#insanity workouts

Core Cardio and Balance!

Started with the Recovery week.

This workout is very similar to Cardio Recovery and yet a lot dissimilar to it.

In this workout focus is required more than energy. Lot’s of balance exercises, so need to keep your core tight and focus. More importantly concentrate. None of the insanity workouts are mindless rigorous cardio, this one especially is even more not that.

Heart rate doesn’t go up as much as previous workouts, nonetheless you will sweat as much as any Month 1 workout, if not more.

I loved the way Shaun T has incorporated all the rules of exercises in Insanity. There is Progressive Overload, Working at the Lactic Threshold, GAS model, healthy mix of aerobic and anaerobic exercises. Every possible science has went in. This particular recovery week and cardio recovery workouts on every Thursdays, keep us from going into exhaustion mode, they keep us in the resistance mode where we improve.

Shaun T is wonderful.

i don't think i've ever sweated so much in my life? but that is becoming a common theme. legit though today i dripped sweat on the floor while stretching w o w. 

today was so much easier than day 2 even though it was the same workout. i only took breaks during the plank drills, and that was partly because i had drunk too much water and it was sloshing in my stomach. can definitely feel the improvements already

STATS MIDSEM DONE DONE DONE

so proud of myself for getting through it in español and i think i did okay

something quite stressful and scary is going on, but i can't do anything about it/find out what's going to happen until monday morning, so i'm just doing my best to keep it all out of my head and reassure myself that everything will be fine. i'll go into detail once i know it's all okay

distracting myself with happy things aka the mindy project+exercise+good food

my friend wanted to come running with me so i just did running+yoga+insanity and i am tiiiiiiired

i loved pure cardio though, it was so nice because it wasn't repetitive at all even though it was really hard (aren't they all though?)

also i've been feeling a lot of back flexibility progress so while my friend was here doing yoga with me i got her to put her arm under me while i did camel because i was pretty sure i could go into full but i was scared

and i did i went from straight to completely bent back into full camel

so so so happy about it

Switch Kicks: 32 | 52 (+10)

Power Jacks: 30 | 40 (+10)

Power Knees: 57 | 80 (+23)

Power Jumps: 25 | 35 (+10)

Globe Jumps: 8 | 11 (+3)

Suicide Jumps: 10 | 10 (0)

Push-up Jacks: 17 | 25 (+8)

Low Plank Oblique: 18 | 38 (+20)