minutes? Yet still maintain the ability to modify the workout depending on your fitness level?

Well in the only P90X ten minute workout on the market, Horton attempted to meet all those expectations by borrowing the concept of quick change 1 minute workouts from Power Half Hour (one of his earlier programs).

The downsides people are talking about are that as you become more fit, you may find that you need to stack multiple 10 minute workouts into one session. In other words your P90X ten minute trainerbecause like a 30 minute trainer. So look out for that.

Another downside is some people aren’t huge fans of the Tony Horton style. It’s fun and admittedly slightly corny.

The thing you have to remember is the guy is all about results and he stops at nothing to get them for you. With Ten Minute Trainer that means meticulous testing in advance before the product ever hits the market. Basically with a Tony Horton product you can count on getting a very polished finished product that will work you hard.

The upsides that you generally hear are the saved time. People obviously are busy and many of them were driven away from P90X because of the 45 minute to an hour time commitment. 

You will sacrifice some results earlier on. They won’t come as quickly with Ten Minute Trainer. But stick with it and they will come. 

For many this has turned out to be the funnest workout in their catalog and the one they return to more often than others.