Day 2 of insanity is done. That was Plyo Cardio Circuit. It consists of three circuits, each with three rounds. The warm up circuit goes straight through 4 or 5 different exercises. You start out slow the first round, then a little faster the second, then all out the last. That takes about 9 minutes then you get a 30 second break, then stretch for about 5 minutes.
After the stretch you do 2 more circuits, each with three rounds, and you go as hard as you can in each one. There is a 30 second break between each round. Needless to say, your heart rate skyrockets, and you burn a lot of calories. The entire workout is right around 40 min, and I burned about 500 calories, and that was with taking quite a few "unscheduled" breaks.
For me, the hardest part of the workout are the level 1 drills. You basically do a burpee, but instead of coming right back up, you do 4 push up, then run while in a plank position (usually called floor runs) then jump up. Personally, I hate push ups. It is one of the reasons why I like Chalean Extreme more than P90x. There are a lot of push ups in insanity, so I will just have to work through them.
I personally do not pay a ton of attention to the people on the DVDs unless I am really trying to get the form down. But the insanity workouts can be downright entertaining. All of the people on the DVDs are very very fit. However, nearly everyone has to take breaks aside from the 30 second scheduled ones, and by the end a good percentage of them are lying on the floor gasping for breath. You can also tell the people that were in the test group, vs. the people they hired to participate in the shoots. The test group people can get through the workouts keeping their form and taking a minimum number of breaks. Some of the others tend to start dogging it big time when they get tired.
Here you will find things about fitness and nutrition, mainly (but not exclusively) in relation to the Beachbody programs like P90x and Insanity. And, I will start adding reviews for Books, DVDs and Blu-Rays, and other products. All views and opinions on this blog are my own.
Welcome
Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.
I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.
I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time. As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree.
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