Week Four Do Over Day One Cardio

Sorry for the hiatus folks. I had a bit of an ankle injury. I skipped the last week and a half hoping rest would do the trick. It didn't. Luckily I have a physical therapist in the family and now I've got some nifty new arch supports. I ran two miles Saturday and Sunday with some pain. Today's Cardio however, I nailed it with little to no pain! I feel so glad to be back on a fitness schedule. I'm not really sure how I coped before BeachBody. It's such a large part of my life now that I feel like a part of me is missing without it.  So today's cardio came right back to me surprisingly. I'm not sure why I thought I'd forget or be totally out of shape in just a week and a half but I was fine. I nailed it.  My two favorite moves today were controlled squats and speed and agility.  (I miss speed 1.0) My two least favorite moves were lateral mountain climbers and switch kicks. I'm not sure that'll every change.  I'm hoping this week goes well, and I can move onto week five with no issues and then on to the beta phase. Scary!! I'm sure I'll be fine. I'm going to keep up my running three times a week since the color me rad is sneaking right up on me. Can't wait!

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T25 Week Four Day Three - Lower Body Focus

No sweaty pic tonight, I cooled off fast.  I was dripping sweat fifteen minutes ago but the nights are getting cooler here and I'm all dried off.  It's safe to say that my legs are done for.  The two miles outside with a  hill finisher pushing my twenty pound munchkin in his stroller followed by lower body focus was maaaaayyyybbbbeeee not a good idea tonight. Oh well, I survived.  The pulse lunges and hold lunges were definitely the worst part of this workout. I can squat all day long but lunges KILL me! I'm signing up for my fourth race tonight (this is only less than a one k, which seems kind of useless but it's in the dark with glow lights so it seems worth it anyway).  Needless to say, I burned too many calories today for what I ate so midnight (9:30 really) snack it is. Short blog tonight. Stay tuned for full body circuit again tomorrow (aka complaining about planks).

 

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Focus T25 Week Four Day Two - Total Body Circuit

I'm reserved tonight. That's because my fuel tank is running on empty. For some reason I was very tired before my workout. It might have had something to do with me rocking my baby boy to sleep in a dark quiet room. I thought, you know, I haven't had a rest day since Tuesday. Maybe I could just do Tuesday as my rest day? No. I need to follow the program unless I have something important come up that I just can't do it.  So I pushed play and yawned the whole first five minutes.  Again, I took breaks during the plank work but not as many as I usually do.  Total Body is the awesome workout where Shaun T works you like a dog until there are nine minutes left and then decides to do a Burnout. Yeah. Forgot about that little gem.  But for some strange reason, and I'm NOT complaining, I got my second wind during the burnout. I did all the moves with no breaks, even the plank oblique push ups. I usually die five seconds before he counts down 3-2-1. But not tonight. I finished strong. It's funny because floor sprints used to be my favorite part of level one, two, and three drills in Insanity but not so much in T25. Maybe that's because you do them for a whole minute straight (or is it thirty seconds that just feels like a minute)?  Either way, not a fan this go round.  I kept my promise to myself and didn't do a run tonight but I plan on getting one in tomorrow. Outside, where it's really running! And then I'll do some Lower Body Focus. My legs will just LOVE me.

 

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T25 Week Four Day One - Cardio

Hey guess what? Cardio still kicks my ass in week four! I've got three things to tell you. 1. I hated switch kicks in Insanity. 2. I still hate switch kicks in Focus T25. 3. If switch kicks will get me calves like Tania's I guess I'll do them and shut up.  That is what I got out of tonight's workout. Maybe at the end of the week I will actually take a rest day from exercise. I haven't had one since Tuesday night when I pushed my workouts back a day for the concert. I'm thinking my body needs a rest day. My legs need a rest day.  And let me go peek what's on the agenda tomorrow...total body. Well at least my legs will get a little rest and I can complain some more about how weak my arms are. Here's a thought, I could do total body tomorrow and then do some weight arm exercises? Yeah! Except my arms might be jello by the time I'm done. I could take breaks every hour at work and do some push ups? I think that might get me some strange looks from my co-workers. Maybe that's taking it a little too far? I think tomorrow I need to push play and then push myself to take a day off from running.  It's kind of become a habit. A habit I hate (only because I haven't gotten a chance to run outside). But I will make a vow to run outside and explore the route to the left of my house Wednesday when my six year old is gone to her dad's.  Then I'll feel better. I have no patience running on a treadmill unless I'm distracted with television.  When I'm outside, I get a calm peaceful patience that I just don't get in my basement. Plus I know I can't stop because I can't get home if I do. I can just hop off the treadmill.  It pushes me to run faster, get home quicker, better my time. So that's my plan for tomorrow. Complain about arms, eat well so I don't feel the need to burn extra calories running, and take a rest day (from running that is). 

 

 

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T25 Week Three Days Four and Five - Cardio and Full Body Circuit & Ab Intervals

I forgot to post yesterday and I just realized that I didn't post day three but I don't think I can remember that far back!  Sorry!  But in my defense I went full throttle running after my T25 workout to try and beat my Fitbit calorie goal for the day.  So first up, day four Cardio.  It was tough, I haven't been sweating as much this week because it's been very cool, barely 70 degrees.  But tonight was a different story. Despite the coolness, I still was a sweaty mess afterwards.  It was a great workout and much needed but I still say that Cardio is way too much like Lowe Focus to follow it or be done in the same day. I felt my legs dying from the Lower Focus the day before. Then, as if my legs hadn't been worked enough, I hopped on the treadmill and ran full tilt for two miles.  When I was doing a cool down walk, I checked my Fitbit and was under my calories burned by about 200.  Well, I wasn't letting that slip by, this was the closest I have come. So I decided to run/walk intervals for another mile and finally beat it at 10:30. Phew! Today (Saturday because I'm a day behind) I got right up while the rest of my family slept and did my double day. I knew I wanted the rest of my day to relax and I also knew how sore I would get from a three mile run so getting the workout done early means I wouldn't be doing it sore later! Total body circuit had me breathing heavy and panting.  It really is a great workout but again, any leg work lacked a little because of two full days of leg work. And of course you all know how I feel about the plank work/pushups.  I just suck at them and end up needing tiny breaths just to stretch and shake my arms for a second. But I pushed through it (wouldn't say I nailed it) and started on Ab Intervals.  Usually I love ab intervals because this is my problem area on my body from carrying my kids.  I usually like the cardio recovery but I was so cardio-ed out from last night and Total Body that I still felt myself dragging during the Cardio. But the ab work kicked my butt and the extra little arm work in plank also kicked my butt. Overall I'm tired and ready to spend the day with my family. Let's see if I can follow through with my goal of doing stretch on my rest day and I'll post about that. I honestly just forget, not that I don't want to do it!

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T25 Week Three Day 2 - Speed 1.0

Well, last night I had to take a day off. I couldn't drag my lazy butt out of bed to workout in the morning since we got home at 10:30 from the concert.  So I'm just going to move my days back one.  So today I did yesterday's workout, Speed 1.0.  Speed 1.0 is quickly becoming my favorite workout. I know I said it was hard to keep up but I've noticed it's not that, it's that I feel like I can't get my legs crossed all the way like they are on the tv. But maybe that's just all in my head.  Anyway, the workout is refreshing, not only for the breaks but for the light movements that we do. It's not all out cardio, it's not lunges until you die, it's not plank work until you die.  The stretches are amazing. AND I also did something new. Shaun T's blog this week was what kind of footwear you should wear for Insanity and T25.  He said unless he has to wear shoes, he works out barefoot at home. WHAT? That just sounds crazy but I tried it tonight. It wasn't half bad, we'll see how my feet feel after a couple of days of it.  If you aren't at home, he suggests a good pair of cross trainers. I need to find out if my Nike Flex are cross trainers. I think they may be.  So after I did Speed 1.0, I did two miles on the treadmill. I hate the treadmill but running outside today is not an option. It's easier for me to do on the weekends. Week nights are my family time, which is why I work out so late at night. Anyway, I'm excited to be back on track. I get such guilt for skipping a workout. I know it's completely illogical but I feel like I'm going to gain all my weight back from skipping one day (yesterday) or eating like crap (yesterday, hubby treated me to Chili's and I had 580 calorie Sweet & Sour Chicken, chips and salsa AND boneless buffalo wings EEK!).  But I didn't gain it all in a day the first time so I guess I won't this time either. HEALTY HABITS! Cheat days are so not worth it for me. Except for the chips and salsa, I did not enjoy my cheat meal last night quite enough for the calories I wasted.

 

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T25 Week Three Day One - Total Body Circuit

I'm back after a weekend of rest! Not really! On Saturday I ran down my road (very busy road, I hate running on it but I'm not over the angry hornet incident from the HS track).  Because of the hills I only made it a mile in 30 minutes! I was very discouraged.  On Sunday I got up and showered early. I almost decided to call my mother in law and tell her to never mind coming to watch the kids. I was not going to go out and runt the 5k.  Then I checked my facebook and saw my husband (who never posts on facebook) made a post saying how proud of me he was and how amazing I am because I was running my first 5k. Well, that made me decide I had to do it for him, for myself, and because it was on facebook!  So I went thinking I'd follow my C25k ap since I only did a mile in 30 minutes yesterday.  I started out running (usually it's a warm up walk) since everyone else was running too. I felt good, so I kept running, and running, and running. And I didn't stop. I ran the whole 5k, 3.2 miles in 29 minutes. I'm so darn proud of myself (I've bragged to everyone).  I honestly think if I hadn't done Insanity, I never would have had the endurance, leg strength, or breathing to do that. Insanity is not just for people trying to lose weight. It can enrich all sorts of things in your life. Ok, enough about all that, you are reading this blog for T25 info.  So that being said, total body worked my legs good today. And let me tell you it was nice to use my quads and hip flexors and warm up my legs. I've been so sore all day so it felt really good. I can probably go to bed relaxed now. As usual, my arm strength lacked in this workout and I found myself going into child's pose in the middle of plank exercises.  I swear this week I'll do some weights and push ups to build some arm strength. But looking at the calendar, it looks like this workout becomes more frequent in these last three weeks of alpha so I think that'll give me a decent base for beta. I better do some other work just in case though! Aaaaaand I still hate pikes. That's all for today!

 

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T25 Week 2 Day 5 - lower focus and ab intervals

 

So today is my double day and I'm actually doing it on Friday (last week I pushed it til Saturday).  The first pic is from Ab Intervals and the second from Lower Focus. Today was brutal.  I spaced my workouts about an hour and a half apart and drank Shakeology in between.  I'm glad I didn't do them back to back or my Ab Interval would have lacked even more than it already did. I'm still struggling with balance on my lunge pivots. I need to get some core work down so I have better balance. And I keep forgetting to mention, it might be because I'm French origin but I cannot spread my toes for balance without also spreading my fingers! I catch myself doing it every time. As far as Lower Focus, at least it wasn't followed up with Cardio this week which as a lot of leg work in it also.  The Ab focus I again struggle with keeping my legs straight during the leg raises. I think this is probably due to the fact that I'm still not very flexible. Stretching needs to be more a part of my daily routine. I think I'll do the stretch exercise Saturday and Sunday this week and see how I feel (along with running!).  No running today for me. I need a break and I'm set to run two days in a row and I'm going outside and I'm going to push myself.  Supermans remain my least favorite part of this exercise. I think I'm losing some of my endurance from Insanity.  I'm not having the drive to stick it out during the burn, just taking a little rest when I put my hands and feet down on the ground.  I think I need to push myself through this because I know that's when I'm getting results, when my body is screaming that I can't do it. I need to make my mind realize I can do it, it's just uncomfortable. And it's only 25 minutes, right?! RIGHT?! This is Shaun T's gym and there ain't no coffee breaks people!!

 

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T25 Week 2 Day 4 - Cardio!

Silly pic for you today! That's because I'm gonna be quick today. My stupid awful webcam does not take good pictures and the lighting is hard in here. I tried to get a picture of the sweat collecting in a drip on my chin but it was a no go. Believe me when I tell you it was there whether you can see it or not.  I did my two miles today and then my little guy needed some extra snuggles so I got a late workout in. I only took two quick breaks. One when I had to pee (stop I've had two kids okay) and the other during those dumb pivot lunges. I hate those because my legs burn so bad! The on your mark up and back are not my favorite either. But in other news, I'm not hating lateral mountain climbers as much.  I ate Chinese today, big mistake.  I think Chinese needs to be booted out of my diet forever because it's SO HIGH CALORIE. Seriously I just think of all the other yummy fruits and low cal  snacky treats I could have had instead. Oh well. It was my cheat meal this week I guess. Glad tonight was a run and T25 night or I might have been way over. As it is I might still be. Probably not though because Cardio is a good workout for my fitbit to pick up steps. So I probably rocked it. I had a fantastic team call with my coach tonight.  I'm motivated and ready to start planning for Summit 2014 next year. I will be able to keep up with all the live group workouts! I will be in the best shape of my life! Thank you Beachbody!!

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T25 Week Two Day Three - Speed 1.0

Sweaty pic or it didn't happen! Well, my pic isn't as sweaty but that's because I stood under my ceiling fan for too long before getting on my blog. Ooops sorry.  But it did happen and I love speed, and I hate it. It's a love/hate relationship.  I love the first 15 and a half minutes where you do some speed drills and then you get a nice long stretch break.  Ahhhhhhhh....I love stretching!  But then I hate the eight and a half minutes that follow because it's eight and a half minutes STRAIGHT of burnout which is no breaks!  Wow, I'm a sweaty mess. But I had lots of energy today because I didn't to my C25k today.  I'm saving that for Thursday, possibly Saturday and I'm walk running the annual 5k for homecoming on Sunday! Yay! I'm really excited to do it since my running has consisted of a little over two miles so far. Let's see how I do at three miles! Can I also just say that I JUST realized that the blonde chick is not in this workout and is replaced by a brunette?? And I thought it was funny that my husband (Dustin) asked why the one girl is not doing the moves right. Duh, that's Tania, the modifier. Jeesh, guess he never watches me do T25.  He should get his butt off the couch and do it with me! But I'm proud to say I took no breaks tonight which is an up from last night when I took some unapproved arm breaks. At least I'm still killing it with one pound down in a week and a half. 126 to 124.8! Woop!  On to Cardio again tomorrow!

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T25 Week Two Day 2 - Total Body Circui.t

Well, hello to round two of total body circuit. Pros, it's only 25 minutes, only one burnout phase, your legs aren't worked to a pulp, and you finally get to work your arms.  Cons, my arms still suck even after 9 weeks of insanity so I suck at all the arm workouts, I did two miles on the treadmill before this so I'm sweating like crazy in the 81 degrees in here, I feel like the guy in the garbage bag from Silver Linings Playbook, and the constant sweat dripping down my face is driving me insane. Okay so those last few had nothing really to do with the workout. With that said, it seems there are more true pros to this workout than cons. I guess in the week or so since I did this workout last, I forgot how much arm exercise is really in it. I think I may have to use some weights on my days off from T25 and C25k to work my arms. Otherwise I'm not sure if arms once a day is going to keep me from taking breaks in plank position during this workout.  I'm looking forward to the ab workout and not so much the speed workout tomorrow. It's not that I don't like the speed workout, I feel behind and that I can't keep up with Shaun T and the other trainers.  I feel like I'm not getting the full workout from speed because of it.  But I will try to keep up. I'm done my C25k until Thursday so maybe it will be easier with no running before.  I'll have lots of energy (said no mother ever).  Let's take a quick peek and see what my calories are for today. I haven't talked a lot about my diet or my fitbit yet.  I'm sure I'll have plenty of time for that in the next three weeks so I don't keep regurgitating the same info on the workouts over and over again.  I was 65 calories over breaking even before my run/workout.  My goal is a 250  calorie deficit a day.  I made my goal of 10,000 steps (10,497).  I didn't make my calorie or miles goals. Which doesn't surprise me because my fitbit doesn't register as much if I'm not actually taking steps. The loads of planks I just did will make up for that.  I still got to 4.55 miles and 1,970 calories (I have yet to beat the goal of 2,172).  So today I burned 1972 calories and ate 1475.  Weehoo I'm under.  Looks like I get to grab some grapes to boost my sugar a little before bed!

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T25 Week 2 day 1 - Cardio

Well, Cardio kicked my @$$ again.  Am I surprised? No. I also did two miles on the treadmill (blech, but it was 86 degrees out at 9:00 so sue me).  This webcam pic does NO justice to my sweat. You should hop over to my facebook page and look at the mobile upload from July 15, 2013 at 10:15.  So, my third experience with Cardio.  Listen, I have two kids so this can't be one of those blogs that I explain exactly what you do because I simply do not have time to sit and watch it and write the moves down. But from what I can remember, progressive jog, progressive jacks, progressive jump lunges touching the floor, and squats til the burnout.  I've been heavily FOCUSING on my squat form: keeping on my heels, back straight, sitting low.  Also I've been concentrating when I come up from squat form.  Tightening the glutes and thus tightening my abs (hello, my two goal areas).  Okay, I've already forgotten the last half exercises. But it was brutal and I'm sure I mentioned it in another post.  On a happier note, I am now way under my calories now and can go eat a yummy snack! Woop!  Loving this T25 but I need to remember to check out the Stretch dvd next rest days! Sunday is the homecoming 5k! So excited!  Also, I wanted to mention that on the stretch following this workout, I'm having a hard time doing the active stretches because my knees are so friggen sweaty I can't hold a pose!!Yes, T25 makes my knees sweat!

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Focus T25 Day #5 Part Two - Cardio

This is so ridiculous, my teeth are sweating! Ok, not really but everything else is, I swear.  First of all, can you see that sweat in my pic, and that's not even all of it. My webcam sucks.  Second of all, lower focus and cardio in the same day, not pretty.  I never realized that cardio was lower focus plus speed 1.0. Probably because I hadn't done either yet.  Why they chose these two workouts in the same day is beyond me but I'm sure there is some kind of method to Shaun T's madness.  We'll see when I make tomorrow my STAT-urday. Let's see if I lost anything in my first week of T25 with one cheat meal and two cheat desserts (plus alcohol which I don't usually drink). I'm sorry, it was a celebratory week all together.  I'll do better next week, I promise.  Since I've already told you all about cardio in day one, let me touch on a few things I noticed this go around. One, Mr. Shaun T, why is this the first time I have heard of spreading my toes for balance? Don't you think I could have used this info during cardio core and balance AND cardio recover/max cardio recovery? I think so. Two, no one likes mountain climbers.  No one.  Therefore, we also do not like lateral mountain climbers.  Three, let's look a little closer into the burnout phase.  Shaun T says the burnout phase is to take everything you have done thus far in the workout, push through and focus.  I'm finding this second go round, I'm having an easier time focusing on my core, my muscles, proper form, and all that good stuff in the burnout phase. I know the moves, I know the speed, now it's time to Focus. From this program, I expect to tighten my core (just take one look at Beta's FOCUS area), my glutes, and to prefect my balance and flexibility.  And to get that nailed it T-Shirt!

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Focus T25 Day #5 Part One- Lower Body

I got home too late to workout last night. It was 11:00, I was exhausted and afraid to put the baby in his own bed for fear he'd wake up.  So I went to bed with a belly full of chicken chimichanga, Margarita, and bachelorette party cake.  This morning my little man was a perfect angel and let me get one workout in.  I chose Lower Body first and will save Cardio for later.  My tips for the Lower Body workout? Make lunges, squats, and calf raises your friends.  Anyone who has been through a cardio recovery day of Insanity will be able to handle this.  The lunge pulses and holds burn, burn, burn but if you breathe you can get through them.  There are some new moves and returning.  The calf work is new and I like it because there was no calf work in Insanity.  The lunges are old hat, but that doesn't make them any less effective. Lunges just work for a lower body workout.  The squats were old hat to but the addition of lunges and squats and up and over and squats was a pretty good cardio workout. I was breathing hard.  For those of you that follow through with Tania's modifications, only half of the exercises had modifications. Don't be scared though, I just don't think there was enough range of motion or variation in lunges and squats to modify.  There are two burnout phases in this workout repeating some of the moves. Oh, and I can't forget the balance tap moves that were reminiscent of some Insanity moves (I forget the names, you know what I'm talking about).  I'm off to visit my parents while they camp but I will be back later to do some Cardio!! Can't wait!

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Focus T25 day # 4 - Ab Intervals

Wow! Ab Intervals puts Cardio Abs to SHAME! What a workout. I found myself taking small (I said small!) breaks when I haven't had to on any of the other workouts yet.  I'm not so flexible so when we had to straighten our legs while seated, it was a little hard for me. Maybe I should start stretching every morning and before I workout to loosen up my hamstrings?? What was great about this workout is Shaun T burns the h e double hockey sticks out of your abs, and then gives you a cardio "break."  So there is a set of two or three progressive moves, hard, harder, hardest, followed by a short cardio break.  No C-seat position but no standing abs or crunches/sit ups either.  I thought Shaun T knew how to give me an ab workout in Hip Hop Abs and Cardio Abs but I was wrong. He was saving the real knowledge for Focus T25.  Say hello to more pike work, lovely pyramids that rival my favorite high-plank/low-plank work, and some workouts that made me reminisce back to high school track when we did six inches for what felt like endless minutes.  There was no burnout session but that's okay, I'm pretty burnt out anyway.  Partly due to the fact that I started my C25k today and did run/walk intervals for two and a quarter miles at the local dirt track.  I'm pretty sure I burned off that chocolate and peanut butter cake slice I had to celebrate a co-worker's birthday.  All is well with my calories again! Tomorrow is my double workout (unless I'm a wussy and save one for Saturday but I'm going to try to do them both to balance out the Mexican food I'm going to eat at a bachelorette party).  I don't usually workout extra hard just to eat like crap but I think I can take two days of celebration for friends and then work my butt of the rest of the month to show myself that one (or two) bad meals does not ruin your progress!

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Focus T25 Day #3 Total Body Circuit

This workout has been the hardest of T25 yet! What a workout! When Shaun T says total body, he's not lying. Welcome back plank walks, oblique push ups and 180 squats! We also have some new moves that are slightly reminiscent of Insanity moves: pike-ups (power push ups) and 2 and 2 moving jabs (power strike).  After bragging during my last week of Insanity that I did so and so many push ups blah blah blah,  my arms almost gave out on me in this brutal arm workout.  Pike-ups had me dripping sweat and I wasn't the only on. They panned to Scott at one point and there was a puddle of sweat on the floor in front of him. This is where it's at. I know results are going to be had at the end of this program. I thought it was silly to measure on STAT-urday of the first week but you know what, I might just have some changes!  Can't wait to see what's in store for me tomorrow! I love this first week because every day is like a package that you get to open up with a surprise inside! I didn't get to do my Couch to 5k tonight due to some time issues, but I WILL get started on that tomorrow. My 30 day push health goal was to get going on a Couch to 5k and I will succeed.  I'm planning on running/walking a local 5k in a couple weeks so I need to get my butt in gear!

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Focus T25 Day #2 Speed 1.0

Day #2 and I have to tell you I am LOVING this 25 minutes! Gone are the days of my husband being in bed when I finally drag my lame butt upstairs.  So Speed 1.0.  I didn't really know what to expect but I thought of running, obviously.  Let me tell you, get in the mind set of having fast feet because you have to keep up with Shaun T! Tania is still going strong in the modifications. This would be great for someone with knee/joint problems because the mods take the jumping out of the mix. The first 15 or so minutes, you alternate obetween a couple speedy cardio moves with lots of jumping and crossing and a stretch/stability move.  It's a nice little break for your body and the calf stretches are amazing.  Then comes the Burnout phase. I don't think I mentioned that from day one. It's pretty much a repeat of all the moves amped up a notch while you FOCUS.  The Burnout phase has no nifty stretching moves.  This was a great workout. I was dripping sweat by the end of it and my tank was soaked.  I liked this workout but I hope by the next round for Speed 1.0 my feet have gotten a little faster. I don't like how I felt like I wasn't crossing my legs all the way because I just didn't have the speed to do so.  The two and a half minute cool down is the same as day one and is a nice little rest to get your heart rate down.  I can't wait for day three. And, tomorrow I'm also adding in day one week one of Couch to 5k!  Lets see how many Fitbit goals I can crush tomorrow!!

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Focus T25 Day # 1

Today is my first day of Focus T25.  Am I scared? Not really. This challenge comes on the heels of my completion of  Hip Hop Abs and Insanity. I know Shaun T. I know what he brings. If I was scared, I would have deserted Insanity in the beginning of month two.  I'm ready for the next step, the next big thing.  I'm ready to "nail it" as the slogan for the program reads. This is me at the beginning for those of you that haven't followed:



I've had two babies. I didn't take care of my body the first pregnancy and I sure didn't take care of my body the second.  Enter my high school friend and Beachbody Coach, Shannon.  Her weight loss was amazing and inspirational.  Enough of my backstory.  This is me three months later after Hip Hop Abs and Insanity.  This photo will mark the beginning of my T25 journey:

 

Now on to day one! As I lace up my shoes I have butterflies in my stomach like this is my first date. I'm expecting something like Pure Cardio or Max Cardio Conditioning from Insanity...no breaks. Cardio...will I nail it? Please let the music be better than Insanity! Well kind of like Pure Cardio/Max Cardio but also different.  There is still no breaks but the moves are progressive, they start out easy, medium, and hard (low, medium, and high impact).  Some of the moves I recognize from Insanity and a few new ones as well (some I  liked, some not so much).  The one improvement in this workout is Tania and her modifiers. I can honestly say, though I didn't use any of them, the modifiers make this workout possible for ANYONE.  Tania was sweating with the modifiers so it was not a useless workout to use them.  This is something that Insanity lacked. As I type, I'm sweating all over my keyboard, gross.  One thing the program does not lie about, it is 25 minutes and DONE. There is a two and a half stretch/cool down that I enjoyed and thought was worth the extra time. I just need that cool down to bring my heart rate down.  The music wasn't booty-popping, dance music, but it was better than Insanity.  One thing that definitely did not change?  "Keep your Core tight!" Yes Mister Shaun T. All in all, I love this program and am excited to continue it. Day one down and loving every sweaty minute!

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