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Old 06-06-11, 08:04 AM  
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Question about P90X

Hello....

I know the workouts are pretty long... 60 minutes or so, right? and I believe the yoga is even longer....

I recall some one you mentioning something about P90X halfsies? sorry if that's not the term... what was that? Do the DVDs have a quickie option or something like that?

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Old 06-06-11, 08:13 AM  
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There's nothing "official" in the workout on halfsies, but you most certainly could do so. The nature of P90X is such that you work the same muscle groups over and over again in the same workout, so it certainly lends itself to cutting the workouts short if needed 'cause you've worked every muscle group by the time you'd be skipping ahead.

Simply put, you just quit about 1/2 way through and skip to the cool-down.

Some workouts will be easier than others to gauge that 1/2 way point. For example, in Back & Chest (the one I did today), you do 12 exercises and then do the same 12 again. It'd be easy as heck to just stop after the first 12. On something like PlyoX, you're just going to have to rely on time. Most of the workouts are just about 55-56 minutes long (low of 52, high of 59 I think besides Yoga). You really start working typically at minute 48 or so, so once you get to minute 24 you fast forward to the cool-down, making it around a 32-34 minute workout including warmup and cool-down.
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Old 06-06-11, 08:30 AM  
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I remember Debbie S. coming up with a halfsies P90X rotation. (I think!) Hopefully she will chime in here

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Old 06-07-11, 05:54 AM  
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I find that I can cut down on the time factor by fast forwarding alot. And i don't take the breaks. Once you do the workout and become familiar with the moves you can speed it up a lot. some workouts I can get done in 30-40 minutes.
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Old 06-07-11, 09:00 AM  
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I remember Debbie S. coming up with a halfsies P90X rotation. (I think!) Hopefully she will chime in here

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Thanks Sherry.... Debbie, where are you? LOL!!!
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Old 06-07-11, 09:37 AM  
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You do halfsies by either just doing the first half of the workout, then skipping to the cooldown, as Blackadar mentioned, or, with most of the workouts, skipping the repeated circuits by chaptering past them (most of the workouts aren't set up like Chest/Back, but rather repeat circuits, like doing a shoulder, then bicep, then triceps exercise, then repeating that sequence).
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Old 06-07-11, 10:09 AM  
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You do halfsies by either just doing the first half of the workout, then skipping to the cooldown, as Blackadar mentioned, or, with most of the workouts, skipping the repeated circuits by chaptering past them (most of the workouts aren't set up like Chest/Back, but rather repeat circuits, like doing a shoulder, then bicep, then triceps exercise, then repeating that sequence).
This works. Thanks so much!
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Old 06-07-11, 11:33 AM  
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I did the FF thing, too. Once I did my reps to exhaustion, I FF'd to the next section. It cuts out about a third of the workout if you're a weenie like me.
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Old 06-07-11, 11:36 AM  
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I did the FF thing, too. Once I did my reps to exhaustion, I FF'd to the next section. It cuts out about a third of the workout if you're a weenie like me.
Yes I am LOL!!! can't even lift more than 5 lbs right now LOL
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