Jonahgirl’s BodyBlog

Did my Insanity Max Interval Plyo in the gym today. It is great to look in the mirrors and check your form plus you get to watch people give you weird looks along the lines of WTH is she doing?

Sometimes it’s the little things in life that get you through the day..

I love…

non-fat lattes

my cat Jonah

turtleneck sweaters

colored sharpie markers

post-it notes of any kind

fantasy football

intense workouts

mystery/suspense books

learning new things

a super crisp granny smith apple

Did Insanity Max Interval Circuit this morning and just feel great. The tiredness and less than stellar motivation are gone. Plus, I did the whole workout which I struggled with last week. Cutting down on the number of double workouts really helped.

Work is easing up a bit and the fitness class I co-teach ends tomorrow. It may have been the triple workouts on Tuesday and Thursday that were killing me.

Okay, I am the last person to give up but the past week’s workouts have been exceptionally hard. I had originally planned to finish up the second half of Insanity before starting another round of p90x. But at the time I felt really good and I had been doing both Insanity and P90X for five weeks. Now that I am at the Max level of Insanity I am ready to admit I may have bitten off more than I can chew…so a few modifications will need to be made on the P90X side of things. ( I’ve only done the first two weeks of a new round.) I will do the weight days (like today’s legs and back) but skip the other days in lieu of Insanity workouts. Instead of 12 workouts a week I will go down to nine. More doable considering the intensity of the second level on Insanity.

ps…although doing double workouts each day did mean I slept like the dead each night…

I’ve definitely decided that Max Cardio Conditioning is the hardest…especially at 7 am on a Monday morning. Even the second time through I had to take breaks unlike any other Insanity workout. At least it will make tonights Legs & Back seem easy.

Hard…very hard….very, very hard…max cardio conditioning…is by far the hardest Insanity workout I have done.

Today is usually my Insanity Day in the morning with Interval X in the afternoon for P90X. My Wednesday and Thursday workouts were interrupted in the morning so I decided to use today as a make up day. I didn’t feel I did my best on Tuesday so I repeated Max Interval Plyo this morning. I will do Max Cardio Conditioning this afternoon.

I’ve been a little tired this week and I know it is because I haven’t eaten enough. I tend to lose track of time when I am in ‘geek" mode in front of the computer and this week has been a non stop geek mode on top of teaching an evening fitness and toning class.

I am ready for the weekend and some R&R.

The last two days have in Insanity-less. Wednesday and Thursday morning were both thwarted by work related issues. I was about 15 minutes into Wednesday workout when I was called to fix a small database problem so I had to stop and head into work. Thursday I had planned on going in a little later (since I work late on Wednesdays now) but again I got called in early to fix a large format printer issue. I was able to get in my Chest and Back for p90x in the late afternoon plus teach the evening fitness class. Not sure if I am going to do a do-over week next week for Insanity. We will see what tomorrow and Saturday brings.

My plan is to take tomorrow off….lets see what the I.T. gods have in store for me.

Woke up sore and I mean sore from last nights double workout. Upper abs are sore and my abs rarely get sore. I am not sure what Insanity move did that but wow! Today was Max Interval Plyo I did push through it but had to take a few mini breaks during a few of the tougher ones. At least I do better than some of the people on the DVD. Considering I am likely twice their age I feel good about what I can do the first time through the Max Level DVDs.

Today was supposed to be Kenpo Cardio Plus but I am subbing again this week so my X cardio was teaching the fitness and toning class. Part of the workout was Abs so I didn’t do abs last night and now I am glad) I burned 586+ calories so that works just fine in place of Kenpo.

Googled overtraining just to make sure I wasn’t showing any signs of overtraining. None. Tomorrow is  single workout day. Just Insanity (p90x rest day). If I feel like I need more rest I will drop the Sunday p90x workout (yoga day which I usually do Interval X or something else in its place).

Or…I won’t do THAT again…

Did my third Insanity Fit Test last night to get it out of the way and improved greatly in all areas. I wanted to make sure I had enough time to get the hour of Max Interval Circuit in this morning. Well, great plan until I overslept this morning. It normally wouldn’t be an issue I would just workout and then go in a little later but I had an appointment this morning with a vendor.

In the end I came home early and did Legs & Back (new personal record of 8 unassisted pullups). I had a protein shake and rested for about 30 minutes then launched into Max Interval Circuit. Learned very quickly that 30 minutes was NOT enough rest. By the end of the hour of Insanity my legs were actually shaking. I did have to take a few breaks along the way but I stuck it out.  Note to self: Don’t do THAT again…LOL