Detour from P90x

It has been a while since I posted anything. Life got a little crazy for me last summer, and I could not keep up with the blogging. Luckily, I had not developed a large following, so chances are noone missed me too much.

I did end up buying my townhouse, and did continue on P90x. I ended up having to modify the program somewhat because I had to deal with tendinitis in my knee. Therefore, I was able to pretty much maintain my level of fitness, but did not make the kind of gains I wanted to. Plus, I did not follow a great nutrition program as strictly, which did not help my cause.

A few weeks ago I decided to purchase the new Chalean Extreme program from Beachbody. While my knee issues were resolved, I was getting somewhat bored with the P90x workouts, and wanted to change things up. I am just about done with the third week, and I am loving it so far. I will do a more detailed review of the program in later posts, but for those who are, or have done P90x, it is a great alternative, and in spite of what you may think, is not just for women.

Like P90x, it is a circuit training program where you are going from one exercise to the other with very little rest in between the moves. The one issue I have with it, is there are a few points where you can tell it was edited to make the breaks shorter and they are already onto the next move before you can get your weights ready. The routines are shorter than the P90x routines where the shortest one in P90x is about 45min, most Chalean routines are anywhere from just over 30 min, to about 50 minutes on the days where you do a couple different workouts. I am sure the reason for this is because on the lifting days you are expected to go to failure on every exercise whereas P90x, wants you to struggle, but not fail when you get to 8-10 or 12-15 reps.

I will go in depth on the routines and my experience with them more in later posts. I will try to keep more up-to-date. I may not post every day, but will every couple days or so.