I probably will not update this as much until I get to different workouts. I am on day four of week 2, so today will be cardio recovery again. As far as the "regular" workouts go, I can tell my strength and stamina are getting better. I can do a lot more at the beginning of the workouts, and push a lot harder. The end result is that I am just, if not more, wiped out by the end than in week 1.
I have seen people ask if you can every get "used to" the Insanity workouts, and my answer to that is yes and no. Yes, you become familiar with the movements, and your cardio will improve. However, as you can do more, if you keep pushing yourself as hard as you can the workouts are never going to get easy. I think the best example of that are the people in the DVDs, who are all very fit, and many of them were in the test group and knew what they were in for, were all collapsed on the floor by the end of the workouts. At times, Shaun T. is the only one still doing anything, and even he is stopping for water breaks.
I cannot stress enough that this is not a program you do having never worked out before or after a long lay off from working out. At the very least you have to be used to hard workouts like bootcamp type group classes or something like P90x. The moves are not as easily adapted to less intense variations like in P90x or Chalean extreme. If you have that base level though, it is a great workout.
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.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
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