DVD - Cardio Recovery
I would love to tell you about the Max Recovery workout I was supposed to do this evening, but I was unable to do it. I will continue to be unable to do it, because the DVD it is on is defective. Max Recovery is supposed to be the 2nd chapter on the DVD with Cardio Recovery - but the workout won't play. It seems like it is about to start, and then just goes back to the top menu. This is the 3nd DVD this happened to. The first time it was the Cardio Abs workout that wouldn't play after Cardio Power & Resistance. I previewed the remaining two bonus DVDs (ones that can be subbed for the workouts in month 2) and they are jacked, too. They play, but they jump all over the place, from 12 minutes left to 49 minutes left to 16 minutes left to 32 minutes left. They have no starting warm-up because when you start, you're already 15 minutes into the workout, then you go back to 7 minutes, then to 28.
I now realize the copy of the workout I purchased is a pirated copy from China. I just assumed it was being sold cheaper by a wholesaler or by someone who'd bought a bunch of them in bulk. I've seen a few others complain about the DVDs not working, or being scrambled, and these folks also bought them cheaper and not from BeachBody directly. If and when I purchase more Beach Body workouts, I'm going to bite the bullet and order the full cost version from them.
Since I couldn't do Max Recovery, I just did Cardio Recovery again. I don't know what I'm missing between the two, but Max Recovery was supposed to be for 50 minutes and Cardio Recovery is 35. From now on, I'm going to add Cardio Abs to Cardio Recovery so I get the same number of minutes from a low intensity workout I was to get with Max Recovery.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Day 4 - An Unexpected Break
DVD - Cardio Recovery
The welcome insert says "Don't get your hopes up - it isn't the recovery you're expecting. But it should help you prepare your body and muscles for more Insanity"
They were half right. It wasn't what I was expecting, but "hopes"? I wasn't exactly jumping with joy over what I was expecting.
I was expecting it would be a toned down cardio workout - or, because it's Insanity, something crazy. Instead it was a bunch of stretching, slow resistance moves, and even some yoga poses. This DVD is designed to stretch the whole body with extra focus on hips, quads, hamstrings, groin and arms/shoulders. No warm up or cool down, just a methodical working of the body.
My favorite new move was primarily for the glutes but also works your abs, quads & arms/shoulders. You start with your hands and knees on the floor in bench position. Your hands on the ground should be under your shoulders. Then raise your knees 5 or 6 inches from the ground, so you are balancing on your toes but putting most of your weight on your arms. Now extend a leg backward so that your leg and back are in a straight line and pulse the leg 8 times. Repeat with the other leg. Then you do it again but with 16 pulses for each leg.
I was sore today before the stretch session, but not as sore as I thought I would be last night when I was walking like a duck and it also felt like I was less sore than I'd been when I woke up the morning after Plyo. Now that I'm all stretched out, I'm feeling even better. I can skip the soak in the tub.
There really isn't much else to say. The workout was pretty straight-forward and not a challenge for me. I'll do this one once a week, every Thursday. With the rest day on Sunday, that means I'll never have more than 3 consecutive nights of intense cardio every week.
Tomorrow I get to do Pure Cardio - "intense and extreme cardio all the way - no rest!"
Oh JOY!
I think maybe Shaun is a sadist: tease me with an easy one before kicking my ass harder than ever.
Who wants to be my lifeline in case I need someone to come scrape me off the floor?
The welcome insert says "Don't get your hopes up - it isn't the recovery you're expecting. But it should help you prepare your body and muscles for more Insanity"
They were half right. It wasn't what I was expecting, but "hopes"? I wasn't exactly jumping with joy over what I was expecting.
I was expecting it would be a toned down cardio workout - or, because it's Insanity, something crazy. Instead it was a bunch of stretching, slow resistance moves, and even some yoga poses. This DVD is designed to stretch the whole body with extra focus on hips, quads, hamstrings, groin and arms/shoulders. No warm up or cool down, just a methodical working of the body.
My favorite new move was primarily for the glutes but also works your abs, quads & arms/shoulders. You start with your hands and knees on the floor in bench position. Your hands on the ground should be under your shoulders. Then raise your knees 5 or 6 inches from the ground, so you are balancing on your toes but putting most of your weight on your arms. Now extend a leg backward so that your leg and back are in a straight line and pulse the leg 8 times. Repeat with the other leg. Then you do it again but with 16 pulses for each leg.
I was sore today before the stretch session, but not as sore as I thought I would be last night when I was walking like a duck and it also felt like I was less sore than I'd been when I woke up the morning after Plyo. Now that I'm all stretched out, I'm feeling even better. I can skip the soak in the tub.
There really isn't much else to say. The workout was pretty straight-forward and not a challenge for me. I'll do this one once a week, every Thursday. With the rest day on Sunday, that means I'll never have more than 3 consecutive nights of intense cardio every week.
Tomorrow I get to do Pure Cardio - "intense and extreme cardio all the way - no rest!"
Oh JOY!
I think maybe Shaun is a sadist: tease me with an easy one before kicking my ass harder than ever.
Who wants to be my lifeline in case I need someone to come scrape me off the floor?
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