7/11 - P90X D85 - took my rest/off day today, the beginning of the week, which will put my end day&date for this round of P90X - the first full round I've finished, well done me - @D91/Sunday, July 17th. But even though I took the day as a "P90X Rest" day, I did the following workout ---
Bas Rutten MMA Workout/Boxing 2M Rounds - Shadowboxing 5 rounds - Heavybag 8 rounds
7/10 - P90X D84 - X Stretch
Bas Rutten MMA Workout/Boxing 2M Rounds - Shadowboxing 10 rounds
7/9 - P90X D83 - Yoga X [abbreviated*] - Abs
7/8 - P90X D82 - Legs & Back
7/7 - P90X D81 - Kenpo X
7/6 - P90X D80 - Back & Biceps - Abs
7/5 - P90X D79 - Plyometrics
7/4 - P90X D78 - Chest/Shoulders/Triceps - Abs
*I've been doing the Tony Horton One on One yoga workouts - 'Patience Hummingbird' & 'Fountain of Youth' - instead of the P90X Yoga X workout on the designated yoga day of the P90X program for almost the entire 3 months of P90X. Because while I enjoy the yoga in general, and the yoga I've been doing is almost always one of my favorite workouts of the week, I have a pretty passionate dislike right now for Yoga X.
Yoga X is just... for somebody without a solid yoga background... too much. Unless you're already fit, or maybe into your 2nd or 3rd round of P90X. It's too long - at 90 minutes, by far the longest P90X wkout - too complicated, too complex and too advanced, really. I usually hit the wall at about 40-45 minutes in and then just start jabbing the FF button while finding things to vehemently dislike about Tony Horton.
And the thing is I absolutely love the other yoga workouts he teaches on the One on One DVDs. Putting my finger on why it bugs me so much I finally came up with this while thinking about it. One of the great things about the way he teaches on the P90X DVDs is that his workouts are constantly scalable and he's always encouraging you to modify and adapt the workouts to your fitness level. And there's none of that, imo, on Yoga X. It starts out hard out of the gate and proceeds to ramp up the difficulty and complexity of the moves without ever slowing down or showing you how to build up to that level. And it just smokes you with some pretty advanced stuff. All I get from it about halfway through is a broken will and crushed spirit. And don't even get me started on "Yoga Belly Seven" - which seems out of place and shoehorned in out of nowhere from some kind of training mentality that demands an "ab section" every workout. I mean, you don't drop down in the middle of Kenpo X to do crunches because it wouldn't make any damn sense - and the YB7 completely disrupts the flow of Yoga X. As always, imho.
So if it's your 1st round of P90X and have the disdain I do for Yoga X, try one of Horton's One on One yoga routines, both of which I think are outstanding. Or if you don't feel like spending the extra cash, I'd sub in the X Stretch routine. And maybe on the next round of P90X, when I can actually, you know - finish it, just one fucking time - then I'll like Yoga X more.
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