Chronicles of “Insanity”

I am looking to add some size (peak) to my biceps.  The stuff I am currently doin gis not getting me the results I want.  I have tried volume and heavy and I am not sure which helped out if either.

Any suggestions?

That is what my wife said last night.  She had me rolling laughing.  She wanted to break a sweat and was not going to the gym and she said "let me do one of your DVD’s".  So I explained to her month one was easier than month two and she said "just give me one of the ones you are on at the moment"  Now if anyone is doing the insanity series you know you work your way up to month two, you do not just do it.

I told her I would coach her for support, which was true but I wanted to see how she would do.  My wife is 5′8′’ and about 143 lbs walks everyday, hits the gym 2 days a week, and is a card carrying memeber of the cult Weight Watchers (LOL… I am not bagging on Weight Watchers she dropped 25 lbs, but try living in a house where everything is broken down into points).  As soon as I started the dvd it was pure comedy.  She made comments like "I’m writing a letter to the NAACP, this DVD is booty biased, all this jumping ain’t for people with big booty’s"  I am just shaking my head laughing as the warm up went on the comments changed "Why is he screaming at me…?"  I am really laughing now.

The warm up finishes and she is proud thinking she was done because the stretching had begun.  After the stretching the instructor says OK let’s get ready to work, and goes into an intense workout to which my wife replies "Screw this insanity sh*t, I’m done"  Did I mention she normally doesn’t curse.

I am still smiling and that was last night. 

Alright enough talk….time to go do some "Insanity"

Day one month two and I am blown away.  I seriously thought "well the exercises would be the same we would just be doing them longer"…..Well I was wrong.. the warm up was different and so were the exercises.  The workout was a total of 59 minutes.  This was nothing like the first month, this is much harder and more intense (I did not think that was possible).

I am scared to see what tomorrow brings! 

Time for a program change for this month and I want to maximize fat burning/fat loss.  Which would be better Heavy weight or high reps.  I am 6′6′’ 269 and a lot of my weight that I want to lose is about my mid-section. 

I have read several articles with several variations of this diet and i have some general questions.

1. How many calories should one be taking in?  I am 269 lbs and taking in about 2000 cals and 300g of protein and I feel full doing that.

2. How do you factor in fat?  I find it hard to now have to include a whole bunch of fat.  How does one do this.

3.  How does one battle fatigue during workouts?  I can make it through insanity

4. How long should a cycle last?  1 week, 2 weeks, more?

Well month one is done and I am still alive.  I had a number in my head that I wanted to lose and I did not hit that.  I wanted to lose at least 10 and I lost six.  As they say on "The Biggest loser" any weight loss is good and I will get to that point in a day or two.

Been on a ketogenic Diet for the last 11 days and I like it so I will continue to cycle that diet.  Time to refeed though….where is my Captain Crunch (lol)