Cardio Power and Resistance.

I just finished up today's Insanity workout. Today was Cardio Power and Resistance. A 39 minute workout. This workout had the same warmup as yesterdays warm up. ( A kick a$$ warm up) Then it basically does numerous drills again where you do each rotation 3 times each, each time harder and then faster. Today we worked on some shoulders and triceps too. I'm in pain lets just say that. Tomorrow I'm really looking forward to Cardio Recovery. lol

To give you an idea of what I did today here is a Youtube Vid of other people doing the same workout I did today. I hope to get my own video up soon. Enjoy! :)

Quick post on the Insanity Nutrition guide.

Ok normally when I get a meal plan or a nutrition guide it can be intimidating. Usually the recipe's are either really hard to make, or the ingredients are really expensive.

The Insanity nutrition guide is neither and I absolutely love it for that fact. You are supposed to eat 5 meals a day. Those 5 meals are so easy to make and inexpensive.

For example one meal is Proatmeal: Oatmeal, protein powder, fresh berries, walnuts and a splash of skim milk. That's it! Easy and affordable.

Another example: Protein Pizza Muffin; whole grain english muffin, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, grilled chicken breast, and broccoli. Again, that's it, easy affordable, and delicious.

So I just wanted to take a sec and say how happy I am to have a great nutrition guide and give some examples of what comes with it.

Yum!

For dinner tonight I used another Campbell's recipe. Soooo good. I made Polynesian pork chops.
Recipe and pic below. Just wanted to share.

4 boneless pork chops, 3/4-inch thick (about 1 pound)

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 medium onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup)

1 can (10 3/4 ounces) Campbell's® Condensed Golden Mushroom Soup

1/4 cup water

1 can (8 ounces) pineapple chunks, undrained

3 tablespoon soy sauce

1 tablespoon honey

2 cups hot cooked regular long-grain white rice

Sliced green onion

• Season the pork with the garlic powder.
• Heat the oil in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pork and cook until well browned on both sides.
• Add the onion, soup, water, pineapple with juice, soy sauce and honey to the skillet and heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cook for 10 minutes or until the pork is cooked through. Serve the pork and sauce with the rice and sprinkle with the green onion.

Nutrition:

calories	380
totalfat	10g
saturatedfat	2g
cholesterol	59mg
sodium	1461mg
totalcarbohydrate	46g
dietaryfiber	2g
protein	26g
vitamina	10%DV
vitaminc	12%DV
calcium	3%DV
iron	11%DV

I now know why it's called Insanity.

Cause I'm crazy for doing this. Today is day two and day one of the official workout. Yesterday being the Fit Test.

I just finished up Plyometric Cardio Circuit. Ouch! The workout is 41 mins long. (longer then I thought the first workout would be)

We start out with the warm up. Very fast warm up involving about 5 different drills done all together. I'm thinking to myself no biggie right? Wrong. I thought doing all those drills just once WAS the warm up. Nope. You then repeat them, but faster and with more intensity. Then I'm thinking ok done now let's get on with the workout. Wrong again, you then repeat the same 5 drills AGAIN even faster then the second time with even MORE intensity. THEN you get to stretch for 6 minutes. Which felt SO good.

THEN you get to start the workout, with only 25 minutes left in the workout! The Warm Up alone is 16 minutes! Sheesh!

Then for the workout you do even more sets of drills repeated at least twice with faster motions and even more intensity each time. You're on the floor, you're up in the air, your on the floor again, etc, etc, etc. My legs feel like rubber.

Let's just say, well, the pic is self explanatory.

OMG!

OMG! That's pretty much all I want to say right now. lol I just finished up my fit test. If that was just the thirty minute test I'm in trouble! Although I will say I did better than what I thought I would do. You can tell after I post my stats that my numbers started to decrease because I was starting to get tired. I also had to hit pause and run to the bathroom cause I got sick. Yep I said it, I got sick. That's how intense it was. I'll say that I definitely do feel challenged but I love it! My hands are still shaky and it's a bit hard to type.

The fit test is composed of 7 exercise tests done each for one minute to see how many you can do in a minute.

Here are my beginners stats:
1. Switch Kicks-50
2. Power Jacks-56
3. Power Knees-91 (After all the Turbo I do, I had better do decent on these lol)
4. Power Jumps-46 (All I can say is ouch)
5. Globe Jumps-6 (4 rotations equals one Globe Jump)
6. Push-up Jacks 14 (my weak spot)
7. Low Plank Oblique 23

I did a lot better then I thought I would. But that was just the 30 minute test. I still have a long road ahead of me. I will be taking my before pic tonight. ( I want that free t-shirt lol) And measuring myself as well. I'm so ready to bring it! Oh wait, that's P90X. I'm ready to dig deeper! :P

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New Page!

So I'm updating my page to follow one of the newest Beachbody workout programs. INSANITY! I'm about to take my fit test and will be posting my stats, weight, before and after pic and measurements. Insanity is a 60 day body transformation workout that I'm REALLY excited to start. So here I go off to take the fit test! Be back later to update!

Sadness...

So guess what? I gained weight. Yep. I've done so good too the past 3 years. I've only gained around 5 pounds which should be easy to take off. I'm pretty sure I know why I gained. See I just got back from my home state in TN. My beloved Grandmother passed away last week and I went to her funeral. I've been a bit of an emotional wreck. I loved my Grandmother very much and was VERY sad to see her go. So I'm not going to lie, I ate my feelings when I was in TN. I didn't care what I was eating. So now I will be starting over a bit in my weight loss. But hey, it was only 5 pounds, it could have been a heck of a lot worse right? So now I am off to do an hour of Turbo Kick and then some Chalean Extreme. RIP Grandmother I love you sooooooo much and I'll miss you. :(