Monday, July 30, 2012

63 Days of INSANITY!!!! DONE

I completed 63 days of INSANITY!  I am so happy that I decided to go on this insane journey and I am so pleased with my results.

While the workouts continued to be grueling through the last day I was happy to see improvement within myself.  I was by no means prefect at every move but I continued to do my best and get better each day.

Some measurable changes were within the fitness test.  During Insanity you complete a fitness test every 15 days or so, you end up doing it 5 times and keep track of your results each time.  I am going to share my first and last day results so you can see how much improvement I had from day 1 to day 63, I did improve a little every week, but I think that the two results will show you enough.  The fit test is a warm up with 8 workouts that you perform for a minute each, then you have a rest period to catch your breath, write down your reps and get back to it. The only workout that I didn't improve is the first one and the reason is that I went absolutely crazy the first time and wiped myself out (I had to take a huge pause break in the workout to catch my breath and continue, I therefore learned to do my best but not be crazy about it!:))

1. Switch kicks: start 150  end 139
2. power jacks start 38     end 55
3. power knees start 86    end 112
4. power jumps start 30    end 65
5. globe jumps  start 10    end 14
6. suicide jumps start 12   end 20
7. push-up jacks start 14  end 30
8. low plank oblique  start 44 end 72

I have noticed so many changes that I think are only noticeable to me, I can feel my muscles all over my body in everything that I do. I can also see them so much clearer than before, and I love it...I love knowing that I am stronger and in better shape and health.  Brian did comment on how awesome and muscled he thought my legs look as we were sitting around the fire. It is nice to hear that someone else can see a difference too!

I love running and that is pretty much all I was doing before, because frankly I was lazy and running comes SO ridiculously easy to me.  I will continue to run (which is what I did on our recent trip to the beach lots and lots of hills! I could really feel it in my quads :))  but I will also work in some other stuff to keep myself out of a rut.

I am going to continue with the Elite Nutrition that came with our purchase of insanity, I really enjoy the meals and eating clean so I am not going to mess with a good thing, I might do a little modifying and I am going to try and change it up a bit so I am not having the same meals over and over!

My workout plan now will be to complete the Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 five days a week, kickboxing class 2 days a week and running 2 days a week.  So you may be thinking that is more than 7 days!  You are right.  I am planning to do doubles for the next month and have a day or two off to rest.  Especially since I just did the first day of Ripped in 30 this morning and while it did raise my heart and get a slight sweat going it just isn't enough of a workout for me right now.  After I finish this month I will then start INSANITY again!!!   So my next 3ish months are planned out.

I will continue to do weekly updates for those of you who are interested. I am really looking forward to doing INSANITY a second time to see how my body changes!

If you have any questions please let me know.  Oh, and sorry this is late I did finish on schedule, but I didn't have time to post before heading out of town so that is why this is a week overdue!

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