P90X-Plus-Banner” src=”http://teamripped.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/P90X-Plus-Banner1.jpg” alt=”” width=”150″ height=”656″ />For those of you who have been checking teamRIPPED, I have been reviewing some of my favorite Beachbody workout programs.  I always say the same thing: P90X is by far my favorite stand-alone program.  If you are going to do 1 and just 1 program, I think it MUST be P90X.  That has it all (lifting, cardio, nutrition, and is repeatable indefinitely).  However, that doesn’t mean I don’t like these other programs.  I just don’t feel that they are the whole package.

P90X Plus is a set of workouts designed for P90X graduates.  The workouts are shorter (45 minutes or so), and the excercises are more synergistic (meaning they involve mutiple muscle groups).  The lifts are all for time rather than reps, so it’s not as good for bulk muscle building as the classic P90X.  With P90X Plus, my heart rate gets real high and I get a big calorie burn while still pushing the muscles with the lifts.  It’s a great change-up to the classic P90X style.

There are 5 workouts.  Upper Body Plus and Total Body Plus are the lift workouts.  I like both of these very much and use them regularly in my Hybrid Workout.  I use the Upper Body Plus as one of my 3 lift days, and I use Total Body Plus as a recovery week workout (it’s like an advanced version of Core Synergistics).

The Abs / Core Plus is a great Ab workout, but is much more technically difficult than Ab Ripper X.  All exercises target the abs, but you rotate between hanging (using the pullup bar), standing, plank, and on the ground.  They really burn the core and abs!  I use this workout regularly as well.

The Interval X is a really fun HIIT workout, in which you go through a series of 1 minute excercises at 3 different speeds (slow, medium, fast).  It’s a great, Insanity-type, cardio workout. Again, this workout is one that I do on a regular basis.

The only workout I don’t care for is Kenpo Cardio Plus.  I’m not a big fan of the original P90X Kenpo either.  I just don’t feel like punching and kicking the air gives me as good of a workout as the interval training of Interval X or the Insanity workouts.  However, if you are a fan of the P90X Kenpo, you’ll really like the Kenpo Cardio Plus.

I will also warn you that it gets annoying to hear Tony constantly plug the “Bowflex Selectech dumbells” that they use throughout the workouts.  There must have been some marketing agreement between Bowflex and Beachbody on this one, cuz it gets pretty obnoxious!!  “Thank you Bowflex”.  “These Selectech dumbbells really get the job done”.  Oh, and then there’s the way Tony keeps making an “X” with his arms and then doing a clicking sound while rotating the “X” into a “+” for P90X +.  Can you say CORNY!!  But then again, Tony being corny is part of what makes the workouts fun, right!!??

In conclusion, I use all of the P90X Plus workouts (except Kenpo) in my Hybrid workout, but I don’t do a stand-alone P90X Plus routine.  They are a great way to supplement and customize your P90X routine.  There is no nutrition guide.   It’s assumed that users of this program are already very familiar with the P90X nutrition guide.  The workouts are GREAT though, and very different from the classic P90X.

To learn more, click the P90X picture at the left, or the link below:

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