Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Round 2 results...

Have any of you been waiting for my result post?  Sorry if you have.  I've been busy lately and I actually lost interest in this whole endeavor.  That's not to say I didn't finish, because I did.  It just wasn't that fun the second time and I think the Insanity program suffers from diminishing returns each round.  The amount of weight lost with each round will be less than the prior round.  I have no idea if I lost any weight this time because I wasn't keeping track.  I think I am losing fat (mostly from running) but I don't know that my weight is down any.  It is probably up a little from muscle mass, actually.  Anyway, if you are really driven you could do Insanity back to back to back until you have no fat and all your muscles are nice and lean but it takes a lot of something that I don't have to be able to do the same workouts over and over and over again.  I love what Insanity did for me and I think Shaun T is an incredible motivator, but I think that round two is probably the last for me.

Anyway, you were probably looking forward to some after pics but I'm afraid I don't have any.  I tried but was having a hell of a time and all my pictures look like shit.  They actually made me look even worse than I did after the first round even though I can see more and more definition in my abs when I look at myself in the mirror.  I'll keep running, and I'll keep working out and who knows, maybe eventually I will come back with a new after pic.  For now, ya'll keep power jumping and I'll keep running.  Thanks.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Round 2, Weeks 8, 9 & 10

December might not be the best month to do Insanity.  Weeks 8 and 9 didn't go so great and I blame the holidays. It is very hard to follow a diet when you are constantly being force fed Christmas cookies and New Years champagne.  There is also so much less time from trying to get ready for the holidays and actually celebrating them.  I know that I started my first round of Insanity during December and I managed to keep my diet and schedule under control but my life was pretty different in December 2012 when compared to December 2013. Despite all of this, I did manage to keep up on all of the Insanity workouts but did end up skipping a few running ones.

I started week 10 with a new resolve.  A new year and a new opportunity to get back into the swing of the program!  This started great until Friday and Saturday.  I woke up on Friday feeling totally wiped out.  All of my muscles were sore and I was just exhausted so I decided to post pone that workout.  I also skipped my workout on Saturday because I needed to watch the Seahawks beat the Saints.  This means that for the first time in this round, I am behind schedule.  There isn't enough time left to get caught up so I will have to make up those workouts after I finish weeks 11 and 12.

Speaking of 11 and 12, those are the final weeks!  That means that my next post will probably be the last for a while.  I have decided to hold off on posting it until I make up the workouts I missed and complete all the running workouts I skipped.  There are a lot of them.  So, you'll just have to tune in in a few weeks to see how this experiment turns out!