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Maggie & Molly
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Cherrie, you'll find other threads about this, but the short answer is yes. I ran during p90x. I just doubled most days, but I think that subbing the cardio for running is great. If you wanted to run 4 days at minimum, I would sub out plyometrics and kenpo, and run on upper body workout days. Maybe not run on yoga or legs and back day.
Looking back at my log, I averaged 32.6 miles a week. I started with 25+ the first month, and then tried to build up. I may have had bigger gains in p90x had I not been running, because I was sometimes to tired to really give 100% tot eh p90x workouts. But I had a ton of fun, and will do a round 2 one of these days.
See my log for how I do it. I did a round of P90x over the winter than started to add it with my running and the last 4 weeks I really dailed into a routine I like that seems to be giving me the best of both worlds.. I will be intergrating it this summer with marathon training using a similar set up. I will be doing some of the P90x plus workouts and Tony Horton's one on one's as well.....I love his stuff. I choose to only run 3 days per week but if I added a forth I would run on Sunday. I'm considering this. I have been subbing out Yoga X with Tony Horton's fountain of Youth Yoga which is only a 45 min session. This free's up 45 minutes for me to get in a run in on that day.
I'm not a doubles person. I personally would overtrain trying to do it. I just came up with a happy medium so I can recover well and make my workouts count.
Just found this story on how P90X can work for runners. Why it works and how to incorporate into your training or to adapt to runners.
http://running.competitor.com/2010/10/ask-the-experts/ask-the-experts-is-p90x-good-for-runners_15874
I've been cherry picking parts of P90X into my routine for several months. It obviously isn't a program I can do every day and keep up with my running schedule since it leaves me sore and fatigued. This program pushes me to do intense workouts and that carries over into my running.
Andy
"Any idiot can run a marathon. It takes a special kind of idiot to run an ultramarathon." - Alan Cabelly
Just found this story on how P90X can work for runners. Why it works and how to incorporate into your training or to adapt to runners. http://running.competitor.com/2010/10/ask-the-experts/ask-the-experts-is-p90x-good-for-runners_15874 I've been cherry picking parts of P90X into my routine for several months. It obviously isn't a program I can do every day and keep up with my running schedule since it leaves me sore and fatigued. This program pushes me to do intense workouts and that carries over into my running. Andy
Thanks for the link! I think I'm definitely going to force myself to restart P90X. I usually make it about 3 days before I give up... I wish someone would come out with a DVD series specifically designed for runners. I feel like this part here was written about me: Most runners really don’t work very hard. They are willing to spend a lot of time training, but they resist the pain of high intensities.
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