Days 8-12

Well I have been slacking a little – both on blogging and working out over the weekend.  I will try to catch up here and find motivation to not skip any more Insanity days.

Day 8 (Wednesday) was Cardio Power and Resistance.  I had stayed up too late the night before so this workout was saved for after work (and a nap). It felt pretty good. I think this is the “easiest” of the workouts but I definitely tried a little harder and felt myself sweating more than the last time. I need to be able to speed up with each interval and really push myself. That is one of the challenging things of this workout – you have to be accountable to yourself.

On day 9 (Thursday), I woke up early with the ball of my right foot in a lot of pain, but I decided to work through it and just ice it down later.  I hoped it was just a bruise. It was definitely tender at first, but it stretched out a bit, and I learned to not put a lot of pressure on it.  It was Pure Cardio Day. And yup, this is still difficult but at least I made it all the way through! I did have to pause a few times for a water break. Overall though, it felt better than last time and the time *almost* seems to go by faster sine you are doing exercises only once.  I did hit the elliptical after work for about a half hour though for some additional cardio. I kind of went out to dinner and stuffed my face the night before!

Day 10 (Friday) brought Plyometric day… ugh! This is definitely my least favorite. The second interval set can still kiss my ass. Even starting the jogging, jumping jack, etc warmup gets me sweating and out of breath, although I guess that’s the point. I already have a good sweat working up by the time we get to stretching. My right foot still hurt but not quite as bad as the day before.  I did come down on my left ankle wrong for a second and felt a slight twinge.  I kept going though… (And ended up forgetting about it until the workout last night when it was still sore.)  The people in the video are starting to piss me off though, especially skinny Asian chick. Her facials and fake struggling need to go!

Day 11 was supposed to be Cardio Recovery. However, I was in Tunica and forgot my DVDs. Since it was just stretching I decided not to worry about it and would just skip it.  However, I got lazy on Sunday AND had to work, so I missed that entire day of working out as well.  I decided to make that my day off and to continue with Day 12 on Monday with Cardio Power and Resistance.

I felt pretty good starting.  I tried to push myself from the beginning, even the warmup. I did start getting a migraine towards the end but I decided to finish anyways. I had a weird tingling and numbness feeling in my left hand and parts of my left arm which started to freak me out. I am hoping it was just migraine symptoms though, and not anything more serious or side effects from this workout.  Pure Cardio AND Cardio Abs after work today!