Thursday 4/25: Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs. I won't talk much about Pure Cardio since I've already talked about it a few times. About 40 minutes of craziness just sums this one up! Cardio Abs is a new one. This is a shorter 20 minute workout just focusing on ab work, but no laying on the ground and doing sit ups or crunches. Lots of jumping around and plank work. There are some super hard jumps where you have to jump and get your knees as high as possible and touch them to your elbows. This is hard! You also do a lot of moves in the "C" position. Looks like this:
I also did a practice 5K for my upcoming race on Sunday. It was SOOOO windy. It was actually horrible. It felt like the wind was coming at me at 50MPH the whole time. I finished in 28:37, an average 9:13 minute mile. I'm happy with that. It's much faster than my usual pace, which is very surprising because of the dang wind. Maybe insanity is helping my running pace :)
Friday 4/26: REST DAY and that is what I did....RESTED!
Saturday 4/27: Fit Test
Fit Test Results
Day 1 Day 15
Switch Kicks 100 108
Power Jacks 41 52
Power Knees 82 94
Power Jumps 29 38
Globe Jumps 8 11
Suicide Jumps 16 20
Push Up Jacks 17 22
Low Plank Oblique 67 65
I did better in every exercise except the last one, low plank obliques. I pushed really hard and I think my body was just too stinking tired to give anymore. But overall I am very happy with my improvements and it's obvious by the numbers that Insanity is working :)
Sunday 4/28: Today was supposed to be Cardio Circuit, but I skipped it because I ran a race and had a super fun family day! (I did a separate blog post for the race recap)
Monday 4/29: Cardio Circuit (made up from yesterday!) Since I'm writing this days after I did the workout I am struggling to remember this workout. I honestly can't remember a thing about it! Ha! Oh wait, what I do remember is that I kept Hunter home from daycare (Jackson was at school) since I did not work today. He was playing farm while I was working out. He must have gotten bored because he started playing on top of his huge barn. So for 35 minutes of my workout I heard, "Mom, Mom, Momma, Mom, Momma, watch me, Mom, Momma, watch me, Momma, Momma, Momma, watch me." No joke, this kid said this the entire workout. I would look at him and smile in an effort to show him that I was paying attention to him, but he would just keep saying "Momma, Momma, Momma!" It is very hard to talk during my workouts and Hunter just doesn't quite seem to understand that eye contact, a smile and a head nod is confirmation that I am actually watching him. So over and over I had to say, "Yes Hunter, Momma is watching." Maybe this is why I don't remember the workout, because I was talking to Hunter 98% of the time!
My workout was very much like this Family Guy Episode:
Tuesday 4/30: Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs. Before I did my workout I wanted to get in a little run. I decided today that I would go out into the country. Since we live right on the edge of town, it's easy to do. I headed out and planned to do around 4 miles. I thought I knew where I was going. I thought the gravel road I was on would connect over to a familiar road which would take me back into town. It did not. At one point I had to stop and turn on my GPS on my phone to see where the road would connect. It connected, in about 5 more miles! So I turned myself around and followed my path back home. My run ended up being almost 7 miles today! It was hot and windy and I was tired at the end!
I still had Insanity to do, so I hopped on it once I was home. I had two hard ones to do; Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs. What's another hour workout on top of my 7 mile run. Oh Lord, was I tired! I felt like Gumby.
Wednesday 5/1: Cardio Recovery. I welcomed Cardio Recovery today. This is a boring workout, but was much needed after my Insane workout day yesterday. Usually I would do some sort of extra workout with Cardio Recovery since it is so "relaxed", but not today! I took it easy the rest of the day!
Thursday 5/2: Cardio Power and Resistance: Today we had record snow falls. I think it ended up being like 84 inches or something. Just kidding, it was actually only 15.5 inches :) Because of all of the wet/heavy snow that came so fast, the roads were terrible. No travel was advised by MN DOT, so I followed their orders and stayed home from work. So did Brian! We had a fun family day with the kiddos which included, you guessed it....INSANITY! Brian and I did Cardio Power and Resistance today while the boys played "construction". I was VERY tired. I could tell that I had eaten like crap. I had some eggs for breakfast, which was good. But it went downhill from there. I had cake dip for snack and ice cream for lunch. It was a snow day which in my book means a junk food eating day! And let me tell you, I could tell that the junk food did nothing for me in terms of energy. I was sluggish through the entire workout. I just wasn't feeling it today. So to make things better, we went out for supper and I had a margarita, a big greasy cheeseburger and fried kettle chips. Mark that in the book for a spectacular eating day....BAM!
