Day 37: MAX INTERVAL PLYO

My BICEPS are sore. Wow. This is surprising because biceps are very hard to work without weights or a pull-up bar, so they are the muscle group that I and others have thought go pretty untouched in Insanity. Not so. I think it's probably the hook punches and the floor switch kicks that get them. My triceps are also sore and my butt is a little bit sore, but that's about it. I think the rest of me is pretty adapted now.

Now for the second and bigger shocker. I LOVED this one. I had built up a fear of it and it's true -- it's the meaner big brother of Cardio Power and Resistance. But this one was way easier for me. I had a lot more energy, too, and now that it's over (like, less than 10 minutes over), I still have energy. I do not feel at all tired. One change I made was to drink 4 ounces of recovery drink during the workout, sometime in the middle. I'm sure this had something to do with it and I'm going to continue doing this. I'm still keeping my total intake to 12 ounces, so I'm drinking 8 after the routine. The last couple of days I've also put sugar and fruit into my breakfast, and I never eat sugar in the morning. You need a recovery drink, everybody, and my homemade drink works great -- here is the recipe.

What makes this one different is that aside from a few very nasty plyos, there's a lot of resistance training in this one and a lot of upper body. I'm extremely strong in the upper body and it's probably the easiest thing for me -- endurance is my weakness, and that's probably why Max Interval Circuit nearly had me flatlining yesterday. The exercises are also a lot of fun. I love the side push-ups and the power push-ups, which when I previewed the DVD I couldn't even see how they were physically possible.

Anyway, this one went by so fast, especially right in the middle, that the very first time I looked at the clock I had only 14 minutes left. I wore wraps on both my knees today to be safe. I couldn't do nearly as many power jumps as they did, I did NOT hop on one leg during the pogo jumps, and those diamond jumps are downright scary.

One thing that makes this one even more doable is that you get a ton of rests. The third circuit isn't even really a circuit in the previous style. You do one exercise and then take a rest, and then another. And you do the whole thing only once. This is my favorite Insanity workout so far. No kidding!