Tony Horton P90 Disc A - Thoughts

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 a 30 second break and then Tony goes back to the beginning and repeats the sequence of exercises.

Ab ripper A is a short 9 minute ab workout. This is a floor based ab workout and there are a variety moves that work the oblique, upper and lower abs.


In all of the workouts, Tony may do a few reps of each exercise but for the most part he is coaching the participants and giving tips to the camera.  One participant is showing modifications.

The DVD comes with subtitles but you can turn these off..  The DVD also has a music on/off option.  Expect all of the BeachBody commercials that are normally included in BeachBody workout systems.

Sculpt A - 3 & 3/4 stars
Sweat A - 3 & 1/4 stars
Ab Ripper A - 3 & 1/2 stars


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