Back At It…

So after a glorious two weeks of rest from the completion of P90X Chris and I have started our morning workouts again.

Now the alarm goes off a little bit later, 5:20 am, and we drag ourselves out of bed to do Insanity.

It’s aptly named!  I heard so much talk about how P90X was so tough and it was going to be so hard…umm, no it wasn’t really that bad.  What people should be talking about is Insanity.  Because it is tough! 

The program is about 40 minutes long each day and is focused on cardio.  What makes it so challenging is the pace.  The individual exercises themselves are not complicated.  It’s the speed and intensity at which they are done.

This morning we started off with a warm up that lasted about 10 minutes.  In your mind you’re thinking “warm up, that’s the easy part.”  Oh. My. Word.  I thought I was going to die.  It was nonstop, fast paced, push yourself as hard as you can for 10 minutes.  It was the craziest warm up I’ve ever had.  Then throughout the workouts you do intervals that last several minutes.  After each set of three intervals you get ONE minute for a drink and “rest” time.  That’s it…there is not a lot of stopping in this video.  You are going.  Oh, and during the “rest” the instructor is telling you what you’re going to be doing next so as soon as the minute is up it’s “go” time.  There is no wasting time with explanations…rats!

It’s a 60 day program, so it will be interesting to see how I’m liking it as we progress.

If you are looking for a TOUGH cardio workout I would already recommend trying out Insanity.