Insanity Workout Day 21: Not Much Power, Plenty of Mental Resistance

1-25-10: Yikes! This was a rather dismal effort. I think it all started with the warm-up. It always starts with the warm-up doesn’t it? In this case, I was getting myself mentally psyched to make it somewhere within the third iteration before breaking. Shaun T and his Power and Resistance Insanity routine had other ideas in mind. I had forgotten that there is a slight alteration in the warm-up for Power and Resistance. Really, only one exercise got in the way: Power Jacks. Similar to regular jumping jacks, this beast requires dropping into a squat position. While okay by itself, since the next four exercises require some effort from similar muscle sets, the hellish warm-up manages to become worse than hellish. I’m not even sure I know what that means. Oh yeah…and then the warm-up closes with jumping. Still bending the knees, it is essentially a nightmare to close out the warm-up.

(Insert paragraph describing my hate for stretching…see any previous day’s entry that talks about stretching)

The workout was brutal. I am going to hope that by pushing myself harder in the warm-up I had less energy for the actual workout and thus the seemingly “back to square one” type effort I had. Well, that’s not entirely true. Again, I pushed myself hard at every exercise. When it was time to go faster, I pushed myself to go faster. I just took a lot of breaks. Yes…I believe the breaks are my favorite part of every workout. Well, tomorrow is Plyometrics again, so another shot at the warm-up before week 4 starts. Yeeha!