P90X Equipment Needed

What is the absolutely necessary P90X equipment needed?

Tony Horton, the architect of the Beachbody P90X training program has come up with 12 different types of challenging workouts. These at home bodyweight, dumbbell and resistance bands exercises can easily be performed in your apartment, dorm room or even your office.

Simply, put there are no requirements that you purchase a Bowflex, Total Gym, or even a Bio Force Home Gym that will cost you thousands. Typically the P90X can assist you at a much lower cost, in achieving your muscle building or fitness goals.

The 12 P90X workout dvds take you through a twelve week or ninety day training course to obtain a tone and a new ripped physique. Contrary to popular belief, it will perform it's magic! All you really need to obtain a great work out is the right kind of P90X workout equipment.

This is what you absolutely need:

1. A set of high-quality strength bands
2. Chin up / Pull Up Stand or bar
3. Pushup bars, Perfect Push-Up Bars or Tony Horton's PowerStand

Rather than the strength bands, you can buy some dumbbells. Sorry to say, you'll want to buy multiple sets unless you want to be shifting or changing plates a great deal.  You can purchase the Bow Flex Select Tech Dumbbells which are truly a great product however, they aren't cheap. But if you have the money they are well worth it.

The Bowflex SelectTech 552 dumbbells for instance provides resistance from five lbs. to 55 pounds. The price of this product at the time that this article was written was approximately – $399.00. If you are on a tight budget, you don't have to spend this kind of money, there are other solutions.

One of the most popular solutions is resistance bands.

The Bodylastics Terrell Owens exercise bands have proven to be very popular. This set offers you resistance from 5 pounds to 249. It comes with a defects warrantee and is priced under $100.00.

Personally, I like resistance bands, not merely due to their cheaper price, but  because they are easily transportable, convenient plus much more adaptable than a set of dumbbells. If you're searching for a first-rate set of resistance bands. I would suggest either the Bodylastic system or the P90X Strength Bands.

Among the 2 the Bodylastics provides a lot more possibilities.

In regards to a chin up bar. There are a few alternatives here, if you want low-cost, you will be able to use the resistance bands to perform pull downs, in lieu of doing pull ups. Or possibly you can purchase a simple doorway chin up bar for around twenty dollars, and it will perform just as well as the fifty dollar P90X chin-ups bar.

Now, let's discuss push-up bars.

The first question is "do you really need push-up bars?"

The correct answer is both maybe and maybe not. The advantage of push-up bars is that they will reduce the risk of straining your wrists. And of course they allow you to dip further than when you perform push-ups on the palm of your hands on.

You can however, perform push-ups between the chair and get a much deeper depth than with the push-up bars. And at the same time save yourself 20 or 30 bucks.

If you decide to purchase push-up bars, there are a few on the market. There is the perfect push-up, regular push-up bars and the push-up Pro.

Let your budget be your guide.

We have covered all the equipment that is really needed for the power 90 extreme workout program. Again, if money is no object – your one of the few – then you might want to consider a yoga mat, both resistance bands and a pull-up bar and of course a high protein powder.