Tony Horton – P90X Plus Schedule

To answer the question, here’s a short biography on: “Who is Tony Horton?”

Raised in the small Rhode Island town of Westerly, Tony preferred fast food to his mother’s healthy home cooking. As a kid, he hated exercising, and didn’t particularly like sports. He describes himself as the “quintessential 98-pound weakling,” and had all of the insecurities that went along with it.

As Tony got in better shape, he noticed that other things in his life were shaping up too. He felt better, his brain was sharper and he was more productive in everyday life.

Tony had hit his stride and his world opened up. He started…

• rock-climbing
• inline skating
• doing yoga (laying the groundwork for P90X Yoga)
• practicing Pilates
• utilizing plyometrics

The more he learned, the better he looked and felt. Friends and acquaintances were blown away by his physical transformation and started asking him how he did it. Before long, word got around: whatever Tony Horton, trainer, was doing, he was doing right! Word soon got to musician Tom Petty.

Consider your first trip to the gym or the first time you performed an exercise regimen, your body’s initial reaction would be soreness. Your body would eventually recover and then you proceed to your next gym session. As your workout in the gym gets regular, you would notice that your body would rarely get sore.

What does it show? You body and your muscles have learned to adapt to the movements, reducing the effects of the workout in certain body areas. Contrary to what we may think, the body is fast in adapting to different movement. To start burning calories again, you would need to change your exercise program.

The muscle confusion principle “confuses” the body, making it hard for the body to adapt to the movements. The P90x uses 12 different workouts, each working on different muscle groups. Your body will keep on learning new exercises. Normally, it would take about 30 days for the body to adapt to a routine. With P90x, you will be working out on a routine for a month, then you will be doing variations of these workout for the remaining days.

PLEASE NOTE: this is not full Tony Horton P90X Workout Program DVD set, this is only downloadable PDF eBook from it.

About Author:

Anthony Sawyer “Tony” Horton Jr. (born 1958 in Westerly, Rhode Island) is an exercise instructor best known for the P90X home fitness program. His direct-response ads are the most frequently aired infomercials on American television, making him one of the nation’s most-seen personalities.

In contrast to “as seen on TV” fitness and weight-loss products that are touted as virtually effortless, Horton promotes vigorous exercise routines paired with detailed nutrition plans. Most of his programs include a progressive series of workouts, demonstrated on multiple DVDs, that are designed to be performed at home with little equipment other than dumbbells or resistance bands.

When you see someone like Tony Horton in action you immediately assume that he has great pre-disposition for a buff body. You might be quick to think that “bringing it” has always come easy for Tony. The truth is that Tony Horton had to work for that beach body just like the rest of us. Like many kids, Tony grew up loving fast food and dreading exercise. Horton was a typical bony “weakling” and probably never thought he would bring a fitness phenomenon like Power 90 or P90X to the world. Not even interested in sports, being a fitness icon was never at the front of Horton’s mind.

One thing Tony did like was acting, so no one was surprised when Horton moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream after graduating from the University of Rhode Island. He quickly realized in Los Angeles, it pays to be fit. That’s when Tony’s quest for fitness began. Horton joined the famous World Gym in Venice and began transforming his body. Studious by nature, Tony read books and asked questions of the pros at the gym gaining insight into what would one day become his own claim to fame.

After growing up in Trumbull, Connecticut, and attending the University of Rhode Island, Horton moved to Los Angeles with the intention of becoming an actor. He was also interested in fitness, and began working out at the World Gym in Venice, California, which was frequented by bodybuilders such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno.[4] Disliking the bulky, stiff bodybuilder look, Horton focused on exercises for speed, flexibility, and balance, as well as muscle growth. He studied with world-class triathlete Mark Sisson, who introduced him to interval training.

Preferring a lean strong look to the stiff compact body builder image, Tony Horton stuck to activities that would improve his cardiovascular fitness while giving him the flexible streamlined but muscular look he desired. As Tony transformed his body dramatically, he also started transforming his life and outlook. People noticed!

It was the attention Horton got from his personal transformation that led him to become a sought after personal trainer. Tony Horton has trained celebrities such as Sean Connery, Tom Petty, and Shirley MacLaine, Ewan McGregor, Emily Deschanel, Bruce Springsteen, and Usher, and developed workout plans for magazines such as Men’s Fitness. His on camera work began when he represented the face of the Nordic Track in the late 1990s. Following that he transformed the cast of the action film The 13th Warrior, creating bodies worthy of the “warrior” title. Tony Horton was also a spokesman for NordicTrack exercise machines and the host of 360, an entertainment show on the Playboy Channel.

Amidst all of the attention, Tony met Carl Daikeler, CEO of Beachbody. The two immediately recognized the potential for a life changing relationship and joined forces. Since that time, Tony Horton, has gone on to create some of the most successful at home fitness programs available.

Power 90: The first in the P90 series, Power 90 Boot Camp brought easy to incorporate but high powered 30 minute workouts to people craving better health around the world.

P90X: For those who wanted to really “bring it”, P90X was developed as the ramped up, intense progression from the original Power 90. The workouts and nutrition plan push people to really encounter their fitness limits and push past them in a successful effort to get ripped!

P90X+ : Yet another step into peak physical performance, P90X Plus pushes graduates of the P90X series past new plateaus. In P90X+new driving music and more intense workouts send even the physically fit into higher levels of athletic performance.

10 Minute Trainer: Capitalizing on the busy fast-paced lifestyle of many modern adults, Tony developed 10 Minute Trainer to get people moving and fit in just 10 minutes a day. By stacking cardio, toning, and body sculpting, no time is wasted and transformations are on the horizon.

Taking what changed his life, combining his winning attitude and the dream that propels all of the products that carry the Tony Horton name, Tony has become the face that thousands associate with their fitness success. Through hard work and dedicated passion, Tony has realized his own dream and continues to lead others to reach theirs.