April, my favorite time of the year. I decided to welcome it by going through Insanity's Fit Test to see if I have progressed in the last 2 weeks that I have been religiously doing the program.
And progressed I have. Here are my results in comparison to the first fit test I've done in March:
Even without going through the fit test yet, I knew I was already progressing. Not that I can breeze through the workouts like it was a sprint. Honestly, I still couldn't even go through the 9-minute warm up without picking my lungs off the floor. However, my endurance is slowly improving unlike the 1st week and so far I can keep up with most exercises although I need more rests in between.
By the way, have I told you that I fell in love with Cardio Recovery and Cardio Abs? These two exercises have a lot of leg and thigh work that have brought my jiggly jel-o's to its tighter form. Yes, and it's only been my 3rd week. How can I not love them? At first I was even skeptical on how Insanity can tone my problem areas being that it just does a lot of cardio compared to Jillian Michaels' work out videos. But seeing the results as early as now have put my faith back to Insanity. I love that it not only works on my strength and endurance but also does a good job in working on my trouble areas.
Til next time. DIG DEEP!!
Plyometric Cardio -- yes, it already sounds intimidating but it's worse when you actually try it. The name itself suggests that this routine involves jumping and popping heart rates. Boy, Shaun T wasn't kidding. The first 9 minutes of this 42-minute workout focused on warm up. Warm up that already included jogging, jumping jacks, heismans (which took me quite longer to perform), 123, butt kicks, high knees, and mummy kicks. Oh and wait, you do the 'warm up' routine TWICE. Gosh, I was already tired by the time the warm up routine was finished. Jillian Michaels, what a shame, I thought you've already prepared me for this..
This routine involved 5 circuits which were repeated twice with 30-second water breaks in between. Here are the sequences of the circuits:
WARM UP:
- jogging
- jumping jacks
- heismans
- 123
- butt kicks
- high knees
- mummy kicks
CIRCUIT 1:
- suicide drills
- power squats
- mountain climbers
- ski down
CIRCUIT 2:
- switch feet
- football wide sprints
CIRCUIT 3:
- basketball drills
- ski drills
- in and out
CIRCUIT 4
- jabs
- cross jacks
- uppercuts
- attacks
I would love to say that I performed all exercises but I honestly wasn't able to. I told you that I was already tired by the time warm up was done but I still tried my best to keep up although I really did falter most of the time. It was sort of nice to see that even the people on the video were human enough to get tired and get some rest even while the others were pushing themselves to the limit. It actually kinda inspired me to push even harder. They say that this routine is the hardest among the Insanity routines so hopefully I'd get better at it the next time. Tomorrow I start with Cardio power and resistance. Sounds scary too, goodluck to me! Dig deep!!
