Insanity Days 16 & 17 – Burn baby, burn!

The last two days have been pretty typical. Feeling some soreness again but today is recovery day which should remedy that. Workouts were Plyometric Cardio Circuit and Pure Cardio+Cardio Abs. I really like having the heartrate monitor to track not only the calories I’m burning but also what heart rate I’m maintaining during the workout. I’m staying at 80 – 90% of my max output for 25 minutes of the workout on average. I’d like to get closer to 90 – 95%.

Carories Burned:
Plyometric Cardio Circuit: 864 calories
Pure Cardio+Cardio Abs: 1007 calories!

I did not expect to break the 1000 calorie mark but they do advertise you can burn up to 1000 calories an hour. However, Pure Cardio+Cardio Abs clocks in at just over 50 minutes so…. I was kicking my own butt as hard as I thought I was!

Insanity Day 15 – Fit Test #2

With a 50% improvement in four exercises in just two weeks, I’m happy…

	Fit Test #1	Fit Test #2	% Improvement
Switch Kicks	50	56	12%
Power Jacks	44	55	25%
Power Knees	57	89	56%
Power Jumps	24	36	50%
Globe Jumps	9	10	11%
Suicide Jumps	10	15	50%
Push-up Jacks	21	29	38%
Low Plank Oblique	36	54	50%

A coworker generously gifted me an extra heart rate monitor he had lying around so now I’m able to track my heart rate and calories burned. The fit test is only 25 minutes but still burned over 500 calories (512 to be exact).

Edit: I count every two switch kicks as one. Thought I remembered him saying that from the first fit test but didn’t hear this time. So my numbers were actually 100 and 112.