P90X by Tony Horton and Beachbody

Who is Tony Horton and what is P90X?

P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program

P90X Extreme Home Fitness Workout Program

There is lots to be said about Tony Horton, but what is important when it comes to his fitness beliefs, and creation of two biggest fitness programs: Power 90, and Power 90x, is his determination to focus on flexibility, speed and balance, as much as muscle growth. From my prospective that creates 10x more appealing body, then having a large, muscular, “body-building” type of the body.

Tony Horton developed this extremely hard program together with Beachbody company. When I say his program is hard, then I mean it. The program is hard but extremely beneficial.

It’s a combination of so many things, but the outcome is amazing, and that you can see from Tony’s own body. Lot of cardio, fast, powerful movements, which improve the functions of the nervous system, generally for the purpose of improving performance in sports, and to top it all Tony is teaching us Kenpo combined martial arts (kung-fu and karate).

All this will tone your body to the maximum, and create a beautiful, lean, muscular figurine with amazing sense of balance, orientation and speed.


What more would you want from a fitness program?

I started with cycling, and it was a road cycling, and very quickly it became monotonous and boring for me, then I switched to mountain biking. More excitement, and my legs started getting a perfect “tone”, but in addition to that, I was getting an adrenaline rush, sense of exhausting, excitement, and amazing balancing exercise. Well, with Tony’s exercise you will feel the same, indoor mind you, but you will be exhausted, thrown out of balance, but happy about heavy exercise that you just did.

I used Carmichael biking videos when I started, and I used fantastic Billy Blanks Tae-Bo cardio course, but then once discovered Power 90, hahaha, that’s a true change. All in one. Don’t get me wrong, I love both other programs too, and still use them.

I am not going to ruin it for you, but just the fact that we are talking about 3 million kits sold, if not more, tells you how good and high quality this system is. Well, as far as I heard Tony is in pre-production for a new P90X MC2 system, so he continues to carve a path of his success, and who benefits also out of this? Us too.

Some people who started abruptly with P90X realized, in order to use it, they needed to refresh, or wake up some of the muscles who were resting for years :) Tony has another video program called “Power Half Hour”, which helps to bring your cardio to a needed level for a serious P90 exercise.

As in any other professional exercising, you will net get out of this training with less than an hour workout! Period.

If you think you’ll do 15 minutes and then go back to sit on a couch, you are on a wrong website, don’t read this anymore, just close it and forget it.

This is for those who want to have the exciting vibrant figure, with beautifully toned muscles on a skinnier figure. Muscles, which pop up and down, as you move your arms, legs, and body overall. I hope you know what I mean. I was a major “chabbo”, and the world changed for me once I started melting pounds. And trust me, I’m not just saying this. I was a major chubby!!!

You will workout with a whole group, you have a progress indicator, and you will love it, but don’t forget, it is a commitment. No lame excuses. Tony will push your body to the edge, and then let it go, and all is like that, push and let it go. That works. Worked for me, will work for you.

Now it’s your turn.

Overcome bad habits through exercise

Exercise non-stop to suppress bad habits - mtb biking in the snowYour biggest challenge will certainly be to overcome bad habits, and that doesn’t go easy.

Most people don’t realize that losing weight is a constant battle with bad habits and breaking them along the way. But before that happens, you have to start thinking about yourself, constantly, and what a weight loss will bring to you.

My personal theory is that most of us who gained weight are practically “pleasers”, who want to make life easy for others, and for, who knows, what reason we start eating, or rather over-eating.

As I wrote in several other articles, only once you turn to yourself, without even telling anyone what you are doing, you will start seeing positive results. Another key point in my approach is to exercise for 1h minimum. Any type of exercise, but for a minimum of one hour.

Once you lose the excessive weight you will claim your life back, but literally. So, definitely, it’s worth it! Your confidence will be back and you will feel strong.

I remember reading about a woman who decided to lose weight when she found out she had hypothyroidism. She went from not being able to walk 500 meters to running 10K marathon in under 55 minutes. Imagine that! She said that the biggest help to her was a Nutrition Tracker.

Set your goal to work out three times a week minimum and steer towards five times! I’m pleased when I succeed in doing so, and when I don’t … better luck next week.

I know to stay active in winter is a tough, but put on a warm clothes, walk, then run a bit if you are cold, but don’t give up… Change the route, change the routine, anything to make it more interesting and to keep yourself going. That’s most important. Doing the same thing every day may get boring and slow down a metabolism, so mix things up.

I wish I had lost all the weight. I still have some pounds to lose. At the same time, weight is not the biggest issue any longer. Being healthy and being fit is. Weight is a part of that, but not all of it.

Eliminate excuses, because excuses are not acceptable. If you decided to do something about yourself, then do it!

As the saying goes, make yourself beautiful on the inside and you will be beautiful on the outside.