I think that Insanity is missing a month's worth of workout between the first and the second month. The second month of Insanity is proving to be about twice as difficult as the first month when I first started. The nice part is that actually finishing it gives me a pretty great feeling of accomplishment.
I did the Max Cardio Conditioning today. Overall, it's a great workout. It's not as rushed as Pure Cardio was, but each workout is harder, guaranteed to have your heart beat faster than Pure Cardio did. I feel pretty good during the warm up (except for the last part) so I know I'm in decent condition. Max Cardio Conditioning (MCC) doesn't rush from one exercise to the next partly because Shaun T is now taking more time to explain the form. But, don't expect any real rest. Like the Pure Cardio workout, MCC is not an interval training... It's just one long one, although there is a small recovery period where you're doing an easy exercise to rest up.
This isn't to say that I didn't rest. I did. But I felt better about today's workout than I did yesterday. The one real downside that I felt about today's workout is that I totally bombed on all the arm workouts. My arms did not recover from yesterday and it showed. My quads and glutes were complaining too, but my arms weren't even rising up to the challenge.
I was consuming less carbs than I should have so that I could try and shed a few pounds. I now know that I'm going to need all the help I can get for energy. A buddy of mine recommended that I do some carb-loading and I think I will. I seriously run out of gas about halfway through the workout. Not good.
My physical condition today was in one word: sore. I tried to consume more proteins throughout the day yesterday to try and recover more, but still woke up very sore. I like it. For the first month, about halfway through, I wasn't feeling sore anymore, just stiff... but now it feels like I'm forcing my body to change.
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