I do not know what is going on with me today. I haven’t overindulged in sugar, I’ve been sleeping, I’ve been eating right and yet I am completely exhausted. Just pushing myself through the warm up today took the effort that I normally put into the whole DVD. It was absolutely ridiculous. At work I am so tired it’s all I can do to keep myself sitting up straight and not slinking down the back of my chair to rest my eyes for a few minutes. I think my body is yearning for that upcoming day of rest but I still have one more day before that and it promises to be one of pure torture: pure cardio PLUS cardio abs. My least favorite DVD is back to haunt me again.
One of my sisters started the Insanity program a few days ago and she started out in better shape than I probably ever will be in. She’s been on pins and needles she’s so excited about getting to do the cardio abs. She is a little strange like that. Although she has no discernable belly she’s been eating avocado every day because it’s supposed to help get rid of belly fat… even though she can’t stand the taste and makes faces the whole time she’s eating it.
Despite whatever invisible force is weighing me down I know I’m doing better than I was last week at this Insanity adventure. I participate in exercises longer, I jump higher and I don’t curse at the TV as much anymore. I still have issues though… I’d been complaining to my fiancé about the people in the background. I decided I couldn’t hate Shaun T. because he doesn’t get angry if you need a break and he really is trying to help. Now, the tall blonde chick behind him, yeah, I can easily hate her. I’ve been watching, she does almost every move perfectly and I have yet to see one drop of sweat fall off of her. It’s very disturbing to me.
My fiancé pointed out to me that it doesn’t look like one of those women have ever had a kid like I have and it doesn’t look like any of those men have had multiple knee surgeries like he has. Every single one of those people has to be in tip top shape in order to inspire us and show us lowly chubby people what we one day could be. He feels that there should have been two DVDs made for each exercise: one with the perfect people and one with normal people who go about as slow as we do. I laughed because no one would know what to do following us normal people, we’d get winded halfway through and spend the rest of the video with our foreheads on the floor. It’s a funny mental image albeit a pathetic one.
TIP: DRINK THE WATER! People who are doing Insanity need to drink at least 8 cups of water during the day. That’s a hard thing for me. I get to about 4 or 5 and am done. One thing that does make it easier is to get a zero calorie water flavor additive. Whether it’s the Wal-Mart powdered flavor packets or Mio’s liquid flavor enhancer you will get the water that you need, the flavor that you crave and zero calories to add to your daily list. Win/win situation.
No comments:
Post a Comment