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More on my Workouts

Those of you who read about my Fitness Quest with the P90X and Insanity regimens know that I finished them over a year ago, and have since just been in a maintenance mode. The regular 90-day and 60-day schedules, (P90X and Insanity, respectively), are intense workouts six days a week, but for my maintenance schedule, I’ve gone to just three days a week. I mostly stick to the P90X workouts, but I throw in an Insanity here and there for the cardio exercise.

Here’s me doing P90X dive bomber pushups:
Dive Bomber Pushups

P90X Results

Dive bomber pushups are one of my favorite exercises. They aren’t normal up and down pushups. You start in a modified pushup position, arms straight, feet apart, butt up, head low, and then you sort of dive down and forward till your head comes up and butt down. Like a dive bomber diving down and zooming up. Tony Horton, (the P90X coach), describes it as “under the fence.”

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With the start of this new year, I decided to do another full schedule run with Insanity. After my first round of this workout, I said I never wanted to do it again. It was incredibly hard to the point of being unfun. I mean, really, really hard; brutal. But for some reason I can’t quite figure out, I felt the need to challenge myself again. To see if I could do it again, and to see what my results would be with another round starting from my already pretty fit position.

Oblique PushupsI completed the first month of Insanity, with no problem. Yes, it’s hard on the body to do the extreme cardio routines six days a week, but the individual workouts weren’t more than I could handle. Heck, as I said above, I had been doing some during my maintenance schedule, usually one a week.

But then last week I started the second month of Insanity — the “Max” month. Holy moly, I had forgotten how hard it truly is. Forty-five to sixty minutes of hard, hard exercises with just 30 seconds of rest after every 3-6 minutes of running, jumping, pushups, squats, and all kinds of combinations of them all. (The action is fast and furious, and doesn’t show up on cell phone photos very well.)

The specific exercise you see me doing in that above photo is oblique pushups. Start a regular pushup, but on the way down, bring one leg out and up to your elbow. Yeah, like I said, extreme stuff.

Anyway, I’ve got three more weeks of this latest round of Insanity.

Bullgrit

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