The big winner of the Upper Body bracket is P90X3 Incinerator. One change I made mid-stream was to insert the three P90X3 Elite DVD workouts into the brackets–Complex Upper, Complex Lower, and X3 Ab Ripper.

Cardio (including Martial Arts and Plyometrics).

At the end I established one winner in each of the following categories: Originally I intended to whittle the 77 workouts down to one overall winner, but in the end I realized it would be almost impossible to compare an upper body workout with something very different such as an ab routine.

Enjoyment: Who wants to do a workout that they dread? Some workouts are so enjoyable that I couldn’t wait to get started, while others I couldn’t wait to finish.

Difficulty: A subjective estimate on how hard a workout is, measured by how many breaks I needed to take, what percentage of reps I completed, etc.

Level of Exertion: I wore a heart rate monitor for all workouts and recorded average HR, peak HR, total calories burned, and calories burned per hour.

What makes one workout “better” than another? These are the general criteria I used to compare similar programs: What Is The Best Beachbody Workout (Part 3)įor anyone who has not been following along at home, I combined 77 different Beachbody routines from 8 different programs into a single elimination bracket to see for myself what the “Best Beachbody Workouts” are.

What Is The Best Beachbody Workout (Part 2) What Is The Best Beachbody Workout (Part 1) How did your favorite workouts fare against the others? It took over 6 months but the final results of the Beachbody Bracket are in.

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