New calorie
record today: 448! I rocked it today; besides the recovery DVD this is my
favorite workout! Today I’m not quite sure what happened but something just
clicked in my head towards the end of the DVD. There have been a few exercises
that I do modified versions of, the ones he jumps and spins on for example.
Those make me dizzy as heck. So instead of doing two on each side before
spinning I do four. It gives my head a chance to settle before the next leap. Other
certain exercises I can’t jump the same as Shaun T. with for fear of falling
flat on my face. Well today, I went for it. Instead of doing one leg at a time
for switch kicks, I actually jumped into the switch kicks. My heart rate shot
up for another record and I could feel how much energy I was burning off.
I used to get to the point in cardio where I could feel my heart beat in
my neck and it would pound so hard I felt like it was cutting off my air. That
was usually when I’d quit and let my heart rate slow back down. Today I didn’t
even get to that point… my cardio must have been improving by massive leaps and
bounds without me noticing because I went for it and I felt great right up
until my calf muscle had a mini spasm and I decided it might be good for me to
slow down a little bit. While it seems my heart may be ready for full blast
Insanity certain muscle groups may not be yet.
Still, an extremely good sign that my body can do more than I get it
credit for. I’m going to push myself more little by little and see just how
well I can do. It makes sense to me now when I see other people burning 800+
calories in one Insanity workout. They’re obviously throwing themselves
wholeheartedly into it unlike me who always holds back a little reserve in
order to avoid injury and make sure there’s enough fuel left for the entire
workout. I’ve been running like the tortoise instead of the hare and while the
hare eventually is the loser in the story I bet he was in way better shape than
the tortoise. Maybe I can find a strange balance between the two… like the
Jackalope is half jack rabbit and half antelope I need to become like a
Torthare, half hare and half tortoise. Strange, yes, I know, but with any luck it'll work.
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