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Dance, P90X, and INSANITY®: Get the Dancer's Body of Your Dreams
Dance, P90X, and INSANITY®: Get the Dancer's Body of Your Dreams
Here is an article from the Beachbody Newsletter written By Stephanie S. Saunders. Enjoy!Whether you take ballet six times a week, or just loved tap dancing as a kid . . . once a dancer, always a dancer. Even though we outgrow our love for pink tights and tutus, we never really give up our love of movement—not to mention our desire to have a dancer's long, lean body. Since dance might be the only athletic endeavor where most practice sessions are done in front of a mirror, it's understandable that dancers are among the most aesthetically obsessed athletes on the planet. So why is it that many dancers still struggle to acquire the perfect body, even with all of the hours of training? And what does this mean for those who might still take classes occasionally—or who have hung up their dancing shoes long ago?
The reason anyone's body stops changing is because it's adapted to the movement you've given it to do. When you've trained the same way since you were four, standing at the same barre and doing the same grande jetés across the floor, your body becomes extremely efficient at what it's doing. This is also true if you've been doing 60 minutes on a Stairmaster® at level 12 for the last 3 years. Simply put, your body has no reason to change.
That is, until now. Welcome to the latest Beachbody® hybrid: P90X/INSANITY/dance.
Why P90X and INSANITY?
P90X and INSANITY are two very intense training systems, both designed to get you into the best shape of your life. And simply completing one of these programs would probably alter your body considerably. But here's another little-known fact about dancers, from the amateur to the professional: Most are bored with exercise they can't do in a dance studio. Admit it, nothing is as fun as dancing. And that's OK, 'cause this hybrid program will keep the boredom at bay while stimulating your muscles in whole new ways. The resistance training and intense cardiovascular conditioning will alter your physique while all the elasticity will keep you feeling like a rubber band. And you can still take dance class (or start again, if you've had some time off).When to begin
Schedule your hybrid workouts at opposite times of day from whatever class you're taking. As you'll see in the mock schedule section, you should do your intense plyometric or lower-body resistance training on days when you're not in dance class, and you should do your upper-body and flexibility training the days when you are.
Foundation
Dance is amazing at working most of the major muscle groups in your body, and most dancers have a pretty strong core and good balance. What many dancers lack is muscle in the upper extremities and high-intensity cardiovascular capacity. Most also deal with a huge amount of muscular imbalance. If you're a recreational dancer, you might have fewer of these imbalances, but you may not have the same amount of core strength or flexibility as a pro. P90X and INSANITY combined should solve all these problems.Periodization
Periodization is a method of alternating training loads to produce peak performance for a specific event. And it's something dancers don't really do. Herein lies the difference between dance and most other athletics: Dance is an art form that is never mastered. It's not quite like running, where the fastest one wins. There's always a bigger jump, another turn, or a higher extension to master. So you keep pushing through until you end up injured or too old to care anymore. Ironically, this is another reason why dancers (and those who aspire to look like them) can fail to get their bodies to their full potential. You need to learn to give your body time to adapt to the load of work you're giving it, and then begin to increase that workload. Train in cycles and shock your system into changing.Recovery
Dancers, both professional and recreational, also need to learn to allow for recovery. Because soreness is second nature to a dancer, you think you're invincible and just keep going. So not true. Because your training will be in cycles, and will be very intense, you must adhere to the recovery weeks and not push so hard. Also, your muscles need 1 day of rest each week, which means all you get to do is stretch.Putting it together
Schedules
The following is based on P90X Lean and Doubles, INSANITY, and a mock dance schedule. You will, of course, have to tweak the formula to fit your schedule, as every dancer—or those who desire the physique of one—takes a different amount of dance classes per week. Some take two; others take ten, which obviously is a different amount of stress on the body. Also, since most forms of dance are more intense on the lower body muscles, we're trying to avoid overtraining them. So however you adjust the schedule, make sure you're not completing a brutal leg or plyometric workout on the same day as a 3-hour dance class. If you're not presently in a dance class, you could skip the dance workouts or use a Yoga Booty Ballet or Shaun T video, as suggested previously. Also, although we're following a Doubles schedule, we'll focus more on flexibility, assuming you'll get cardiovascular work in your dance classes. There are few forms of dance that don't require great elasticity, so maintaining those long, lean, pliable muscles remains important.Weeks 1, 2, 3
| Day 1 AM: P90X Core Synergistics | PM: Ballet Class |
| Day 2 AM: INSANITY Plyometric Cardio Circuit | |
| Day 3: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Shoulders & Arms, Ab RipperX |
| Day 4: AM: INSANITY Pure Cardio & Abs | |
| Day 5: AM: P90X Yoga X | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 6: AM: P90X Legs & Back | |
| Day 7: Rest or P90X Stretch X |
Recovery Week 4
| Day 1: AM: P90X Yoga X | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 2: AM: P90X Kenpo X | |
| Day 3: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Stretch X |
| Day 4: AM: INSANITY Core Cardio & Balance | |
| Day 5: AM: P90X Core Synergistics | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 6: AM: P90X Yoga X | |
| Day 7: Rest or P90X Stretch X |
Weeks 5, 6, 7
| Day 1: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Core Synergistics |
| Day 2: AM: INSANITY Cardio Power & Resistance | PM: P90X Kenpo X |
| Day 3: AM: P90X Chest, Shoulders & Triceps, Ab Ripper X | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 4: AM: INSANITY Cardio Circuit, Cardio Abs | PM: P90X Legs & Back |
| Day 5: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Yoga X |
| Day 6: AM: INSANITY Cardio Recovery, Cardio Abs | |
| Day 7: Rest or P90X Stretch X |
Recovery Week 8
| Day 1: AM: P90X Yoga | Dance Class |
| Day 2: AM: P90X Kenpo X | |
| Day 3: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Stretch X |
| Day 4: AM: INSANITY Core Cardio & Balance | |
| Day 5: AM: P90X Core Synergistics | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 6: AM: P90X Yoga X | |
| Day 7: Rest or P90X Stretch X |
Week 9, 10, 11
| Day 1: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Chest & Back, Ab Ripper X |
| Day 2: AM: INSANITY Max Interval Plyo | PM: P90X Core Synergistics |
| Day 3: AM: P90X Cardio X | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 4: AM: INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning & Abs | PM: P90X Yoga X |
| Day 5: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90 X Shoulders & Arms, Ab Ripper X |
| Day 6: AM: INSANITY Max Interval Circuit, Cardio Abs | PM: P90X Kenpo X |
| Day 7: Rest or P90X Stretch X |
Recovery Week 12
| Day 1: AM: P90X Yoga X | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 2: AM: P90X Kenpo X | |
| Day 3: AM: Dance Class | PM: P90X Stretch X |
| Day 4: AM: INSANITY Core Cardio & Balance | |
| Day 5: AM: P90X Core Synergistics | PM: Dance Class |
| Day 6: AM: P90X Yoga X | |
| Day 7: Rest or P90X Stretch X |
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Here's to your Health,Kai
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Kai
P.S. Success Stories are my Specialty! Don't just watch SUCCESS stories create your own. Contact me for your free coaching session today. Click Here now==> Free Coach Today To your success, P.S. If you're sick and tired of spending money and time on failing weightloss products then let me share with you a solution to Transforming your health and say 'goodbye' to yo-yo diets - forever! Go here NOW! => Give Me the Formula
Have you heard of Tony Horton's New book "Bring it"? Check it out here
http://coachyou2health.blogspot.com/2010/11/pre-order-tony-hortons-book-today.html
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Here's to your Health,Kai
P.S. Success Stories are my Specialty! Don't just watch SUCCESS stories create your own. Contact me for your free coaching session today. Click Here now==> Free Coach Today To your success, P.S. If you're sick and tired of spending money and time on failing weightloss products then let me share with you a solution to Transforming your health and say 'goodbye' to yo-yo diets - forever! Go here NOW! => Give Me the Formula
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Here's to your Health,
Kai
P.S. Success Stories are my Specialty! Don't just watch Weight loss SUCCESS stories create your own. Contact me for your free coaching session today. Click Here now==> Free Coach Today To your success, P.S. If you're sick and tired of spending money and time on failing weightloss products then let me share with you a solution to Transforming your health and say 'goodbye' to yo-yo diets - forever! Go here NOW! => Give Me the Formula
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