Today’s workout was the Max Interval Plyo.  I came into this one feeling much better simply due to all of the good hard sleep I had last night.  I do have to admit though, my body is SORE!  Pretty much all over, but especially in the neck/shoulder area, arms, and hamstrings.  It feels like Week 1 when your muscles get shocked.  I assume it is from the different exercises.

After the routine I was spent as usual, but I was able to recover much quicker than yesterday, and didn’t pass out at 8:00pm!  In fact, I felt good after I was cooled down and had some food.  So, hopefully the body is adjusting to these more intense workouts.

Max Interval Plyo is 55 minutes long . . . 55 minutes of muscle grinding exercises that had me saying “are you kidding me?” more than once!

As always, we start with the warm ups.  The warm ups are the same as the Max Interval Circuit.  It was hard to get started today, my body felt real heavy and slow.  But as always, the sweat starts pouring down your face and your muscles get warmed up and you push through it.

After the warm ups and stretches there is about 39 minutes left.  I guess that is psychologically better than the 43 from yesterday!  But that is still a long time to go full force.

The first circuit is all about legs.  There are 4 exercises that are either squats or jumps or similar.   You start with Switch Jumps which are not too bad, jumping in the air and rotating 180 degrees into a squat.  But the killer here is that after 3 exercises he yells at you to get up and start doing Power Jumps!  Seriously?  Ok, but by the 3rd rotation your legs are like Udon noodles dangling about.  So be prepared for leg work in the first circuit.

The second set of exercises has varied exercises, but 2 of them are push ups.  And not just normal pushups of course!  The first of them is Power Pushups.  Basically, you jump back to a push up position, go down, then when you come up you power your legs up to a standing position and repeat.  Pretty insane, right?  Well, then you haven’t yet done the Level 3 Drills!  Level THREE you ask?  Yes.  “Down, back, 16 pushups, 16 knees, up down . . .”  So you do 16 pushups each time in level 3 drills and I think they repeat it twice per rotation (what is that like 8,000 push ups in this circuit?).  Needless to say, I couldn’t get close to doing all of those!  Then you repeat this rotation 3 times as normal.

The last circuit is about 5 minutes long, and you only go through this set of exercises once.  The exercises in this round are  Side Push Ups (once you get the form it is really hard),  Kickstand Touch the Floor, 8 Power Knees/4 Diamond Jumps, and  Balance Push Ups.  Balance Push Ups were really hard for me.  I couldn’t quite get the rhythm, plus I had nothing left in the tank to power myself through them.  What you do is go down like a regular pushup and then as you come up you extend one arm and opposite leg off the ground and power/balance yourself up.  Ouchie!

Then comes the closing stretch of course.

At the end I was thinking to myself how Insane this program really is.  I am sure as I get through this week it will get easier, just like it did in Week 1.  I am happy to have gotten through this one and knowing it didn’t completely sap me like yesterday.  Each day I am getting stronger and digging deeper!

Day 36 – Max Interval Circuit

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