Fit Test 2 - Day 15

So it's been a bit since i've made a new post.... I've kinda got bored with the whole talking about each work out because its 100% repetitive. Anyways so i'll probably just stick to the major turning points in the workout program that way it gives me more to talk about.

So for starters... I can already tell a huge difference in my muscle definition. I've been pretty busy with school/work/insanity so i haven't really seen a jump in energy yet..... For the 2nd fit test i'd have to say im pretty stoked to post these numbers. It proves that insanity is working 100%..... Heres the numbers:
 
                                  Day 1                 Day 15
Switch Kicks:               41                      55
Power Jacks:                32                      44
Power Knees:               50                      60
Power Jumps:               20                      23
Globe Jumps:                7                         8
Suicide Jumps:              8                         9
Push Up Jacks:             15                      20
Low Plank oblique:       20                      25


As you can see, I improved on every workout... 1 jump increase may not look like a lot, but remember, globe jumps = 4total jumps, suicide jumps = 3 jumps, Power jumps = jump + squat. So there's a lot more to them... Will report on next times numbers!

Day 8: This isn't getting any easier

So this definitely isn't getting any easier. Tonight was another night of Insanity. Very Very exhausting. I do feel like i'm able to keep going with out resting a lot longer however. Somethings working we'll see next Monday after the fit test. This week mixes in days with 2 workouts!! we'll see how that all goes, all I can say is...........

That's it, can't say nothin haha... Day 7 was a nice day off, can't wait till next sunday!


Lata

Alex

Day(s): 5 & 6 Ouch and More Ouch Again

So I haven't written on the blog because i've been doing other stuff from homework to going out and eating terribly. Oh well, I'm still working out so thats why I'll still see a huge difference. I still don't eat as bad as I used too as well so overall im still improving. So Day 5 called "Pure Cardio" Sucked. Hands down it hurt a lot. It's was the most intense workout of the 4 or 5 different one's i've done thus far. Very painful and non stop cardio workouts. I swear you could probably lose a lb or 2 from sweat, let alone the fat your already burning from it. I went all the way through but i could not do it without stopping to take a drink of water or breathe even. On Day 6 was the Plyometric Circuit workout again. Very intense still but I kind of slacked with this one. I'm going to make sure i step up my game this week and eat better. 1 week from monday is my 2nd fit test, i'll get to see if i've improved. We'll see !! Until tomorrow, later!

Alex

Day 4: Recovery mode

Sorry about the late post, but I was pretty tired last night, it's been a long week!

Anyways, last night was a pretty decent Night. It was the Cardio Recovery workout. It was a lot of stretching and very deep muscle tissue stretches. It was still a lot to do and and guarentee I still burned a lot of calories. It was pretty difficult at times because I can't stretch like they were saying yet but i'll get there. I'm not as sore as usual today as well so thats a large plus. Anyways kinda busy today so I'll have to end this one short.

Alex

Day 3: So I think I understand how this works...

Pretty much today was like the 2nd day and the 1st day. Muy muy exhausting. I find it kind of pointless to keep saying the same things like I pushed as far as I can, blah blah etc etc. I think you get the point by now. I was extremely sore all day today however. It hurt to sit, hurts to stand, pretty much every step I took hurt. The only thing I can say about that is I guess i'm doing something right or very very wrong. I think it's right because I'm not hurting per say, i'm just excessively sore. My body has never under gone such a stress test and it hasn't be able to adjust to it yet. So i'm hoping this soreness is a temporary thing until my body gets in that mode of repairing the muscles a lot quicker. One thing i've realized about how Insanity works. Yes it gives you specific workouts that will target core muscle groups just like any other workout program out there. There's just a different concept behind this, thats similar to whats in p90x, just not as prominent. The good thing is you can take this concept and make it work for other workout programs. The concept is very simple and it's just this... Push yourself harder every single time you workout. Most workout programs stay at a steady constant pace for the entire time. But the thing is, in Insanity, they are constantly reminding you to push harder every single time you do it. For example: for 1 minute you jog at a slow speed, the 2nd go around you jog even quicker for a minute, 3rd go around you sprint as fast as you possibly can. The idea is, everytime you do it, you will  get better and better and last longer and longer and go faster every single time. It's a brilliant yet subtle idea that's what I think is the key to Insanity. That's it for today though, here's what I ate.


Breakfast - Meal replacement Shake & Whole Grain Wheat Toast
Snack - Banana
Lunch - Beef and Broccoli with Rice
Snack - Roasted Almonds, little salt on them.
Dinner- Turkey Sandwich w/ Prov

Went to school got back at 10 and then worked out

After Workout - Another meal replacement shake  - only 200~ calories and many minerals vital for muscle repair and overall wellness that I may not have taken in today.


Im tired, Time to go to sleep :)

Alex

Day 2: I've never exercised in my life.

Today started out as any other day after you almost die from exercising. I was sore, more than ever. I felt muscles that I didn't know existed and blah blah blah, same thing you ever from everyone else when they workout after it's been awhile since doing it prior. Had to go to school today and then to Java class to take our midterm exam. After, I went ahead and went over to my parents house, hung out for a bit, and of course brought food home like always (not complaining at all :-P) So i got home and prepared for Insanity Day 2. Today was the "Plyometric Cardio Circuit." It started out with a 10 minute or so warm-up, which did not feel like a warm-up at all. By the end of the warm-up, i was already warn out. It's pretty much non-stop. After the warm-up, it felt like hell on earth. It was non-stop probably about 5minute circuits of exercises or so with only 30 seconds in between 3times for the first, 3times for the second circuit. I couldn't keep up, not even gonna try to act like I did. It was tough and it made me feel like any other exercise i've ever done was nothing compared to this. Now, I have never had to do very intense workouts and such before because the only sport i every really played was soccer when i was younger. I used to ride my bike just about every day for most of my life until I got a car, but regardless, it didn't compare. The only times I willingly slowed down was because I could tell my heart rate was reaching pretty high up there, didn't want to do anything that isn't safe. The program constantly reminds you to check your heart rate, I don't have a monitor so I just went with my gut (which will soon be gone at this rate!) feeling. After I felt like i was ready I got back into it. I never stopped for more than 30seconds so I say that I really didn't miss too much considering its my first time doing all this. Something i noticed during the workout was that at some moments i felt this sudden burst of energy where I just wanted to push my self. It was weird, but I made sure to take advantage of it to push my self passed my limits. I am exhausted. I almost decided not to even write this because I'm so tired, but I made sure I did because I don't want to miss a single workout/entry into the blog. Overall, pretty impressed with myself. I never felt so much will power to keep going, i really like the feeling. Anyways, like started prior, im exhausted so I shall take my leave. BTW Here's how i ate today (don't judge) haha.


Breakfast - Meal Replacement Shake + 2 Pieces of whole grain wheat toast.
Snack - Banana
Lunch - Wendys :( ---- Chicken Sandwich and a small fry, light lemonade... I know I know, shouldn't be eating it but it honestly was probably near the healthiest combo they had.... Their freakin chicken Caesar salad has 750 calories... what the hell.
Snack - Forgot, oops
Dinner - didn't eat till late - Turkey /Provolone on Whole Grain White bread with boars head mustard (amazing, a must have if you like mustard).

And the key to all weight loss :
-----------------LOTS OF WATER ALL DAY-----------------
Get away from the 8 glasses of water a day, studies show it's not enough for some people, go with how your body feels, when your thirsty drink water. A rule of thumb i follow is


(Your Weight (lbs) / 2) = X -- Drink X in Ounces (half your body weight in ounces) for me thats almost 100oz of water a day. Way over the 8glasses a day


Take it for what it's worth, Im out!


-Alex

Warning: Insanity is not for people with health problems.... Day 1 - Fit Test

Incase you ever want to try the Insanity Workout, take heed of my warning. I would consider i'm in pretty decent health, no major problems of the sort. I started Day 1 of Insanity with the Fit Test. It's supposed to do a lot of cardio/strength related workouts to show your progress through-out Insanity every other Monday. I would say I did pretty well considering I've never worked out intensely pretty much my entire life. I wasn't at par with what they were doing on the video itself, but i assumed I wouldn't be, they've all done this before. For the first week, here are my results:

Switch Kicks : 41
-------------------- Yeah this wasn't so bad, I can do this....
Power Jacks : 32
-------------------- Im starting to feel pain here....
Power Knees: 50
-------------------- Here's where i started to feel like I was about to die.
Power Jumps: 20
-------------------- Jumps suck
Globe Jumps: 7
-------------------- Okay so Globe jumps are actually 4 jumps in one sooo if that makes it sound anybetter
Suicide Jumps: 8
-------------------- Push up position, "jump" your feet up to your hands, then jump up in the air, rinse repeat
Push-up Jacks: 15
-------------------- At this point it was even hard to write down my results
Low Plank Oblique: 20
-------------------- Finally... it's over... "And now it's time to do our cooldown exercises..." .....crap.

So overall, i'd say pretty decent. Not gonna lie, I felt like quiting by the end of the 3rd exercise. Each additional exponentially increased my want to quit, but I didn't. I'm pretty proud that even though it's the first day. I did it, didn't give up and literally gave it my all. I felt like I was going to pass out at points, felt like getting sick almost, yet I didn't. This is tough, real tough, it's only going to get more difficult, but I'm up for the challenge. If you think you can do it, see if you can beat my results, but again take my warning to heart. This is not easy at all.

Here's my daily food intake (crappy for day 1, but it's better than usual)
- Breakfast: Meal replacement shake - 2 peices of wheat toast - little bit of butter - overall pretty healthy
- After Breakfast Snack - 2 strawberrys and some grapes
- Lunch 2 slices of medium sized pizza -- Honestly just trying to eat it cause i didn't want to waste it.
- After lunch snack - Banana
- Dinner - Turkey /Provolone sandwich with mustard (spicy good mustard nom nom)

Oh and also what seems to be excessive amounts of water all day.

Well, i'm exhausted now and probably smell like a dairy farm, so I guess i'm done here. Time to go study for a Java & History test I have Tuesday and Wednesday. If your keeping track, i'll post late tomorrow (school till 10:00pm)

- Alex

First blog post - Tomorrow... Insanity begins.

So i'm gonna start off with... I don't write very much, I usually hate writing because it's usually a topic I don't want to talk about from English class. Even still, it really takes a strong topic that i'm very interested in. Anywho... i decided to start this blog in order to try and force myself to keep to the Insanity workout. I don't have anyone else that would do it with me to try and help me stay motivated in that kinda sort, so this is the next best option for me. I'll try to start off each of the posts with possibly what I ate and what workout I did, how it was, and how horribly sore i will feel lol. I'll probably mix this all with a sum up of what I did that day and such as well. BTW, if you don't already notice, I could care less about grammar, so take it for what it is :). Tomorrow I start the challenge wish me luck and time to get to it! Oh i'll think about taking before and after pictures but i'd probably rather not. Maybe if I look like crazy good by the end of this I will to show how much of a change it was. Regarding my "diet" with insanity I'm going to try and stick the the recommended calorie intake for low weight loss and lots of muscle gain (going for fit and tone, not gigantic muscle man) which is about 2000-2300 calories a day for me. To maintain my weight (195lbs, 6'2) Its about 2800 calories. So a 500-800 calorie deficit should suffice. I'm not going to eat everything like Insanity says for example the Recovery formula and such because I honestly don't want to have to spend much extra money. What I am doing is mixing in a lot more veggies, and going to eat out much much less. I will try to drink less on the weekends and eat all around better. I recently lost 15lbs in about 3 weeks and maintained that for about another 3 weeks (im on the 7th week now and still pretty close to the same weight). I know i can eat right, its just a matter of will power to do so. Here's my idea for my diet....

Breakfast - Meal replacement shakes - Very good for vitamins and low calorie - will range between 200-350 calories
Mid-Morning snack - Probably something along the lines of fruits/nuts
Lunch - Will consist either salads or whole grain wheat sandwiches, no more fried crap
Mid-Day snack - Probably something along the lines of fruits/nuts like the morning snack
Dinner - Who knows, i'll figure that out when it comes time


Eating like this should assist in the whole process, now what i need to make sure is that since i'm doing such a difficult, calorie intensive workout i need to make sure i'm taking in enough calories so my body can repair my muscles with ease. 


Last thing i need to worry about is mixing this in with a full-time school, full-time job... I don't want to be exhausted going into work every morning or struggle with school, both of those are first of course, however I think i can do it. It's going to be tough, but it will just be another thing to add to my list of accomplishments. 


Wish me luck, Insanity starts tomorrow.