X2 Plyocide...where's my 30 seconds!?!?

Not at all like I expected.
First off, I had little to no soreness from the Core workout.  I was expecting some.  So I had fewer excuses for this 55 minute workout.

The warmup is the same as the day before.  Some more with the stability ball followed by some with the foam roller.  I'm still not sold on the foam roller, but we'll see tomorrow as I guarantee my calves will be screaming.  Then he dives into a few more of the same stretches, inch worm(hate it), scorpion(like it), groiners(eh), and there might be one or 2 more.  I know all you P90x fans will be sad, no lunge sequence.  So it's 10-12 minutes till we are into the workout.

The workout consists of 5 blocks, each with 4 exercises, each lasting a minute.  What happened to,"You can do anything for 30 seconds"?  The first of which is not a plyometric exercise.  So it breaks down to 20 exercises over the 25-30 minutes you are sweating.  He dives right into it with the Killer Katherine Lunge.  It's a Mary Katharine Lunge with a medicine ball that you shift from side to side.  It's a tough starter in my opinion.  A couple exercises later and it's slalom time, jump left to right, moving forward and back in groups of 4, just like a skier.  My calves were dying by this point.  I will definitely try to stretch them next time.

There are several moves you're going to have to concentrate to do.  He does break into the equipment pile again, using the stability ball, foam roller, medicine ball(a 4lb will do), and a plyo box.  I didn't have a plyo box handy so I just used the single step that separates our family room with the room I workout in.  Not as high as Tony has, but high enough.

One thing I did like was there were a couple balance exercises where he said, every time you touch the floor, you owe 2 pushups.  The first exercise, I only had 4 to do.  The second, a whole lot more.  But it was an interesting twist.

The cool down and end stretch, I'm not sold on.  The workout ends with over 10 minutes left on the clock and after a quick cool down, we move into a new stretching philosophy.  I forget what he calls it, but there is pushing and relaxing and you need a towel or a band of something like that.  My towel now looks like I walked on it as well as threw it in the pool.

Overall, a good workout.  Lots of new moves to learn, I did do some watching to get the hang of a few of them.  I am definitely feeling it more than Core.

Tomorrow...Rest day already.  X2 Recovery and Mobility