Well today was day 5 of Insanity! I woke up a little earlier to make sure I packed 3 meals for work (breakfast, lunch and afternoon "snack") Of course though the raspberries I brought were bad and I forgot my string cheese...So here goes my meals for the day:
Breakfast: 1 Whole wheat English muffin with Jiff natural peanut butter (approx 2.5tbs) with 1 cup cantaloupe.
Lunch: 1/2 Whole wheat bagel with a mixture of whipped cream cheese and 1.5-2oz of smoked salmon. I had some raspberries with this until I realized some were bad....eww. Also had about 8oz of water.
Afternoon snack: (I forgot about my snack at work so I made this at home), 3 eggs with low fat cheddar cheese (with some garlic powder and pepper) rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla. I also drank about 12oz of water.
Dinner: (not so great). Tostitos (about 12) with 97/3 lean ground turkey and about 1/8 cup of shredded low fat cheddar cheese (melted on the chips in the microwave) dipped in low fat sour cream. I had with dinner my protein shake. This had 1 cup of almond milk, 1 banana, 1/4 cup of vanilla Greek yogurt and 1 scoop of chocolate peanut butter whey protein powder.
Today's workout was a repeat of the first day's workout. Plyometric Cardio Circuit. So I kind of knew what to expect (though I forgot what all it entailed since I have done a different workout every day so far). This was no easier the second time around. I was dripping by the time the warm up was complete. I looked forward to every water break. The squat jumps just burned my already sore legs. What really hurt was the last round where you do a squat to a basketball shoot pose and go up and down like that for a while. Then go down to the basic drill of up down, 4 push ups, mountain climber, in and back up...over and over for a while. Then you move from push up position and move your legs in to the side, then back to push up position, then move them back in to the other side. Then you go to out and in over and over which my arms were so weak at that point I was trying everything just to get "out" to push up position then back in to the "frog" position. The first time I did that round it was hard....but the 3rd time I did that round I was dying. OMG I was tired. It took every ounce of energy to get those last sets in. I have a feeling my arms will hurt tomorrow.
Tomorrow is my first scheduled rest day!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Insanity Day 4: "Pure Cardio" This was truly insane
Today was day 4 of insanity for me. I will say my meal plan for the day wasn't that great. I started off good but it went downhill in the afternoon.
Meals for the day:
Breakfast: 1.25 cups of Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal with almond milk and a side of 1.5 cups of cantaloupe.
Lunch: 3 eggs, scrambled with low fat cheddar cheese rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla. I had a pepsi next with this.
After this we went to another birthday party at a bowling alley so my food choices were not great.
Afternoon snack: About 4 breadsticks with Parmesan cheese.
Dinner: 1 Lean Pocket, Mediterranean chicken.
Also throughout the day I drank about 28oz of water.
After workout refuel: 1 cup almond milk, 1 scoop of whey protein (chocolate peanut butter flavor), 1 banana, 5 tbs of vanilla greek yogurt. All blended together.
So for the insanity. The warm ups themselves were pretty brutal. This was the most I have sweat from just the warm ups. My legs were pretty tired by the end and I was glad to get to the stretching. Since this was my first time through the DVD I had no idea what to expect from pure cardio. I had no clue this wasn't an interval training like the other ones were. There was no "work at a high intensity for X minutes then get a 30 second water break" this was just go all out for the whole time. My legs were weak and wobbly by the end. I still can't do the push up jacks (which I found out I can't do during the fit test). I do a sort of modified version of them. My whole body is sore and my arms feel very week. I'm actually excited to do the plyo workout again tomorrow lol. I think this workout was my least favorite of the ones I have done so far. I drank about 40oz of water during my workout. My boyfriend came and refilled my water glass during the exercises.
Also my 3.5 year old came to join me for the stretching and part of when the insanity started. She can do the switch kicks much better than I can. I was doing them and I look over at her and she is just going super fast doing them and she says "look mom I'm doing them!" and I say "Yeah better then me!".
I'm very tired and will definitely be hurting tomorrow...
Dig Deep!
Meals for the day:
Breakfast: 1.25 cups of Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal with almond milk and a side of 1.5 cups of cantaloupe.
Lunch: 3 eggs, scrambled with low fat cheddar cheese rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla. I had a pepsi next with this.
After this we went to another birthday party at a bowling alley so my food choices were not great.
Afternoon snack: About 4 breadsticks with Parmesan cheese.
Dinner: 1 Lean Pocket, Mediterranean chicken.
Also throughout the day I drank about 28oz of water.
After workout refuel: 1 cup almond milk, 1 scoop of whey protein (chocolate peanut butter flavor), 1 banana, 5 tbs of vanilla greek yogurt. All blended together.
So for the insanity. The warm ups themselves were pretty brutal. This was the most I have sweat from just the warm ups. My legs were pretty tired by the end and I was glad to get to the stretching. Since this was my first time through the DVD I had no idea what to expect from pure cardio. I had no clue this wasn't an interval training like the other ones were. There was no "work at a high intensity for X minutes then get a 30 second water break" this was just go all out for the whole time. My legs were weak and wobbly by the end. I still can't do the push up jacks (which I found out I can't do during the fit test). I do a sort of modified version of them. My whole body is sore and my arms feel very week. I'm actually excited to do the plyo workout again tomorrow lol. I think this workout was my least favorite of the ones I have done so far. I drank about 40oz of water during my workout. My boyfriend came and refilled my water glass during the exercises.
Also my 3.5 year old came to join me for the stretching and part of when the insanity started. She can do the switch kicks much better than I can. I was doing them and I look over at her and she is just going super fast doing them and she says "look mom I'm doing them!" and I say "Yeah better then me!".
I'm very tired and will definitely be hurting tomorrow...
Dig Deep!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Day 3: "Cardio Recovery"
So today was day 3 of insanity. I probably didn't do so well with eating today. My meals today went like this:
Breakfast: 1 cup of Kashi Go lean crunch cereal with almond milk and 1/2 banana.
Lunch: (We were at a kids birthday party so choices were limited) 6 baby carrots, 1 chocolate covered pretzel stick, and 2/3 cup (approx) of homemade mac and cheese. Also about 10oz of water and about 4 oz of grape soda (to take some Tylenol for my headache).
Afternoon snack: 1/2 whole wheat pita pocket with roast beef, kale, feta cheese and tomato with 1 Kraft tomato and basil string cheese with 3/4 of a Rockstar punched drink (I was dead tired and couldn't stay awake)
Dinner: 1/2 cup of shredded pork with BBQ sauce on a regular sesame seed bun with about 2/3-1 cup of balled cantaloupe.
After workout shake: 1 cup of almond milk with 1 1/4 scoops of chocolate peanut butter protein powder, 1/2 banana, and 1/3 cup of Greek vanilla yogurt. I blended this together and WOW...it tastes so much better like this. Like a milkshake. I think I'll be making it like this every day now. A huge difference than just almond milk and the protein powder stirred. :)
Okay so cardio recovery was the name of the DVD today. And it IS a recovery from cardio...but its not an easy workout. There are a lot of LONG DEEP exercises. One was a deep squat that I did until my legs were burning and then I was supposed to hold it even longer than that (I had to straighten my legs briefly a couple times because it burned a LOT) then after my legs were burning and I was cursing I was supposed to "pulse it out" in the squat position 16 times. Oh my GOSH my legs were so wobbly after that. Next were long deep lunges with pulses, this was done just like the squats. My legs are going to hurt tomorrow...I know that for sure.
This also had quite a bit more "glute" exercises too, so I'm sure my butt will hurt as well lol. Not much for the arms, but there were some plank type maneuvers that had to be held for a bit.
Today wasn't so bad...except all the deep squats and lunges. Those were the worst. But it wasn't very sweat inducing and I really didn't need to drink much water. I drank about 24oz altogether from before, during and after the DVD. Then I had already made my protein shake, so I just pulled that out of the fridge.
Now lets see if I can walk tomorrow...Olivia has a bowling birthday party tomorrow..hmm
Breakfast: 1 cup of Kashi Go lean crunch cereal with almond milk and 1/2 banana.
Lunch: (We were at a kids birthday party so choices were limited) 6 baby carrots, 1 chocolate covered pretzel stick, and 2/3 cup (approx) of homemade mac and cheese. Also about 10oz of water and about 4 oz of grape soda (to take some Tylenol for my headache).
Afternoon snack: 1/2 whole wheat pita pocket with roast beef, kale, feta cheese and tomato with 1 Kraft tomato and basil string cheese with 3/4 of a Rockstar punched drink (I was dead tired and couldn't stay awake)
Dinner: 1/2 cup of shredded pork with BBQ sauce on a regular sesame seed bun with about 2/3-1 cup of balled cantaloupe.
After workout shake: 1 cup of almond milk with 1 1/4 scoops of chocolate peanut butter protein powder, 1/2 banana, and 1/3 cup of Greek vanilla yogurt. I blended this together and WOW...it tastes so much better like this. Like a milkshake. I think I'll be making it like this every day now. A huge difference than just almond milk and the protein powder stirred. :)
Okay so cardio recovery was the name of the DVD today. And it IS a recovery from cardio...but its not an easy workout. There are a lot of LONG DEEP exercises. One was a deep squat that I did until my legs were burning and then I was supposed to hold it even longer than that (I had to straighten my legs briefly a couple times because it burned a LOT) then after my legs were burning and I was cursing I was supposed to "pulse it out" in the squat position 16 times. Oh my GOSH my legs were so wobbly after that. Next were long deep lunges with pulses, this was done just like the squats. My legs are going to hurt tomorrow...I know that for sure.
This also had quite a bit more "glute" exercises too, so I'm sure my butt will hurt as well lol. Not much for the arms, but there were some plank type maneuvers that had to be held for a bit.
Today wasn't so bad...except all the deep squats and lunges. Those were the worst. But it wasn't very sweat inducing and I really didn't need to drink much water. I drank about 24oz altogether from before, during and after the DVD. Then I had already made my protein shake, so I just pulled that out of the fridge.
Now lets see if I can walk tomorrow...Olivia has a bowling birthday party tomorrow..hmm
Insanity Day 2
Day 2 of Insanity! Last night I did day 2 of insanity. I was pretty sore from Day 1. My legs were incredibly sore and so was my lower back and shoulders. I kept getting more and more sore as the day went on. My meals throughout the day followed the nutrition guide...at least until dinner..
Breakfast: Whole Wheat english muffin with Jif natural peanut butter (2.5tbs). Along with approx 1 cup of raspberries.
Lunch: 1/2 whole wheat pita pocket stuffed with roast beef, kale, sliced cherry tomatoes and feta cheese. Also a Kraft tomato and basil string cheese with water.
Afternoon snack: I had the same thing as lunch except instead of string cheese I had the other half of the raspberries I had.
Dinner: Not so good, I had a 3/4 of a pasta bread bowl from Dominoes pizza
After workout snack: 1 cup of almond milk with 1 scoop of chocolate peanut butter whey protein.
During my workout I also drank about 30-36oz of water. I had already drank half of my glass by the time the "warm up" was over.
Getting started for the workout was hard since I was so sore. The warm up was slightly different than Day 1's workout which was nice. I like changing it up everyday. In the past I had tried to do the "Jillian Michael's 30 day shred" which was good, but I never lasted all 30 days. I believe the most I lasted was 10 days because I got bored of watching the same thing and doing the same thing every day. I love how with insanity it is a different workout everyday and you don't repeat a workout until the next week. There is a different DVD for each workout for 6 days.
By the 3rd round of the warm up I was already sweating a lot. Then came the stretching which was a nice break and felt awesome on my sore muscles. Then the insanity began. There were more exercises that involved your arms in this routine. A few of them worked your triceps. Apparently I have none. I had to do triceps dips and every time I tried to bend my arms to do a dip I fell down. I think I managed about 3 dips. Power jumps were also pretty intense and globe jumps. My legs were already so sore that going from a squatting to jumping position just burned. There were also "moving push ups" and V-push ups. I know they want you to go faster as you repeat the routine after each 30 second water break but I just worked on good form as fast as I could instead of compromising form just to do them faster. They say that in the DVD anyway. I was dripping with sweat by the end of the DVD. Halfway through my workout I had my boyfriend refill my water glass because it was almost empty. I was very happy when it was time for the cool down stretches. I was so tired. I drank half of a bottle of water and then made my protein shake.
I took a hot bath afterwards because my muscles were sore from the day before and already shaky and sore from that workout. During the night I did wake up because I had moved my leg and it was so sore around my upper thigh/hip/butt area.
I was too tired last night to write a blog post LOL. I've actually been feeling okay today. Sore but not to where I can't move. I'm excited to do day 3 of insanity tonight!!!
Breakfast: Whole Wheat english muffin with Jif natural peanut butter (2.5tbs). Along with approx 1 cup of raspberries.
Lunch: 1/2 whole wheat pita pocket stuffed with roast beef, kale, sliced cherry tomatoes and feta cheese. Also a Kraft tomato and basil string cheese with water.
Afternoon snack: I had the same thing as lunch except instead of string cheese I had the other half of the raspberries I had.
Dinner: Not so good, I had a 3/4 of a pasta bread bowl from Dominoes pizza
After workout snack: 1 cup of almond milk with 1 scoop of chocolate peanut butter whey protein.
During my workout I also drank about 30-36oz of water. I had already drank half of my glass by the time the "warm up" was over.
Getting started for the workout was hard since I was so sore. The warm up was slightly different than Day 1's workout which was nice. I like changing it up everyday. In the past I had tried to do the "Jillian Michael's 30 day shred" which was good, but I never lasted all 30 days. I believe the most I lasted was 10 days because I got bored of watching the same thing and doing the same thing every day. I love how with insanity it is a different workout everyday and you don't repeat a workout until the next week. There is a different DVD for each workout for 6 days.
By the 3rd round of the warm up I was already sweating a lot. Then came the stretching which was a nice break and felt awesome on my sore muscles. Then the insanity began. There were more exercises that involved your arms in this routine. A few of them worked your triceps. Apparently I have none. I had to do triceps dips and every time I tried to bend my arms to do a dip I fell down. I think I managed about 3 dips. Power jumps were also pretty intense and globe jumps. My legs were already so sore that going from a squatting to jumping position just burned. There were also "moving push ups" and V-push ups. I know they want you to go faster as you repeat the routine after each 30 second water break but I just worked on good form as fast as I could instead of compromising form just to do them faster. They say that in the DVD anyway. I was dripping with sweat by the end of the DVD. Halfway through my workout I had my boyfriend refill my water glass because it was almost empty. I was very happy when it was time for the cool down stretches. I was so tired. I drank half of a bottle of water and then made my protein shake.
I took a hot bath afterwards because my muscles were sore from the day before and already shaky and sore from that workout. During the night I did wake up because I had moved my leg and it was so sore around my upper thigh/hip/butt area.
I was too tired last night to write a blog post LOL. I've actually been feeling okay today. Sore but not to where I can't move. I'm excited to do day 3 of insanity tonight!!!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Insanity: Day 1
So yesterday I received my Insanity workout DVD's in the mail. I did the fit test yesterday and today was day 1 of the Insanity workouts. I knew it was going to be hard but it WILL be worth it :)
I'm also following the Insanity nutrition guide. 5 meals a day of about 300-400 calories each to equal around 1800 for the day. These were my meals today:
Breakfast: Whole Wheat English muffin with 2 tbs natural crunchy peanut butter, with 1 cup of a mix of blueberries and raspberries.
Lunch: Whole wheat tortilla with roast beef and 2 thin slices of avocado and a sliced cherry tomato. I also had a Kraft tomato and basil string cheese (wow this was really good)
Afternoon snack: Another whole wheat English muffin (we needed to go grocery shopping) with 2.5 tbs of natural crunchy peanut butter. I had this with another string cheese
Late snack: Cliff bar (crunchy peanut butter) and 1 cup of blueberries and raspberries
After Insanity refuel: 2 cups of almond milk mixed with whey protein powder (2 scoops) chocolate peanut butter flavored.
My insanity workout was difficult from the start. The first warm up set was allright then there was a 30 second water break then back to the warm up...but faster. Then another water break and back to the warm up, but even faster than before. After this followed another water break and then the stretching. The stretching was a nice break and got your heart rate down from the "warm up". Another water break and then the insanity begins.
A set of various workouts were done for a minute each, high intensity, definitely hard. I was sweating at the end of that round. Then another water break (all water breaks are 30 seconds). Then that same round is repeated....but faster. This is done a couple more times. I was so tired by the end of this. It involved a lot of jumping and I was trying so hard to make my feet leave the floor lol.
After doing these sets/water breaks a few times it moved on to new sets involving push ups, mountain climbers, and jumping from the "crouching to push up position". After round one I was on my knees (after doing push ups) and grabbed my water and my legs were shaking very hard. I was dripping with sweat. This was repeated a few more times. By the last round I was so tired I could barely support myself in the push up position to do the "crouch to push up position" exercise. It took all my energy to force myself to finish off "strong" (which was more like incredibly weak lol).
My arms and legs are shaking and weak. I know I will be ridiculously sore tomorrow. I almost wish I would have started this on a Friday, not Thursday, so I wouldn't have to try to lift heavy trays or whatnot at work. I'm excited for tomorrow!
Oh and we did go grocery shopping so I have more of a variety of foods to choose from :)
I'm also following the Insanity nutrition guide. 5 meals a day of about 300-400 calories each to equal around 1800 for the day. These were my meals today:
Breakfast: Whole Wheat English muffin with 2 tbs natural crunchy peanut butter, with 1 cup of a mix of blueberries and raspberries.
Lunch: Whole wheat tortilla with roast beef and 2 thin slices of avocado and a sliced cherry tomato. I also had a Kraft tomato and basil string cheese (wow this was really good)
Afternoon snack: Another whole wheat English muffin (we needed to go grocery shopping) with 2.5 tbs of natural crunchy peanut butter. I had this with another string cheese
Late snack: Cliff bar (crunchy peanut butter) and 1 cup of blueberries and raspberries
After Insanity refuel: 2 cups of almond milk mixed with whey protein powder (2 scoops) chocolate peanut butter flavored.
My insanity workout was difficult from the start. The first warm up set was allright then there was a 30 second water break then back to the warm up...but faster. Then another water break and back to the warm up, but even faster than before. After this followed another water break and then the stretching. The stretching was a nice break and got your heart rate down from the "warm up". Another water break and then the insanity begins.
A set of various workouts were done for a minute each, high intensity, definitely hard. I was sweating at the end of that round. Then another water break (all water breaks are 30 seconds). Then that same round is repeated....but faster. This is done a couple more times. I was so tired by the end of this. It involved a lot of jumping and I was trying so hard to make my feet leave the floor lol.
After doing these sets/water breaks a few times it moved on to new sets involving push ups, mountain climbers, and jumping from the "crouching to push up position". After round one I was on my knees (after doing push ups) and grabbed my water and my legs were shaking very hard. I was dripping with sweat. This was repeated a few more times. By the last round I was so tired I could barely support myself in the push up position to do the "crouch to push up position" exercise. It took all my energy to force myself to finish off "strong" (which was more like incredibly weak lol).
My arms and legs are shaking and weak. I know I will be ridiculously sore tomorrow. I almost wish I would have started this on a Friday, not Thursday, so I wouldn't have to try to lift heavy trays or whatnot at work. I'm excited for tomorrow!
Oh and we did go grocery shopping so I have more of a variety of foods to choose from :)
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