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Insanity-Plyometric Cardio Circuit

By phattyfit On July 22, 2010 No Comments

This is pretty much the first DVD in the set and boy was I surprised how hard a 42 minute long workout was.  The Insanity workout begins with a warm up that  consists of 3 minute intervals.  These intervals are supposed to get your heart pumping and in the first 3 minutes I was pumping.  You warm up for 9 total minutes and each round consists of  jogging in place, Jumping Jacks, Heisman’s, Heisman 123, Butt Kicks, High Knees and Mummy Kicks.  You can easily understand a few but a Heisman 123 is going back and forth and then going into a quick Heisman pose.  Mummy kicks are kind of a joke but still decent cardio.  Start with arms straight out and as you shuffle your feet you have to cross your hands at the same time.  After all is done you get a quick 30 second break and holy crap that was just the warm up. 

So honestly before I go any further Insanity is not a joke people it’s the real deal.  I thought P90X was challenging but Insanity is challenging because there is a lot of non stop

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Don’t Be Average II

By phattyfit On July 15, 2010 No Comments

Just got home from work and man was it ever a long day.  Is Friday ever going to come?  I am looking forward to the  weekend because all my boys are going to the beach.   I have so much anxiety over it though because my gut is like taking over and I can’t suck it in anymore.  I’m stressing out because I can’t stand the look that I have given myself over the years and it seems like summer is always my breaking point.  Andy has been going to the gym for a while now and he speaks very highly of it.  I will talk to him about joining the gym he attends and then we can workout together.  Whats killing me is that I just can’t stick to something and I can never lose my gut.  I truly like that Andy commits to working out but he is still very fat.  All that muscle but it’s hiding because he eats whatever.  Last night he told me that I was crazy for thinking of trying that PX90 thing because he can’t sit in front of a television and workout.  I asked him if he did any cardio like running or playing ball and he

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