Then you just start swinging your arms like you were running. You start off in a runners post like you’re about to take off for a marathon with your arms in full position (meaning in a full stride position).

Here, you will need your dumbbells again. For added intensity, throw in your resistance bands or some dumbbells and either keep them at your sides or lift them over your head. I’m back in my element now here you are doing a lunge at 45 degrees going from one side to the next. Julie loves the banana roll ( P), my excuse is I’m too tall and my legs are too heavy. Then complete a series of rolling on your sides, stomach and back again only using your core muscles. Here, you start off lying on your back with your legs and arms off the ground (You are only using your core muscles). These are the same as the Banana/Superman Roll I explained in my previous post Cardio X.

If you’re doing your workouts in the morning, this will get the cobwebs out! The good thing about this exercise is that you do 5 reps for each hand the part that sucks is you do them until failure, meaning until you can’t do them anymore. This is a push up where just as the exercise-name states, you have your feet stacked on top of each other, and one hand close to your chest and the other hand “staggered” or out in front of you. There are a ton of them.īeing that I’m weak at push-ups and my lower body is about 5 or 600% stronger than my upper body, starting out the gate with staggered push-ups is good for me, as I can put a great deal of energy in proper form when doing this exercise. Unlike most of the other P90X workouts, you only do 1 set of each exercise.

Transverse Abs – muscles surrounding your upper and lower abs.

The muscles that you will be working out are: This workout has a basic idea of working your core muscles to make your entire body stronger, since everything comes from the center and all your body parts are attached to your core somehow.

We should make a western world equivalent of the word, and call it “Sy.” My first thought was that this was some ancient stuff that the Chinese call “ Qi” or the Japanese call “ki.” In a way it is in another way, it’s just a bunch of guys exercising their abs. The theory here is that your core is the synergy that the rest of your body draws from. This is actually the DVD that got me interested in the whole system. P90X Core SynergisticsĬore Synergistics was actually the first workout from the P90X series that I have done. This is my review on P90X Core Synergistics.

P90x chest and back full video reddit