The Hybrid

I'll probably explain about p90x and Insanity more in later posts, but if you've talked to me within the past 4-5 months, I've probably bored you to death with it. Anyway, the deal with my hybrid program was that it would follow the p90x layout except I'd be replacing the cardio days of p90x with the more intense workouts of Insanity. And also since you get plenty of leg workouts in Insanity (and the fact I hate the Legs and Back DVD for p90x), I decided to replace that day too. Yoga X was way too long for my tastes as well, so I'm going to replace it with the Tony Horton One on One Fountain of Youth Yoga DVD (Which will be referred to as FOY because that took way too long to type).

So month one is going to look a little like this:
Week 1:
Chest & Back/ARX
Plyometric Cardio Circuit
Shoulders & Arms/ARX
Cardio Recovery
Cardio Power and Resistance
Pure Cardio/Cardio Abs

Week 2:
Chest & back/ARX
Plyometric Cardio Circuit
Shoulders&arms/ARX
FOY Yoga
Cardio Power and Resistance
Pure Cardio/Cardio Abs

Week 3:
Chest&back/ARX
Max interval plyo
Shoulders&arms/ARX
Max Recovery
Max interval circuit
Max Cardio Conditioning/Cardio Abs

Recovery week:
FOY yoga
Core Synergistics
Kenpo X
X Stretch
Core Cardio and Balance
Cardio Recovery

Reasoning behind this schedule:
I decided to follow the p90x schedule because it was structured better. A 7 day schedule worked better and it was easier to expect what was coming on a certain day. Insanity liked to cycle between 4 or 5 workouts, which is cool, but I like to know when and what is going to be sore (which in the case of Insanity was usually everything).
p90x also touts 2 adjustment weeks and then a mastery week before recovery. So what I decided to do was swap out the usual month 1 Insanity workouts with the Max workouts. Hopefully my gamble pays off on this one.
Also I decided to have yoga happen once during the first three weeks. From my experience doing p90x, yoga tended to stretch everything out, but I've gotten to a point where physical soreness isn't too much of an issue. Plus I only have to do a small number of vinyasas.

I'll probably be getting this puppy started on saturday so stay tuned.