My friend, Greg Harris, gave me a chance to try out his P90x videos. Last Saturday (10/17/09) I started the program. The first day is a chest, back, and abs workout. I set up everything in my garage and went to work. The people in the videos are freakin' strong. Waaaay stronger than I am. I did gymnastics competitively when I was younger and competed in rock climbing in highschool and college, so I've got some pretty decent upper body strength. However, these guys took me to the cleaner. It's not that they are doing a lot of heavy weight. It's more like a lot of reps with very little rest between. Think multiple sets of 30 push-ups and 20 pull-ups.
Anyway, my chest and back too sore to workout those muscles again for an entire week. I mean, I couldn't do a pushup for a whole week after the workout. Anyway, the other workouts weren't as taxing. Basically, the program works like this. You do a 1-hour workout 6 days a week based on a prescriptive schedule. Every day is a different muscle group. You need minimal equipment (floor mat, pull-up bar, some barbells) and not a LOT of space, but probably about 10' x 10' at the bare minimum.
What I like about P90X:
-lots of variety on the workout exercises
-little rest between exercises means the hr stays elevated
-minimal equipment required
-I can do it at home, right after a bike workout in the garage making it very time-efficient
-the guys who leads the routines has a lot of energy and is motivational (If he gets irritating, I can just play music and mute the video)
What I don't like about P90X:
-nothing so far. The plan makes sense to me. The workouts are quick and fun.
I'm a little worried that my upperbody will start bulking up, but we'll see what happens. It's low-weight, high-reps stuff, so it shouldn't happen. I am psyched for my core muscles to get stronger though. I'm modifying the P90X plan for my cycling workouts so that I'm doing the leg workouts on hard training days and cycling through the upper body workouts on my easy days.
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