Omg.. I need to blog more often. So many of my posts are going into one now!
As you know, Tuesday was a particularly bad day for me in that I did not work out. I ended up fulfilling the last day of Recovery Week on Wednesday, and I had that familiar "I can't believe I didn't do this yesterday! This feels so great!" feeling. The hardest part really is getting started. I'm glad I made up for it.
Now this next part was an unpleasant surprise: Month 2's workouts are an hour long as opposed to the previous 40 minutes. That's a 50% increase! What kind of upset me was the fact that Monday (Day 36) was supposed to be the Fit Test AND Max Interval Circuit. I took a peek at Max Interval Circuit and found out that it's an hour long! How the heck was I supposed to do that AND the fit test? Definitely skipped the Fit Test and I'm wondering how much more I would have been dying if I had done the Fit Test. Month 2 is definitely Max!! Kicked my butt. I am physically incapable of doing the switch kicks on my hands. And those mini-cartwheel things were scary at first! I felt like I was going to land on my head but thankfully I did not...
Day 37 was yesterday, Max Interval Plyo. Some more new moves here. The warm ups are super tough.. but I guess that's what I get for finally being able to make it through the regular warm-ups without quitting. The Max stuff in general, as I'm finding out, takes up more room and more coordination. I did Day 37 with Keith, which was great, because it helped encourage me. We just had to get a lil creative when it came to figuring out space in the living room of our cabin but we made do. Max Plyo is really tough!! (hmm, that seems to be the theme of today's post...) There were also these weird push up things where you squat and then lean forward, land on your hands, make like you're doing a push up but when you straighten out your hands push all the way up back up to the squat position. There are a lot of push ups in Max Plyo in general. The Level 3 drills are getting down and doing 16 push ups, running it out for 8 counts and then getting up and back down. Luckily you only do 2 of those, but I was so exhausted I think I made it from 16 to 12 before I collapsed. More globe jumps as well, except this time it was side to side with twists.
Eating well,... I think; oh, did I mention I snowboarded all day yesterday? ALL day. And THEN did Max Plyo. That was Keith's first time doing Insanity. He rode harder on the mountains than I did though. He kept saying this isn't a great time to go head first into Insanity (and it probably didn't help that it was Max) which I imagine is true but it was hard for me too! Plus he is training for a marathon and has done marathons before. Like Ragnar.
Oh, back to eating. I've been trying to protein it up -- nuts, tofu, beans. I had veg chili yesterday at one of the lodges here.
I'm not as sore this morning as I thought I would be. The left side of my neck + my left shoulder are super sore from looking to the right (I ride goofy) for hours yesterday. Keith says I should rotate and relax more. I'll try that today and hope that it works... I can feel my abs are sore and my thighs a little bit too.
Onto another day on the slopes + Max Cardio Conditioning today!
