Today was my last day of Max Plyometrics!

I’ve told you guys all about that post… So I don’t need to cover that here, but I will tell you that I am pumped that tomorrow is my last day.

I’m going to do the final workout in the morning … take some “after” photos… run some electric wire into my two daughters rooms so I can install some in the wall heaters for them… put together a little colloge of the pics and post them up.

Cool Beans?  Cool Beans.

By the way.  Thanks for all the great comments and encouragement throughout this workout.  You guys are awesome.

If any of you have done the Insanity workout let me know your thoughts and experience in the comments!

Day 60!  Awesome!

You’d think that because it says its a 60 day workout I’d be done right?

Well not quite.  Its actually a 63 day workout.  Its 9 Weeks, which does not equal 60… but 63.  (see what a nice guy I am… you come to read about the Insanity Workout and I teach you a math lesson… Geez!)

Today was the Core Cardio and Balance Workout.

By now you know that Thursdays ROCK because they are the Recovery Day for the week… so the workouts are not quite as hard… well not as hard in the cardio realm.

You probably also know my Insanity Definition of “Recovery” by now.

Insanity Recovery = “Hi I’m Shaun T and I’m Going to Lite Your Muscles on Fire.”

So its not like the recovery days are easy… but they are easier.  So with that said… today was a good workout.

My strength has returned in full and I feel great.

WIN INSANITY –

Hey we have started the process to give away the FREE INSANITY WORKOUT.  We are giving it away THIS MONDAY.

The ONLY way to win is to sign up either on the right of this webpage, or on the little flippy thing on the bottom.  Then all you have to do is when you get the first email reply with your first name and city, state you live in.  We’ll announce the winner on Monday.

COol Beans!

I’m out … Tomorrow is my last day of PLYO!

Max Interval Circuit

Today I felt soooo much better.  I was able to push myself and work hard through the workout.

Unlike yesterday when I felt like a total wus man.

I gotta tell you… Coming to the last few days of this workout really puts a smile on my face. (your thinking my smile is because I am finally finished with it insanity huh?)

Well… not quite. (okay, okay… a little, but that is the second smile.)  You see when you set out to do a workout like this and you are on day 3 it seems like you are NEVER going to finish.

And a lot of people… well… don’t finish.  I’ve been there.  I started the P90X and the Chalean Extreme and didn’t finish either one of those. I got to about week 2 or week 4 and started missing a workout here and there.  Then within another weeks time I miss all the workouts.

But accomplishing a workout like this means I can hold my head high.

Finishing a 63 day workout, 1 hour a day, 6 days a week, only missing a few days is AWESOME (for ANYONE)!  I’ve never worked out this much and this consistent.

You may not think its that big a deal, but for me its a great accomplishment.

If you are like me… you should honestly consider pushing through all the way to the end.

Its a weird thing that makes you feel even better about yourself.  Yeah you get the benefit of getting yourself in great shaping, losing weight, shaping your body, getting healthier, but the accomplishment of such a difficult workout brings a deeper satisfaction.

But I can’t get to far ahead of myself… I have a few more days… Then I’m giving away a free Insanity… so get signed up.

So my plan is to do the P90X at the beginning of 2010, start to finish, and blog about it for you here. Cool? cool.

Today is Max Cardio Conditioning and Cardio Abs

Man I am so happy that I took yesterday off… I still felt so week doing this workout. I’ve been slacking on the workouts lately because I’ve been sick so today was the first time in a week that I decided to really push myself and by the end… ooohhhhhh boy.

You know when you recover from being sick and your body feels week? Like you can’t even lift even small objects? Well that is exactly how I felt at the end of this workout. Week week week.

I couldn’t really even finish strong, but I am so happy to be over the sickness and I know that tomorrow I should be a full strength. At least 95%.

Nutrition: SoI had a guy ask me about the nutrition guide and the tiers of food. So I’d like to break down the nutrition plan a little bit for you guys.

The nutrition guide is pretty sweet.  It gives you actual recepies you can follow and walks you through each meal of the day.  It calls for 5 meals… (which I never quite got the hang of).

Foods are broken down into 5 tiers, tier 1 being the healthiest of foods and tier 5 being the best tasting foods… or I mean the unhealthy foods.  Here are a few examples of the food in the tiers.

• Tier 1 - The Pious Tier: Air… and your own suliva.  -  Okay for real though… Apples, Beans, Broccoli, Collard greens, Cold Water Fish, Fresh water fish, Mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes, watermelon.
• Tier 2 – The Happy Tier: Bananas, Lean Ground Beef, Skinless Chicken, Corn, Raisins, Sunflower seeds (YEAH!), Tofu, No Sugar Yogurt.
• Tier 3 – The Swiss Tier: Begals, Crab, Clams, 2% Milk, Top round beef, honey, Iceburg lettuce, plain popcorn, white rice, lean steak.
• Tier 4 – The Dodgy Tier: Angel food cake, Beer, Chinese food, ham, mac and cheese, meatless pizza, pancakes, sherbet, red and white wines, frozen yogurt.
• Tier 5 – The Newburg Tier (commonly known as the Tier from Heaven): Bacon (mmm), Chocolate (come on!), Cookies, Cream Cheese, Cinnamon Buns, Jerky, Nachos, Onion Rings, Soft Drinks… MAN I AM GETTING HUNGRY!!!!!  (why does everything so bad have to taste so good.)

I hope that gives you a good idea of what the food tiers exist of.