Day 5. Pure Ridiculousness!

Oh. My Goodness. Today was a workout called Pure Cardio. I am pretty sure Shawn T. was trying to KILL me!! My poor lungs were burning. I haven't had an inhaler since I was 15, and i thought for sure I would need one today!

You start with your warm up. And, I must say, I felt like I did much better with the warm up today. I seemed to be able to push through better then the first 4 days. That's progress, right? Of course Joseph, my incredibly fit 14 year old, powered through the entire warm up with out stopping once. Show off. Hehe. I was completely impressed with him, of course. I hope to get to that point.

Then, stretches, which, I love. After stretching, you get a quick water break, and then you don't get another for 20 minutes. It is a straight through, for 20 minutes, routine. And, it really is pure cardio! I was determined to at least try a few of each move. (I watched the video before hand to see what was in store.)

I made it about 5 minutes in, and had to pause it. All those up and down moves really take my breath away. So, I took about 2 or 3 minutes to catch my breath, and started up again. I know you are supposed to do as many as you can in one minute, but I was actually just keeping a nice pace, and trying to work through without having to stop. So, I am definitely the slow kid in class, but believe me, even at the slow pace, my heart was pumping and the sweat was pouring!

I made it another 5 minutes or so, and started feeling tight in the chest again, so I, again, paused the video. I was still determined to go through and at least try some of each moved. There are some that I kind of modified to my ability. There is one move called push up jacks or something like that. Basically, you get into a push up position, and when you bend your arms, you jump yours legs out to the sides. Then, when you straighten your arms, you straighten your legs. (Again, hard to explain without a visual.) Well, that was just not happening for me without face planting. So, what I did was get into a push up position, kick my legs out first, then bend my arms and straighten my arms, then straighten my legs. Haha! I know that wasn't working all the same muscles. Until I have the arm strength to be doing all these push up type exercises, then I will try and find ways to do something similar, but to my ability. (Even tho, I think I might have done about 6.... pretty pathetic.)

I also managed to get a 2 mile walk in today. This was before I did the Insanity work out. 2 miles would be 3 laps around Mahanoy Plane. By that 3rd lap, I was dying, but I wanted to push though to 2 miles. It still bothers me knowing I used to walk this town like it was nothing. But, again, as much as it bugs it, it also motivates me to get back to that.

Tomorrow the workouts start over. We go back to Plyometric Cardio Curcuit. (Same as Day 2.) I am anxious to see if I am able to do better the 2nd time around.