Best beach body workout?

Get the free Nike Training Club app on your phone - great workouts on there and you need minimal equipment. They are 15, 30 or 45 min long and you can do all body or targeted muscle groups.

I've done Chalean Extreme, P90X, and Insanity. For the sole purposes of looking good on the beach, I would recommend either CLX or P90X (something with weight training). I prefer CLX only because the workouts are a little shorter than P90X (which means I actually looked forward to them) and I love Chalean. I always found myself making excuses not to do P90X because the workouts felt so long. If you pair CLX with a really good diet, you will definitely get some great results. I miss my CLX muscles!

I suggest trying out the 30 day fitness challenges (whether online or getting the app). They require no equipment, and are reasonable to work into any schedule. Also you can do them on your own time and watch your favorite shows instead of watching trainers or insanely fit people do the exercises!

Having done most of the workouts.........or at least the good ones that don't focus on one body area (i.e., Hip Hop Abs, Brazil Butt Lift, etc), here's as unbiased as it gets.

P90X, P90X2, Body Beast - These are your bodybuilding or body toning type workouts. Slow and methodical. If you have a "weak" area, you will find it and improve it with these workouts. A lot of the workouts are easily modified, mainly by just choosing a lighter weight or resistance bands.

ChaLEAN Extreme, Les Mills Pump - Kind of like the 3 workouts above, only in a "lite" version. The workouts move a little faster, adding a small cardio / circuit training element. A lot of the workouts are easily modified, mainly by just choosing a lighter weight or resistance bands.

Insanity, Asylum, Asylum Volume 2 - Balls to the wall, chew you up and spit you out cardio-centric workouts. WARNING: Not only will this make you sweat and breathe hard, but be prepared to feel some soreness in either your lower back, knees and/or ankles. This is high impact stuff. The only real way to modify is to go at a slower pace, which can be somewhat counterproductive and eliminates the point of doing these workouts in the first place, although I have found that you can work on the form first and the speed will come over time.

Focus T25, Les Mills Combat, P90X3 - Quick tempo, lower impact, and fun. Time seems to speed up when doing these workouts, but in the end, you'll be breathing and sweating, and in some cases you'll be a little sore.

TurboFire - Take Insanity, take out the high impact, and crowbar in some choreographed type moves, and you have TurboFire.......a balls to the wall cardio workout.

Hopefully I covered all of the main ones.

i've done p90x, insanity, and asylum 1 & 2.

Personally i found p90x to be harder then insanity, which is odd because i've traditionally avoided cardio. i guess i didn't realize i hated pull ups that much. the 'P' stands for pull ups. lol not really, but you'll think that if you do the program. there are ways to modify the pull up, but personally i don't think its worth doing the program if you can't already do at least one unassisted pull up.

P90x definetly gave me the best results.

I highly perfer Shaun to Tony though.

IMO Asylum is by far the most fun. the 'back and six pack' work out is honestly fun to do. there is just enough jump rope in it to challenge you but not completely frustrate you. its the most diverse of the BB workouts i've done.

If i had to suggest one for you i'd say T25.

I am very excited to do p90x3 and someday i'll try body beast.

I never stopped lifting during a BB program, its up to you, just need to do it intelligently, like don't do the same body part two days in a row if you pairing it with p90x

some people grossly underestimate the difficulty of these programs

I highly perfer Shaun to Tony though.

Agreed......nothing against Tony, but his sense of humor is so dry sometimes that it's cringe-worthy.