3-21-17 HY: Insanity MAX 30 - MAX OUT SWEAT + Ab Attack: 10 + Unlock your Hip Flexors + TCF.

3-21-17 HY: Insanity MAX 30 - MAX OUT SWEAT + Ab Attack: 10 + Unlock your Hip Flexors + TCF.

After a morning and early afternoon of meetings, it was nice to get home a little early and jump right into my workout.  Last week, my max out time was 19:36.  There was nothing to mess me up today.  But I was still feeling a little bloated, but my stomach was relatively empty and I was ready for a battle. Everything started out fine, I felt much lighter on my feet than I did yesterday.  The Warm Up didn't get me sweating, but I was feeling my pores starting to open.  The next two circuits went by pretty quickly, but once I got started on the fourth circuit, the circuit that got me last week, I started to feel it hitting me.  I powered through the first two rounds starting with the Wide Fly, In and Out Abs and I surpassed my last max out time, but then I hit the wall as I was beginning the third round and those Wide Fly, In and Out Abs got me.  My MAX OUT Time was 21:10. I surpassed last week's time by only one round, about a minute and a half.  From that point on, I needed several in between breaks and a few mid-set breaks.  Good news is that I only added 8-minutes to the routine.  That is two minutes down from yesterday and the day before.  But I have a lot of work to do before I am satisfied with my endurance.

I moved right into Abs and this time, I was able to extend my time by only 13-seconds.  On Sunday, my max out time was 5:13.  Today, my MAX OUT Time was 5:26.  Still on those Scissor Kick Punches.  Those get me every time.  But if I increase my time by 13-seconds every time, I should be able to get through the whole minute in two weeks.  Yeah, I'm giving myself a big margin for error.  But I wasn't able to do the whole minute of the Sprinter like last time.  But I didn't need four breaks in the Drum "V", only two breaks.  Abs are very weak.

I was thinking of alternating the Unlock your Hip Flexors program with my regular Splits routine, but I figured I'd give the program a chance and do it straight for a couple of weeks.  I was carefully watching the instructional video and I was able to improve on some of the more difficult moves.  And doing the whole program with the correct flow was huge.  Right now, I need to increase the range of motion potential of my hip flexors so the splits will be easier, and today, I really felt how poor my range of motion is on my hip flexors.  I'm going to keep myself in suspense and not do my regular routine for at least a couple of weeks to see if I feel a difference, then in April, I check to see if in fact there was an improvement.  But today was great.  Much better today, the second time around than yesterday when I was just following the written manual.  The Flows felt really good today. Not as much knee pain, but just a touch.

In the end, after 170 minutes, I torched a good 1222kcals.  The week is half done!