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Members of congress reveal their own health care plan. P90X!

Walter — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:21:19 +0000

It seems some members of the government know a good health care plan when they see one. They are not relying on others to care for them but are taking their health into their own hands.

Paul Ryan, Wisconsin’s 1st District Republican representative and former trainer, along with Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan’s 1st congressional district have been leading some other members of congress in daily P90X workouts. Tony Horton has been known to stop by an occasion to work in with them.

“It’s a fantastic workout,” Ryan says of P90X, which stresses the importance of muscle confusion and cross-training. “Bart Stupak and I lead it every morning. There’s about a dozen of us who do it.”

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Members of congress reveal their own health care plan. P90X!

You do HOW many sets?

Walter — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:55:02 +0000

A little while ago I was talking to a friend about the Power 90 DVD workout I’m doing. He’s a gym type of guy and kind of laughed when I said the workout has you do only one set to failure of each exercise with 8-15 reps, depending on if your just toning (12-15) or going for muscle gain (8-10). There’s very little rest between a set and moving on to another muscle group. It’s a fast paced circuit type workout using dumbbells, push-ups, squats, etc. that really keeps my heart rate up. The same type of circuit training used in P90X. He’s used to doing many sets with rests in between, usually with a friend spotting while he does a set, then switching so your resting in between each set. To me, the one set workout seemed to make sense since I thought you get most of your gains in the first set and saw diminishing returns on each successive set therefore this was the most efficient use of your workout time.

What made me think of this conversation was a recent article on over training over at T-Nation. I’m not going to repeat everyting in the article but they talk about seeing muscle gain by doing a set to failure (while keeping good form), possiblly two or three sets max, then moving on.

It’s always nice to have another source back up the theory of what your doing.

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You do HOW many sets?

Tony Who?

Walter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:20:31 +0000

I started to write a review of the Power 90 workout program I am using that was created by and stars the fitness trainer Tony Horton but thought I should start with a little background on Tony first.

Anthony (Tony) Horton, the certified fitness instructor and developer of the Power 90, Power 90 Master Series, 10 Minute Trainer, P90X, P90X Plus and One on One with Tony Horton workout system was born 1958 in Westley, Rhode Island. After graduation from the University of Rhode Island he moved to LA where he started his own personal transformation working out at the famous Golds Gym. He pursued the lean, toned muscular look instead of going for the bulky body builder shape and came up with routines to further that goal. His training style, personality and results made him a highly sought after personal trainer in the LA area. You can see some of his work on the cast of “The 13th Warrior” (no, the actors didn’t look that cut before working out with Tony for the film). The next big break (for us using his videos) came when he teamed up with Beachbody to develop DVD video workouts that can be done in a home setting with a minimum of equipment, much of which, such as resistance bands, are included with the workout programs. His videos run the gamut from just starting out down the road to fitness by getting active and loosing weight (like I need) to extreme “getting ripped” workouts for people who are already in great physical condition (which I will work up to).
Tony currently resides in Santa Monica, California and will, hopefully, continue to come out with great, fun, DVD workout programs for us mere mortals to use.

Now that I have that out of the way I can gather my thought on the Power 90.

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Tony Who?