As you probably know, the P90X system involves twelve workouts that you do over a ninety day period. Each workout targets a different area of your body or a specific workout need. We’ll cover each of the workouts in the Dig Deeper Fitness blog so that you have an idea of what you’re in for! Today, we’ll be discussing the first workout in the series: Yoga X!
You may be wondering what a yoga workout is doing in the middle of what’s supposed to be one of the most challenging workouts ever developed. The P90X yoga workout serves two purposes. The first is that in order to maximize any workout, whether it’s P90X or the Insanity Program or your own personal workout, you should have developed your flexibility to its longest extension point. Yoga, obviously, is a perfect workout for improving flexibility in your entire body.
The second reason is that the yoga workout makes it possible for you to make it through the entire ninety day schedule of the P90X. If every workout were plyometrics or chin-ups, it would be too hard on your body to maintain its pace. The yoga workout gives you a chance to relieve your cardio and the intense strength moves and instead focus on breathing, flexibility and more stationary strength moves.
That said, if you’ve ever done a yoga workout before, you will immediately realize that the P90X version of yoga is an intense brand of yoga training. It’s actually got its own name, Yoga X!
The workout is divided into four main sections. “Moving Asanas” focuses on strength training through yoga poses. “Balance Postures” improves your center of balance through many one-leg poses and some core work. “Floor Work” offers maximum stretching and flexibility through leg and back extension moves on the floor. Finally, “Yoga Belly” picks and chooses the best yoga poses to strengthen your core and get you the awesome abs you see on so many yoga enthusiasts. You’ll finish up with some extra floor work to round things out.
Yoga X is based primarily on Hatha yoga, so if you’re looking for a flexibility and strength training program that’s yoga-based, you may want to start there. However, Yoga X is incredibly challenging in the true P90X form! Even fitness enthusiasts have found this workout to push them to places they’ve previously never experienced!
