Day 3 of 63: Cardio Power & Resistance

Day 3 Cardio Power & Resistance was much better than Day 2!!! Hurray to that!!

I must say today's warmup was a lot easier than yesterday's. My friend did warn me "anything that says circuit is insane." Haha, I see his point now.

As usual it was still intense, but not as much as Day 2. My heart rate did go up, but not as badly as yesterday. One thing I do see coming out of this, are more powerful legs. You use your legs for everything in these videos. Hopefully, it will help with my sports later in the summer.

I look forward to the final results :D.

Here is a video from ZillaFitness

Day 2 of 63: Plyometric Cardio Circuit

OH BOY!!!

This is the first real workout as the first one was a fitness test. I am totally worn out.

It was totally insane. To start off there was a warm-up which I don't consider a warm-up. It was more like a mini workout :P. After that it just kept going and going, fast and faster. I couldn't keep up. Overall, I probably did 50% or less of the entire video.

However, I did like the variations he was doing. He would do a circuit a few times and then change the circuit. There were about 3 different circuits. Hopefully I'll get better next time around.

Here is a youtube video from iSeeFitPeoplecom (she did a lot better than I did):

Meal Plans

The Nutrition Guide provided with Beachbody Insanity is insane. It does focus on eating 5 small, well balanced meals throughout the day and they also provide 100 - 200 calorie food blocks to add on to your meals if you need calories.

My caloric needs being as high as 3300 calories leads to meals that are 500+ in calories. My thoughts were: 1) there are too many recipes 2) I don't have time to cook all this as I work 9 hours a day 3) I am going to be skipping meals for sure.

Regardless, I tried making a menu for myself.

Meal 1: Breakfast 08:00am 500 cal
Pro-Oatmeal
1-1/3 cup oatmeal
1-1/2 scoop protein
2-1/2 tablespoon chopped almonds
1 cup fresh/frozen berries
1/4 cup of skim milk

Meal 2: Morning Snack 10:00am 500 cal
Yogurt Bowl
1-1/2 nonfat plain yogurt
2 Tbsp of dried craisins
3 TBsp of almonds
1 apple

Meal 3: Lunch 12:00pm 500 cal
Grilled chicken Salad
3 oz of grilled chicken breast
3 cups of mixed dark greens
1/2 apple chopped
1 tbs of almonds
cucumber, sliced

OR
Lean burger
whole wheat english muffin
4oz extra lean ground beef
1 slice of reduced fat cheese
1 cup of greens

OR
3/4 whole wheat pasta
1 cup mixed steam vegetables
1/3 cup of feta cheese
3 oz of diced grilled chicken

Meal 4: Afternoon Snack 03:00pm 500 cal
Protein Pizza Muffin
1 whole grain English muffin
1/3 cup mozarella
1 cup broccoli
1 orange

Meal 5: Preworkout 05:30pm 300 cal
1 protein bar

Workout: 6:00pm

Meal 6: Postworkout 7:00pm 200 calories
1 protein scoop
1 cup 1% milk

Meal 7: Dinner 08:00pm 700 cal
Brown Rice Bowl
2/3 cup cooked brown rice
4oz chicken
1 cup peas
1 slice of wheat toast with 1 oz turkey and 1 oz reduced fat cheese

Meal 8: Night Snack 10:00pm 200 cal
1/2 cup of oatmeal

However, in the end I just couldn't cook all this stuff. I did cook wheat pasta and baked chicken and burger. I also did prepare the breakfasts suggested (these are the easiest recipes), but it is just way too much cooking.

What I did was I did mass cooking and I just pretty much have the same food for a few days. I think as long as you have enough calories and protein in your meals you will be fine (and low fat). We'll see how it goes.