P90X Kenpo too easy? Here are some options

For those of you doing P90x, one thing that I hear a lot is that the Kenpo program is easy, sometimes too easy. Again this will be one of those things that will depend in large part how fit you are. If you are really out of shape when you start, it will be a hard program. As you get more fit however (especially if you have done martial arts before) it will probably not give you much of a workout.

Anyone who has been in some form of martial arts (especially one with a lot of kicking like taekwondo) knows that to really get a good cardio workout you have to incorporate your hips into the kicks which requires pivoting properly. However in a workout DVD is it very hard to demonstrate how to pivot, and as anyone who has done it knows, if you do not pivot properly you are going to mess up your knee and/or ankle, and I am sure they did the moves the way they did to minimize the risk of that. Lets face it, no workout program is going to go over well if people are injuring their knees. So, what options do you have? You could, if you have another program like Insanity, or Chalean extreme, swap it out for one of the cardio based workouts from there. You could, if you wanted to even do the plyo-x workout in place of Kenpo, which would help prepare you for a program like Insanity. The other option is you can just do the moves in Kenpo-X faster. Ignore the pace that is set by the counter and just do as many reps as you can. For example, when I do the workout, during the front kicks (ball kicks) I do 30-40 reps in the same time that they do the 25 reps. Same thing with the punches.

 Like anything you have to make the workouts work for you. Modification of the workouts do not have to just modify down to a less intense version. If you need to increase your intensity or swap something out for another workout, do it. As always if you have any questions or comments feel free and I will respond as quickly as I can.