The workouts in P90X2 are all about performance. But your body isn’t only crafted in the gym—it’s also built in the kitchen. So, Beachbody have worked with Tony Horton’s personal chefs to develop the meals and make it easier for you to eat like an athlete so you can achieve your goals.

Three Plans

1. Fat Shredder (50% protein, 25 % carbs, 25% fat)
2. Energy Booster (30% protein, 40% carbs, 30% fat
3. Endurance Maximizer (25% protein, 50% carbs, 25% fat)

Switch Anytime

Just because you start with one plan doesn’t mean you’re locked into it for the next 90 days. Add in more carbs when you feel you’re ready, go vegetarian, or load up on lean proteins. The plans are here to help you, but listen to your body.

The new P90X2 Nutrition Guide also includes three calorie levels:

• 1,800
• 2,400
• 3,000

You will be able to choose a plan and recipes to fit each level of caloric intake. P90X2 really does simplify the eating plan into portions, allowing you a certain amount or portions of fruit, grains, dairy etc per day. This will really help a lot of people but it does tend to generalise a lot of food types. I prefer to use an app on my phone called Tap and Track. This app allows me to accurately determine the protein/carb/fat ratio of every individual piece of food I eat. This is possibly a slightly more complicated route, but I’m a stickler for detail and the more accurately I track the better my results will be, at least in theory!

Great All Round Nutrition Plan

I think the P90X2 Nutrition Plan is great. However, the main things I take from it are the calorie levels (1800, 2400 and 3000) and the three plans. By the way, the nutrition guide will help you to calculate the amount of calories you require. There are also a load of online tools for calculating RMR so go and look for them via uncle Google if you like. The portions and recipes are doable for me but as explained above I prefer to tap and track everything I eat from a huge database of food on my phone. Also, I’m from the UK. I could make the recipes outlined in the P90X2 guide but some of the food types, readiness and convenience of the ingredients differs when you’re around 5000 miles away from where the plan was created. I’ll simply use it as a guide and experiment with my own recipes. As long as we understand the principles and ratios outlined in the guide then we have the knowledge to put it into practice, wherever we live and using what is readily available to us. That’s what is great about P90X2 and Beachbody as a company. They have listened to the users, therefore programs are evolving into tailorable solutions for us to use as individuals with different goals and needs.

My Plan For Round One of P90X2

If all this confuses you and you want the thought process taken away then I’m here to help. I understand all of this and can break it down for you. For my first round of P90X2 I’m going to start on the fat shredder plan while I perform the foundation phase (3 weeks) of the workouts, the energy booster while doing the strength phase (6 weeks and 1 recovery week) and the endurance maximizer while doing the performance phase (3 weeks). I must stress that this suits my individual goals and needs. The workout guide allows you to do 3-6 weeks of each phase, as long as you end up doing 90 days altogether.

I always aim to lose fat until my body fat is down to around 8%. I’ve had it down to around 10% but right now I’m having a festive break When I start P90X2 on January 1st 2012 I will still have a little body fat to lose so I will begin on the fat shredder plan. Three weeks of that and the foundation workout phase should shed away around 80% of all the fat I want to lose.  My metabolism is so elevated now that my body doesn’t like to hang onto fat. Even after a short break a weeks worth of eating right and working out can shave 7 or 8 pounds of fat off. This is not a normal ratio so please don’t think this will happen to you if you have a great deal of fat to lose. I’m talking about my own body here so I’m basically sharing my own experiences. I’m going to perform a whopping 6 weeks of the strength phase while doing the energy booster plan. What can I say? I’m a weights guy and phase 2 contains all of the workout I think I will love. Strength = more lean muscle = raised metabolism = reduction in fat. By the end of this phase I would like to be in great condition. From what I’ve seen of the performance phase, PAP upper and PAP lower…..I’m going to need to be!

At the end of my first round of P90X2, I aim to be ripped. End of.

Related posts:

1. The 1800 Calorie Plan
2. P90X Workout Plan