DAY 25: CARDIO RECOVERY & MEAL PLAN

 Last time i'm doing Cardio Recovery for this round of Insanity. Sad times, actually it's dawning on me this is the last time i'm doing any of the Month 1 workouts! Jeeebus, time flies when your doing Insanity. It really does, it certainly doesn't feel like i've been doing this for a month now. 

Anyways, Cardio Recovery as you all know is one of my fav..yeah you still work up a little bit of a sweat but it's more about focusing on your core and stretching. With the recovery workout i think the best tip i can give is really focus on your breathing, not so much to get your breath back, but to train your breathing to exhale when your exerting energy and inhale on a recovery move. This gets oxygen to the muscles that need it the most depending on what exercise your doing. 

I think with Month 2's version of this since it's called 'MAX RECOVERY' i think they'll vamp up the cardio side of it, so you will be sweating a lot! And incorporate some harder more taxing stretches, by this point i presume if you've never been into fitness or didn't really workout, the Month prior will have you in good enough shape to cope with Month 2's exercises. Well that's my theory anyway!

MEAL PLAN

 A day off work means my meals are always timed well and i can prepare them as i go, yeah..meal prep saves time if you do it the night before. But there's just something so much nicer about a freshly prepared meal that you can eat right away!

Breakfast was a menagerie of fruit today! Some of my fruit was about to spoil so i took advantage and made a big fruit salad with apples, bananas, kiwi, melon and grapes.  A big bowl of fruit with some natural yogurt spread on the top get's me going for the day i can assure you.

Lunch was a fairly small affair of tuna steak, broccolii and side salad of lettuce with chopped cherry tomatoes. I was in a bit of a hurry with lunch as i wanted to get into town before it closed!

My evening meal had a bit more thought, diced chicken breast with soy noodles, onions, garlic, chilli and peppers all tossed together with some sweet potato fries (home-made...with low-cal spray might i add) finished me off for the day and i slept a happy bunny!

A.

DAY 4: CARDIO RECOVERY

Ahhhh. This was bliss.

Well, i'm thinking that now, after i've done the workout. But i must say it wasn't what i expected. At first, i thought it was going to be brutal like the rest of the workouts i've done so far. However, it was actually quite pleasant. Now saying this, don't be thinking...oh it must have been easy.

No, i was still sweating and still thought, please no..not another set.

Cardio recovery was made up of a series of strengthening stretches. We started with planks, however there were a few variations involving leg lifts whilst in plank, and they hurt. Then we had squats...now i like squats, having rather muscular legs i seem to be able to hold myself down in a squat without too many problems, however Shaun's take on squats had me begging for mercy. He had us hold down squats and pulse for what seemed like an eternity. Onto lunges on each side, again pulsing for ever and a day.

Each lot of actual exercises, had stretching in the middle, chest presses to the leg, flat backs etc. This workout seemed to focus a lot on balance and strengthening your core muscle (that's where the abs come from people!) Like i said, it wasn't easy but it was definitley more 'pleasant' than the rest of the crazy insane workouts we've been doing!

Now it's late and i've pretty much just finished my workout, i'm tired...so after my next post, i will bid you all adieu!

A.