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Lately I have been fielding lots of questions about which Beachbody exercise program people should do so I am here to tell you the differences of the two most popular.  The main items I will cover are  level of difficulty, number of days, cost, results, and which one is my favorite. 

Level of difficulty

P90x is super hard for the first 30 days and after that it starts to become easier.  Your doing things to your body that you haven’t done since high school.(unless your still in high school) Things like pull ups, squats, Yoga, Kenpo X, plyometrics and the list can go on but I think anyone can do this program.  It’s all in your head!  On a scale of 1 – 10 and 10 being the highest I would say for first timers a 10 but after at least one round you would rate it an 8. 

Insanity is super hard as well but a different degree of difficulty.  See the main difference is that you don’t need any extra equipment like P90x.  P90x requires items like a pull up bar an weights

Shoulders and Arms in the P90X program is such a great workout that your bound to get sore the next morning.  In this P90X workout you have 15 different exercises and they are repeated twice within a 59 minute time frame.  Now the most important thing that Tony stresses is the stretching before so you get a little over 7 minutes of it.  Take away the almost 3 minutes of cool down and your workout is really only 50 minutes long.  Now if your reading this and saying well that’s just too much time!  Then consider doing RevAbs or Insanity as your length is on average 30-50 minutes total.   

Shoulders and arms are done in weeks 1, 2, 3, 9, and 11 and all that is needed are your preferred weights or bands, a wall and chair.  Now that your ready to go you will be doing 15 exercises straight through but remember to not over do yourself as you have another round after.

I am not going to explain every exercise in this P90X program because this post would be forever long but I will list them in order from beginning to end.