Day: 26, Calories: 0, Insanity Pure Cardio

Workout

Insanity Pure Cardio Status: Completed GRUMBLE!!!!!! Grumble grumble grumble grumble! Alright, that was dramatic, but I am so freakin' sleepy today! Allergies kept me up again, and 5:45 crept around way too quick. I hit play and felt like an absolute zombie for the warmup. And this wasn't a very good warmup....I zoned out a lot and took more breaks than I wanted. The week has caught up with me. My body is really sore today and Pure Cardio was probably the last thing I wanted to do today. I worked, I sweat and I'm happy it's over, but it's definitely not the same as Sunday's workout. Like I said, my body is feeling the end of week 4, and I am really looking forward to the recovery week next week. I'm just hoping Core Cardio and Balance feels like some sort of relief.

Workout

Insanity Cardio Abs Status: Completed Cardio Abs went a little better than Pure Cardio. I can definitely hold the c-sit position a lot better than I can do level 2 drills. The beginning cardio stuff was lackluster, but the isometric stuff felt pretty good. I can feel my abs in a good kind of pain, so I'm glad I got a good workout. Overall I'd give this workout a B-, so not terrible but not what I wanted either. One more day in Week 4. Dig deep!

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P90X Shoulders & Arms Status: Completed Just want to document that after work last night I did shoulders and arms. I wanted to get it out of the way. I upped my weight on the bicep curls, and did all of the shoulder stuff a lot more isometrically. Overall, good workout. Because it was after work, I was hungry, tired and wanted to play video games, I opted not to do the Supreme 90 shoulders and arms too. I like that workout, but back to back would have been too much last night. K, it's documented. Time to get the day started. Bring it!

Day: 22, Insanity Pure Cardio

Ah! For some reason the blog didn't work again yesterday, and I just now saw that. Here's yesterday's post.

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Insanity Pure Cardio Status: Completed Week 4 has begun! And today was by far my best Pure Cardio ever. I was a little worried how I'd do since I pushed through a really great chest and back workout this morning. I took a few hours off, and hit the gym around 4. The warmup was incredible! I took two or three breaks, but this was noticeably my strongest warmup yet. After the stretch I pushed really hard and ended up getting through three fourths of the whole thing with only two of three breaks. Somewhere near the end it caught up to me, and I didn't finish as well as I'd started, but overall this was the best pure cardio yet! I think I only do this one one more time, and that's in a few days. After that is recovery week, followed by Max Cardio. I think I'll be ready!

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Insanity Cardio Abs Status: Completed Great cardio abs session too. My abs were on fire the whole time, and for some reason I think I figured out how to properly do the c sit position because today it ripped my abs up! This is definitely not ab ripper, but I'm finally starting to really dig it. I wonder what Insane Abs will be like in the second month. Dig Deep!

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P90X Chest and Back Status: Completed The final chest and back session for my Insanity doubles workout is done. Since it was my last one, I really pushed hard today and it turned out great. I woke up around 9 and got started early since tonight I knew I had pure cardio too and would need a break. I had a slow start since it is Sunday and I like to sleep in a little later, but I pushed through the workout. I wore the weight vest for the entire first half, and even though some of my numbers went down because of it I really feel like I get a stronger workout. The second half I took the vest off, which helped me get my numbers back up. Overall this is a still one of my favorite workouts and I'm glad I brought it with me for the first month of Insanity.

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P90X Chest and Back Status: Completed I also threw in a round of Supreme 90 Day and once again it was a good workout. I love the flys and the back exercise where you lie down and move the weights from behind you to above you are awesome. No weight work next week since it's recovery week, and when it comes back it'll be completely different workouts. I wonder what the Supreme 90 Day chest shoulders & arms workout is like, because depending how the max workouts go this will be joining me in month 2. Today is off to a great start. Lots of sitting is planned for the rest of the day, and pure cardio tonight. You'll of course read these out of order, but that's how it goes. Bring it!

Day: 17, Insanity Pure Cardio

Workout

Insanity Pure Cardio Status: Completed Today started out a little slow. The warmup felt really hard, but I feel like I did a little better than normal. Just really tired. By the time the actual workout started I was pretty exhausted. I ended up pushing through, but had to take a break by the time I got to the switch kicks. Those things are surprisingly hard! Most of the workout actually went pretty well, but a few things still destroyed me. Those damn level two drills are brutal, and I was beat by the time the pushup jack's kicked in. Overall a good workout. I still have a long way to go on this one, but I'm seeing noticeable progress. I was supposed to do cardio abs today too. I made it about five minutes into it, and mark came in because his car wouldn't start. I had to take him to work, so I said screw it and I'll do cardio abs with the recovery workout tomorrow. Dig Deep!

Day: 13, Insanity Pure Cardio

Log Entry

Daily Note: Just a quick note, yesterday was St Patrick's Day, and tonight we're going to see Flogging Molly. Plus it was my buddy Richard's birthday yesterday, so we're also going to go out and celebrate that. Nutrition may not be the best this weekend, but mostly I'm posting this because I want to shout out Happy Birthday to Richard and to shout to the world that tonight's going to be freakin' awesome! Flogging Molly is going to be great!

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Insanity Pure Cardio Status: Completed Week 2 is in the books! It wasn't pretty, but it is completed. This fat free Jew is slowly getting fat free! The dreaded pure cardio was on the agenda for today, and I definitely was feeling yesterday's workouts. My legs were pretty beat which screwed with my endurance. I felt like I started all of the moves, warmup included, really well, but by the end of each I felt wrecked. Changing moves really helped me get boosts of energy. I still worked really hard and will definitely say that today was a success. I also think I took it a little easier today subconsciously because I knew cardio abs was after this workout. It wasn't my strongest pure cardio, but it was solid and I got a workout. Good stuff.

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Insanity Cardio Abs Status: Completed I finally got to do cardio abs. Why this is on the same day as Pure Cardio I don't know, but I accepted the challenge today. I've gotta say it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. It was still very difficult, and incredibly different from ab ripper x, but I can definitely get through it so awesome. This was the first ab work I've done in a few weeks. I haven't done ab ripper x since week 12 of p90x, and here we are wrapping up week 2 of insanity. Time flies. I feel like my abs held onto some of their strength in that time, which really helped me get through today. I can't wait to try Insane Abs in Month 2. Time to get the day started. I get a looong break from Insanity and that's awesome. I have all of today free (obviously), tomorrow is a rest day, Sunday is just the fit test and my p90x resistance stuff, so the next real workout isn't until Monday! Sweet. Dig Deep!

Day: 9, Insanity Pure Cardio

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Insanity Pure Cardio Status: Completed It is done. Pure Cardio. The dreaded workout. Today was rough and I definitely felt like the world was against me this morning. I woke up feeling completely exhausted. Yesterday was daylight savings time, the bad one in the spring, so this morning felt even earlier, and the lack of sun didn't help. Then I couldn't find the disc, and tore the room apart looking for it. I found an old old copy of pure cardio that I borrowed from someone years ago, and it was a little scratched but it played....until the warmup was over. Then it froze and I felt like I would never get my workout done. Then I remembered I had left the disc in the old DVD player, and we'd moved players around for Halo on Saturday. I found the disc, put it in, and finally after a loooong break between stretch and start, I got started. Today wasn't actually as bad as I remembered from the other day. Still ridiculously hard, and I was drenched in sweat by the end, but overall I felt a lot stronger. That said, I definitely felt like I could have brought it a little harder....that may have meant more breaks and less of a workout overall, but I have some energy left over now that I'm writing this and I really feel like after insanity I should have nothing left. A part of that was how early this morning felt, and the frustrations, but overall if I can give more I need to. That's going to be my goal for tomorrow, to leave it all in the gym. Wish me luck. Week 2 continues. It's time to get stronger. Dig Deep!

Day: 5, Insanity Pure Cardio

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Insanity Pure Cardio Status: Completed This is after work, just for the record. Read the whole blog....you'll get that comment. Wow. That was the hardest home workout I have ever done. That was one of the hardest workouts I have ever done, and back when I was 20 in drum corps, we did some hard workouts. It was like a really hard Insanity workout, and Shaun T just decided not to do any breaks. None! And everything was a minute instead of 30 seconds. I had an amazing workout today! The normal warmup and stretch starts this one, and I was actually feeling a little gassed in the second set. I was dizzy all day in fact; I think I need to eat more on my heavy lifting morning days, which was today. But my energy started to rise during the stretch, and the first half of the actual workout I really brought it. I was soaked, and it was hard but I got through most of it. Lots of breaks, and around the third move my legs started to feel like jello, but it was good. The second half was not so good. I know Shaun T says to not sacrifice form, but it was either that or stop, and I really didn't want to stop. I definitely slowed down though, which made form a lot better. Basically though the second half I was just a lifeless dummy going through the motions trying to survive. Very difficult workout, and I laughed when everyone after the workout is completely silent. Not a word. That's exactly how I felt. I'm pretty sure I do this with cardio abs next week....THAT will be bananas! One more day in Week 1, and I get to revisit plyo cardio circuit. Let's see if I've improved this week. Dig Deep!

Workout

P90X Shoulders & Arms Status: Completed I got up at 5:30 today, had a no-xplode and went to work on shoulders & arms. Thursdays are my second doubles day of the week, and this is where I'm going to keep my strength and maybe build on my size too. I haven't seen this workout since Round 1 of P90X, since I did mc2 last time, and I forgot how good of a workout this is. The shoulders get rocked and my biceps were on fire! For some reason I feel like the triceps almost get a break in this routine though, but I still managed to bring it. I focused on upping the weight and doing fewer reps today, and my arms feel great right now! Bring it!

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Supreme 90 Day Shoulders & Arms Status: Completed I picked up Supreme 90 Day a few weeks ago at Walgreens. It's a knockoff of P90X, but at $20 I figured I'd check it out. It's definitely not P90X, but it has slightly shorter versions of all of the resistance workouts, and since I'm trying to build strength I threw in their shoulders and arms workout after P90X today. It's a lot faster paced, slightly easier workouts, but it focuses on circuit training. It's shoulders, bi's, tri's, repeat 3 times, then rest. No breaks in between. 4 total sets of those circuits, and that's the workout. It was actually a great thing to follow up my heavy duty shoulders and arms workout, and at half an hour it's real easy to keep doing. I think I'll stick to adding in these resistance workouts in the future. You'll read these out of order, but it's time for work, then I come home for Insanity! Can't wait!