Re: Insanity Day 2

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AWESOME -- you give me hope.. .I am still taking it slow post surgery but this is going to be my spring get ready for summer workout...fyi -- if you are doing 220-age for max it is wrong.. that is why you get 110% of max :)I would do a submax test some time-- I did it it and my max is ~ 188 -190 depending on how I do test (bike vs. treadmill) and no I am not 30 hahaha I am OLDER :)judy in DCFrom: Laurie <tst4eko@...> Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 3:06:29 PMSubject: Insanity Day 2

I survived Insanity Day 2!

Okay, Monday was the fit test. I

already blogged briefly about that. Last night was Plyometric Cardio

Circuit.

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I previewed it a couple of days

ago and

I was pretty intimidated when I saw the backgrounders dropping like

flies! I

kept thinking, “Who is this 45 year old mother of 5 kidding? I actually

think I

can do this???†My two daughters both did this dvd earlier in the day

and kept

asking them if they were sure I could do. They assured me I could.

Well, they

were right. I did it. I think what helped was that I had been doing

Jillian

s’ Banish the Fat, Boost the Metabolism lately and it’s actually

very

similar in the types of drills, just not as intense, so at least I was

somewhat

prepared.

It’s about 40 minutes long. It

starts out with some pretty easy jogging in place and moves on to

jumping

jacks, Heismans, 123-123 (like a moving Heisman with a few small

steps), butt

kicks, high knees, and mummy kicks. Then you do the circuit again, but

this

time it’s not a warm-up, it’s faster. You do this circuit 2 more times,

increasing speed & intensity every time. Water break.

The water break was followed by a

7 minute stretch.

The second circuit was a little

harder, but doable. It included suicides, power squats, mountain

climbers, and

slalom ski jumps. You do this circuit 3 more times with 30 second water

breaks

in between them. After the 2nd rep of these the power squats

got

pretty tough to do, but the rest seemed okay.

The third circuit is the one that

got me! I thought I was doing pretty good until I got to this. The

basketball

drills weren’t too bad, even considering that I haven’t played

basketball in

about 35 years! The pushups weren’t even that bad (have been doing some

of

those with Jari Love). However, those ski abs did me in! Who ever came

up with

those things should be tortured! They look so innocent. But oh my! My

thighs

were literally shaking while doing them. A number of the backgrounders

were

dropping to the ground for a rest or getting up and taking an

unscheduled water

break during this circuit. These things were nasty!

Shaun T. finished us up with a

little boxing/punching for maybe 5 minutes. This was right up my alley

since

I’ve been doing Turbo Jam for the last year. It was a nice cardio

cool-down

compared to what we had been doing. Three minute stretch after that.

He kept saying to check our heart

rate during the whole workout to make sure we were staying safe. Every

time I

looked at my HRM, I was slightly over my target range, right about 155

or so

every time which would be about 90% or so for me. When I logged in my

workout

afterwards, my maximum heart rate for the workout was 192! That’s 110%

of

what’s supposed to be my max! When did I hit that????

Well, I survived. One of my

sparkfriends asked if I only survived or if I kicked butt. Hmmm. I

don’t know

how to answer that. I guess I kicked butt, because although I’m

complaining

about the ski abs, I completed it and it felt soooo good! My legs were

shaking,

but there was such a sense of accomplishment. And I still had energy

left to do

45 minutes on the elliptical afterwards. I’m coming back for more. I’m

pushing

play again tonight!