Day one of the Master's series was the cardio 5-6 workout. It is similar to and different from the 1-2 and 3-4 workouts in the base program. It starts out with a warmup that includes running in place, jumping jacks, and then doing a dynamic kicking and swinging your arms (what Tony calls dynamic stretching in p90x). Then you do some static stretching and a couple of asanas from yoga. It is definitely not as much yoga as the 1-2 and 3-4 workouts had. Then you get into the main workout. That has three blocks of exercise. Each exercise lasts 30 seconds. You do all three exercises, then repeat twice. Then you have a short water break and move on to the next block with three new exercises that you repeat three times. The moves include some exercises that are on the p90x plyometrics workout, some stuff from the Kenpo workout, and some stuff from cardio-x. There is not a lot of jumping in this one, but there is a bit more impact than there was in the base Power-90 workouts. These workouts are meant to be a bridge from the base Power-90 workouts to p90x, so it stands to reason that the difficulty level is somewhere between the two programs. You can definitely tell they had started on p90x when filming the Master's Series workouts because the p90x promotional posters are hanging on the wall behind them.
Overall, this is a pretty typical Tony Horton workout (cheesy jokes and all). If you have done p90x before a lot of what you see in this workout is familiar. If not, you will definitely see the moves again if you decide to do p90x. You can do some modification of the moves and slow things down if you need to, or you can try to keep up with what the people in the video are doing. This was filmed before the days when they had a dedicated modifier in every workout doing on modified moves, but Tony does tell you how to modify if you need to. Overall, it was a good workout and a good start to day 1 of the Master's Series.
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