So being a former college athlete, baseball, I am always trying to stay in shape. I do Bikram Yoga on a regular basis but with the pending allergy season upon me I have decided to go all out. I did P90x a couple years ago and had good results, namely building up my chest and arms which were lacking in definition. I do have past injuries to both shoulders, my right torn and then repaired and my left is still torn, and was able to get through the program without too much discomfort. For my birthday, end of September, I received, at my own request, Insanity: Asylum. There is the regular insanity program that is 60 days, this one is 30 and is meant to be the next step. I didn't use the program but was planning to at some point. A couple of weeks ago my brother decided to do it with me. I typically don't work out with a partner, go figure, but I took it as an opportunity to bond some more with Jeff. We don't see one another as often as we used to. That has obviously changed recently.
The workouts themselves are borderline brutal: Non-stop intense routines with all the hard moves emphasized Having not done the prior program we both found ourselves humbled in the first five minutes of day one. We hit the pause button a couple times that first day, but that has stopped, unless something worthy of our full attention comes up, which is rare. We have both lost weight and my arms are back to where they were a couple years ago. Jeff has lost more than I have (and honestly he had more to lose) and things are looking great at the halfway point. I went back to yoga yesterday and it seemed almost like a joke in terms of my stamina. Some things I had trouble with due to a little less shoulder flexibility, but I'll take that trade off for now.
I will say that, in terms of my movements, some of the routines are awkward for me to do (mainly the leg movement ones). I only become better coordinated after a few times around and by then it is over. That one I will chalk up to being on the autism spectrum but, as with learning how to put everything together to pitch a baseball, difficult things can be done, in time. I'll let you know how it ends in a couple more weeks.
The workouts themselves are borderline brutal: Non-stop intense routines with all the hard moves emphasized Having not done the prior program we both found ourselves humbled in the first five minutes of day one. We hit the pause button a couple times that first day, but that has stopped, unless something worthy of our full attention comes up, which is rare. We have both lost weight and my arms are back to where they were a couple years ago. Jeff has lost more than I have (and honestly he had more to lose) and things are looking great at the halfway point. I went back to yoga yesterday and it seemed almost like a joke in terms of my stamina. Some things I had trouble with due to a little less shoulder flexibility, but I'll take that trade off for now.
I will say that, in terms of my movements, some of the routines are awkward for me to do (mainly the leg movement ones). I only become better coordinated after a few times around and by then it is over. That one I will chalk up to being on the autism spectrum but, as with learning how to put everything together to pitch a baseball, difficult things can be done, in time. I'll let you know how it ends in a couple more weeks.
