Best Home Workout Videos and DVDs
P90 Power 90 In Home Bootcamp is the precursor to the now famous P90x. If you bought P90X only to find out you couldn’t pass the fitness test or couldn’t make it past the warm-up, the original Power 90 is a good place to start.
P90 is more basic – push-ups, dumbbells, (no pull-ups), squats, cardio and abs routines every other day. All you need for P90 is a chair, dumbbells or bands, towel and water. Tony Horton looks a lot younger in these videos which is fine. If you want a workout that goes back to basics and will prepare you for P90X, do Power 90 for the 90 days and you will be able to keep up with P90X a lot better, especially in the push-up and cardio sections.
There are 7 routines: Sculpting, cardio, abs and a bonus routine showing Tony with a bunch of people in Hawaii. The sculpting routines are split between beginner 1-2 and more advanced 3-4 routines. The difference between 1-2 and 3-4 is 3-4 has more routines, more reps and different push-ups. The sculpting routines are basic military press, 3 different sets of curls and other arm routines, basic stuff, but a good start if you haven’t had any sort of intense workout in awhile.
The two cardio routines are also split between 1-2 and 3-4, beginning and more advanced. Both cardio DVDs start with a warm up, some yoga, hi impact (jumping with both feet), low impact, along with basic punching and kicking. Cardio 3-4 has more sets and is longer. Each Cardio DVD has the Ab routines on the same workout, but also the ab routines have their own DVDs as well.
Ab routines are 100 and 200. Ten sets of ten, one hundred crunches and leg lifts of some sort, then the same routine, but with ten sets of twenty – 200 reps.
This is a great basic workout alternating between lifting weights and cardio every other day. Power 90 is the perfect place to start if your older or haven’t worked out regularly in more than a few years. The weightlifting is only as hard as the weights you use. Start light and work your way up, slowly.
The Power 90 In Home Boot Camp includes bands which can be upgraded to heavier resistance if you’re a guy, the DVDs a bonus workout, meal plans, calendar, measuring tape, manual to get the most out of Power 90 and a bonus 6-Day fat burning express plan to jump start your weight loss.
If you follow the program correctly and consistently, including the diet, you will lose weight and gain muscle. The only bad part is that I’ve found after about halfway through, it’s a little boring. The same routines are done from 1-2 and 3-4 is the same and adding a few more. If you already bought P90X and it is sitting on the shelf, break out the Kenpo or Cardio routines to break up the cardio days and try a P90X weight routine to break up the weight routines.
Power 90 is a straight 90 days of alternating weight and cardio routines, which adds to the boredom factor but the Power 90 Master Series and P90X and P90X+ have changed to three weeks of weight routines then take a week off from the weights, not resting, just not lifting weights for a week while still doing cardio, Kenpo and Yoga. You can probably modify Power 90 the same way, especially if you already have P90X or one of the other P90 series. Or you can buy Power 90 Master Series individually to add some variety to your Power 90 Boot Camp routines.
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10-Minute Trainer is another workout video from Tony Horton and Beachbody. These workout videos are designed for busy people who think they don’t have time to workout. In ten minutes a day you can workout, lose weight on the diet plan, look and feel great. Unlike P90X programs there is no specified time limit. No where does it say you’re going to lose a bunch of weight and bulk up after 90 days for only ten minutes a day. It’s meant to be an ongoing exercise program to get you off the couch and doing something. But if you’re actually busy you wouldn’t be sitting on the couch. People have to prioritize their lives. Exercising must be a higher priority than watching a TV show and anyone can schedule ten minutes, wake up ten minutes early.
The actual program is really 10 minutes, but there is a two minute warm up and two minutes of cooling down after the workout. On the DVD you can choose to warm up or not. This way if you do more than one 10 minute workout you won’t waste time warming up between each one if you have more than 10 minutes you want to devote to exercising.
The routines are only ten minutes, but if you haven’t worked out in awhile, you won’t be able to make it through one of the routines. Even the sculpting workouts are going to make you sweat and burn calories. The cardio can be tough if you’re not used to it.
10-Minute Trainer comes with two bands, one set of handles and a door attachment so you can loop the band through it makes any door into a gym. You also receive a diet guide, a tape measure, a workout calendar and 8 workouts on three DVDs. A Ten-minute meal book to prepare good healthy meals in ten minutes and the guide book to 10-Minute Trainer. Plus, On-the-go workout cards so if you’re traveling you don’t need to take the DVDs.
Part of the program is before and after pictures and measurements. As you mark off the workouts on your workout calendar you can see where you were and that motivates you to keep doing it and if you’ve committed to yourself to do this, documenting every things keeps you accountable to yourself.
This is a good workout, if you do it for ten minutes, two for twenty or if you do three workouts for thirty minutes it’s a great workout. The workout is tailor made to use with bands. You couldn’t substitute weights even if you wanted to on most of the exercises. The cardio is a great workout for ten minutes and if you’re that great, add a band and the waist attachment and add resistance to your cardio workout. This plan is awesome for someone that doesn’t want to invest a lot of time or a lot of money in equipment.
If you’re always traveling, this makes a great workout to take along in any carry-on case and can be done in any hotel room. Even if the room doesn’t have a DVD player, you have the travel cards so you know what routines to do.
There is also a Trainer Track for each workout where Tony gives specific advice on how best to do each exercise. The normal tracks are more motivational and you’re working out with Tony or with Tony and his partner, while the trainer tracks are for questions you may have on technique that you only need to hear once in a while.
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