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A new product is hitting the ecommerce channels that is really going to do well for its creators, it is the P90X2 and is the latest exercise product to come out of the BeachBody stable. If you follow it and ‘Bring It On’ for 90 days you too will end up with a ‘ripped’ physique, be fitter and look great. The program works because it overcomes something that is a real problem in fitness, whatever you do, if you keep doing it the same, you will reach a plateau. This plateau will be like hitting a brick wall, it will seem like no matter how much effort you put in, you will get less and less return. It is all apparently down to Muscle Confusion, a term so important in this line of products that they trademarked it.

But what is muscle confusion? What has a muscle got to get confused about? Doesn’t it sound as if you are making life terrible for the poor naïve muscle? Is there a kind of muscle IQ where if there is something in its experience that is too difficult for it then it gives up – and gets really confused about its purpose?

The plateau is the point when your muscles adapt to the routine that you have set upon them. In the beginning you always notice the biggest changes and this does help toward motivating you forward, but the improvements suddenly seem to stop and this discourages many people and they’ll stop. Often this plateau is accepted as the limit to the amount of improvement the body will ever make and therefore do the best they can to alternate between exercises so that they reach this limit more slowly. It is also a symptom seen in overtraining, where a person pushes themselves too fast in exercising that any recovery that should take place in between the exercises doesn’t get chance to happen. This causes a plateau to appear and if pushed further an actual decline can occur.

The plateau is the one thing any fitness follower or bodybuilder knows is there and wants to avoid at all costs and it appear the muscle confusion is the way to go.

There is a guy by the name of Tony Horton that has caught onto this idea of confusing the muscles in exercise. He has created a set of exercises that will definitely confuse your muscles. Billy Idol the famous singer actually calls Tony Horton ‘Muscle Confucius’ because of his consistent insistence upon it. Of course, this idea is at the core of the latest product coming out. P90X2 was built upon a decade of product innovation and it gets past this plateau so that constant improvements can be seen by anyone taking up the course. There are many videos around of people who have used the previous product P90X, showing the improvements that it has made in their physique and energy levels. This product has successfully changed their life for the better by following it and the latest pushing that even further. Expect plenty more testimonials once people have begun using P90X2, of that there will be no confusion.

With the launch of P90X2 creating a lot of excitement it is interesting to look back over what made this product such a success. It comes from two years of research after the creation and launch of its predecessor P90X, which comes from Power 90 Extreme, which before came from Power 90. It is easy to see that this product has got a lot of history behind it.

It was created originally by Anthony Sawyer “Tony” Horton, Jr., or just plain Tony Horton, who is a really well-known fitness guru that has been focused on personal training since the early 1980s. Tony has had a string of famous clientele, mostly musicians, such as Billy Idol, Tom Petty, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Bruce Springsteen and Usher Raymond, but also an actor Ewan McGregor. He studied the professional bodybuilding routines at the time but really wanted to avoid building up bulky muscles and so he concentrated more on achieving speed, flexibility and balance.

It was in 2001 when BeachBody, a fitness product company, after approaching Tony about creating a workout video product, launched his Power 90 home exercise program. This popular boot camp set of routines spaced over 90 days concentrated on fast and furious cardiovascular exercise with a bit of weight training and strength training. A few products later adding to the Power 90 program and in 2004 the intense Power 90 Extreme (P90X) was created by Tony that allowed for achieving a ‘ripped’ physique through powerful exercises and nutrition planning. The popularity of the previous programs were surpassed and this became the biggest selling product for BeachBody, selling well over 3 million of them since.

With the routines of P90X were a series of exercises that followed the techniques of creating muscle confusion. The purpose if this was to prevent the plateauing that occurs when you train on the same muscles, the same way for a period about a month. It becomes much harder to increase the muscle mass once this plateau has been reached and can be a source of frustration to body builders. Tony created exercises that got round it by introducing unfamiliar movements to the muscles at particular times to prevent them from adapting and reaching their plateau. Billy Idol nicknamed Tony “Muscle Confucius” because of Tony’s interest in Muscle Confusion in his training.

In amongst these routines were included cardiovascular exercises, some people called these ‘aerobic’, others call them ‘cardio’, helping to strengthen the heart and lungs, resulting in lowered blood pressure and an increase in burnt calories. Also included are some plyometrics, or jump training, that are powerful, explosive movements helping you to jump higher, to run faster, to hit harder and throw further. Plyometrics exercises help the nervous system, prevent injury and develop your power and performance. Also included are some exercises from the martial art of Kenpo, which is a mixture of several martial arts sources that developed in Hawaii from Japan, Chinese and Ryukyuan influences.

Finally, it appears that P90X appeared in the lyrics of a Bruno Mars song, “Tomorrow I’ll wake up, do some P90X” from “The Lazy Song”. It appears a music connection will always exist.

So looking back at its predecessors P90X2 is building upon over a decade of product development from Power 90 to P90X and including the latest expertise and sports science, a hugely successful history.