1-28-17 HY: Insanity - MAX 30: Cardio Challenge/Ab Attack: 10/Splits/TCF.

1-28-17 HY: Insanity - MAX 30: Cardio Challenge/Ab Attack: 10/Splits/TCF.

Tonight, I started a new journey, I began the Insanity - MAX: 30 program.  I purchased the program last year through my coach during the 2016 Summer Sale.  I wanted to start it in October, but I was in the middle of another hybrid so decided to hold off until January.  But, since I was sick at the end of December and into January, my plan was pushed to February.  So I am starting it today.  

I am going into this program a little blind regarding the strength training.  I don't want to lose the strength I have gained from Body Beast, so if I don't get enough body weight or weight training, I'll have to add some weight lifting or something, but I'll go through a couple rotations to see if that will be necessary.  I don't remember the names of the moves so I can't really say which moves were the toughest or most intense, but I can say when I maxed out.  Before I started the routine, my calves were extremely sore, so much so that descending stairs was an ordeal.  So, just as I suspected, there were a lot of jumping reps right from the start that caused a lot of pain.  At about 1:47, I couldn't stay with Shaun T and so I shifted to the modified move.  A lot less stress on the calves, so I could continue.  I wasn't tired, or even sweaty at that point, so I don't consider that maxing out.  I did the modified move for about 15 seconds, then try the jumping move again.  Then a bit later, I shifted to the modified move again.  By the time I passed the 5 minute mark, my calves had warmed up enough and apparently stretched out enough and the pain disappeared.  So, from the 5 minute mark, the end of the first rotation, no more modifying.  But I totally MAXED OUT at 8 minutes.  I wanted to continue, but my body just quit.  I had to take the break.  Between the 8 minute mark and the 17 minute mark, I was able to do between 2-3 moves in a row before needing another break.  But from the 17 minute mark, I needed a short break after each move.  The nice thing about the DVD is that I can rewind and start from where I stopped, so I ended up doing the full 30 minutes plus a little extra.  As the goal neared, I was pushing harder on each move, but I became more winded after each move.  I actually liked the system of this routine.  Three moves, in three circuits with a break between rotations for a total of six rotations.  I'm glad the moves were only 30 seconds long, or it would have been really tough.  My shirt was soaked at the end.  I was extremely pleased with the workout and I am looking forward to doing the other routines and challenging and pushing myself.

I wanted to move on to the Ab Attack routine, but the disk seems to be damaged, so I got another disk with Ab Attack on it, but that disk also was damaged and wouldn't play the routine.  I tried a disk from month 2, and finally, I found a disk that had a working Ab Attack.  It took a while to find though.  As each disk I put in was going through the warnings and all the intro stuff, I was trying to keep warm by doing ballistic stretching.  I was feeling optimistic about the Ab routine because I've been doing a lot of ab work, but I did terribly.  I MAXED OUT at 46 seconds.  The one minute long moves proved to be too much for me. I didn't want to take mid-set breaks, but I couldn't get through any of the sitting moves.  The Plank moves were good, I could get through most of them in the minute, but the sitting moves were just too much to continue for a whole 60 seconds.  I also ended up taking mid-set breaks.  But I always rewound the DVD and started where I stopped, so I did the whole 10 minutes.  The last move, with the drumming of my abs, I had to do that one in 15 second intervals.  Just couldn't keep my legs up worth anything.  I got tons of burns, almost every move.  Tough Stuff!!!

The Splits and Flow were good. I pushed as planned and I got some flexibility back.

In the end, I torched 1269kcals.  I'd say that was a good start to my new program.