Day 3 of the Master's Series workouts was cardio intervals and ab-ripper 200. This workout includes a warm-up section and stretching section that last about 5 minutes each, give or take. Then, the main workout consists of 11 moves, with each move lasting a minute. The minute is divided into three twenty-second blocks. For the first 20 seconds, you do a basic, less intense version of the move, in the next twenty seconds you do an intermediate version of the move (which usually means going faster, or deeper when you are doing squats), and then the last twenty seconds you go all out. About halfway through the round you stop and take a water break, then finish the rest of the moves. At that point, you do a second round of the same 11 moves with less time between each move, and again having a short water break at the halfway point. Tony recommends that the first few times you do the workout you do just the first round. I did both rounds but heavily modified the second round, a lot of times doing just the basic version of each move and taking breaks when I needed.
I was able to get through all 200 moves of ab-ripper. I was able to do it at a bit faster clip, and my form was improving. I am going to do ab-ripper three days a week so I can keep my core as strong as possible for when I start p90x and have to do ab-ripper x.
Overall, this is a good workout. It is clear that the Master's Series was kind of the testing ground for p90x. A lot of the moves made it into p90x, but there are definitely some that did not. So, I think they were kind of weeding out and/or slightly changing some exercises as they were filming p90x. It is definitely a challenging workout, and you can make it as easy or as difficult as you need to based on your skill level and fitness level.
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