Supreme 90 day?

Ok. I quite by chance happened to glimpse a TV advertisement for yet another 90-day fitness regimen--by chance because I really watch very little TV and, even more importantly, because I view almost no commercials (thanks to MythTV DVR/PVR!). In fact, it was really only because I recently migrated my MythTV DVR/PVR to a newer machine and was thus doing some experimentation with it, that I saw this ad.

Most immediately the commercial caught my eye because, well, it looked a lot like the P90X regimen but seemed to have been done by a completely different company. What was additionally a bit arresting is that the advertised price was far lower than P90X--only $20.00 (the marketing euphemism for which is $19.99). Oh, and shipping and handling sets you back another $6.00 (as you'll deduce from the comment above, that's non-market-speak for $5.99).

Finally this advertisement held a continued interest for the following reason: I've been considering how to further vary our upper-body strength training and it seemed as though it might help me accomplish that. I'm not feeling the aftereffects of our sessions nearly as strongly as, say, even last year. That, and just the desire for greater variation in our routines, made this seem like something worth pursuing. Would it be different enough from P90X to give the needed variation? That's one thing I hope to find out soon, and which I plan to share on this blog.

So I began trying to find out more on the internet about this routine. Well, this really was quite the chance occurrence: I, who miss at least 99% of all the commercials that occur during the limited amount of television I watch, appear to have seen some of the earliest advertising for this routine. Seems like it's only just now getting out to customers.

My internet searching didn't turn up much. Apparently this routine is so new that no one has yet written any full-fledged reviews. I did find some worthwhile snippets on it here and there--"worthwhile" meaning they were written by people who'd actually viewed and/or used the routines, as opposed to sites that try to disguise marketing hype as user commentary. Though the little real information (as opposed to marketing hype disguised as information) I found seemed to indicate the exercise routines might be worthwhile, I gathered from some of the commentary I found that the company marketing this regimen is rather disreputable.

In the end, I decided to plunk down the modest price--though I did make sure to go through a national retail store (Bed, Bath, and Beyond) who will be selling this set rather than having any direct dealings with the shady company doing the marketing. The set is due soon and I intend to use and review it on this blog (e-mail notifying that the order was shipped is dated 1/28/11).

That's the news for the moment. So, watch in the coming days for the review I'll be writing of this P90X knock-off.

LATER NOTE: I see now that one of the links I provide above has a comment stating that these DVD's are currently available at Walgreens (in the "As seen on TV" section).