Insanity Workout - Day 10 (Week 2 day 3)

Another checkbox earned.

Finished warm-up strong and felt good with it. Heart rate ended at 190 but I didn't feel gassed. I was feeling good and started thinking I might get through things. After the stretch, I felt strong into the circuit but soon had to take a break. At this point, I started struggling a lot with this routine and it started to seem harder than pure cardio yesterday. Hit a few more pauses one especially after tiring myself on the push-ups. In the end, it felt really good to get to the punching finale.

A tough day done. I'm not sure what played into this days results in how I started really strong then seemed to fade as it went on. I'd like to think it was from doing more intensity which is what I like about Insanity - even if you get more fit, you'll just push harder and still get wiped.

Insanity Workout - Day 9 (Week 2 day 2)

This post recreated because Blogger.com had server issues the last 2 days and deleted my prior day log :(

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Pure Cardio! This is a challenge as before, but I got passed the warm-up and held strong through a lot of the routines.

I thought after finishing this one that I'd be coasting the rest of the week but then saw the end of this week is Pure Cardio again (!) but also Cardio Abs on the same day (!!). We'll see how that turns out.

Insanity Workout - Day 8

Another day, another insane workout! Routine: Cardio Power & Resistance.

This is my second time on this workout and I definitely felt stronger this time, especially in my legs. Of course, it still wasn't much easier! I was proud of my push-up performance though, executing ~90% of them.

One thing that possibly helped leg/knee-wise was that I picked up some better shoes as recommended by others (cross-trainers). These seemed to give better support.

Another note, I weighed 192.4 this morning! I've lost a decent bit of fat already.

Insanity Workout - Day 7

Off day! It's nice they have these in the schedule. :)

The soreness from day 1-2 have gradually slipped away and today there's no soreness to speak of. I'm feeling great, like doing another Insanity workout! But I'm sticking to the plan and letting my body rest today.

Insanity Workout - Day 6

Another sweaty Insanity workout down! And that means Week 1 complete!!

This is a repeat of Day 2's workout "Plyometric Cardio Circuit."

I got through the warm-ups a little easier and ended with 185 heart rate. Paused until back to 170 then continued. After the stretches and into the circuit, I only got perhaps 5 minutes in before pausing again (180+ HR), and continued that way a few times to the end.

The hardest parts for me were:
- Ski jumps: for some reason these bothered my knees, may have to check my form.
- The "Level 1 drill" sequence that repeats with 4-push ups, I had to just perform it as fast I could.

In the end though, another great HIIT work-out with lots of sweat. Looking forward to the off day tomorrow.

PS: Today I was at 194.4 lbs, falling steadily.

Insanity Workout - Day 5

Another day down! I normally workout in the afternoons but did this one in the morning.

This routine was called 'Pure Cardio' and was rough. I took some breaks but got the job done and unloaded a lot of sweat. I read a bit of others' experiences before trying it so wasn't caught off guard by Shaun's warning that he was nervous about the exercise and his famous comment at the end "This @#@$@ is bananas" LOL.

The gotcha is there is a 15-minute sequence of non-stop cardio with no breaks.

The warm ups went smoothly, seemed a little easier on this one. I paused at the end of the warm-ups to make sure I was ready to go. It's intense if you're pushing through. I had to pause for a minute every 5 minutes to keep heart rate down and water up. I wasn't too disappointed doing this because some of the cast members were taking breaks too.

One interesting note I observed -- somewhere in the middle of the cardio, Shaun suggests pushing through because the next exercise is a little bit of break. The exercise he was referring to is 'Scissor Runs' and for some reason this was no break to me, I got me tired fast on those!

Insanity Workout - Day 4

Finished Day 4. Today's insanity routine was 'Cardio Recovery'. If you're on this day, this will be a welcome treat.

My kids were bored so decided to join in with me. Based on other routines, I think they expected a bunch of fast cardio. However, everything starts out really smooth and you're thinking "OK, I'll waltz through this and get in some nice stretching." Everything seemed easy until he had us hold a squat - my legs couldn't hold that very long so had to get up shake it off and get back into position. Other than those 'hold it' moves, everything else is not that demanding which is welcome! :)

I'm hearing tomorrow's routine though ("Pure Cardio") is totally insane! So hopefully these stretches and break will prepare us for it.