Insanity Workout Day 15: Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs and I Want My Mommy

1-19-10: So, did I close the week out strong you ask? You are jumping way ahead. The week ends with a day off, which I excel at, and I wasn't there yet. Today was the first day that Cardio Abs are thrown into the mix. It is a little 15-20 minute add-on workout after Pure Cardio is completed. Because, as you are all aware, I have become such a freaking master at all of these workouts, the most logical thing would be to add more daily workout time. Yikes.

Pure Cardio...well...it beat me up pretty bad again. I believe I have successfully turned the actual workout of 15 minutes into 7.5 minutes. I pretty much did 30 seconds of each exercise mixed with a 30 second break. While ridiculous, this will actually be a decent way to monitor my progress from pure cardio to pure cardio. Next time I will try making it 35-40 seconds of each exercise. I need to pick it up though. In theory, two weeks from now I am supposed to begin the month 2 workouts. Hopefully I can progress enough these final two weeks to be able to accomplish this. A tricky fish indeed.

I do like how Pure Cardio starts with the "Suicides". It is a perfect name of an exercise to start the actual workout. It is like he is actually telling you what his intent is: "By doing this, you are killing yourself." Oddly, this is one exercise I actually kind of like. Well...no...I hate this one less really. Difficult one to explain. Imagine going to your right to pick something up. When you drop down, your right knee is about 90 degrees and your left leg is behind, bent slightly. Then you realize that you made a terrible mistake. The thing you wanted to pick up is actually to your left, so you spring up, shuffle to the left a little, and drop down to the left. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I am so dumb. Why can't I remember which side I put that thing I wanted to pick up on.

A word on Cardio Abs. Not bad. Well...not fun or anything, but compared to his other evil workouts, this is not awful. Don't get me wrong, I still could not get through every exercise, but I feel I kept my heartrate under 740 beats a minute. Still, it is really a haze in my memory right now. Pure Cardio had already sapped my lifeforce enough as to where cognitive functions, partiuclarly memory ceased to be working properly.