Holy crap. I mean this is a serious effing workout. During the other workouts that I've done so far, I often think that the 20 or 30 seconds of rest they give you is not nearly enough and should be 1 minute or more. During Pure Cardio, you have ZERO water breaks during the actual workout part of the DVD. ZERO.
The workout starts out like the others - a pretty intense "warm up". This is easily one of the toughest warm ups, if not THE toughest. File this under "Obvious Foreshadowing".
After the warm up I was already gasping for air and dripping sweat - only to get a 20 second water "break" before some intense stretching. The basic moves in the stretching are pretty similar to the ones in P90X, but these are way more intense. Hard to explain how without going into crazy detail, but basically you have to either keep your arms straight out in front of you or straight above your head for the entire 7 min stretch routine.
Another 20 second break and then it's 15 minutes (15 exercies, 1 min each) of hell. Probably the reason why I enjoy doing Insanity in particular is because these workouts remind me the most of the workouts of a professional athelete. Well this workout really pushes it. I can't even imagine what kind of shape someone would have to be in to compelete this workout without stopping and keeping their pace the entire time. I consider myself in pretty good shape. I've been working out a few days a week for like 3 years and I did successfully complete P90X - but this workout crushed me.
Here's a list of the 15 exercises you do back to back:
Suicide (side to side touching the floor)
Switch kicks (exhausting)
Wide football sprints
Stance Jacks
Pedal (two lunges, then sprint, followed by 2 more lunges, etc)
Hooks and Jump rope (8 hook punches, several high jumps, 8 punches etc)
Power jacks (like jumping jacks, but you go deep in a wide lunge)
Level 2 drills (8 push ups followed by 8 run lunges, repeat - probably the hardest of all the Insanity exercises that I've done so far)
Frog Jumps Power Knees (switch every 30 seconds)
Mountain Climbers Ski Down (jump side to side as if skiing)
Scissor Runs Suicide Jumps (squat down, jump back to a push up, stand up again)
Push up jacks (push ups with wide feet)
During this Insane marathon of a 15 minute workout, you see the people in the video dropping out constantly to break on their own. Also, at the very end pretty much everyone is laying on the ground looking like they just lost a fight.
Hopefully before the 60 days are up I'm able to finish at least 95% of this workout without breaking. Now that would be a feat.
Diet/Workout:
Morning Workout: Insanity Pure Cardio (40 min)
Kashi GoLean with skim milk and bananas
Activia Lite yogurt
8 oz V8
Lunch Workout: Soccer (1 hour)
chicken sandwich
20 oz pepsi
apple
Evening Workout: none
Outback Steakhouse for dinner - 6 oz Filet, mashed potatos, coke
2 Corona's
Thoughts on the Day:
Good day for exercise, bad for diet.
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