Insanity... no really!

Why is it so hard? Why is it hard to workout, even if I feel better after I do it? Why is it so hard to keep up my log? Why is it so hard to avoid doing things that make me want to avoid my blog because I don’t want to be honest about my behaviour?

Grrr, I am really annoyed. I lost 1 pound from my current listed about three weeks ago and then another two pounds a week later, and then in the last few days I have gone back up and stayed at my current. It is so hard. I decided to do a few things to help facilitate my progress. The first is due to the fact I finally completely filled up my last diet/exercise log book and needed a new one and frankly it is such a pain in the “you know what” not just to record everything by hand and write it down, but also since I cook from scratch all the time, it takes forever to calculate the serving nutritional information.

So in the name of reducing excuses I purchased some exercise and diet logging software Diet Power 4.4 and have been using it for a few weeks. Wow does it make life easier. It went from an afternoon affair to plan and calculate my weekly meals to mere minutes. Plus it has tons of cool graphs and plans and tips and coaching that really have helped me. I bought it on sale for $29.95, best money I have spent in a long time, it has made things so much faster and easier and less avoidable.

The next thing I recently did was evaluate my fitness plan, I was taking classes and boot camp, but the latter ended around Halloween until mid January and my other classes end this week until mid January. So I already picked out my courses next semester: I plan on taking an hour of kickboxing twice a week and an hour and a half of power yoga twice a week. Now I realized that taking a six week break around the holidays to boot from any workouts is out of the question if I want to keep making progress, and my home fitness DVDs are very soft-core compared to what I have done over the last few months and I want to keep pushing myself so I did some research trying to find a very challenging at home workout.

Many folks recommended P90X, however I don’t want to “get ripped” and I don’t want a program that requires equipment or focuses on weight lifting, but the thread lead me to other programs by the same company and I discovered the Insanity Workout. Before buying I sampled on the net previews and even whole workouts and wow did I break a sweat! So I went ahead and purchased it on eBay (way cheaper!) and have had it for a bit now. I did a couple parts here and there to sample before I formally started it, and it is great I have to say. So I am formally on the second day of the structured workout program and very sore, which is exactly what I wanted.

Many people say how hard this workout is, and some complain it is too much for many normal or even fairly fit folks. I have to interject on these points and say that although it is really tough, it is self paced and you only go as hard as you push yourself, and any of the moves can be modified to make them less challenging so it is really silly to think it can be too hard for anyone who is reasonably fit and it gives you something to aspire to. If you push hard you will expand your limits and that is great, it is cardio based for fat blasting and only uses body weight for resistance - again exactly what I wanted! I hope I will see as good results with this program as I have seen with boot camp.

I will catch up with everyone soon. Thanks for reading (someday I will be a consistent poster).