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Continuing with the P90 workout system, the next disc we will talk about is the Speed Series DVD. This DVD contains the following workouts: Speed Sculpt Speed Sweat Speed Abs Horton's Greatest Hits Speed Sculpt clocks in at around 25 minutes.  Tony starts the workout with his standard warm up. After the warm up, Tony takes you through two rounds of seven exercises.  Like the other workouts, each exercise is time and the times vary. For resistance, Tony has you using your own bodyweight, the bands or dumbbells.  There is a brief one minute cool down. Speed Sweat clocks in at around 24 minutes.  There is a warm up and two rounds of exercises. There are 8 moves per round and they are timed.  The Speed Sweat workout moves right into the Speed Abs workouts.  There is not a cool down.  Speed Abs clocks in at 6:55.  There are 5 moves and you are performing each move for a minute. Most of the moves in this workout are performed in the prone or plank position. Horton

Saturday Special clocks in just under 25 minutes.  It is a cardio core workout that takes you through a series of body weight moves. There are a total of 16 moves that are timed based. Tony did not preview any of the moves (like he did in the sculpt workouts) and I wish he had for this particular workouts because some of the names of the moves you had no idea what you were doing until you saw Tony and the team perform one or two reps. There is a lot of going down to the floor and getting up because there are a lot of floor based moves. Tony gives you a 30 second break 1/2 way through.  3 & 1/4 stars

P90 Disc C are your month three workouts in the P90 workout systems. The DVD menu offers the following options: Sculpt C Sweat C Ab Ripper C Subtitles Off/On Sculpt C clocks in at around 44 minutes.  The warm up is a bit longer on the Sculpt C workout than it was in either Sculpt B or Sculpt A. After the warm up, Tony takes you through three rounds of  seven exercises.  As you move through each round, Tony targets a particular muscle group. For instances, the first exercise in each of the rounds targets the chest, the second exercise the back, the third the legs etc. Each of the exercises are timed. The times vary. There is a 30 second break between the rounds. The workout concludes with a 2 minute cool down. Sweat C is around 37 minutes.  In Sweat C, you have a warm up, two rounds of exercises and a cool down.  Each of the rounds feature the same 12 exercises.  The exercises are a mixture of athletics and MMA moves and they are timed and the times vary. Ab Ripper C c

P90 B are your intermediate level workouts or month 2 workouts if you are following Tony's 90 day rotation. The workouts on this disc are: Sculpt B Sweat B Ab Ripper B Sculpt B is about 34 minutes if you do the cool down. Without the cool down, it is 28 minutes. Sculpt B consist of three rounds of exercises.  There are seven exercises per round.  Each exercise is time based and the times vary. Essentially you are doing the same exercises across all three rounds but there are progressions and/or variations of the exercise as you move through the rounds. Class participants demonstrate each exercise in a break away segment.  After the demonstration, you return to the workout.  There is a 30 second break after each round.  Equipment includes a resistance band and dumbbells. Sweat B clocks in at around 32 minutes.  After the warm up, which about 3 minutes, you start the first round of cardio exercises. There are two rounds with a 30 second break between the rounds. The card

P90 A are your beginner workouts.  On this DVD, you will find a 6 minute intro to the program and your "A" level workouts which are: Sculpt A Sweat A Ab Ripper A In the Intro: How to Hit It segment, Tony introduces you to the program and to the "H".; which is a marker he has you place on the floor and use it for some of the exercises Sculpt A is a 28 minute workout. Tony takes you through a series of weighted and non-weighted (body weight) exercises.  You will do around 10 exercises. You get a 30 second  break before starting on a next  set of exercises. Each exercise is demonstrated prior to the beginning the exercise. There is a clock that comes up for each exercise. The times of each exercise vary. Sweat A clocks in at under 25 minutes.   After the warm up, Tony takes your through a series of moves. Many of the moves are martial arts inspired.  With the MMA moves you switch leads and  repeat on the other side.  Half way through the workout you get

This month I am going to be doing workouts from the P90 workout system.  P90 is a Tony Horton system and it is suppose to be an easier verison (introduction if you will) to his P90X series of workouts.  The version of the system I got includes 14 workouts on five DVDs.  I will review each workout disc as I do them. The system comes with two 90 Day rotations .  One rotation emphasizes sculpt and the other emphasizes cardio. There is a 6 day Shred booklet (around 14 pages) that you can use "to start your program off on the right foot". It includes a meal plan. There is a 4 Step Power Plan pamphlet that gives you more information on how to use the P90 system.  Also included is Simple Kitchen , a 64 page booklet that focuses your attention on nutrition and a resistance tube style band with a door attachment.

August 2017 Monthly Rotation Breakdown Sunday - Treadmill run and stretch Monday - Tracie Long Tuesday - Tony Horton P90 Wednesday - Tony Horton P90 Thursday - Les Mills On-demand, BodyCombat and Sh'bam Friday - Tracie Long Saturday - Active Recovery workouts from Classic Stretch season 9.