Fitgirl: Update

I have been falling behind on posts due to being busy & going out of town this past weekend.  John, myself, and our dog, Ice, went to Medicine Hat for a visit & a 5km race.  John & I have been trying to tire Ice out due to excessive amounts of energy (him, not us).  The 3-4 walks a day have not been enough.  We have been jogging with Ice for about 1 - 2 weeks.  John does a noon hour run and I do a morning run, and then we walk him in the evening.  



I did the 5km race in Medicine Hat this Saturday with Ice, he did a great job for his first run!  Our training runs have only been 2-4km in length, so he really pushed himself hard!  Really proud of our boy.



Insanity: The Asylum

I ordered this DVD workout a couple weeks ago and received it last Thursday, I have been waiting for this to be release for quite some time. John and I did Insanity last spring/summer. Insanity is a 60-70 day work out program that is really intense. The Asylum is a 30 day program that focuses more on athletic performance. There are 6 DVD's: 

1. Speed & Agility
2. Strength
3. Back to Core
4. Vertical Plyo
5. Game Day & Over Time
6. Fitness Test

Insanity doesn't use any equipment, it is all body weight exercises. The Asylum comes with a jump rope & agility ladder. You can also order an exercise band & pull up bar with the program. I have both of these things, so I opted out of that choice. You also need dumbbells.

The use of equipment is a great addition to the program, I think this way I will get more results in the upper body. But one of the things that I love about Insanity, is that you do not need any equipment.

So, I did the fitness test after work today, it didn't seem as physically taxing as Insanity, but I did find it more difficult to do in regards to coordination, I believe that the next time I do the test I will do substantially better. The warm up included jumping rope, high knee run in place, etc. The drills in the fit test were all 1 minute in length:

1. Agility Heisman: I did 9. Had to fix my ladder a couple times, if you mess it up, you are supposed to fix the ladder before you go on, definitely a focus on form! My form definitely was not pretty with this drill lol
2. In & Out Ab Progression: 35 reps (again I had to fix the ladder)
3. Pull ups/Push ups: you can do pull ups or lat push ups, I chose the lat push ups of course lol: 12 reps
4. Mountain Climbing Arms with Switch Kicks: 66 reps
5. Agility Shoulder Taps: 5 1/2 reps
6. X Jumps: 40 reps
7. Moving Push ups: 2 1/2
8. Agility Lateral Shuffle: 13 reps
9. Agility Bear Crawl: 5 1/2 reps

Here is a link of someone doing the fit test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4A7tYLgIpQ

There is a schedule for the work outs. I will follow the schedule, but will only be doing days that I did not do much for fitness at work. If I work out at work or teach fitness, I will not be doing The Asylum at home.

Adrenaline Personal Training last Monday:

We did Sled Pulls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CthgoBvOgx8&feature=related

Hand over hand Prowler Pull http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJQclxgAGU8

Tire Flips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwwo1soc3Hw

Keg Toss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RR8WTqrLM0

Sledge Hammer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzFuozBU18&feature=related

It was sooo much fun, we did this all outside, left filthy :-D