Day: 23, Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance

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Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance Status: Completed Well, after my blog post it all went downhill. I ate multiple tacos, burritos and chips. We decided to do a lazy Sunday so I made a taco bar, and I sort of pigged out. I topped it off with ice cream and cookies too! Nutrition just went out the window last night, and I woke up feeling horrible. I'm lactose intolerant and I still ate ice cream! Terrible! I pushed through because I knew I'd have to burn off the stomach ache, and by the second half my stomach felt a lot better. I did not have an amazing workout today, partly from my stomach and partly from my legs feeling like jello from yesterday, but I did try hard and was covered in sweat by the end. I do find it cool that when I over eat I know I can just burn it off and feel better with an insanity workout, even if that Insanity workout isn't very good. It's amazing to me how hard the nutrition part of this is. I can do Pure Cardio much easier than I can say no to ice cream. You wouldn't think that saying no would be that hard, yet here we are. I'm spending the week making up yesterday's nutritional mistakes. Wish me luck. Week 4 continues. Dig Deep!

Day: 12, Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance

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Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance Status: Completed Ya! I just destroyed cardio power and resistance! That was a great workout and this is definitely my favorite Insanity workout so far. I started with a really solid warmup. I took a few less breaks than normal, but the big improvement was today was that the breaks were noticeably shorter. Usually I'd skip a rep, maybe 1 second, and hopped right back into it. The warmup is getting more and more realistic, which is great. The actual workout I brought the same intensity. The first set I only took one or two breaks each, and those were always towards the end. The second half I was starting to get drained, and those globe jumps destroy me. I'm determined to someday get better at those. My triceps were pretty dead from my workout this morning. That made the tricep dip stuff in the middle really hard. That aside, the pike presses (v pushups) in the beginning were really strong. Combined with my workout this morning on shoulders and my absolute love of pike presses (they're awesome....it's a pushup for your shoulders!) my shoulders feel amazing right now. And even though I was tired, I really rocked out the 8 pushup 8 jump things at the very end. One more day in Week 2, and I'm finally going to try cardio abs. Cardio abs after pure cardio.....yup. Tomorrow morning will be interesting. Dig deep!

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P90X Shoulders & Arms Status: Completed It's a doubles day, so I woke up early and did shoulders and arms. For some reason I was exhausted (again) and my weight numbers dropped a little bit. I pushed the 30 lbs for the shoulders, but by the end my arms felt destroyed. Despite being tired, this was a good workout. Not too much to say about it, but I'm glad I did it. Bring it!

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Supreme 90 Day Shoulders & Arms Status: Completed Like last week I threw in the Supreme 90 Day shoulders and arms workout. For some reason though, I ran out of time to finish it. I checked the clock after the third circuit, and I was already 5 minutes later than I prefer to be done with the workout. Usually I come in under time. I hit stop at that point, gave myself a cooldown and stretch and called it good. I'm glad this happened though; even though it wasn't a bad workout at all, after P90X and just being tired in general I was ready to call it quits today. Good workout, but I need to double check I'll have time for both of these next week. Waking up at 5:30 cannot become my normal routine....it destroys me! 6am is hard enough. Again you'll read these out of order, but Insanity Resistance tonight! Wish me luck!

Day: 8, Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance

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Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance Status: Completed You'll be reading these out of order, but the app I use to write this blog uses the first workout listed as the title, and the Insanity workout deserves the title for the next few weeks. My final workout of the day was Cardio Power & Resistance. This is the second time I've done this workout, and so far I've decided it's my favorite. The cardio isn't terrible to keep up with, but definitely works me like crazy. I like the body weight exercises in here too. I had a little trouble keeping up with the warmup, partly because I was still recovering from my chest and back workout. I had drank a lot of water in between workouts too, and I felt that sloshing around in my stomach. But once I got past the stretch and got into the workout I felt like I kept up with the group pretty well. I definitely took breaks, but overall I was hanging in there. Maybe there will be a day that I can do this whole workout with stopping. We'll see. Week 2 has begun! I'm getting stronger and feeling amazing right now. Tomorrow I get up early for the dreaded return of Pure Cardio. Wish me luck, but I think I'm ready. Dig deep!

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P90X Chest and Back Status: Completed It's Sunday, one of my two doubles days. Last night we pulled an all nighter playing Halo, and there was a time change. Long story short, I'm coming off of a night of little sleep and a lot of junk food. Getting started was really hard, and I felt pretty drained through this workout. Even so, I pushed through and had a pretty solid chest & back workout. I definitely feel worked right now. Bring it!

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Supreme 90 Day Chest and Back Status: Completed I added in the Supreme 90 Day Chest & Back workout today too. For some reason, even though I was exhausted during the P90X workout I actually got through this one really well. It's another circuit set of one chest and one back, repeat 3 times, and there's four sets of those types of circuits. There was some really different stuff from my other workouts in here and I really think I hit some new muscle areas. I also like the all the chest stuff isn't just pushups. There's some fly stuff in there too, which is great! I'm done with the muscle stuff, but I still have Insanity to do. I'm on break now, and working out in 2 or 3 hours. You'll read these out of order, but that's how it goes. Bring it!

Day: 3, Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance

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Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance Status: Completed Oi, I feel so sore today! I don't remember being this sore after plyo the first time, and I definitely remember being really sore back then. My legs hurt all day yesterday, and they hurt just as bad when I woke up this morning. I did a few stretches, had a pre workout drink and hit play. The warmup started out really painfully, but by the second set I actually felt really good. By the end of the warmup I was soaked. I also was able to push through a little harder when I saw that this whole workout was under 40 minutes. I was even more surprised when after the warmup and stretch there were only 25 minutes left. The routine itself was a lot like yesterday's. More resistance stuff, and I love that there's pike presses (v pushups) in here. Basic 4 sets of exercises, 30-45 seconds each, with 30 second breaks after you do all 4. 3 sets of that and then move on to more stuff. For some reason I felt like this was easier than yesterday. Not easy, just easier. I had a little more energy at the end than I thought, so I'm crediting that to my fitness level on resistance stuff. My cardio still needs work, but after P90X my muscles can hold their own. Speaking of P90X, I don't understand how anyone could do Insanity without doing P90X or something before. This is brutal. Really brutal. I think I've come a long way in fitness in the last six months, and I struggle like crazy through these workouts. If I started with Insanity I'd have either given up or ended up in a coma. So I definitely recommend the way I've been doing it. Insanity is nuts, so don't kill yourselves folks! Day 3 is in the books! Looking forward to the recovery day tomorrow (which from what I hear is just as hard as any other day). Wish me luck! Dig Deep!