P90X2 Recovery and Mobility

Why is recovery so important?

When you exercise, think of how much time you actually spend doing it, how much time you wait until the next workout and how sore your muscles are several days after the workout. Most people who exercise do it for about an hour a day, 5 or 6 days a week.

There are 168 hours in a week, so exercising for 5 or 6 of them equals a 3% workout time and 97% recovery time. It takes much less time to break something down(the workout), than to build it back up stronger than before (the recovery). If you don’t recover enough from the last workout you did, you can be prone to over-training and injury which will set you back much farther than just giving your muscles a little extra time to heal up.

P90X2 Recovery and Mobility is just under an hour long and will get the kinks out of your muscles, increase your flexibility and help your range of motion.

What you’ll need

Mat
Foam roller or towel and sturdy chair
Weighted bar or broomstick or towel
Yoga block – Optional
Water and towel

The warmup

The warmup is pretty simple and lasts for about 15 minutes to start warming up your body so that when you get to part 2, your muscles aren’t ice cold. The exercises are sun salutations, leg swings, step back lunge twist, squat press and single leg touch down.

Foam rolling!

This is the key element of this workout and in my opinion, P90X2 as a whole. You do this for 20 minutes. The premise behind foam rolling is myofacial release which helps to loosen up your muscles, get the kinks out and increase range of motion. Doing this is like being your own personal massage therapist.

When I purchased P90X2, I bought the ultimate package which has an upgraded foam roller called a “Rumble Roller”. This roller has a bunch of little knobs on it and when you put your weight on those things, each one is like having someone’s elbow right in your sore muscle spots to get the knots out and loosen up those tight muscles from all the stress that we carry around. It’s amazing to say the least and you’ll feel 100 times better after a session with it.

Mobility

After foam rolling you do several of the exercises in the warm up (you should see a big improvement in your mobility here because your muscles will be far more loose), some yoga moves and some regular stretching.

The exercises are:

Step back lunge twist
Squat press
Single leg touch down
Vinyasa to pigeon
Frog
Hamstring stretch
Roller angel
Shavasana foam roller

That’s the end! After this workout I always feel like a million bucks. Why? Because I’m taking care of my body. Aches and pains are not something that I like having.

More P90X2 information:

To learn more, check out these other blog posts that I have written on the other workouts in the P90X2 series.

P90X2 Core
P90X2 Plyocide
P90X2 Overview

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