Beach Body Programs

What are your goals? Most of the beach body programs are beginner programs and will only take you so far. If you have access to a gym, consider a barbell weight training program such as StrongLifts or Starting Strength.

The P90X programs are proven with thousands upon thousands of success stories.

They are more for total fitness though, and despite the adds you won't come out looking like Ronnie Coleman after 1 set of 90 days unless you were already close.

There is a new P90X3 that came out in 2014. It has the same idea as the original p90x although all the workouts are only 30 minutes.

I lost 13 pounds in January using p90x3.

This dude here has a TON of great info on the Beachbody programs if you're interested.

I have no affiliation he's Canadian and I'm from Kentucky, but his reviews and blogs really helped me make the decision to go with P90x3

http://tylerrobbinsfitness.com/p90x3/

I really like the insanity workouts. It's hard to stay motivated and I don't do them every single day, but can still see results even 3 weeks in.
It's total body, about 40 minutes a day with the recovery, fit tests and ab targeting videos being shorter. I believe the second month requires about an hour a day.

I'm just starting week 6 of Insanity and love it! I've lost 15 lbs, dropped 1 pant size, and my stamina has increased significantly. I'm starting to feel like my old self again! I feel healthy and have a lot of energy that I haven't had in a long time!

I'm finishing T25 - really liked it and they have modifiers if you can't keep up with everyone
- Tried P90X3 but their modifiers are primarily low impact, not low strength.
- Doing Body Beast next 'cause I like weight lifting

If you have a good bit of experience and have medium fitness or above I'd recommend caveman training! It's a complete body workout and if you push your self will do wonders for your body!

I have been there thinking about buying the Power 90 to get ready for p90x.

Throwing in my two cents... I've done Insanity, both Asylums, T25 and I'm doing the 21-day fix right now. Happy to give you details on any and all, just message me. I love a hard workout, but the truth is, all workouts work. The magic is what you put in. If you're time-constrained, T25 or 21-day fix are the way to go because the workouts are about 30 mins. If you want stamina and to really leave it all on the floor (including yourself half the time), Insanity is awesome (will always be my favorite).

Im about to start P90x3 as soon as it arrives. Im looking to trim down and jmprove my performance.

Feel free to add me

I did 3 rounds of Insanity. Then tried out T25, Combat, and Asylum before moving onto Body Beast. I'm on round 4 of Beast now and love it. Going to start a Max:30/Beast hybrid next month to get ready for beach weather.

Some of the beachbody programs are great, depending on what you are looking for and your level of fitness.

Insanity, Asylum, Max 30 are more of a higher level, sort of intermediate to advanced levels. Its tough and you get great results from them. I did Insanity and am on week 7 of Insanity Max 30, so i am nearly done with that. I do admit sometimes its hard to stay motivated, so when I feel myself deviate, I supplement another workout in, on week 7, I started to, not that I did that the first 6 weeks when I followed the program to a T.

Piyo is a great yoga-pilates hybrid, havent tried that yet, but I would think its a bit lower impact than those listed above.

Focus T25 is a great beginner/intermediate program and when you reach the gamma its more intermediate to a lower advanced style of training.

P90x is a great program as well for all levels, its built on a solid foundation of taking from all disciplines. the new x3 is about the same workout I hear but only on 30 minutes when you dont have the full hour to alot in the day to give it.

Turbo Fire, Turbo Jam are great. Turbo Jam is a little easier and fun in terms of dancy kickboxing. While Turbo Fire is the same thing with a higher intensity.

Hip Hop Abs and Rockin Body are dance cardio and they are alot of fun.

Then you have Yoga Booty Ballet, which I dont really like, but people like the concept behind it and still have the dvds for it.

And Les Mills Pump/Combat are branded partnership of Pump barbell style workouts and Combat is a mma/kickbox/muay thai/ boxing workout that is a great cardio workout that makes you feel like you are training with the pros.

Wish I could explain better, but make sure to watch YT videos and read google blog postings about the different workouts.

I have done: Insanity, Insanity Max 30, P90x (some of the workouts), Turbo Fire, I own PiYo but didnt do it yet, Les Mills Combat, Hip Hop Abs, Turbo Jam, and some of the other ones like Brazil Butt Lift I have but haven't done a full rotation yet.

I've done Insanity and loved it. It's challenging but it's a great program.

I'm currently doing Les Mills Combat & I love it - it's so much fun. I'm only about 3 weeks in and haven't lost a lot of weight, but I can already see an improvement in my overall fitness.

P90x is a great program. I completed one round and working on round 2. I have only done the original program, not 2 or 3. But you can cater the workouts to your needs / abilities. You can modify, there is a variety of workout schedules depending on your goals.