Insanity!

Well, I did it. I tried Insanity! I was pretty intimidated by it, but I did it. My cardio skills aren't that great since I lovelovelove strength and resistance training so much. I'd rather lift weights. Any day. But I know I need to improve my cardio so I figured I'd give Insanity a shot. And man, what a workout!! I Cardio Recovery yesterday and Cardio Power and Resistance today. (If you're wondering why I started with these two workouts it's because my brothers are doing the full Insanity program and my older brother is at my apartment helping me move so I worked out with him). Cardio Recovery wasn't too bad. You do approximately a million and a half squats. Or so it feels. My quads were screaming! And there were a few yoga moves, which made me feel a little womble-y and reminded me of my very long hiatus from yoga (ha). Since it was a recovery workout it wasn't really a workout workout. If you know what I mean. Cardio Power and Resistance, on the other hand, was beast. My heart rate was up to like 180 just in the warm up!! It was pretty brutal. Then again, with all the craziness of moving I haven't really been working out lately (unless you count packing/hauling boxes and walking a lot). So I'm definitely not conditioned to intense cardio right now. Boo. It makes me sad to type that! Especially since I had gotten better at cardio thanks to Plyometrics X. I digress... the workout was rough but so good tonight! I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it since I still have a good bit of packing to take care of. But I knew I would feel better if I took the time to workout. And I'm very happy that I did! I really like that the Insanity workouts are relatively short. Tonight's was like 34 minutes or so. I like that. A shorter, power-packed, intense workout. That's good stuff right there. The structure of the Insanity workouts was somewhat similar to Plyometrics X but still different. There was a set of moves that you do for the workouts, repeating the sequence three times while doing it a little faster each time. The warm up moves were no joke, too. I'm talking double heismans, squat jacks... serious moves. Then there was a stretch before getting into the real workout. The "meat" of the routine was like the warm up- a set of moves repeated three times getting progressively faster. I think there were three different sets. Yeah. Three. So it was totally doable but still tough! I had to take a few breaks and just march it out to get my heart rate down (I hit 191!) but I never stopped moving. I felt so good once I was done! It definitely made me proud to finish that workout. And it reminded me that I need to get conditioned for cardio again, haha. I might give the full program a try once I'm moved and settled a bit.

On to the food portion of my day. I honestly did not eat much today. I don't think I ate enough calories for doing an intense workout tonight.

Breakfast
2 Kashi 7 grain waffles
1 Tbsp Better 'n Peanut Butter
A dash of cinnamon
1 cup unsweetened almnd milk
1/2 scoop protein powder
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

Lunch
Chobani lemon yogurt
Handful of raspberries
Fiber one granola bar

Snack
100 calorie black licorice rope

Dinner
1 homemade stuffed pepper (with lean ground turkey, lentils, onion and diced tomatoes with reduced fat cheese sprinkled on top)

Snack
A few dark chocolate covered coffee beans (I can't get away from them! Lol)

Post workout snack
Elite Recoup recovery drink (I drank this during and post workout)

2 slices whole wheat bread
1 Tbsp chunky peanut butter
1 Tbsp all natural cherry preserves
1 cup unsweetened almond milk

It sounds like a lot but I bet if I added it up and subtracted the 500 calories I burned working out, it wouldn't be very much. I might regret that tomorrow. My muscles might ache from the lack of protein. We'll see! Either way, I'm glad that I finally tried Insanity! :D