Someone... put me out of my misery.
Seriously... I started the Max workouts today, more specifically the Max Interval Plyo, and I'm shell-shocked. I was feeling confidant. I finished my first month strong, I finished the Recovery Week strong, and I've improved on my Fit Test score. I thought it might be harder, but not to the intensity that it really was. The workout proceeds to turn you to mush, then wipe the floor with your remains.
I had to pause the workout twice to get some significant rest and took many short breaks to be able to continue along. The Max Interval Plyo seems to concentrate on destroying your quads and arms. Most of the exercises either involves squats or some form of push ups or both.
If you've read my past posts, you would probably remember that I mentioned several times that one of the weakness of Insanity is the lack of upper body workout. Well... Shaun T must be laughing at those posts, thinking to himself that I have no idea what I'm in for. I take back everything I've said about that. Holy moly. There's a LOT of push ups and push up variations in this workout.
For example, the Level 3 Drills... That's 16 push ups done twice, three times. Meaning by the end of that interval group I would have done 32 x 3 = 96 push ups. I can't even do that when I'm not exhausted from other exercises. Not only do they do 96 push ups, this is in addition to Power Push Ups, Squat Push Ups, V Push Ups, etc... Just a never ending cycle of push ups that proceeds to destroy you in different ways.
If you thought that the first month was Memento crazy, the second month would be taking Joker (played by Heath Ledger) and putting him in the role of John Nash in his most 'my-best-friend-is-imaginary-and-I-see-number-patterns-everywhere' stage kicking his own butt Fight Club style crazy.
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