Day 46 – Max Cardio Recovery
Today was the welcomed recovery workout day. It is a recovery from cardio for sure, but not from muscle workouts. This is my second time doing this workout and I fared better than the first time. There are some insane push up drills throughout this workout that would challenge even the strongest of people.
For kicks, I wore my new heart rate monitor to see what sort of benefit I get from this besides the strength training. The routine is about 45 minutes long total. I only burned 237 calories (as compared to 616 yesterday!). My max heart rate hit 124 and my average was 95. Looking at those numbers you would think it was easy, but the muscles were burning for sure.
Tomorrow I don’t know what I am going to do. I am scheduled to do 2 workouts: Max Cardio Conditioning and Insane Abs. I simply don’t have the time in the day to complete them both 
So I don’t know what I am going to do.
Day 45 – Insanity Kicks My Ass
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Can you fit in Cardio Abs instead? Yeah, having to change something stinks when you’ve gone so long following the program exactly. I’m still bummed out about doing it, too.
How much harder is Max Recovery than Cardio Recovery?
yeah, I don’t know what I am going to do. I thought of moving it to Saturday, but i want to do the fit test on Saturday since I don’t want to double up on Monday either. It may just get skipped which would be disappointing.
Max Recovery is harder in some ways, but not too bad (lots of tough pushups). But it is much longer at about 47 minutes.
So you do have the deluxe set. I previewed the upper body weight training DVD and thought of you immediately, that it’s something you would really benefit from, since you want to gain. It’s done Insanity-style, though, with the weights as part of a cardio circuit.
I think on the Insane Abs days, I’m just going to pretend I don’t have the deluxe set and do Cardio Abs.
I bet you could fit in an extra 17 minutes somewhere.
By the way, thanks for posting your calorie counts. I was curious. I’d really like to know how the max workouts compare to the first month’s though. Looking around the Web, it seems like most people burned about 450-580 with them.
Sara – I also previewed the weight training dvd and will definitely be adding that to my routine after Insanity is done. I think it will be good for me.
Good idea about switching out Cardio Abs with Insane Abs. Maybe I will try that.
Oh, and I will keep posting my calorie burn after each workout since people are interested
Glad today was a nice recovery day for you. I like your new heart rate monitor, and I think I may have to check it out for myself. It’s so true about how important water and food is for a strong workout. I did that a few days ago and it just wiped me out too. Now I make sure nothing like that happens again. Good for you for not stopping, and now it’s over…until the next time LOL