Fortunately Core Synergistics is not high on my enjoyability scale either. In about half the time of Core Synergistics I burned about 3/4 of the excess calories than I did in Core Synergistics and had higher average (127) and peak HR (162). X3 Total Synergistics over P90X Core Synergistics: Total Synergistics can be described in one word: efficient.After this Insanity workout you know you burned some calories.
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T25 Core Speed over Rev Abs Full Throttle Intervals: Full Throttle Intervals is a really good workout and had my average HR up to 124, but it really is no contest going up against the bonus disk Core Speed with an average HR of 138 and an excess calorie burn of 630 cal/hr.But I don’t get much out of Agility X until the very end because there are just too many breaks for what is supposed to be a 30 minute high intensity workout. Maybe this wasn’t a fair fight because Power Intervals 2 incorporates weights in a total body-like workout. Rev Abs Power Intervals 2 over X3 Agility X: Both workouts are just about 30 minutes but I burned 50 more calories with Power Intervals 2.This sets up a match between 2 of my favorite workouts in the next round. T25 Gamma Speed 3.0 over T25 Beta Core Cardio: So far Speed 3.0 rings in at the highest average HR (148), total calories/hour (863), and excess calories/hour (733).Insanity Pure Cardio over T25 Alpha Cardio: Not surprising, but at 10 minutes longer Pure Cardio wins on all counts.I enjoyed them about the same but I have to give the nod to the longer X2 because it had me dripping sweat by the end while I barely broke a sweat by the time the shorter Eccentric Lower was done. X2 PAP Lower over X3 Eccentric Lower: Ironically I hit the same average HR and thus same calorie/hr burn rate for both these workouts, although X2 PAP Lower is twice as long as the 30-minute X3 workout.P90X Legs & Back over X2 Base & Back: Higher HR numbers all around for P90X L&B, and I really don’t enjoy all the funky variations on pull ups in this X2 workout–pull ups are hard enough as it is.
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X2 C&B&B gets the nod for difficulty and because I want another crack at some of those moves □ X2 Chest & Back & Balance over P90X Shoulders & Arms: Despite higher average HR and calorie burn in Joe Bovino’s “shoulders-bi-tri” workout, I forgot just how hard it was to do pushups on medicine and stability balls.And without any breaks The Pyramid just makes for a more difficult workout. T25 Gamma The Pyramid over Combat Warrior 1: Upper Body Blowout: Very similar workouts, I actually burned more total and excess calories in Combat Upper Body, but I felt the difficulty level was higher for The Pyramid because I completed a smaller percentage of the reps.But in terms of enjoyment I just can’t stand Jason Scheff singing in X2 S&A.
It may not be a fair comparison because you will naturally do more work in a chest and back workout than an arms workouts.
Just to re-cap: what makes one workout “better” than another? These are the general criteria I use to compare similar programs: Let’s see which programs are holding their own in the competition. I’ve completed 5 weeks of the 20-week Beachbody Bracket–time for an update. Did you miss Part 1 of this series? Read Part 1 here.įor an up-to-date bracket including all my recorded heart rate and calorie burn data, click here.