Day 29: Lunch, 1st dinner and 2nd dinner!

Oops, I totally stayed in bed waaay too long!

Woke up this morning and then stayed in bed until I fell asleep again... then woke up and it was 1:00p!!!  \(°д°；)/

Lunch:  Leftovers from yesterday's Lu's Garden

Food:  Eggplant (30 kcal), vegetables (10 kcal), and tofu skin (60 kcal)

Calories:  100 kcal

Dinner:  Fried chicken, pancit, and asparagus!

Food:  3/4 cup noodles (150 kcal), 1 piece fried chicken (71 kcal), asparagus (20 kcal)

Calories so far:  341 kcal

I don't know?  I wasn't very hungry today?  I think because I ate so much carbs yesterday!  Tomorrow I'm sure I will be hungry.

Yay second dinner!  Got a phone call to go out and hang with one of my favorite people!  Yum for Phoenix Cafe!  I was really craving soup.

Dinner 2:  Phoenix Cafe yumminess

Food:  Braised beef soup with noodles and black rice (200 kcal?) and young coconut (100 kcal?)!

Calories:  641 kcal?

My favorite part was the dessert!  I really didn't eat the soup, but the black rice plus coconut = so yum!  love!

Day 29: Core Cardio & Balance

A little late in the evening, but today was the first day for Week 5 of Insanity!

It's all Core Cardio & Balance this week!  Will probably be doing more walking, running, and weight training!  I probably shouldn't... since I'm supposed to be "recovering"... but!  At least I'm not doing more Insanity... so I'm resting from Insanity workouts.

Thoughts on Core Cardio...!

Relaxing workout!  A lot slower pace for each exercise and at lower intensity compared to regular workouts due to it being a "Recovery" week!

Not only that, but Shaun T demonstrates each exercise (except Heisman).  This makes a little rest time in between each "one-minute" exercise.

Almost all the exercises are from the various Insanity workouts, some are variations of the already known exercises.

Maybe tomorrow I'll do a video!  I've been lazy with my videos lately... I need to do at least one this week!

Tomorrow is Core Cardio & Balance again!  Plus maybe some running/walking/or weight training.  We'll see!

Day 28: Rest day = not rest day by Gymmin it up!

Today's a rest day!

Starting tomorrow is "Core Cardio & Balance"... so I think it's going to be a "relaxation week"... (maybe.)

I wrote a little bit on supercompensation early on in the program... so now to write about the purpose of the "Cord Cardio & Balance" week!

The purpose of this upcoming week is to rest.  Rest rest rest!  Your body needs to rest in order to heal and repair itself.  So the first 3 weeks of Insanity is tough, pounding, grilling, pushing you harder, faster, stronger.  By the end of week 3... you really feel beat down.

Without rest, your body will continue to be beat down... and performance won't go up.

If you do rest... then your body will come back even stronger!  This is called supercompensation.

Thanks wikipedia!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercompensation

Today I wasn't very good though... not resting.  LOL.  Going against the agenda!  But!  I really want to work out my back.  One of my goals is to get in better shape for pole fitness!  So here's today's gym workout!


Treadmill
Warm-up time:  30 minutes
After workout time:  40 minutes
Total time:  70 minutes
Total distance:  5.25 miles
Minimum speed:  3.5 mph
Maximum speed:  8.0 mph
Calories burned:  ~570 kcal


Weight Training

• Exercise:  Back extensions on Roman chair
• Sets x reps x weight:  3 x 15 x BW (body weight)
• Lat Pulldowns (wide cable)
• Set 1:  12 reps x 50 lbs
• Set 2:  10 reps x 60 lbs
• Set 3:  8 reps x 70 lbs
• Seated Rows (cable)
• Set 1:  12 reps x 40 lbs
• Set 2:  10 reps x 50 lbs
• Set 3:  8 reps x 60 lbs
• Dead Lifts (with barbell)
• Set 1:  12 reps x 40 lbs
• Set 2:  10 reps x 55 lbs
• Set 3:  10 reps x 65 lbs
• One-arm Rows (with dumbbell) 
• Set 1:  12 reps x 17.5 lbs
• Set 2:  10 reps x 20 lbs
• Lat Pulldowns (close grip machine)
• Set 1:  12 reps x 50 lbs
• Set 2:  12 reps x 60 lbs

Then hopped back onto the treadmill... and finished it up!

Tired!  Home to cook it up!  Tomorrow is the first day of Core Cardio & Balance!!!