When you're sweating up a storm, you just need to know what to do next and how to do it. The content here is king, however, and there's enough really good stuff that any quibbles about tackiness and UI polish quickly fade. It requires taps sometimes when swipes would feel better, it has tips that are helpful but not perfectly implemented, and it's heavy - lots of video and resources - so older devices may struggle with the load. It's not the best user interface or user experience. It's just a little to overt and, frankly, tacky in this case and makes me take them a little less seriously.īack to the app. It makes you think the lawyers and accounts were as involved in the planning and design and the exercise and nutrition experts. P90X, for example, litters the registered trademark (R) symbol around almost more than they do the exercises, and the app actually has you agree to terms and conditions for their content when you launch it for the first time (even movie apps don't typically do that). (Which shouldn't be confused with traditional holistic or martial arts, but include different enough movements to keep things fresh.)Īs you might have picked up from the intro, I have a bias against these types of commercial packages.
There are both traditional fitness workouts, the bread and butter body-parts stuff, and some variety like the Yoga and Kenpo workouts.
$6.99 for individual workouts (plyometrics, Yoga x, Kenpo x, core synergistics, etc.).$29.99 for bundles of workouts (chest and back, shoulders and arms, legs and back, etc.).The P90X app itself is $4.99 and the in-app pricing for the workouts are as follows: Moreover, since our mobile devices are tied into the rest of our lives, they can remind us when to work out (calendars and task lists), and the data they collect can help us track our progress more easily than ever before (location, time, movement). We have iPhones and iPads now, devices that can not only show us the latest, freshest workout trend, but unshackle us from the living room TV and let us watch them anywhere, at any time. From Jane Fonda to Richard Simmons to Tony Little to Billy Blanks to Jillian Michaels to Tony Horton, the amount of video tapes (Wikipedia it!) and DVDs collecting dust on our collective shelves could fill gyms around the country.
The amount of money made from people buying and never using commercial home fitness programs probably tends towards the infinite at this point. P90X - short for Power 90 Extreme - aims to get you into better shape in 90 days through a combination of traditional exercises and nutritional advice, all highly packaged, polished, and available for purchase right on your iPhone. "P90X, the popular hardcore home fitness program, has made a bold leap onto the iPhone with outstanding content, if not polished experience."
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