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As you all know, Insanity is done for me. I'll post picutres after I send them off to Beachbody to get my free t-shirt, but I do want to extend my sincerest apologies to those who were following the blog faithfully! After the virus destroyed all my blog posts (I type all of them in Notepad then copy and paste them to this screen), I was disgusted for a minute and just decided to ease up on blogging.

I've come to find that I can't dwell on what the virus destroyed, though! That said, I actually have a few words of Insanity wisdom for you, especially you month one-er's. I really slimmed down doing Insanity and toned, but I didn't get RIPPED like I'd hoped! Part of that was my fault. You can learn from what I did wrong (and I'm doing it RIGHT this time...I've actually restarted month two all over again!):

1. FOLLOW THE NUTRITION PLAN. You're guaranteed better results doing so. I didn't follow until month two because I was so stubborn. But this plan is specificially designed to sculpt your body.

2. DRINK ENOUGH WATER. This I did, but a lot of people don't. You gotta be drinking at LEAST 80 oz. of water a day if not MORE to replace everything you're sweating out. Your muscles are 75% water!

3. PROTEIN!!!! You are KILLING your body doing these workouts and your muscles need to rebuild. I was not getting NEAR ENOUGH protein in my diet! Rule of thumb is to have one gram of protein per pound of body weight. So if you weigh 150 lbs, you should have 150 grams of protein a day. You will get some protein from the food you eat, but I doubt it's enough. Supplement with protein powders. You will see quicker results.

4. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY! If your body is saying, "Man, I'm so EXHAUSTED, I don't know if I'll make it through Insanity today" LISTEN TO IT!!! Period.

5. ABS. I lost the definition that I had emerging in my abs during Insanity. A lot of that I think was me not following the nutrition plan in month one and not getting enough protein. But I also think you need an ab routine at LEAST two times a week if not 3.

I've already restarted month two doing everything the RIGHT way. I expect something completely different this time around and the protein alone has made already a noticeable difference in my body since Insanity ended last week!

So it wasn't my firmware. I had a VIRUS. Can you believe this?! So, you guessed it! All those blog posts I wrote (that I shoulda saved on my jump drive like I originally had thought) are GONE due to me restoring my system! I'm more than upset. Thankfully, I've decided to go back thru another round of Insanity next month.

I'm surpised I have a connection right now. I'm uplugging my router every time I wanna hit submit to a page. In fact, this is now the FIFTH time I've typed this and I hope when I hit publish, it goes thru. I don't know what the issue with the net is, but I'm working on it. I don't think it was the firmware.

~ Larry.

Here we are again. That old familiar place--you know the place. The place where I'm having a ton of internet problems. My firmware has to be updated and I'll have to wait until tomorrow to do so when the company is open. So rather than type this post AGAIN reviewing the workout, I'll hit you guys with two posts tomorrow.

~ Larry.

Today's Workout Description: Max Recovery
Tomorrow's Workout: Max Interval Circuit
Date of today's workout: Monday, August 17, 2009
Duration: About 45 Mins
Type: Flexibility & Yoga

Maybe Shaun missed the memo regarding the word "recovery." Perhaps it's just not in his dictionary. Whatever the case, this wasn't "recovery" in the classical sense of the word. You actually had to work!

Perhaps the word of the day should be "BURN" because that's what you end up with at the end of this workout--a BURN that just won't quit! Perhaps the most challenging part of tonight's workout were the hi plank/low plank stands. Those things burn like NOBODY'S business!

All in all, now that I sit here typing this, my muscles are loose and limber, and I guess it was more recovery in this workout than I'd originally thought. What a shame too...cause I'd thought about him renaming this to Max Burn Recovery!



Overall Insanitometer Rating: 5 out of 10

Today's Workout Description: Max Cardio Conditioning
Tomorrow's Workout: Max Recovery
Date of today's workout: Sunday, August 16, 2009
Duration: About 45 Mins
Type: Non-stop Intense Cardio

Today's workout was honestly month two's version of "Pure Cardio." And out of all the workouts in month one, Pure Cardio was my favorite because you had the chance to go all out for it, and you'd look up and there were three minutes left.

I actually enjoyed this workout without feeling like I was dying. Now, I did sweat buckets and my metabolism revved, and about half way through I felt like I needed to pause, run, get a protein shake, and come back! There is definitely a lot more plank work than in month one and I'm sure my shoulders were burning so bad that I blacked out a few times (LOL), but other than that, this was almost a walk in the park comparitively.

This month it's virtually all mental and pushing your body past the point where it's screaming for rest because your muscles are burning. No longer am I taking 15 second rest periods due to the burn...I'll take 2-5 secs, and come back and hit it hard. It's about digging deeper, right?

I can say that I'm looking forward to Max Recovery, though.



Insanitometer Rating: 9 out of 10.