Here we go, bring it on Month 2!  I am ready to conquer you and make you whimper! . .  . . NOT

Today was the first day of Month 2 of Insanity.  It starts out by thrusting you into the Max Interval Circuit. I was excited to start today, but rightfully nervous as well.  It wasn’t a good start to the day that I had been up since around 4:00am due to thunderstorms and kids overtaking our bed.  Then top that off with the fact that it was Monday.  So, I entered into the workout tired and with a headache, hardly the way to start off!

I do have to say, I don’t think there is any way I could have done the Fit Test the same day and still survived.  The disadvantage though of doing it the way I did is that I did not get a rest day this past week.  My muscles were also very sore today, probably from pushing it hard in the Fit Test combined with no rest.

Anyways, I did get through the workout, but man it was hard.  It is a full 60 minutes of exercise.  I think the body is in a bit of shock after having a leisurely week of recovery.  I have mixed feelings now about having that full recovery week.  Maybe 3 days or something would be appropriate, but that would probably throw off the schedule of 60 days.

The workout starts out with the warm up.  The nice thing is that the warm up is different (in fact, most of the entire workout is new exercises which is a nice change).  It is still an intense warm up and gets the blood flowing for sure.   There are harder exercises in here like switch kicks and high knees while holding out your arms straight to the side.  But our bodies are ready for these by now :-)   Then of course the stretches.

Then you enter the heart (no pun intended) of the workout.  At this point there is about 45 minutes on the clock.  There are 3 main circuits in this workout, just like other workouts, only they are longer in each.

The first circuit is intense (they all are) and consists of some new exercises.  One of these is real tough.  It is done in the plank position. It is a combo of  ski abs, in and out abs, push up jacks, and oblique knees to elbows.  There are also some punching exercises which is nice as you can scream at Shaun T and pretend to punch him while still working out!

The second circuit incorporates more punching exercises.  The punching is sort of fun in a way and you can time them up with curse words . . .”@#$%@#$” . . … “you” during your repetitions ;-) .  This second circuit incorporates Floor Switch Kicks which is basically reverse plank with your belly and jumping switch kicks from the floor.  I think I initially had my arms too far back and my triceps tightened up fiercely.

The third circuit has a total of 4 exercises in them.  Some of them are burners (of course).  There are Side Suicide Jumps (instead of straight back you go off to the side), Squat Hooks (burn your legs),  Full Body Drill (just know these suck!),  and Plank Punches.  (will have your core on fire).

And then that’s it!  Doesn’t that sound easy?

I got through it all and didn’t feel too terrible.  It did remind me though of the first week where your body is screaming back at you “what the hell are you doing?”.  It took me a good 30 minutes to stop sweating and get back to normal.  Then after dinner it hit me hard.  I was exhausted.  I ended up going to bed at 8:00pm!  I couldn’t stay awake if I wanted to and desperately needed some recovery.  So yeah, it kicked my ass.

Day 35 – Fit Test #3 (No Rest Day!)

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