Insanity Workout Day 7: No Rest for the Wicked - Pure Cardio Rematch

1-11-10: I realized a couple of days ago that I did not want to do this workout on the same day as basketball which was Wednesday. This meant that I had to delay the day off for two days. So, naturally I chose Pure Cardio. I don't actually hate myself. I just decided that I would repeat the last two workouts so that I would be back on schedule after the day off.

So, how did the rematch with Pure Cardio go? Not...terrible? I can now make it through most of the second iteration of his warmup before I take a break. I did the third iteration faster and with fewer breaks as well. A solid start.

As always, things start to slowly go downhill once stretching starts. I am surprising myself with the level of effort I give for it. I've always hated stretching and have been very careful to avoid it most of my life. Even the one main injury that kind of got me started thinking about stretching (hurt knee bad last year - required surgery), was more a factor of being extremely out of shape, yet trying to play soccer as though I wasn't. Even if I'm not sticking with the stretches for as long as Shaun T (maybe I will call him Mr. T for short), and even if I am still only 50-50 on doing the damned hip flexors properly, the stretches are, for the most part, getting painfully done.

The workout itself was awful once again. Though, there was improvement on this day as well. I do like this workout. It is probably the most demanding in that there are no set breaks, but because of this there is additional motivation to keep going through because I do not want to miss any of the exercises. Because one thing Shaun T makes perfectly clear is that every exercise, stretch, break, warmup, heart monitor check, and water consumption is very, very important. Many of the exercises were just demolishing me by the end. So much so, that even with my strong start, there wasn't drastic improvement from the first time out. Definitely some improvement though and that's what's important....very, very important.