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The result of two years of R&D conducted by a team of the most qualified experts in fitness, P90X2 includes training so cutting edge, so outrageously effective, you'll be blown away by your visible results and your performance. While P90X is based on Muscle ConfusionTM-to break normal 30-day training plateaus so you get results fast-P90X2 ups the ante with a training technique developed by professional sports trainers for world class results: P.A.P., or Post-Activation Potentiation. With P90X2, you get 12 groundbreaking workouts focused on chiseling your body while building your balance, agility, core strength, and athleticism. It includes new customization with an all-new, highly flexible nutrition plan to help you excel. THIS is training. Better training than most pro athletes get. And with an emphasis on your abs/core, powerful athletic function, and lightning-bolt agility, it'll help you blast through your plateaus. In addition to the 12 new workouts, P90X2 comes with a comprehensive three-phase nutrition plan, with vegan and grain-free options; specially designed supplement options; a detailed fitness guide packed with valuable information about how to get the most from your program; a How to Bring It Again video that provides a quick overview of the system; a workout calendar to track your progress; online peer support; and much more. What's in the Box? 14 workouts, nutrition plan, fitness guide, How to Bring It Again video, a calendar to track your progress, a foam roller, a 55cm premium stability ball, and two 8-lb. medicine balls.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #16911 in Sports & Outdoors
- Brand: Beachbody
- Released on: 2011-12-15
Features
- P90X2 continues your progress after P90X® with cutting-edge training based on powerful new sports science
- 14 new breakthrough workouts that include more emphasis on your core, athletic function, balance, and agility
- Includes a comprehensive, customizable nutrition plan with vegan and grain-free options
- Includes premium stability ball, 2 medicine balls, and a foam roller to optimize your P90X2 workout.
- Personal trainer Tony Horton delivers the workouts with his unique blend of motivation and humor
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he result of two years of research & development conducted by a team of the most qualified experts in fitness, P90X2 includes training so cutting edge, so effective, you'll be amazed at the visible results and enhanced performance. While P90X is based on Muscle Confusion--to break normal 30-day training plateaus so you get results fast--P90X2 ups the ante with a training technique developed by professional sports trainers for world class results: P.A.P., or Post-Activation Potentiation. With P90X2, you get 12 groundbreaking workouts focused on chiseling your body while building your balance, agility, core strength, and athleticism. It includes new customization with an all-new, highly flexible nutrition plan to help you excel. And with an emphasis on your abs/core, powerful athletic function, and lightning-bolt agility, it'll help you blast through your plateaus.
In addition to the 12 new workouts, P90X2 comes with a comprehensive three-phase nutrition plan, with vegan and grain-free options; specially designed supplement options; a detailed fitness guide packed with valuable information about how to get the most from your program; a How to Bring It Again video that provides a quick overview of the system; a workout calendar to track your progress; online peer support; and much more.
The Workouts:
X2 Core
The core is your body's foundation: the point where all movement begins. By working your core using instability, you force your body to fire both its prime mover and stabilizer muscles in harmony. As you master this routine, all of your movement patterns will improve.
Plyocide
Combines traditional explosive movements with mind and coordination drills to increase not only your speed and endurance, but your entire mind/body connection, as well. Don't do this one more than once per week.
X2 Recovery + Mobility
You learned with P90X that your body only grows stronger while at rest after it has been challenged. The P90X2 Recovery + Mobility workout takes this a step further by not only enhancing recovery, but also forcing your body to realign to promote better overall functionality. The key is a myofascial release technique called foam rolling. Expect to get a whole new understanding of the phrase, "hurts so good." This workout also provides you with a complete stretching routine for those days you prefer to work without the foam roller.
X2 Total Body
Combines resistance and instability to ensure that your body uses the correct muscles in the given movement. Old school isolation movements that can lead to muscular imbalance not welcome here. In this workout you'll earn every repetition, and form is king.
X2 Yoga
Yoga's traditional benefits of relaxing the body and restoring the mind are present but will take a back seat to increasing isometric power, improving your range of motion, and building vital stabilizer muscle strength. This is yoga, X2 style. Yoga is a fountain of youth and to us, staying young means staying strong and supple.
Balance + Power
The moves in this workout force core rigidity under duress by incorporating strength and explosive movements. As you improve your body's connection between balance and power, your body alignment will improve, nagging aches and pains will lessen, and you'll be able to push far beyond the limits you once thought you had.
Chest + Back + Balance
The same mega pump that was P90X Chest & Back now gets an added bonus, an array of unstable platforms designed to make your body earn its muscle. As you improve at this workout, your strength gains will be superior to those made with any traditional weight-training workout.
X2 Shoulders + Arms
Shoulder instability leads to an assortment of injuries experienced by many of us as we age. By keeping our shoulders and arms strong and in balance, we can avoid breakdowns. And that, along with looking good in short-sleeved shirts, is the philosophy behind the creation of X2 Shoulders + Arms.
Base + Back
Working the body's two largest groups of muscles in one workout may seem sadistic but most people seem to find this pull-up and plyo extravaganza very entertaining. It's the sweatiest "weight training" workout you'll ever experience.
P.A.P. Lower
P.A.P. stands for Post-Activation Potentiation, but all you really need to know is that it is the cutting-edge technique that translates into performance. Two four-round complexes of seemingly straightforward movements don't look like much on paper but these workouts have destroyed the fittest athletes on the planet. The same ones who swear by them just as soon as they finish swearing at them. Just wait 'til you see what they can do for you.
P.A.P. Upper
The same complex training format as P.A.P. Lower but this time focused on your upper body. Remember when you were a kid and bounced around jumping fences and climbing trees? Post-Activation Potentiation training will bring back your youth. Over time you'll feel loose, springy, and young.
X2 Ab Ripper
Tony takes you through a series of core movements that'll upgrade your concept of what an ab workout is supposed to be.
V Sculpt
Works the back and biceps, or the "actor muscles" as they're called in Hollywood. The movements are all done from an athletic stance, so strength gains will be applicable to real world movements.
X2 Chest + Shoulders + Tris
Known as your pushing muscles, the chest, shoulders, and triceps will learn to function better than ever before with this workout. This is accomplished with creative uses of instability and always forcing movement out of an athletic position.
P90X2 Power Your Performance Fitness Guide
This is your road map and your plan of attack for using P90X2. The guide provides guidelines for getting started and essential tips for how to make the most of the program. It also includes in-depth information about the science behind P90X2, a complete overview of the three training phases, a fit test, and an overview of the recommended supplements and equipment.
P90X2 Fuel Your Performance Nutrition Guide
Following the P90X2 nutrition guide is just as vital to your overall success as any of the extreme workouts in this program. Specifically designed to work in tandem with the P90X2 workout routines, the guide includes three eating plans--with vegan and grain-free options--which allow you to customize based on your personal needs, plus over 50 recipes. P90X2 is not about quick fixes or miracle diets. It's about selecting the healthy foods that you want to eat and determining the portion amounts that will provide your body with the right amount of fuel to excel during exercise. Since everyone's body is different, the three plans allow you to pick the balance of foods that work for you. Plan 1, Fat Shredder 2.0, is a high-protein-based diet designed to help you strengthen your muscles while simultaneously and rapidly shedding fat from your body. Plan 2, Energy Booster 2.0, emphasizes a balanced mix of carbohydrates and proteins with a lower amount of fat to achieve additional energy for performance. And Plan 3, Endurance Maximizer 2.0, is an athletic diet of complex carbohydrates, lean proteins, and lower fat, with the emphasis on more carbohydrates. You'll need this combination of foods as fuel to get the most out of your final few weeks and truly be in the best shape of your life.
Tools to Keep You Motivated
P90X2 90-day workout calendar to set your workout goals, track your progress, and stay motivated. Free Online Support Tools for access to fitness experts, peer support, and motivation.
What's in the Box?
14 workouts, nutrition plan, fitness guide, How to Bring It Again video, a calendar to track your progress, a foam roller, a 55cm premium stability ball, and two 8-pound medicine balls.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
57 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Nasca
ABOUT THE DELUXE KIT:
Your probably going to end up purchasing all of the extra stuff anyway. So it makes sense to get all of it at the same time. Think of it this way, once you have it you'll have no excuse for not working out. In addition, to really maximize the P90X2 program the extra equipment is necessary. I was skeptical but it really does make a difference.
The Deluxe Kit comes with:
Two (2) 8 lb medicine balls (you do actually need two).
One PREMIUM stability ball.
One foam roller.
V SCULPT (Video)
X2 CHEST + SHOULDERS + TRIS (Video)
The price for the P90X2 Base Kit on Amazon is $139.80 and the Deluxe Kit on Amazon is $274.60. So your paying $139.80 more for the Deluxe Kit. If you purchased the P90X2 base kit for $139.80 and the additional equipment on Amazon for $117.01 the total comes to $256.81. However, you don't get the two extra videos which primarily focus on your upper body. If you don't already own the extra equipment I think its a pretty good deal since the two videos end up costing about $9 dollars a piece. After I did P90X a few times I ended up buying Insanity (also by Beachbody) to change up the routine a little bit. I guess what I am trying to say is that after a while you will get a little board and it is nice to be able to change things up if you have the additional videos. If you do already own the extra equipment I wouldn't pay $139.80 for the extra videos.
I am confident that based on what I received in the Deluxe Kit that the equipment listed below and sold in the Deluxe Kit is pretty close to the same (if not the exact same).
J Fit 36-Inch High-Density Foam Roller $27.04
Valeo Medicine Ball $24.99
GoFit 65cm Professional Stability Ball $39.99
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My comparison of P90X2 and P90X and review of P90X2.
P90X vs P90X2
1. P90X2 focuses more on balance throughout the program.
2. P90X2 doesn't have a cardio specific workout.
3. P90X2 has two rest days per week.
4. P90X2 requires more equipment.
5. P90X2 has more technically difficult exercises.
6. P90X2 there are bigger differences in the phases.
7. P90X has more structured phases.
8. P90X has a better yoga video.
Misc.
1. Doing P90X before P90X2 is not required but you would deffinitly bennifit from doing P90X
Pros:
1. Structured program so that you know what exercise to do every day.
2. Flexible schedule with two rest days per week.
3. Minimal equipment required.
4. Get in the best shape of your life.
5. Scientifically researched training methods.
6. No time spent driving to the health club, waiting for machines.
7. Challenging.
8. Includes Yoga, for many people it's the only place they would try it.
9. Modifications for your ability (easy - medium - hard) are part of every video.
10. Modifications without equipment are part of every video.
11. No boring cardio specific workouts, but you will sweat and get your heart rate up.
12. Each 3-week phases prepares you for the next 3-week phase so you do not start with the difficult stuff until you're ready.
13. Fitness guide to explain the reasoning behind the program. Take a minute to read this!
14. You only need about a 10 x 10 area in your home.
Cons:
1. Sometimes Tony talks too much.
In this review, I am attempting to: (1) Review P90X2 and (2) compare P90X2 to the original P90X. I am not a Beachbody coach and I am in no way associated with Beachbody. Throughout the review, I refer to a guy named Tony. Tony Horton created the program and he is the lead trainer.
WHAT P90X2 IS NOT? When I purchased it, I assumed it was another P90X with better music. I was wrong. P90X left me sore every day for 90 days; P90X2 didn't because of the gradual increase through the phases. Don't get me wrong, I was sore but I remember limping around after Legs & Back and having trouble brushing my teeth the morning after doing the bicep workout. P90X2 is a more gradual approach that builds your core and muscular foundation for the next phase but it's not easier. P90X2 is more technically difficult. Each exercise seems to engage more body parts.
CARDIO: There is no specific cardio workout in the entire program it is based on strength, balance and speed. You will get your heart rate up and sweat for sure but there are no real cardio specific workouts. For the most part the fitness guide (program documentation) says that if you need / want cardio to do it on your own time. Two scheduled rest days can be used for cardio.
THE SCHEDULE: P90X2's schedule is definitely more flexible than P90X. The entire program has 3 phases. For the most part, you decide when you're ready for the next phase. There are 2 rest days per week in P90X2.
TIME COMMITMENT: Just do the math. How long does it take you to get to the fitness club? How long do you wait for equipment? How long to stop and chat? Do you work out with the same intensity? Same numbers of reps, as many exercises, limit your breaks to about 30 seconds? Working out in the privacy of my home makes sense from a time perspective.
COST: The program and the equipment together is about $300 (at the very most). That's 3 - 6 months at a health club. And even if you only do P90X2 for a year and get sick of it the popularity of Beachbody programs means that there is money to be made. I believe that the trend of at home fitness programs will continue into the future.
EQUIPMENT: When I started the original P90X I had no equipment. Nothing. No dumbbells. No bands. No pull up bar. If you don't have the equipment don't let that stop you from beginning the program. Buy the equipment when you can but you don't need it to get started.
REQUIRMENTS: If you have never completed P90X, I would recommend that you do it first. Do you have to do P90X first? Not at all. However, some of the more technically difficult exercises are modifications of P90X exercises so it is helpful.
P90X2 FITNESS GUIDE: I started the program and even writing this lengthy review before I read the fitness guide because I wanted to be as objective as possible. The problem? I am not a doctor or fitness professional so I did not understand the reasoning or purpose for doing some of the exercises. I was ignorant to the science behind the program and it made me question the program. After reading the fitness guide, my commitment to the program became stronger and the program itself makes more sense. Take a few minutes and read it!
-----THE PHASES-----
(Completed in the order listed)
FOUNDATION PHASE (3 to 6 weeks): Strengthen your core, workouts focus on total body. This is perhaps one of the biggest differences between P90X and P90X2, because there P90X2 begins by building you a foundation, which you improve upon as you progress through the phases. The reason for phases in P90X was muscle confusion. While muscle confusion is used in P90X2 for improvement and overcoming plateaus, it is not the focus. After a few weeks in this phase I noticed an improvement in my golf game. I was compressing the ball on every drive. I think this was the result of a stronger core and the balance exercises.
STRENGTH PHASE (3 to 6 weeks): Build up individual muscle groups. For example, workouts focus on your back, chest, legs, arms...etc.
PERFORMANCE PHASE (2 to 4 weeks): The previous two phases are preparation for the Performance Phase. The workouts, called PAP Upper and PAP Lower. PAP stands for Post-Activation Potentiation. This is newish type of training. Researching this topic was not easy because I do not understand all the terms and principals associated with biomechanics. An example of this type of exercise that P90X graduates will remember is the Plyometric Push-up. The Plyometric Push-up is done similar to a regular push-up but instead of finishing in plank position, the person exerts enough force going up that he or she leaves the ground with both feet and both hands. Often, the person doing the push up will clap their hands together while in the air.
-----REVIEW OF WORKOUTS-----
X2 CORE: (Entire Video: 57 minutes, Warm up: 19 minutes, Cool Down: 5 minutes, Workout: 34 minutes)
This workout has some great stretches in it. There are however, 6 minutes dedicated to Tony and the kids using foam rollers for stretching. The basic workout uses isometric exercises that build muscle endurance and strength. Most of these exercise focus on your core and the big muscles in your legs. After a few weeks, I got better at this video but instead of increasing the number of repetitions, I feel that I got a better workout by just having better form.
BALANCE AND POWER: (Entire Video: 61 minutes, Warm up: 11 minutes, Cool Down: 10 minutes Workout: 40 minutes) Simply lifting weights is one form of exercise that anyone reading this review is probably familiar with. Balance and Power is a combination of balance postures and weight lifting. For example, one exercise combines the yoga pose warrior three with a row press. My entire body was engaged while I struggled to keep my balance. The benefits to this type of exercise are something that I have completely overlooked as an avid golfer. I think it's a great workout because in almost any sport as power increases balance usually decreases.
PLYOCIDE: (Entire Video: 57 minutes, Warm up: 15 minutes, Cool Down: 12 minutes, Workout: 30 minutes) I usually push myself to the point where I am about to throw up in plyometric workouts but that wasn't the case with Plyocide. However the moves are technically difficult. In other word you need to have, certain muscles developed enough to be able to get the full benefit from the exercise. If you have those muscles developed, you will be able to benefit more from the workout. If you don't you'll certainly progress throughout the program and get stronger in ways you didn't know possible. I guess I expected more cardio from this workout.
X2 AB RIPPER: (Entire video 24 minutes, Warm up: 2, Workout: 12, Commercial: 10 minutes (end of video) Tony delivers another great ab workout! It is very tough to make it through all the reps of all the exercises. The exercises use your body weight as resistance and the video requires no additional equipment.
X2 RECOVERY + MOBILITY: (Entire Video: 58 minutes)
This is optional on one of two given rest days. Mostly it is stretching, a little yoga and a lot of foam roller. I think I get all the stretching I need doing the yoga video. On rest days that I feel good on, I throw in Pure Cardio from the Insanity series. If you struggle with flexibility then you should definitely do it to avoid injury. I am not really super flexible but I have maintained decent flexibility gained by doing Yoga from P90X.
X2 YOGA: Entire Video: (68 minutes) X2 Yoga is a good yoga workout and not very difficult for beginners. X2 Yoga contains variations on moves for beginners and advanced moves for very flexible experts.
X2 TOTAL BODY: (60 Minutes) I would have called this X2 Total Body + Balance. This video contains the most advanced exercises found in the foundation phase. It covers back, biceps, triceps, legs and chest. The reason I would say it is advanced is that there is an element of balance associated with every exercise. For example, triceps kickbacks and curls in warrior three.
-----P90X VS P90X2-----
X2 RECOVERY + MOBILITY VS. X STRETCH: Do it if (or when) you need it to avoid injury or to work out tightness. The difference X2 Recovery + Mobility and X Stretch is the heavy use of the foam roller. Although like all the other videos there is a person doing the exercises without the foam roller.
X2 YOGA VS. YOGA X (P90X): I could not get through Yoga X the first few times I did the workout. I was sweating a lot and my legs were on fire. This was not the case with X2 Yoga. Some of the same moves are done at a faster pace. There is nothing new except for a few variations to old moves. Yoga X had 45 minutes of solid Yoga and 45 minutes of balance postures. Seeing as though this video is 30 minutes shorter, I think it does a good job. However, I definitely think that Yoga X was more difficult and more rewarding in terms of gained flexibility and increased balanced. If you have Yoga X (the original) and can spend the extra 30 minutes, I think it is the obvious choice.
X2 CORE + BALANCE AND POWER VS. CORE SYNERGISTICS (P90X): You have to combine both videos to compare them to Core Synergistics because Core 2 alone does not come close to the workout that Core Synergistics is. Mostly the exercises are different from Core Synergistics. A few are the same or slightly modified. The biggest difference though is the added equipment used in X2 Core. Core Synergistics did required a dumbbell for a few exercises if I remember correctly but X2 Core frequently uses a medicine ball and a stability ball (large blown up rubber ball). There is one person in the video that shows you how to do the exercises without a medicine ball or stability ball; sometimes he uses a towel or resistance band in their place. P90X2 focuses on your core more than P90X. This is the proof, two entire videos dedicated to your core strength.
X2 AB RIPPER VS. AB RIPPER X (P90X): The original and X2 are comparable. There are some new exercises and modifications to old exercises. X2 is more technically difficult but still a great workout.
PLYOCIDE VS. PLYOMETRICS (P90X): Plyocide is more technically difficult but over all its easier in terms of having the endurance to make it through the work out. Plyometrics from P90X was a punishing workout. I do not think that I even made it all the way through the video until week six. Does anyone remember "Rock Star Hops"? By the time i did that the second time I was lying on the floor. Some of the Plyocide exercises are variations from P90X and even Shaun T's Insanity.
---TIPS---
1. Never skip a day. Okay, I know it's tough but once you skip one day you can rationalize skipping another.
2. Get some Cross Training shoes. They are different from running shoes and support your feet, knees and back when you're making lateral movements.
3. This contradicts tip number 2 but don't put off starting the program because you don't have equipment. There are modifications in each video that show you how to go through the entire program without additional equipment.
4. No one has enough time. Occasionally I work out late at night and then it's tough getting to sleep. However, I would not trade how I feel overall if it means I have to be a little tired sometimes.
5. Each workout gets better the second time you do it so do not get frustrated. Learning the exercises helps a lot.
6. I train / exercise in my basement. I started doing P90X on a concrete floor. After about a week on the concrete floor I purchased 48 Square Feet ( 12 tiles + borders) 'We Sell Mats' Charcoal Gray 2' x 2' x 3/8" Anti-Fatigue Interlocking EVA Foam Exercise Gym Flooring for about 30 bucks. Then I put a very thin piece of carpet over it (like the type in an office building for 33 bucks at Lowes) with double-sided duct tape. The reason that I put the carpet over it was because it gets very slippery when you get even a little sweat or water on it. 60 bucks well spent to save my knees.
7. Read the fitness guide that comes with the program. Your commitment will be stronger and the program will make more sense.
8. Take before pictures and after pictures. I did it at the beginning of each phase too. It is great motivation and very rewarding.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
By Consumer
After completing P90X and Insanity, I was excited to learn that there was a P90X2 to keep my home fitness program going, and to (ideally) maintain the toned physique I developed after completing the other programs. Whereas a few of the workouts in this program are decent (especially the core workouts), the overall regiment did not offer the balance of total body fitness that I found in both P90X and Insanity. These videos are all about an hour, but after you factor out the stretching and warm-ups that don't do a lot to get the heart pumping in my opinion, and the "foam rolling" that does't really do much for me at all either, there is really only about 30 minutes of exercises before the cool-down. I found this program to be more focused strength training (upper body) and on crazy stunts that require a person to invest in a bunch of equipment rather than to offer anything of realistic exercise value, (for example, the "Impossible--Possible" that has you balancing your body between a stability ball and a medicine ball-- I was excited that I was able to do a few reps, but it seemed more like a stunt concocted to justify buying the gear).
This program has 3 phases. About mid way through Phase II, I noticed that my legs and hips and thighs were losing tone and getting a little pudgy, which I attributed to the limited cardio, and the lack of a lower body workout up to this point. As a female, I don't do these programs to have bulging bi-ceps and broad shoulders, so I found myself incorporating the Legs and Back video from P90X as well as Pure Cardio from Insanity to keep toned and to maintain a balance from upper to lower body fitness. This negative change in my physique was not caused by poor eating habits either, as I am a freak about healthy eating, and I have been a size 2 for over 25 years.
Phase III brought a decent lower body workout in PAP Lower, but by this time, I was noticeably gaining weight. I finished the program about 5-7 pounds heavier than I had started, and I was a lot less tone with less cardiovascular endurance, too. I was very disappointed.
I resumed the Insanity program to get back into shape, and within 2 weeks saw the improvement start to show.
In my opinion, P90X2 is meant for fellas who are looking to bulk up their upper body, who aren't looking for a cardio rich program.
I will stick with Shawn T to stay in shape.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By dixonr10856
Worth every penny. This is not an easy excerise in any way shape or form. But it is worth is. If you don't have an hour a day then dont waste your time.
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