OUTSIDE: Why release another 颅version of the same product?
HORTON: P90X is a combination of a lot of things, but it鈥檚 mainly conditioning. P90X2 ($120; ) is performance-based training for athletes. It鈥檚 indoor training for the outside world.
How will the program make outdoor athletes better at their sports?
We get into more functional, balanced-core, and stability work. In P90X, you鈥檙e sitting and doing biceps curls. In P90X2, we鈥檝e got you in a Warrior III yoga pose doing biceps curls. We鈥檝e got you doing push-ups on four medicine balls.
The programs are structured on the idea of muscle confusion. Isn鈥檛 that just a smart marketing term?
Muscle confusion and periodization training鈥攖hey鈥檙e just variety in fitness. For P90X, I spent a year talking to experts and came away thinking that people struggle because they鈥檙e doing these quasi-myopic exercise routines. Weights are great, but they鈥檙e just weights. Pilates is phenomenal, but it鈥檚 just Pilates. Same with yoga. They鈥檙e all great, but you鈥檙e missing out on other aspects of fitness if you do just one.
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And variety in training will lead to 颅better performance?
If you鈥檙e skiing down a couloir and the pitch is 40 degrees, and you get kicked off because you hit some slough, you need balance and power to pull it back in and save your ass. That鈥檚 why the yoga is in there, along with strength moves.
You preach a lot about attacking your weaknesses. What鈥檚 yours?
I鈥檓 a 53-year-old skier, so I鈥檓 always working on strength, flexibility, and balance, because typically all of those things go south in guys my age. I鈥檓 jumping off 15-foot cliffs and not landing on my back or stomping on my feet. If it wasn鈥檛 for my fitness techniques, I couldn鈥檛 do that.