It's not that I'm a whiner or anything... but I'm still sore. I do all the necessary stretching and so forth, but it doesn't take much time for the muscles to tighten up again. I find that I have to stretch every couple of hours if I want to remain limber enough to walk.
Anyway I did post yesterday because the internet was down. But as I have yet to give an account of my last 5 days since starting INSANITY I guess I will give you a day by day rundown.
First day: Monday Feb 7.
I did the fit test on Monday. I woke up at 9am, which is 3 hours before I usually wake up, and ate a healthy breakfast of eggwhite muchrooms and onions. (according to the INSANITY meal guide), then I waited about an hour and a half to start the video. The time passed so I got started.
It turns out that your not supposed to be able to keep up with the people on the video, as I am persistent in trying to give 100% within 15 minutes of the video I was loosing most of what I had eaten for breakfast. If your not understanding that means I threw up everywhere. I dicided then that I better take it slow, or I would literally die.
Turns out I will not be eating breakfast before working out. I will eat a late night meal instead to give me the energy for the morning. (PS it works just dont eat any fat or sugar in this meal. I find that oatmeal with a bit of protien powder and half a banana work great, just a little though maybe your fist size portion, while this will not fill you up, it wont keep you from getting a good rest either.)
Tuesday Feb 8th, Plyometric Cardio Circuit
Most the day on Monday I was sore. So when I woke up on tuesday I was ready for a good stretching. I started the stretches and gave 100%. Its funny though, when your not fit, even strecthing is hard. I couldnt do most of the stretches because I wasnt flexible enough. And it turns out that I ended up using a lot of strength just to hold myself up and balanced.
Anyway the warmup comes before the stretching. And just a warning, this warmup is much more intense than the fit test warm up, it lasts twice as long. Literally there were balls of sweat falling down my ripply body as I was warming up.
The rest of the workout is just as bad. This is probably the worst time I've ever had working out. I hate it, and I don't want to keep it up. But what I hate even more than that is the fact that I can't do it, so I won't stop.
Wednesdays Feb 9th Cardio Power and Resistance
So I thought that I was sore after the first day... When I tried to get out of bed, i crumbled in a hurt heep onto the ground. My legs most of all were dead. It hurt to even flex enough to walk. Not the striking broken bone pain, just the soreness out my body pain. I looked like a penguin most of the day tuesday as my body was jsut as sore, but it just got worse. I had work on tuesday night, and had to run up about 25 stairs multiple times during the night, I thought I was going to die.
The wednesday workout isnt as bad cardio wise, Its more about mixing the strength in with cardio. Don;t get me wrong it still kicks butt, and if i could even do it to half the caliber that the people on the videos do it, that would be amazing.
On gauging myself, I would say that I run the program at about 25% of the video intensity. I am still trying as hard as I can. But %25 percent is all I can give. I figure thats as good a starting point as any. Anyway the Cardio power and resistance focus more on muscles. There are a lot of squat style exercises along with some shoulder work. Yes It was difficult. Today is the day that I started the blog as well. As I was introducing myself I had no time to write in that days stuffs.
Thursday Feb 10th Cardio Recovery
By far my favorite day. You take it easy, at least compared to the other days. It is still hard but there isnt really any cardio involved, its all strength and balance exercises which are my favorite, once again I could only do about 25% of what they were doing.
Friday, Feb 11th Pure Cardio, today,
Pure Cardio is by far the shortest workout after the warm up its only about 25 minutes, but it hard as..... I just finished it before writing this entry, I didnt push myself as hard as I had hoped to but my lower back is starting to hurt. I think the fact that I am doing this without shoes is catching up to me. I'm pretty sure I should get some. Appearantly a lot of back pain comes from poor work out shoes. I was hoping that I could do it all barefoot as I am one of those people who think that less is more, and i would be better off doing it without shoes, as nature intended. But then again, nature didn't invent the linoleum tiles that I am working out on. I'll check it out, but I'm pretty sure I'll be told to get shoes. Plus shoes provide great traction and leverage for the workouts.
Tip #2 buy good shoes
(Tip#1 was dont eat breakfast before working out)
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