The Average Joe Fitness

Phase II of P90X is here and it started out scream­ing. Chest, Shoul­ders, and Tri­ceps is a stren­u­ous work­out iso­lat­ing three mus­cle groups in the upper body. This rou­tine starts off with slow motion pushups. Sounds easy, right? Wrong.

The slower you do pushups, the harder they are, it’s like adding resis­tance. With pushups, speed is your friend and the faster you go, the more reps you can do. By slow­ing your pace, it’s like adding weights with other exer­cises. The inten­sity is turned up later in the work­out when the slow motion pushups are com­bined with stan­dard speed pushups in one exer­cise. It’s unbelievable.

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