After a brief hiatus, we’re back on! Between daily 1 to 1.5 hrs of table tennis, (Sometmes 3hrs at the club in the evening!) Power Maxx class with Marc Wayne, and then doing the Insanity Workout, it was just too much. We haven’t skipped any of Shawn’s workouts, just put a few days in between them.

I think I’ve discovered that it’s the table tennis causing my calves to overload not the Insanity stuff, so i’m working to figure out the best way to offset that problem. We’re going to try again to get back to daily “Insanity” and just modify the workout a bit so we can continue to do everything else we’re doing.

Week 3- Day 6 Cardio Circuit. “I am Sparta!”

Ok maybe its more like “I am Rainbo Brite!” After this workout, I feel like she could easily take me right now. Whew! I have done this one several times, I know it well, but the reality is that every time I do it I push harder and faster so the workout seems tougher. 3 weeks are behind us!!! Yee Haw.

Week 3 - Day 5 Cardio Power

Yes it’s true. This workout is turning me into a very strong and handsome black man.

Seriously though, this one pushes me sooooo hard. I keep thinking I can do entire workout but I just can’t. It’s too dang much! I have to slow down the repetitions a little, I can’t touch the floor in the globe jumps (to protect my back from injury) and by the time I get to the last set of tricep dips, I just crumble.

It’s all good :)

Week3- Day 4 Cardio Recovery

Wow, did I need this workout today. A lot less intense than the others and I had to do it at 11:00 at night to boot! Anna joined me and we must have looked like fanatics through the windows of the sun room as people passed by. Oh well, maybe someone was inspired.

This is recovery but it is still a serious workout, you break a good sweat, and are wiped when you’re done.

Week 3- Day 3 Pure cardio plus cardio abs. Two juicy workouts of death rolled into one. I remember first reading Jennie Fay’s blog on tackling this “dynamic duo” of pain and thinking it sounded pretty terrifying…it is!

The beautiful thing is…we did it!

Here’s a short vid of Anne in the last 10 sec of today’s workout. She still finished strong.

Yes…Yes…Yes!!!!! I am blown away to see my actuall progress at the end of 2 weeks. Overall I had a 25% increase across all 8 fitness criteria. I can’t hardly believe it. To top it off, I played an hour of table tennis over lunch, attended Marc Wayne’s Power Maxx class (and was wiped after that…) then did the assessment. You’re technically supposed to do the assessment on the day following a rest day.

Can’t wait to see the next assessment at the end of month one!

Si con mucho gusto.

A pic after our fit test at the start of week 3.

 Week2 -Day 6 began the Cardio Abs workout. This was a shorter workout than any of the others but I’m so glad because my abs were burning like… well… they were burning!

Awww…stop it you guys. Of course those are not my abs!

Cardio recovery (week 2 - day 4) is such a relief. It comes at you at just the right time to allow you to not overdo it and blow out your body into complete duress.

Last night (Week 2- Day 5) Anne and I completed Cardio Power and Resistance for the 3rd time. I actually felt very strong going through it and have decided it’s my favorite so far. We are really having to choreograph the timing of each workout in order to fit around schedule and food timing. No small thing…