DianeSue - Nice workout. Bet that felt good!
Debbie - Great job doing something when you didn't feel like it!
Teddy - Hope your knee is okay!
Theresa - Congrats on the new addition. Our recent additions haven't been as huge, just two bunnies.
This morning was Insanity Cardio Recovery. And while it was a break from all the intense cardio it really had some intense bodyweight leg exercises my legs were on fire. Since this workout is shorter and not as intense I may use this day next week to add in some upper body weight work.
And as usual here is the review:
Today I’m reviewing the
Insanity Cardio Recovery workout. This workout is scheduled once a week, it’s about 33 minutes long, and has NO Cardio. Even though there is no cardio, it’s still a sweatin good time.
At the start of the DVD you get about a 3 minute warm up, staring with some good DEEP breaths, and some familiar warm up stretches. You move on to some plank work which is jump ins and outs increasing the number of jumps. After your plank work, you stretch for a few seconds in downward dog, and then on to stretching out your hamstrings.
With about 24 minutes left in the workout you start doing some deep muscle work, starting with 16 slow wide leg squats. The moves are nice and slow, and nice and deep. At the last squat, you stop and hold. While you hold this squat, you make some short “pulses”, 16 to be exactly. But you’re not done. Next you’ll move into a lunge on the left side, with the left leg forward. You start with some deep lunges, and at your last lunge, you stop and hold at the bottom. Nice burn in this hold position. After you hold the position, you do 16 pulses. You’ll repeat this same sequence on your right leg. In between your right and left leg, you do some more center wide position squats.
With about 15 minutes on the clock, you will start some Plie Yoga Stretches. Basically a wide center squat, but turn your feet outwards. Extend your arms straight out, and and lean to your left side, until your left hand rests on the floor, the right hand is straight up. Repeat on the right side.
The next exercise is called “Quad Strengtheners”. We have all seen the workout videos, where you are on the floor, with your hands and knees on the mat. You then extend one leg straight back, and you raise your leg up and down. Basically the same concept, but just a bit harder. Shaun T has you extend one leg back, but you also lift the other knee off the mat as well. Just and inch or two, but it really works your whole body and core, not just your legs. After you do each side, you will then use the same concept to work your obliques, by moving your knee to your shoulder, alternating on each side.
For about the last 8 minutes you do some yoga stretches, and final cool down stretches.
This workout is still going to be a workout, its just not the cardio intense workout like the other DVDs
