The Ultimate Hybrid Workout

Tony Horton's book, Bring It outlines his 11 Laws of Health and Fitness; rules to live by if you want to be fit for the rest of your life. The seventh law is Plan:

"Schedule all of your workouts in advance; this creates accountability. Plan an entire month ahead of time. If you schedule it, you'll do it. If you wing it, you won't. It's that simple. When you're accountable, you stay motivated. When you're not accountable to some sort of plan, you can't stay motivated...Schedule your workouts as if they are the most important appointment of the day...because they are!"

It's no coincidence that Beachbody workout programs come with detailed schedules that tell you what to do and when. Asylum came with three schedules: one that is pure Asylum, an Insanity/Asylum hybrid, and an Asylum/P90X hybrid.

Zach and I have amassed quite the workout DVD library. Since we are now Asylum graduates, we wanted to create our own hybrid schedule that incorporates a little more strength training but keeps the intense Asylum workouts in the mix, too. I'm thinking there isn't much chance we'll get bored anytime soon.

Here's what we came up with. It follows this pattern:

Sunday: Lower body resistance or cardio
Monday: Upper body resistance
Tuesday: Intense cardio (leg based)
Wednesday: Upper body resistance
Thursday: Yoga
Friday: Lower body resistance
Saturday: Rest

And here is the workout schedule for the next four weeks, starting with this week:

8/1: Asylum Strength
8/2: One on One Plyocide
8/3: P90X Shoulders & Arms
8/4:  One on One Fountain of Youth Yoga
8/5: One on One Bun Shaper
8/6: Rest  

8/7: Asylum Speed & Agility
8/8:  P90X Chest & Back
8/9: P90X Plyometrics
8/10:  P90X Shoulders & Arms
8/11: MC2 P90X Yoga X
8/12: One on One PAP Lower
8/13:  Rest  

8/14: Asylum Speed & Agility
8/15:  P90X Chest, Shoulders, & Triceps
8/16: Asylum Vertical Plyo
8/17:  One on One Back & Biceps
8/18: One on One Yoga MC2
8/19: Asylum Game Day
8/20: Rest  

(Recovery Week)
8/21: Asylum Relief
8/22: Asylum Back to Core
8/23: P90X Yoga X
8/24: RevAbs Fire up your Abs
8/25: P90X Core Synergistics
8/26: One on One Fountain of Youth
8/27: Rest

This workout schedule is like the ultimate month-long "to-do" list. It feels good every day when we check one off the list! I highly recommend getting a calendar devoted to your workouts, along with a red marker. Write the workouts on your calendar, and when you complete them put a big, fat, red "X" through the day. Your goal should be to have more "Xs" than blank boxes at the end of the month!

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Workout of the Day

One on One: Plyocide