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 23

Yesterday I completed Day 23 of Asylum, which simply means that I still have an entire week to go! This workout was about Speed & Agility, and when I look back at my video I notice that I really am not all that gifted in either of the two. Actually, although you can't really see it in this video, I do feel like I've gotten stronger in most of the moves. I did feel a sharp pain in my right knee during the opening jump rope exercises, which did cause me to stop momentarily a couple of times. But once my legs warmed up and fluid was lubing up my joints I felt a lot better. Where I truly felt gassed was during the repeated Bear Crawl exercises and the Progressive Mountain Climbers. At that point my quads have hardly any strength left, my back is tired and my shoulders felt like they were ready to give out. But as Shaun T says, that's when the real work begins. And you can tell that I was working hard by looking at how my shirt changes from light gray to almost black from all the sweat that poured out of me. Keep Digging Deeper everyone!

Insanity: The Asylum - Day 6

A repeat of the Day 1 workout, today I did Speed and Agility. I still don't feel very speedy or agile, but I do think I made some improvement, despite the fact that my quads were burning from the beginning, no doubt a little residual pain from the previous workouts completed during the week. I still had to take periodic breaks for both my fatigue and to get some oxygen back into my lungs, but did better on most of the moves. I still have trouble with some of the agility moves where my left foot is supposed to lead (it's a little on the slow side), and no matter how hard I try, can't seem to get my feet into the 3rd ladder rung without knocking the ladder out of place during in and out progressions...by the way, I HATE IN AND OUT PROGRESSION. It's like when Shaun T couldn't decide what move to do next in the sequence, that was his "go to" move...he must have been pretty indecisive during the planning of this workout then :-D. As usual, here are the highlights of the workout.