The great thing about taking on and completing P90X is not only the results it helped me get but the way it helped me reimagine what a workout program should be. It sharpened my eye for judging whether a workout will be beneficial to users and also be revenue friendly.
I went into the P90X workout process thinking that results came from a certain approach, but I actually couldn't define precisely what that was.
P90X was a breakthrough because it started with the end and gave you a picture of what you would look like in a way that was so enticing and exciting, that it was worth the risk. More importantly, it offered a simple path to get there. 90 days in and bam. In between was some hard work. Very very hard work actually.
P90X basically took three moves we've all done from time to time in our exercise programs and put them in an order and under the flow of a calendar that would create successful outcomes. The workout is simplicity in action. There is no perfect workout of course and the inevitable happened and people found wholes in P90X.
For one there isn't a real strong aggressive weight loss component. You will lose weight and it's been prove that you will by hundreds of thousands of users, but it is more incidental than fundamental. The workout is a resistance workout to the max done to a timed schedule.
For instance, George St. Pierre RushFit is even simpler. Instead of 13 weeks, it attacks your problem areas in 8. Instead of a pull-up bar and weights, you need only weights. You work under under strict time clock that is more rigid and higher intensity than P90X. It hones in on simplicity. The idea is based on exercise research that says that you can achieve that very ripped appearance in less time if you ratchet up the intensity.
So far the ratings from customers have been surprisingly good, but it's still very early. What the workout did shrewdly is to not deviate from the ideal results standard set by P90X. The simplistic nature of what they put together works because you have expert instruction. This is critical for safety in approaching any high-intensity workout. Simplicity is genius as they say, but it must backed by intelligence. This is especially true with fitness programs.
I went into the P90X workout process thinking that results came from a certain approach, but I actually couldn't define precisely what that was.
P90X was a breakthrough because it started with the end and gave you a picture of what you would look like in a way that was so enticing and exciting, that it was worth the risk. More importantly, it offered a simple path to get there. 90 days in and bam. In between was some hard work. Very very hard work actually.
P90X basically took three moves we've all done from time to time in our exercise programs and put them in an order and under the flow of a calendar that would create successful outcomes. The workout is simplicity in action. There is no perfect workout of course and the inevitable happened and people found wholes in P90X.
For one there isn't a real strong aggressive weight loss component. You will lose weight and it's been prove that you will by hundreds of thousands of users, but it is more incidental than fundamental. The workout is a resistance workout to the max done to a timed schedule.
For instance, George St. Pierre RushFit is even simpler. Instead of 13 weeks, it attacks your problem areas in 8. Instead of a pull-up bar and weights, you need only weights. You work under under strict time clock that is more rigid and higher intensity than P90X. It hones in on simplicity. The idea is based on exercise research that says that you can achieve that very ripped appearance in less time if you ratchet up the intensity.
So far the ratings from customers have been surprisingly good, but it's still very early. What the workout did shrewdly is to not deviate from the ideal results standard set by P90X. The simplistic nature of what they put together works because you have expert instruction. This is critical for safety in approaching any high-intensity workout. Simplicity is genius as they say, but it must backed by intelligence. This is especially true with fitness programs.
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