Good evening, Insane People!
Jennifer – your post this morning is VERY motivating! You’re smoking right through this rotation!
Colleen – sorry, I must have missed something. Why are you doing these short runs? Are you trying to increase your running endurance? No, I have no desire to do CCB every day, either. Every other day at the most is good for me.
Dawn – okay, okay, I’m having a hard time restraining myself this week! You and Jennifer are having so much fun with M2! I can’t wait to get started. Then I feel my hip ache and think, “nooooooooooo”. My favourite yogi’s are Eoin Finn and Shiva Rea. Eoin is especially notable for his focus on the hips in general, although Shiva tends to do more advanced movements, including backbends and lunges. Eoin’s hardest stuff I’ve found for free online. He has some free podcasts on itunes. If you are familiar with yoga already and can follow verbal cues, then the podcasts are terrific. If you’re new to yoga, you should stick with videos for a while. Probably one of the best yoga routines I’ve got for hip flexors specifically is P90X’s YogaX. I also have a dvd by Pranamaya (
www.pranamaya.com) called Yoga Link: Hip Helpers. It’s 60mins of exercises and stretches just for the hips. It’s not yoga, but doing it will open up your hips and strengthen them to be able to do advanced yoga. It’s very good.
Becky – I can’t believe the extra exercise you add on to Insanity! How do you keep your energy up for all of that, and afterwards? I think I’d have to sleep for the rest of the day, after those long, intense workouts.
Elena – I’m going to do that upper body workout some time soon, I think. How did you like it?
Marianne – I’m doing CCB every other day, at most. On alternate days I’m doing yoga. But I’m also trying to let my back recover from a strain, so I’m deliberately avoiding intense cardio while I do that. I’m finally feeling at the point where I might be able to do some low-impact cardio (maybe some step) tomorrow. But even if I weren’t “recovering” I would still be wanting to keep any cardio this week relatively mild. It’s truly good for the body to replenish itself and heal from the stresses you’ve been putting on it during M1. And the mental break from all the intensity is nice, too.
Brenda – oh dear about your tough workout today! Bravo to you for digging deeper and pushing through!!!! Any idea why you were feeling so poorly? Are you getting sick? Or just need a rest day? They way you all keep mentioning how much more M2 incorporates strength work makes me very excited to do these workouts.
My back is doing really well. I’m about ready to pick up the pace again. Today I did some of Shiva Rea’s Yoga Shakti dvd. The matrix feature on the dvd allows you to pick and choose the segments you want to do to create your own routine. I created a 65min routine with a hips/core/lower back focus. After that I felt like a million bucks. I know that whatever I choose to do in the future, it MUST incorporate more yoga. I’ve lost a lot of flexibility that I used to have when I was doing yoga very frequently.
Have a great night!
Sandra
