P90 Masters: Sculpt 5/6

Tony Horton
Year Released: 2005

Categories: Total Body Workouts


This workout is part of the Masters series, intended as an intermediary between P90 and P90X. This is a solid, fun circuit workout. There are about four rounds and each has one exercise each of push-ups moves, back exercise, shoulder exercise, biceps, triceps and lower body. You do about 12-15 reps each for the upper body and up to 20 for lower body. You move from one exercise to the next without repeating; time goes by quickly. I love this style of working out!

There is a feature I like from the original P90, they take a few seconds before the move to demo it in a split screen with the advanced move on the bottom and a modified version on top. They do not do this in later series such as X+, so I was happy to see it here. However, I did miss the bars up the side of the screen that tell you how many exercises are done and how many remain. The structure of the routine was easy to figure out though.

Tony has a male and female background exerciser. The woman shows a modified version and does more reps, using weights. The man uses bands and does fewer reps. Tony explains that se is going for longer, leaner look and he is trying to bulk. So you could experiment with the equipment and the reps to achieve different results. Also, you could make the workout shorter quite easily. Just make sure that you stop after a leg exercise because that is always the last one in the circuit.

For myself, I do feel like my lower body responds better to higher-rep work. I am not sure this would be enough for me as my only weight workout. But as part of a larger Tony rotation, this is a solid strength entry. I have been enjoying my recent experiments with the Masters series and I am sorry I let it sit, unused, on my shelf for so long.

Joanna

07/04/2009