P90X Back and Biceps

What a great workout!  When I started doing P90X all I wanted was to get rid off the extra love from my lower back and let me tell you this is the workout.  Back and Biceps for P90X is all about curling and pull ups.  You will need a chair, pull up bar, wall, towel and weights.  The workout is approximately 59 minutes with just under 7 minutes of stretching and 2 minutes of warming up.  Total workout time of 51 minutes, so after you add a few 30 second breaks in there the P90X workout is just under a 50 minute workout.

So the workout entails lots of pull ups and curls within a 50 minute workout so make sure your chair is handy.  When I started P90X I couldn’t even do one and the majority that are thinking of starting P90X will not be able to do one either.  Sometimes I wish I would have started RevAbs first to break myself in but my results were awesome so no complaints.  By the time you start Back & Biceps you will be in week 5 so you should be used to the motion of it.  With that being said the first workout is wide front pull ups.

Wide front pull ups are one of the most difficult because your arms are spread out and you can’t keep control.  For the majority of the workout try and stick with lighter weights because you are doing 24 different exercises and half are curls.  I think 15 to 20 pound weights are safe but you can always bump up if you’re not hurting by the 7^th or 8^th rep.  Pull ups are done every 4^th workout and the other P90X exercises consist of switch grip, corn cob, towel pull ups, chin ups and a max rep pull up.  Does this sound like fun or what!

Of course in between these pull ups are curls and Tony Horton gives you 9 different moves of curls so no repetitiveness here.  They consist of 1 arm body curls, 1 arm concentration, static arm, crouching curls, corkscrew’s, hammer and in and out’s.  OUCH!  If you want huge biceps then this workout is a mans dream but for women its good for the extra arm fat.  Remember that if you do more reps (12-15) then you will lose fat but if you do less reps (8-10) with heavy weights then you will build muscle.  There are a couple other exercises that I left out but are still challenging.  You get to do lots of lawnmowers, back flies and my favorite superman.

When you think you’re all done you still get to do Ab Ripper X for another 15 minutes.  That’s why I recommend that you stick with a lighter weight even though as a guy you can probably lift more.  I think the workouts that get you prepared the most for Back & Biceps is Yoga X and Shoulders & Arms.  This is the reason why they are incorporated at the beginning of the P90X program.  If you would like more details on gaining more muscle and eating healthy meals then click here.  Remember that working out is half the battle but to look fit you have to stay true to a healthy meal plan.