A Home Workout for all Fitness Levels? Power Half Hour by Tony Horton
When you are talking home fitness workouts, the undisputed king in the last half-decade is without question P90X by Beachbody.
As their most recent infomercial discusses, over 4 million people have taken on the 90-day challenge and have seen their bodies transformed via the grueling workout. You can scan the internet and look high and low for reviews. Whatever criticisms you see about P90X, rarely is “it doesn’t get results” among them.
The man of the hour and decided face of p90X and really Beachbody is Tony Horton. Mr. Horton is a celebrity fitness trainer from California who followed a non-conventional path to super-stardom. He has proven that in the fitness market you can’t go wrong with giving great value, great customer support, and real results.
What Horton brings is a unique combination of pizzazz and intensity to the workouts. At the same time, none of these intangibles are provided at the expense of great knowledge. Strip away the veneer and great technical knowledge is what you get with a Tony Horton workout.
Power Half Hour is a 30 minute workout from Tony Horton that got lost in the shuffle a little bit mostly due to the amazing hysteria that surrounded the unbelievable run of P90X. Power Half Hour predated P90X and was considered a popular workout in it’s own right.
Now Power Half Hour is being reintroduced front and center as a shorter alternative to P90X. I say shorter for two reasons. First, all the workouts in the 5 workout series for Power Half Hour are 30 minute workouts. P90X has seen criticisms that the hour a day commitment is a little long. (Actually Yoga X is about 1.5 hours.)
I know from my own history that the longer the workout ahead, the more likely I might be to talk myself out of doing the work or put it off.
Power Half Hour also is shorter based on total time frame for completion of the program to see that whole new you. Where P90X is 90 days, Power Half hour is 1 30 minute workout per day, 5 days-a-week for 60 days.
Additionally, Power Half Hour by Tony Horton promises noticeable results in 6 days, which is basically a week. So with Power Half Hour, everything is compressed when placed off against P90X.
Power Half Hour uses the basic integral principles that drive the success of P90X students: focused effort lead by an elite instructor coupled with muscle confusion. Muscle confusion creates faster change by not allowing the body to plateau from lack of new and varying challenges.
The user should be cautioned that Power Half Hour is not P90X and is probably better suited as either a beginner stepping stone workout or a change of pace for a P90X graduate. It will be interesting to see if the favor Beachbody has built up will rub off on the reborn Power Half Hour or if it will simply sink into oblivion.
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Cheryl Boswell is a writer and researcher on home fitness and health products. You can save time and money by getting FREE in depth news, features, and reviews on home exercise equipment, workout programs, health, and nutrition, including discounts and best prices at http://bodyslimdown.com
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