Day 7 - Rest

Right, like that was going to happen. I can justify skipping a workout if I have something planned, or I hurt, or I don’t feel well. But when I know I will be eating a lot of food the rest of the week and may be out of town the next weekend, I need to continue burning calories.

I got up early and hit the gym. It felt good to get on the elliptical for a half hour. I got a nice steady cardio workout in, mostly as a warmup for my muscles before finishing the Pure Cardio video that I couldn’t on Sunday. I used the elliptical as a substitute for the jogging, butt kicks, high knees, etc warmup that starts all the Insanity workouts.  I did do an abbreviated form of the stretches before popping the DVD in though. I have some tightness in the back of my right hamstring which was making me a little nervous.  All my soreness is finally gone through from my knees, so that is a good thing.

I had completed about 1/3 of the 15 minute hard core section of the video, so I had 10 exercises to go.  You can go on and put frog jumps into the category of Exercises I Hate. And if I thought Level 1 drills were tough, I was not prepared for Level 2 drills (bend down, plank position, 8 pushups, 8 second run, stand up and jump, repeat).

This workout is TOUGH. I did not make it through many at all without having to pause. I even had to stop the dvd a few times to get some water. The only thing that made me feel better was the people on the video kept having to stop as well. I am just going to tell myself they were not acting, and it really just is that hard!