Day 4 - Pure Cardio

I have to admit I was dreading and excited about this one at the same time. Excited since I was looking for a break from push ups and other heavy leg exercises(the bug jump ones). Dreading, because it's pure cardio.

It's not a whole lot different than most of the other videos. I think the warm up was actually easier. I got a nice break with 2 minutes left in the stretch sequence when my laptop crashed and I had to reboot it, then it was something like 16 straight minutes of cardio, no water breaks, nothing. I did a bit of watching, as did many of the people in the video.

One more workout and then rest day. I'm looking forward to sleeping in a bit. It's allergy season and I'm struggling with that.

Day 3 - Cardio Recovery

Not a bad workout. It has a similar feel to P90x yoga. Some stretch exercises, some pulse stuff. There is a squat/lunge sequence in the middle that is a little challenging because he goes really slow. I'm sure I'll adapt to it in another week or 2.

For anyone who doesn't know me, I usually workout in the morning, getting up around 4:45/5:00 and getting it done.

Day 2 - Cardio Power & Resistance

Once again, the warm up was tough. I actually spent a few minutes before I worked out doing a slower warm up. I'll be 37 next week, so I guess I take a little longer to get started.

This one was a little tougher than yesterday, my ankles took a long time to loosen up, so they hurt at the beginning and by time we got to the resistance exercises, I was pretty winded.

Still, Dug Deep and finished strong. It doesn't hurt that my brother is doing this too, so we'll be making sure the other one doesn't miss too many workouts. He's a week ahead of me, so he's done all of the first round workouts at this point. He tells me tomorrow is a bit easier.

Day 1 - Plyometric Cardio Circuit

That was a challenge. The warm up is tough, more like a first round of exercises than a warm up.

I sucked a fair amount of wind during this and spent some time catching my breath on my knees during push up time, but I did fairly well. Having taught aerobics years ago, the moves weren't hard, I just need to get more wind.

Fit Test

I did the Fit test last week, while I was taking a week off between P90x routines, so there are valid push up numbers here:

For my count, a single rep was 1. So the first exercise, switch kicks, if I did each leg once, I counted that as 2 reps.

Switch kicks: 102
Power jacks: 43
Power knees: 66
Power jumps: 32 - This is not jump knee tucks from P90x
Globe jumps: 10
Suicide jumps: 12
Push-up jacks: 23
Low Plank Oblique: 38

P90x and Insanity

Having just completed my second round of P90x, I had intended to do a third round, pushing Insanity off till the summer, when I could do it outside. Unfortunately, during my first workout of P90x Round 3, I did something to my left shoulder that made push ups extremely painful to do.

I gave it a week and it feels a little better. So rather than go to the Dr and have him tell me to wait 4 weeks and come back, I decided to just wait 4 weeks on my own. I had made great progress with P90x and didn't want to lose it, so Insanity got the call.

There are some push up exercises, so I'm modifying those a little. I am able to hold a plank without issue, so that helps with many of the exercises.

Time to dig deep and go Insane.