By then I knew what the number stood for. And I only knew him through the disc - through P90X. I looked around for someone to tell, for someone to ask, but the only one I wanted an answer from was Horton himself. I'm telling you, the warrior pose undid me. But I could never get past twenty minutes of the sixty-minute yoga session. And before long, the time you're giving the workout becomes a story of its own, told in a discrete sixty-minute unit of your own day. Horton helps time along, injecting stories into the routines, making dumb jokes, which you hear repeated every week or so. Horton keeps a timer in the corner of the screen. You start to hear Horton pushing you to maintain your form, push harder. You stop listening to the encouragement to take it easy. Having done it once, you expect to do it better. You get a day off, and it starts over again. Then kenpo karate, more shadow-boxing than martial art. One day you're lifting for shoulder and back. Every other day, there's a short, hellacious "Ab Ripper" workout. The next day you're doing jump training, with encouragement to take it easy if you have to. The first day is all push-ups and pull-ups, with lots of room for begging out. Horton is keenly aware of his own dollish good looks, plainly knowledgeable, mostly jargon-free, and has a decent sense of humor. "He is nasty." The woman next to him nodded with vigor.Īnd what's so nasty? At first, nothing. "Oh, Tony Horton?" a friend said on an elevator. They talked about the man, the one who invented the thing, the man they'd chosen to follow. They didn't even associate the program with the number. Even after the twelve-disc set arrived in the mail, I butchered the name again and again - X90X, 90XP - until I discovered a kind of nation of people who'd sat through the late-night infomercials, the endless testimonials, and then gone through the program. P90X: a kid's red wagon, a knockoff Radio Flyer. P90X: one of those potentially life-bearing planets that seem to turn up circling semiproximate stars all the time these days. P90X: a rejected name for an old Pontiac prototype. Unlike P90x, P90 is easy out of the gate. The success of P90X, along with its successors and our other programs, has allowed Tony to give P90 a laser-like focus helping out of shape people transition to excellent shape quickly and easily. Day one, I didn't have a clue what the 90 stood for. P90 is a modernization of Power 90, Tony Horton and Beachbody’s first hit exercise program.
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