Insanity Workout Day 25: Absolute Power and Resistance Corrupts Absolutely

1-29-10: Nothing like a good day of Power and Resistance to inform me that I will not be able to proceed to the month two DVDs as scheduled for next week. It really would not make sense. There has been improvement, but I’m thinking it is going to take an additional two weeks to be where I want to be before moving on to the next level of madness.

I hate power jacks. Especially in the warm-up. They ruin me for the rest of the warm-up. That being said, I completed most of the first two iterations of the warm-up before having serious difficulties in certain exercises (power jacks) in the third iteration. By getting creamed by the power jacks, I then had less energy for the log jumps, and subsequently less energy for the 1-2-3 Heisman in a most disastrous trickle-down effect. (I also am not a fan of the evil shoulder push-ups Shaun T requires of us…that gets a big honorable mention).

The workout itself was nothing to write home about either. Perhaps it was bizarre ordering, but some exercises were messing with me. In Pure Cardio, I am decent at the suicide drills. In Power and Resistance I have little effort to offer the mini-suicide drills. (The whole Power and Resistance workout seems like one long suicide drill.) Mini-suicide drills (he does not call it this, but this name makes more sense to me) has you doing 180s. Jump and spin in the air so that your front foot is now your back foot and your back foot is now the front foot. When landing be sure the front knee forms a 90 degree angle to the ground. Back leg is slightly bent, but more stretched out in a lunge. When in the air raise those arms as if to say “Here I am God! Take me now!”.

Tomorrow is Plyometrics. Goal is to get past sprinting in the third iteration. This will almost be TOO easy.