A couple weeks ago we finished the p90x program. We took last week off from working out to prepare for the next program. More on that in a bit, but I want to finish off the p90x part. I got away from blogging about it at the end, but we did finish it and there were some great results. There was some definite muscle gain in my upper body and for sure some weight loss. Here are some before and after numbers. Using our scale that has a supposed body fat calculator, the before number was 21.5% body fat. After 90 days, it said 19.7% body fat. Now, whether or not it is 100% accurate doesn't really matter to me. What matters is that there was a drop in the number and that makes me feel good. My weight is holding steady at the low 170's. This morning I was at 172. My waist and hips each dropped from a 38 to a 36.
Muscle gain visually was there, but when you look at the numbers it doesn't seem like it. My chest went from 40 to 41. Biceps went from 13.5 to 14.5. So no matter what, there was some gain. So thats good. And we didn't do the diet plan at all. We pretty much at whatever we wanted, however it wasn't crazy. We still ate pretty healthy...but definitely splurged whenever we wanted.
Now, onto the next program. We have been talking about doing the Insanity program for a while, so we finally got it. For those of you that might not know what it is, it's made by the same group (Beachbody) but has a different instructor. Where p90x did a nice blend of everything, this one is pure cardio.
http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/extreme/insanity.do
This program is only 60 days long. Tonight was day one which was just the fit test. This was pretty much just a small video of 8 workouts. Max intervals for a minute. Do as many as you can. We plugged in the disk and the timer said 25 minutes. We thought...oh this won't be to tough. uhhh...WRONG!
The warm up was killer. It's more than just a typical warmup. If you're used to the p90x warmup...this warmup is more like the plyo workout itself. It's hard to even explain just how intense this workout is. When you think about it...8 workouts. 1 minute each. Bah...easy. By the end of the 3rd or 4th one...i seriously felt nauseous. I've never felt like that before, to the point of all I had to do was bend over and let it go.
This workout is hard. Even after completing p90x, I still don't feel like I had the endurance needed to do this. I do think that making it through definitely helped, but it by no means made it easy. But, I am really excited to see the progress. We do the fit test every 2 weeks, so we'll really be able to see the gains.
Oh! Also, we're doing the nutrition plan this time. You'll notice I called it nutrition plan instead of diet plan. This is why we took that week off, to really try and plan for it. I have to average between 2200 and 2800 calories a day. The higher end will maintain my weight, and the lower I go the more weight I could lose. So I am staying around 2500 a day for now to see how it goes. I need to make sure I have the energy to do these workouts, so i'll have to adjust as necessary.
So here's to the next 60 days. We've only got one planned 'outage' at the end of June where we are going to miss 4 days of the workout. We'll probably just do most of it, and then start that week over when we get back from our trip. But we'll worry about that when the time comes. Stay tuned for results.
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