My shoulders are on fire after about twelve dive bombers. It has been six weeks since I’ve done them and I wasn’t looking forward to them. The dive bombers were as unpleasant as I remembered. Then I got a second wave of adrenaline or energy. Like a champ I put in a peice of gum and kept at it. I have been battling a little bit of sickness for a while now, but have not yet thrown up while working out. I was killing it……Ībout halfway through the workout I tossed my proverbial cookies. I was doing 20 standard pushups, today I did 35. In my record book I looked at what my goals and results were from weeks 1 through 3. I woke up, got ready and started intensely on disc 1 Chest and Back. I wish all the P90X videos ended with something this tough.P90x Week 9 Day 1, Chest and Back – ab ripper x – 1 mile jogįor some reason I felt ambitious this morning. Because it’s the last workout, you can really push yourself to exhaustion. It’s a great end to the workout because you empty the tank, then pick up a lighter weight and empty it again and do this four times. The workout ends with “Strip-Set Curls” where you do a set of 8 reps, then go down a weight, do 8 more reps, then down a weight, 8 more reps, then down a weight and 8 more reps.

After completing the workout over a dozen times, my arms are much stronger and depending on how often I do them and how much I’m working out regularly, they definitely start to grow. Before P90X, I’m not even sure I had biceps. It’s a brutal workout that focuses on one muscle group. And the variation is challenging and welcome.īiceps – The bicep workout is intense. Because each move is different in this video, you get to do a lot more back exercises than in Chest & Back or Legs & Back. Oh and Legs & Back includes “Switch Grip.” This video includes corn cobs and towel pull-ups. The other two videos that feature pull-ups rotate between wide, close grip, and chin-ups. This is the only time in P90X where there is any variation in pull-ups. The breakdown is simple – two back exercises, two bicep exercises.īack – Each set of back workouts is a pull-up routine followed by a dumbbell exercise. It’s the one workout where I find I push myself as hard as I can every time, without having to remind myself to push hard. Back & Biceps is hands-down my favorite P90X workout.

P90x chest and back workout summary