Today was my first Cardio Recovery workout of Round 2 of Insanity. Unlike how I felt last time around, I thought today really was a recovery. Good muscle work and yoga but no cardio. Still, I burned 320 calories in 33 minutes, with a maximum heart rate of 168 and an average of 115. You may be asking, "How did your heart rate get that high with no cardio?" Well, the answer is, there's is some tough plank work about halfway through that involves lifting each of your legs and doing pulses up and down while in a plank. Being Insanity after all, even the recoveries are challenging.
I continue to eat well, averaging 5 meals and 2 snacks a day. Each meal is about 200 calories (one of them is the P90X Results and Recovery formula), and each snack is about 100 calories. With that said, my dinner (the one I eat with my family each evening; I eat another one a bit later as well) is probably closer to 300-400 calories, so I'm consuming anywhere between 1200-1400 calories per day this time around. That's down from 2200 calories per day at the beginning of my first round of Insanity, although I think I was down to about 1800 per day towards the end. I had to reduce my calories further this time around for a few reasons, but the primary two are (1) I weigh 22 pounds less than I did last time on Day 4 and (2) I'm still trying to lose weight, and it gets harder to do so as you get lighter. The bottom line is I haven't been hungry. I feel energetic before, during and after the workouts. I'm sleeping great. And I think I'm just learning more and more about what I need to eat each day.
So I'm 1.5 pounds away from getting back to my finishing weight from Round 1. And I realized I never had Meghan take those "after" pictures of me so I can send them in for my free Insanity T-Shirt. As soon as I lose the next 1.5 pounds, I'll be able to do that. No I won't be posting any shirtless pictures here. Plenty of others have done that online. But you may catch me in the Insanity T-Shirt in an upcoming post. Definitely a badge of honor for anyone who's completed the program.
Til tomorrow...
P.S. While I never gave it much thought, yellow T-Shirts are apparently my favorite color.
I continue to eat well, averaging 5 meals and 2 snacks a day. Each meal is about 200 calories (one of them is the P90X Results and Recovery formula), and each snack is about 100 calories. With that said, my dinner (the one I eat with my family each evening; I eat another one a bit later as well) is probably closer to 300-400 calories, so I'm consuming anywhere between 1200-1400 calories per day this time around. That's down from 2200 calories per day at the beginning of my first round of Insanity, although I think I was down to about 1800 per day towards the end. I had to reduce my calories further this time around for a few reasons, but the primary two are (1) I weigh 22 pounds less than I did last time on Day 4 and (2) I'm still trying to lose weight, and it gets harder to do so as you get lighter. The bottom line is I haven't been hungry. I feel energetic before, during and after the workouts. I'm sleeping great. And I think I'm just learning more and more about what I need to eat each day.
So I'm 1.5 pounds away from getting back to my finishing weight from Round 1. And I realized I never had Meghan take those "after" pictures of me so I can send them in for my free Insanity T-Shirt. As soon as I lose the next 1.5 pounds, I'll be able to do that. No I won't be posting any shirtless pictures here. Plenty of others have done that online. But you may catch me in the Insanity T-Shirt in an upcoming post. Definitely a badge of honor for anyone who's completed the program.
Til tomorrow...
P.S. While I never gave it much thought, yellow T-Shirts are apparently my favorite color.
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