P90X2 Gets Risky in Abandoning the Winning P90X Approach
May 11, 2012 in Healthy Eating Tips
In my rough research of the online reviews, I would conclude that P90X2 has been mostly successful in fulfilling the promise to people to get them even fitter than they were with P90X Workout. What makes P90X so difficult to create a suitable sequel from, is the program’s wide popularity. The program was popular on basically every level that matters when a producer sets out to put together a winning home fitness program. That’s rare in this market to come up with something that versatile and yet that widely approved.
So if P90X2 is achieving great results for a lot of people, why do the reviews seem so lukewarm? I think you have to get deeper into the reviews themselves and study the words used to best describe the dissatisfaction. My overall impression is that users believe that P90X2 too radically abandons the formula for getting great results which drove P90X.
By taking the approach that they did, Beachbody and Tony Horton may have overplayed the winning hand it had in the trust game. That is not to say that 90X2 reflects a violation of the trust relationship established with the user from P90X. Rather, the users who have commented negatively about P90X2 on review sites, feel as though the program isn’t giving them a linear path to results. Much of this has to do with P90X being so strong in the simplicity which it used to lead people through the growth process.
Look closer at P90X insanity workout. Each workout was focused on a specific area of the body. During the course of each workout, you would work those areas to a level you likely hadn’t before in your life. You would also be using old-fashioned moves like push-ups, pull-ups and basic dumb-bell exercises. You would write down your repetition numbers and amount of weight. Then the next week you would likely notice improvements with those body parts in numbers. You would also likely experience a concurrent improvement in appearance.
P90X2 takes a different path in that the workouts are geared towards more unconventional movements. These movements are lauded in the marketing materials as being based on cutting-edge science designed to achieve better results more rapidly. The thing to recognize is that for the users who have seen the program to conclusion, P90X2 UK seems to be mostly delivering.
The problem is that the users who are critical of P90X2 don’t care about the science because they don’t seem to have confidence that the exercises are working. They aren’t connecting with the process. This is so different from their experience with P90X, that many are gravitating back to the original workout and the comfort of that approach.
