Bring on the INSANITY! (Page 9)

Yeah, it's so fun to work out with them!  I bet Insanity would help with the speed/agility.

Alrighty so I did the fit test and did ok... definitely gonna be a kick work out! Gonna wake up early and get all sweaty! 

Report back after your first 'real' workout!  Have fuuuun.....!

Max Recovery, YAWN......It did feel good to stretch out my legs from the running this weekend but it is not much of a wake up workout!

Sooooo I woke up at 5:55am this morning got dressed to work out, laid down on my yoga mat for just a second annnnnnnnd fell asleep...I'm not a morning person at all, guess I'll have to work on that. I'll hit it hard tonight when I get home from work. 

too funny. how long did you sleep on the yoga mat?

I'm not a morning person either, but evenings are too full with kids' homework, etc that by the time I'm free to work out it's way too late. So I'm forced to get up at 5:30 for the workouts.

It does feel good when you're done and you start off work knowing you already got in a workout for the day. But, I often find myself feeling drowsy in the afternoons.

If only my employer would pay for me to workout as much as I want, any time I please. Maybe I should change jobs and become the next Shawn T.

(BTW - Cardio Power and Resistance this a.m. Last night got into the pool first time in a very long time, did 1700 yds and felt way stronger than I expected - I think it's a nice side effect of the Insanity workouts.)

slept there til about 7am, my dog came and licked my face. stood up and had an epic back crack which felt awesome! I'm 23 and have a supportive gf so evenings are no problem for me, just wanted to get it out of the way so i could spend more time with her but she'll be busy with her english papers and what not.  

a half marathon dressed as elvis?! AWESOME! I am in week three day 2, LOVE LOVE LOVE IT.  My biking and running have suffered a bit though, since I only have mornings for that kind of exercise....but I keep telling myself, mid january, I'll be done with insanity, but truthfully, I'll never be done with insanity, this is one of those awesome workouts (like buns of steel :P) that will be in my collection indefinately!!

I rearranged the living room for the christmas tree and now my exercise space is even smaller lol.  I even did some jump tests to make sure none of the ornaments would fall off and break during the speedy jumping jacks or the power jumps.

Plyo Cardio last night after I got home from work...pretty damn good work out, went through about two water bottles and a couple of breathers, definitely gonna be good the body. My legs are pretty sore this morning which is a good sign! And I'm glad Shaun T isn't as annoying as Tony Horton was and it was kinda funny to see the people in the background take breaks and look exhausted. 

Core Cardio and Balance for the rest of this week, 5 more weeks and Ill finish this round.

I went back through and started reading all the posts and I can def relate to this today.  

Yeah, I kind of like Shaun T - I don't find him annoying even after doing the same workouts several times over.

As for the people in the DVD workout taking breaks and looking beat - it is pretty funny, but there's no question that they are all very fit. Shaun makes little comments to them to give you an idea about their background; one is a spin instructor, one is a marathoner, etc. Several of them are fitness professionals of one type or another. Seeing them get beat down by the workout just goes to show that this style of interval training can apply to people in a wide range of fitness levels. Thus I don't ever expect to 'outgrow' the Insanity workouts. As fitness level increases, you can increase your own intensity to match and still get a killer workout using these exercises.

On another note, imagine if Shaun T partnered with the Kinect/XBox 360 folks and produced a Kinect version of Insanity? The sensor could monitor your form and tell you when your form is bad, count and store how many exercises you complete within intervals, and track your progress over the 63 day cycle. Shaun could even yell at you by name when your butt is too high on the Level 1 Drills or when you need to go faster on the 1-2-3 Heismans.....

That would be pretty cool.

This is what I've noticed on my 2nd time through...it doesn't get any easier. I'm much more fit during this round, so I can push harder and I still finish exhausted and dripping with sweat.

The Kinect idea is great! 

Cardio power & resistance last night - went pretty well, still just sore from day one but I'm looking forward to cardio recovery tonight.

Cardio Recovery last night...me gusta 

Last night I was scheduled to do Cardio Recovery but I was feeling good after a brief run, so I did the Max Recovery instead. I liked it, but it sure works you hard for a 'recovery' workout!

Today was Pure Cardio. Tomorrow I'm running a 5K with my 13 yr old daughter (her first ever) so I'll either skip the insanity or do it tomorrow evening. Depends on how much pain I'm in (haven't been running much and Insanity is making my calfs and Achilles ache).

Yeah, I had calf cramps my first time through.  Two different times during hill repeats they cramped so bad I couldn't run for about a week each time.

Have fun with your daughter!  I've done a 5K with my 11 year old daughter. It's so much fun!

Have fun on your 5k! I started running two years, almost three years ago, cause my father passed away from a heart attack and diabetes so I vowed to be healthy. It's so awesome and nice to see families that run and be healthy together!

Edited by rdub 2010-12-03 1:52 PM

Max Interval Circuit, half fumbled through it this morning as I was having a hard time waking up. IT Band is acting up again, all the stretching is helping.

Got a new tattoo other the weekend and it's on the side of my leg so I was a little sore this weekend so I skipped my Saturday workout but I'm going to make it up next weekend by not having a rest day, but tonight I have Cardio Power and Resistance.

Here's the tattoo


Edited by rdub 2010-12-06 9:36 AM

That is one heckuva tattoo!  Beautiful!!!

I'm doing Plyo Cardio Circuit tonight with my boys.  My legs are pretty beat up from the 1/2 marathon I did yesterday.  I train 100% on dirt road/hard packed trail and the race was 100% on pavement (down the Las Vegas Strip!) so they're feeling some pain!  I'm hoping Insanity will loosen them up.  For the rest of the month I'm doing whatever workout I want...I have a feeling it'll be a running workout of some kind and then an Insanity workout of some kind.   I have the Insanity Upper Body Strength DVD---it's flippin' hard...I'll throw that in once or twice a week as well.

Edited by ingleshteechur 2010-12-06 4:10 PM

Thank you

I did the Rock N' Roll Las Vegas 1/2 marathon last year! It was really fun! I think I'm gonna do the full next year!  

That's funny...I'm thinking I might just do the same!