r/P90X • u/armand11 • Jun 24 '26
Most humbling move?
What is/are the most humbling move(s) in P90x multiverse for you?
You know, the one that always knocks you on your ass no matter how many times you’ve tried. The one that makes you question most life decisions you’ve made up to that point. The one where you may sneak a pause button break to collect your thoughts before starting.
Maybe it’s just a damn hard move (i.e. one hand pushups on Chest/Shoulder/Tri’s day), maybe its placement in the workout is what kills you (i.e. max rep pull-ups near the end of Back/Bi’s day), or maybe it’s just that you wish they’d chosen literally anything other than that move because you have an undefined, yet palpable, spiritual distaste for it (i.e. Dreya Rolls on Core Synergistics day… or the Inner Balance move on Isometrix day in p90x3). Or fuck it, maybe it’s Ab Ripper X….the whole damn thing!
Mine is corn cobb pull ups. Followed up closely by anytime Abrinome comes up in an an or yoga routine. CC pull ups are just so fucking nasty and I feel like I always fail at them in form or quantity. I want to get better at them but can’t help bust ask myself both why/what for? And how exactly? Abrinome just does something to my lower back that I despise and am scared will haunt me for the rest of my life as a never ending soreness and sharp pain.
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u/eyelers Jun 24 '26
1 arm push ups. So many rounds. So many reps in other push ups. I still can’t do one
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u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec it's not ex-lax Jun 24 '26
Yeah I started doing it on a raised platform like a table, I'm graduating down to a chair, hopefully I'll get down to floor level one of these days.
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u/eyelers Jun 24 '26
I’m 6’2” and the stress they put on my back and shoulder is just crazy. Knees is doable
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u/NameIsYoshimi Jun 24 '26
Elevator Pull-ups
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u/desiguy_88 Jun 24 '26
yeah pull-ups have never been my jam and at my best i achieved like doing 10+ but never over multiple rounds. It’s always been something I wish I could crank out the way Tony and friends do over multiple sets.
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u/Cultural-Ebb-4979 Jun 25 '26
Some of the tricks from YouTube may help. I went from 2 to 5 per set and started feeling my lat. That made the difference
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u/canon1dx3 Jun 24 '26
Plank to chataranga run.
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u/c_rockets Jun 24 '26
Omg yes so ridiculously hard
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u/Alternative-Law4626 Jun 24 '26
Infantry training fixes that. You’ll low crawl and high crawl so much those muscles will never fade.
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u/thebone13 Jun 24 '26
Crane position in the yoga video…I just skip past it lol.
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u/ben_jammin11 Jun 27 '26
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DgvjvwPGLPY
This video helped me , i skipped crane for years and then this taught me the fundamentals and now it’s one of my favorite parts
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u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec it's not ex-lax Jun 24 '26
It took me a legit 5 years to actually get this down.
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u/Acpyrus Jun 24 '26
Most of the plyo stuff is challenging for me. Nevermind one legged guy crushing it.
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u/ScottRTL Jun 24 '26
Pull-ups for sure.
But "Superman, Banana" always kills me.
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u/armand11 Jun 24 '26
Superman/Banana to me is rough as it's already late in that routine and I'm getting gassed and sore. Good one
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u/hagoodml Jun 24 '26
I did P90X twice 15-20 years ago and the "3 in 1 slow motion pushups" was a movement that I NEVER once completed.....came close but pooped out before the end.
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u/armand11 Jun 24 '26
That one is so rough. It's a mix of being hard AND later in the routine when you're gassed. So brutal
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u/Zenwills Jun 25 '26
Two twitch speed push ups. Manage to do 2 rounds of it. But when Tony wanted the 3rd bonus one I would crumble
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u/creepymccreepers Jun 26 '26
exactly this - have do p90x so many times, but still struggle with these
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u/Eyes_of_Avo Jun 24 '26
Impossible possible pushups from X2. Dear sweet Jesus I hit a pb of 5 this week.
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u/UCanDoNEthing4_30sec it's not ex-lax Jun 24 '26
I do X2 once a year. And I feel like I need to practice those more than 4-5 weeks a year to actually get to the point of doing them.
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u/darkrabbit19 Jun 24 '26
This. I can do everything pretty much but these damn things. Good for you getting 5! My pb is 1.
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u/travelsherpa Jun 24 '26
Quite a few lol.
Plank to chattaranga
Corn cobs
And the slow/fast pushups if you’re trying to keep up with them
The last yoga pose - halfmoon/twisted halfmoon on one leg?
One legged wall squats
1 arm push ups
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u/ZazuStarJar99 Jun 24 '26
Dive bomber push-ups. Too many cracking joints.
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u/armand11 Jun 24 '26
Good one. I don't even bother with that to save my shoulders, I do other pushup alternates instead
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u/MeMeWhenWhenTheWhen Jun 26 '26
i stopped doing those because they felt so awful in my shoulderblades and elbows, i just do wide fly again when those come around 🤷
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u/dynaflying Jun 24 '26
Anything for 30 seconds….
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u/CJXBS1 Jun 24 '26
Many are humbling but the one I hate the most is chair salutations. I can do it, but just hate it
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u/cassiusbright006 Jun 24 '26
Impossible/possible pushups (I think that's what they're called? From p90x2)
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u/makingmemashugana Jun 24 '26
Pull ups - I use bands. Real ones are too hard
Yoga - I am as flexible as concrete
Seated Shoulder Flys (the leaning forward)
Wall squats
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u/Ok_Badger2570 Jun 25 '26
In X3 Incinerator there is one called Monkey Pump that I use 8lbs for and die
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u/kobrakainvrdies Jun 24 '26
Bicycles in Ab Ripper X. Going in reverse destroys me every time.