As a coach I have tried to do as many of the Beachbody programs from start to finish as possible because I would never like to recommend something to somebody that I wouldn't endorse myself, and because if they have a question I would like to have first-hand knowledge of what they might be experiencing so I can better address their needs. With that said, it had been a while since I was a finalist in Insanity Challenge Beachbody held last year, and since then I went back to P90X, did Insanity: The Asylum, RevAbs, Chalene Extreme, and some others. So now that I am deep into my P90X/Insanity Hybrid program I have finally reached the Max Interval part of the program with the Insanity workouts again. Let me tell you, today was rough. But I remembered that when I did it the first time I also thought I was going to die. But I just kept doing my best and every time I pushed play I did as much as I could and hoped for improvement. So that helped me get through my workout today as well. I like knowing that although I struggled like crazy to make it through the 55 minutes of hell that Shaun T put me through, in the end I will reep the rewards of my hard work. So for anyone out there reading this post, keep that in mind. If you need someone to help you get through this program, don't hesitate to contact me.

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Matt & Leslie's Beachbody Challenge!!!

Are you ready to take control of your life?
Do you want to create healthy habits before the holidays? 
Do you want to lose the weight you've been dying to get rid of?
Are you ready to get back in your skinny jeans?

THIS IS AN EASY WAY TO REACH YOUR GOALS.  As your personal coach, we will be here to help you every day of the challenge period, FOR FREE!!

Here's the deal...We will be hosting THREE 30 day Beachbody Challenges, all starting on Monday, November 14, 2011

Requirements:

1. You will be replacing one meal a day with Shakeology
2. You will be committing to one of the following programs:  P90X, Ten Minute Trainer or Brazil Butt Lift
3. You will post on the event wall EVERY DAY

The groups will be limited to FIVE people only.  By doing this, you will create a bond, so to speak with the other four doing the challenge with you.  It also allows me to be able to work more closely with you all.  It is extremely important that you all be fully committed to this challenge.  You will each be able to push each other and help motivate the group!  It is a proven fact that it takes 21 days to create a habit...what a better habit then exercise and good nutrition?!  Let me help steer you down that path for 30 days...

Here is my Challenge to you:

1. DECIDE you are ready to make a change in your life.
2. COMMIT to the program of your choice:  P90X, Insanity or Brazil Butt Lift
3. COMMIT to replacing one meal a day with Shakeology. Choice of Chocolate or Greenberry (Tropical coming in January)
4. COMMIT to a small group of people that will help keep you focused, motivated and energized for 30 days and CHECK in EVERY Day!
5. SUCCEED!!!

Challenge Packs will become available starting November 1st and must be purchased by November 7th in order to have the products you need to complete the challenge.


Contact us ASAP if you are interested in joining one of these challenges.

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Insanity: The Asylum - Day 29

The final workout of this 30-Day Program before the Fit Test is Speed & Agility. I know I'm overly critical of myself when I review my workouts, expecting to see remarkable improvements, but often focus on what still needs work instead of highlighting what I'm doing well. I do see a significant difference in my performance, both in form and endurance. Although by the end of the workouts, I'm just as drained now as I was on Day 1. I still have difficulty with the later rounds of the In & Out Progressions, Bear Crawls, and moving push-ups due to fatigue, but I am enjoying the speed moves and the jump rope work. My shoulders continue to be a weak spot for me, and half way through the workouts my calves and quads feel like they are on fire. Those are areas I will concentrate on beyond The Asylum. Now I'm gearing up for my test tomorrow and I can consider myself and Asylum Grad!!!

Insanity: The Asylum - Day 11

GAME DAY!!!

I love game day...but I'm typically referring to Sunday when I play baseball these days. Not today. Today Game Day refers to the Day 11 workout in Asylum, but don't let the name fool you. There is no way around it, in Game Day, you don't play around. This is a grueling 60-minute workout from start to finish that left me, my shorts, and my floor completely soaked...and that was just at the half-way point. You start out by simulating a 1-mile mini marathon over hills, valleys and rocks you have to scale to get to the other side before you even get to stretch. You then go through a series of drills specific to a variety of sports, including basketball, skating, swimming, surfing, tennis, football, and baseball. It is almost non-stop action the entire time with a few seconds in between to catch your breath and take a swig of water. My workout imitated life, because I sucked at the swimming, skating and surfing exercises just as I do in the sports themselves. I guess my feet were just meant to be on the ground. I'm out.

Insanity: The Asylum - Day 3

Back to Core should have been named Back to Bed. This workout is no joke and I am seriously tired. I barely have the strength and brainpower to complete this post, so I will be brief. No weights or fast movements are involved in this workout, but you get every bit of a hard-core workout that you would expect from something called Asylum. I used muscles in my lower back that I didn't even know were there. I definitely have a lot to improve on in this one, especially since it really helps to identify weak areas that you have in your core. I hope to improve next time this workout comes up. Check out what I did:

Insanity: The Asylum - Day 2

STRENGTH is the name of the workout for Day 2 of The Asylum, but I think it should be called Strenth & Coordination. I felt a little awkward during some of the moves because you are using both upper and lower body while moving them in different directions at times. I know that over time I will improve on these, and need to focus more on the form than on the number of reps I can complete, as in any workout I do. I was exhausted by the end of the day, and pulling double duty with my fit club doing Insanity as well took every last bit of energy I had right out of me.

One thing about the STRENGTH workout is that you do have the option to do STRENGTH with Bands instead of weights, I think I might try it next time. There are people in the video using bands, but not the same style that come in the Insanity pack, so I am curious to see how they are used. I like how there are options to do moves involving pullups or weights & pushups as an alternative, which is a nice feature. We'll see what the next workout brings, but in the mean time, here is my clip from Day 2:

Insanity: The Asylum - Day 1

OK, my first official workout of Asylum is in the books and it kicked my ass. I felt completely uncoordinated at times, having to reposition the agility ladder on several occasions. I have always known that I am not the fleetest of foot, but combine that fact with my utter exhaustion and you have disaster in the making. I did however, manage to push myself through the workout and survived through to the end. It reminded me of when I started Insanity, and how I was drained just after the warm-up, let alone having to muster up the energy to do the actual workout. But over time, my strength and endurance improved, and my breaks became shorter and less frequent. I expect to have a similar experience with The Asylum as well. No matter what failures I may see in my workouts, they will only truly be failures if I do not learn from them, and I let them discourage me and my progress. As with anything in life, if it weren't worth doing, it wouldn't be so challenging in the first place. 1 Day down...29 more to go. Check out a clip from my Day 1 Workout:

Insanity: The Asylum - Kickoff Post

Yesterday I took my first step in my latest journey with the latest Beachbody Fitness Program, Insanity: The Asylum, by taking the Athletic Performance Assessment (aka Fit Test). If the test is any indication of what is to come for me in the next 30 days, it's going to be a great ride and I'm going to lose a lot of sweat. My goal is to document every day of my journey, so I am calling all of my friends and Beachbody Community members to help hold me accountable by checking in to see that I have posted an update every day. I expect to maintain plenty of motivation just by pushing myself, but everyone can always use a few more people in their corner to push them through a rough patch or a day where inspiration/motivation is hard to come by. Please check in and follow this blog, and if you don't see an update, I would appreciate it if you would message me on Facebook or send me an email to see what's going on. Thanks for your support.

It hurts so good

This week I began a new workout routine by going back to my old friend P90X. Only this time, I am doing a Hybrid routine of the muscle confusion workouts of P90X with Insanity Workouts on my cardio days. I was immediately brought back to how I felt the first time I did P90X. I felt phenomenal that night, and was even able to make it all the way through AB Ripper X (including the Mason Twists). I don't remember ever blasting through that entire routine with the bonus twists at the end, so I have to thank Shaun T's amazing program for getting me into the best shape of my life! In any case, here is the part that brought me back to my introduction to Week 1 of P90X.  THE PAIN! OMG, my chest, shoulders and whatever the muscles under my armpit are called were ON FIRE!!! After completing the Day 1 workout of Chest & Back, I was rubbing sore areas on my body 2 1/2 days...then it was time to do Shoulders and Arms. In all honesty, doing that workout actually made me feel a little better. However, the muscles under my armpits hurt like hell when I was doing the warm up to Insanity's Max Cardio Conditioning, but all my soreness was gone once my body was properly warmed up. I know all this sounds scary, and you probably are thinking, "what kind of idiot would go through pain on purpose?" Well, this kind of idiot. As Tony would say about the pain I feel, "It's in a good way, a good way...I mean that in a good way." And he's right. Because the satisfaction I feel after a workout, the sense of accomplishment I experience, it makes all the pain meaningless when I look at myself in the mirror and see how far I have come and the example I have set for my children.

Insanity, Day 45

I'm not going to lie, today's workout was rough, and not just because it's an insane workout. I was dragging a bit when I looked at the clock and realized I had better get moving, otherwise the evening was going to get away from me with dinner and the kids' bedtime, and I didn't want to wait until 9 or 10pm. So I started by posting that I was about to workout on Facebook, then logged into WOWY so I couldn't back out. I then sluggishly made my way to the DVD player in the family room, started it up and got my towel and water. During the warm up I actually paused it and thought to myself "I am not in the mood to put myself through this." But I turned right around and started anyway. When your frame of mind is like that, every move seems to require so much more strength and lung power to perform. I was still feeling out of it about 5 minutes into the workout, I just couldn't get that feeling out of my head. But as the warm-up got into its third cycle of the circuit, I was sweating like usual and was finding myself concentrating more on the moves than on my state of mind. Once I had my blood flowing it was business as usual. In the end, I still ended up drenched in sweat from an amazing workout. Yes, it was rough. But I was able to "Dig Deeper" and push through because I have worked too hard for too long to let myself give up. I am so glad I did.

Fitness Ministry

Last night we had our best group workout yet. The room was packed with energetic women ready to "Bring It" to CardioX from P90X. In fact, with the size of the group increasing so much, we may now have to move to the Church Sanctuary for more room. I am so excited about the progress that has taken place, and to finally see that our ministry is spreading beyond the walls of the church. One of the newer group members was excited to share that after joining in on the workout last week she actually lost 5 lbs. The other thing I am excited about are all the questions about nutrition and healthier eating habits. I see huge potential with this group and am excited about the future physical and nutritional well-being of the group, and how it helps to clear their minds and bodies and enable them to become more spiritually fit as well.

On another note, thank God that the group was so charged to workout. I was really feeling it from my Max Interval Plyo workout for Insanity that I did a few hours earlier. Now being in the second month of Insanity, the workouts have definitely become more intense...I didn't even know that would be possible after the first month. I am more sore, especially in the upper body. So it was probably really good for me to do CardioX, as it loosened up my muscles a bit. So, thank you ladies for forcing me to be there for the workout with your dedication to show up.

Insanity Month 2 Begins

As if it weren't a busy day with work and meetings with the New Song Committee on Community Outreach, both very important and meaningful things of course, today was also the day for me to begin the 2nd month of Insanity as soon as I got home from work. I think I hate Shawn T today...but just today. For some reason, that man decided it was a good idea to do the fit test and then do Max Interval Circuit for the first time immediately after it. As if the fit test weren't exhausting enough, let's just throw an hour of heart pumping, muscle straining intensity into the mix as well. None of the other workouts have been more than 35 minutes or so, but today's was over an hour. This was the first day I didn't feel like I could make it through all the moves. I did my best, I know that there is a lot of room for improvement.  I did take my picture, documenting my progress through the half-way point. I am proud of myself. I am officially down between 175-177 lbs. I haven't gone above the 177 mark in over a week, so I feel confident that my weight will stay below as long as I continue to eat right and maintain my workouts. I love the way I feel and plan to continue on my journey for a healthier tomorrow with my family.

Insanity Recovery Week, Day 1

Day 29 of Insanity is the first day of Recovery Week.  Core Cardio and Balance started off simple enough, although I had plenty of sweat coming down. I liked the workout, but two moves in particular made me really feel the burn. The shoulder sequence made me feel like my arms were going to fall off, causing me to take frequent breaks along the way, as did the standing leg-raise sequence. But overall, I enjoyed it and can't wait to see if I improve over the course of this week.

Insanity Month 1 is in the Books

I completed the final workout of month 1 for Insanity and I feel great, and I think my abs have finally shown up. I am looking forward to the Recovery Week workouts before starting month 2.  I do have a question though...Will this stuff ever seem easy? I feel like I am just as tired after today's workout as I was after the first actual workout. Coincidentally, it was the same workout. I think I am just pushing myself more, and taking less rests in between, and that's why it hasn't gotten any easier. I do need to continue working on my shoulders. They seem to tire out first during the Level 1 and 2 drills, especially when going back and forth between "ski abs" and "in and outs" on the floor. Another thing I am going to keep watch over are my calves down to my heels. My calves are extremely tight, and some of the jumping moves really gets them burning, but not in the same way as muscle soreness. It affects me to where my tendons that connect to my heels are in pain a lot, so I have to do a lot of roller exercises with them to break up the tissue and loosen them up. I need to find a way to relax my calves more every day. They have always been big, but they have tightened up since going through P90X with the Plyometrics and Legs & Back routine really setting them on fire. This will not stop me, because the rest of me is feeling great. I am now down to less than what I weighed when I graduated High School. A little more definition is what I am aiming for. I hope that the second month of Insanity will get me there.

My Insanity Journey

I am upset with myself. I am almost done with the first 4 weeks of my Insanity program, and I dropped the ball when it came to blogging about my experience every day as I planned to. I have been religiously posting comments every time I work out on Facebook, but it isn't the same as a detailed journal that captures everything I have gone through in real time. From here on out I am going to try to post my daily trials of Insanity as I move toward days 30 - 60 of the 60-day program. If you are reading this, then you accepted my facebook request to  follow my blog so I will make sure I stay committed to documenting my progress, and I thank you for that.


I went back and found some of my facebook posts to help me recollect what I was going through in the beginning stage of this program. Everything seems like such a blur. I honestly cannot believe I have been doing this for 26 days, it feels like I just started. That is something I would like to make sure all my friends understand, that you could be looking back and say, "Man, look how far I have come in such a short amount of time" instead of  "damn, I need to do something about my health and fitness." The day before Day 1 is the most difficult, it's the day you have to decide to make a change. But trust me when I tell you that once you get into it, and you start feeling yourself change, you will turn around and realize you have been doing it for over a month and never look back again.  Join me on my journey and you will change your life forever.


8/10/2010

I did my Insanity Fit Test yesterday, ready to do my first actual Insanity Workout, Plyo Cardio Circuit. Here goes nothing. May have reached for a little more than I should have. I loved the Insanity workout, took as few breaks as possible while keeping my best quality form. 

8/11/2010

Woke up sore after yesterday's crazy schedule, but still gonna give Day #3 of Insanity a go. Today is Cardio Power and Resistance...I'm already looking forward to my after-workout lunch, I'm sure gonna need the fuel. I'm WOWY bound.

8/10/2010

Day #4 of Insanity...So far, so good. Today is Cardio Recovery. I'm WOWY bound.

8/11-8/19/2010

No juicy details to report. I stayed the course and posted that I did my workout for the day no matter how hot it was or how late I worked out.

8/20/2010

Day #12 of INSANITY...Today is Cardio Power and Resistance. I can't believe I'm already finshing week #2. Has it gotten any easier...Hell No! How do I feel...GREAT!

8/23/2010

 My results were pretty good for my Insanity Week 2 Fit Test. Improved in all movements except for Globe Jumps, but I think I was just jumping higher so it took longer for me to come down. I feel great.

9/1/2010

It's later than I would like to do this, but it's time to suck it up. Day 24 of Insanity is Plyo Cardio Circuit...I must DIG DEEPER. I don't believe in too tired.

That's just a brief synopsis of what I went through. I promise to do better with the details, and maybe I can inspire someone to take a leap of faith and make the decision to create a healthier tomorrow for themself.

As Shawn T would say..."Peace Out"