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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Longest 20 minutes ever!!!!

Yes it would seem that I still have not learned a darn thing when it comes to these INSANITY workouts. Today was pure cardio and I knew going into it that once it started there was no resting until the end. I put the DVD in and was pretty surprised that it was only about 40 minutes long, again something I have to get used to after hour long P90X workouts everyday. The warm up is the same 11 minute warm up you do in the plyo DVD and by the end of it get again I was sweating pretty good and my heart rate was at about 170 BPM. As I went into the stretches the sweat started to drip off me pretty good. At the end of the stretch section you get a 30 second break to get water and get ready to go and then you are off. I usually try not to focus on the timer all that much so it took about 5 minutes to notice that they are not in fact kidding about the no rest, I started to get winded about 5 minutes and so I took a quick peek to see just how long it was going to be before the first break and was quite surprised to see it was about 15 minutes away. Ahhh.....now I remember, no breaks, I sucked it up and did my best, I ended up surprising myself and kept on going until there was about 3 minutes left in the workout portion then I had no choice but to stop for a few reps to let the muscles rest before digging right back in. When it was all over I was sucking wind pretty hard and had the old hand on the hips trying to get the wind back in me before going on to the stretching. At the end of the workout I was still dripping sweat something kind of fierce and trying to catch my breath, I had to sit down while I took my post workout shake and then off to the shower, just like the last few workouts (except yesterday) I continued to sweat for about 45 minutes after the workout and it took about 20 minutes for the nausea to wear off but it passed. So far I am going to put this one in as the hardest workout of the bunch. I know when the second month comes that will change but right now this one is the front runner. Just like the other workouts since I had to pull up for a little bit I am determined to get through it without having to before the end of the first months so I am already looking forward to doing the workout again. Tomorrow is the plyo circuit again so I am going to be working getting a little further without stopping. After todays workout I think I have a pretty good chance of making that happen. The way I see it is if I can get as far as I did today without a break these workouts where you push it for three minutes and rest should be a little bit easier. Not easy mind you just easier. Come check out tomorrow to find out.


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