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Caitlin, 20, Ireland, part of the Shaunterage😘 2nd Insanity start date: Monday 12th March 2018

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Day 9b: Pure Cardio

Only the two of us this morning, and wow was I tired. Like the first time around, when you’re first able to keep doing something not knowing where the energy’s coming from, is a good feeling; it shows what you’re actually capable of, even if you’re not aware of it.                                                                                        Got to the push-up jacks and I was still doing them, despite not having a clue how!

Food wise, I’m actually enjoying making all my own meals from scratch, but I think I’ll make lunches the night before. I made a chicken, spinach and creme cheese bagel for lunch, and also made vegan mince lettuce tacos (with tomato and a chopped boiled egg) for dinner. I’m pretty sure I’m not meeting my required calorie intake per day (I’m assuming around 1500/1600cals) but I’m waiting until I’m hungry enough to make a meal to eat. Not buying 200g chocolate bars to munch on is definitely a help as well! 

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Day 8b: Cardio Power & Resistance

** Yes I know there are 2 days missing (excluding the Rest Day [7b]) but I thought it better to carry on with my friends instead of falling completely out of sync with them, so I’ll catch up on those days either by doing an evening workout as well, or doing them during my rest days.

What’s brilliant about doing group workouts is that you can’t pause the workout to catch your breath. That’s what I do a lot; since I don’t want the workout to carry on without me, I’ll pause it until I’m ready to go again. But in a group setting, that doesn’t happen. What this meant was, yes, I started into some sets a little later, but I kept my heart rate up and it meant the workout actually finished on time, instead of 5 minutes later with all the pauses I would have given myself!

I’m expecting a food delivery between 2-3pm, with a lot of stuff (I’d say 90%) based around the Insanity food plan, now it’s just getting the energy to make it!

All in all a really good work out, since the gym’s bigger than my room and has a lot more windows, this Beast from the East part 2 did wonders for keeping us cool

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Day 4b: Cardio Recovery

First day of a group workout. I didn’t remember any of this workout from last time, probably because it’s not as scaring as the rest of them!

Didn’t get a chance to eat anything before the workout today, so my legs were shaking like crazy, but made sure to eat breakfast before I left for work this morning. 

Definitely think I prefer morning workouts to my middle-of-the-night ones back in 2014. Starting the day with one really helps wake you up, and since I have so few uni classes a week it means I can afford to have a nap in the late afternoon / early evening and still sleep at a decent time. 

Only think left to sort out this week is a main shop for insanity meals. 

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Day 3b: Cardio Power & Resistance

I skipped the morning workout at 8am today, I woke up at 7.45 and my hamstrings were completely seized up, so i rolled back over and went back to sleep. 

Just finished today’s workout at 9.15pm. I forgot about the globe jumps. Seriously hate them ahaha. Def not as hard as day 2 either, seemed to go a lot quicker as well!

The upside of doing it alone is I can strip down to a sports bra and socks in the privacy of my own room, even one layer of clothes gets way to warm for me, but training with 2 girls and 2 boys means the clothes will have to stay on!

When doing the push ups, looking down at my hanging stomach, it makes me push harder. I don’t have massive issues with my self-image, and I know that gravity is a thing, and there’s important organs in there that won’t get any smaller, but I want to 1. be more healthy and 2. tone my abs/stomach, but I have to watch out that my thought process of getting there isn’t entirely negative i.e. ‘my stomach hangs so much i need to loose this weight asap to look prettier’ --> ‘the more effort i put in the more it will show, both for physical and mental wellbeing.

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Day 2b: Plyometric Cardio Circuit

Well, that was difficult!

If you’ve read through my older posts, you’ll see I have this issue where my neck clicks when I’m jumping up and down. It’s not painful, just annoying and a tiny bit uncomfortable. 

On to the PCC, I had to stop a good few times, but I then reasoned with myself that it’s better to do it much slower than the video than to just miss 2 turns so I can keep in time. 

the deep stretch with the arm lifted really worked my shoulders, was quite difficult to try and get my arm going straight up 

suicide drills tho 🙃

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Day 1b: Fitness Test

Switch Kicks:86 Power Jacks: 50 Power Knees: 86 Power Jumps: 31 Globe Jumps: 10 Suicide Jumps: 14 Push-Up Jacks: 15 Oblique Plank: 54

I’M SO SWEATY

Honestly, the average student would be thrilled with the heating my accommodation gets, but even with the radiator off and the window open wide I’m warm af

I’m also pretty wheezy; I’ve been on and off inhalers the past few years... Was told I have mild sports asthma which I took as a polite way of saying unfit, but there is a history of asthma/COPD in my family. I have an inhaler here with me just in case, but I didn’t want to use it during this unless I was literally struggling to breath. 

That’s all for tonight, it’s 1.40am so I’m gonna get a cold rinse and then go to bed! 😰

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Back again! And now with friends!

So here we are again, starting over again with Shaun T. I’m currently half way through my second year at uni, and having made some friends at my current accommodation, we discovered we’d all done insanity before!

Now we’re gonna do it again, and with peer motivation I think it’ll be much easier. I have to do my fit test tonight, but since we all have different timetables and we’re all studying different courses, our workouts will be at 8am in the campus gym 😥

Also, being a uni student, I’m in a perpetual state of being broke. I’m not going to be able to stick to a strict diet like a did the (very) first time around since I was still living at home and therefore got all my food bought for me. I don’t want to buy a lot of food for half of it to go to waste. I guess it’s time to buy a food diary and make (even more) use of the power of the freezer!

I’ll be tagging every workout in the same fashion (the day, the week, the exercise type, but as ___b so as to distinguish the years so the tags don’t get complicated!  

And to my followers, old and perhaps new, how have you all been? I get that fitness blogs drop in and out of activity, so what’s everyone been up to after insanity, let me know!!

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Day 30: Recovery Week

So I missed a day because I was up at the caravan without my laptop and internet for two whole days.

The pace I'm going at, I'll be lucky to finish before christmas! 

Watching the time left on the video compared to how much I had already done just made me really agitated. I knew I would eventually complete it as the line was moving (if slowly), but again I thought about just turning it off. It could be that I'm just getting back into the swing of things or that it's an unfamiliar workout. 

???

I have no idea how and when I'll get Insanity complete when I start back to school, but I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

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Day 29: Recovery Week

Well I thought I was going to die.

If you look back you'll see what I learnt from missing workouts and how it pays off to get them done. Obviously I had a pretty good excuse for putting mine back but god do you feel the tiredness when you star up again...

About half way through I felt that tired my eyes started closing, and there was a lot more cursing at Shaun T than per usual. I pretty much refused to do the Level 1 drills but I'll blame that on my grumpiness from jetlag.

The workout seemed to last forever today and there were about 3 times where I contemplated turning it off; the thoughts of "There's no point in carrying on, sure you ate crap for two weeks on holiday there's no way you'll ever tone up or loose weight." 

Optimistic, right?

I drowned out my own thoughts by zoning out and completely focusing on the moves and I got though it! It's undoubtedly a strain on your willpower when there's no on but yourself for motivation but remember there are hundreds of others in the same situation and thanks to social media we can connect and motivate each other!

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Where did I go?

In my absence I gained a whole lot of followers, so hello there! Turns out I couldn't get anything done in my hotel room, and at my friend's house in Philly I was exhausted at the end of every day, not to mention the heat So I'll be starting up again in the next few days, after I get over the jetlag! Thanks for sticking around ❤️ Any questions? Feel free to drop me an ask

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Game change!

Okay Florida is exhausting and it turns out the rooms aren't as big as I remember. So, recovery week will begin next week in Philly. Until then it's healthy eating and portion control ❤️

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PSA

Going to do recovery week as a whole and then post about it. Missed the first day there because of tiredness and stuff because of a whole day of flying!

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Day 28: Rest Day

So I’m now in my hotel room in Dublin for the night. I had another Pot Noodle, but it was because I wasn’t spending €12.50 for a chicken stir fry!

So glad I’m up to date again with my calendar again, but now I’ve a workout to do after a 7 hour and 2 hour flight (joy) One thing I’ll be avoiding is the plane food, I never could stand it but last year I did try it and - just… never again But now I’m tired so I’m away to bed for a 6.30am start!

Week 4 complete!!

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Day 27: Plyometric Cardio Circuit

Every time I do this workout, I get more and more irrationally annoyed when Shaun says there's one more set of basketball sets; and then there's two more. What's worse is every time, I fall for it; even for a second I have hope that it's near over but then of course I remember and just groan as I do yet another set of ski abs. 

I tried not to take water except during the breaks, but now I deem it acceptable if one of the others is getting a drink; if they can take a break, so can I. 

Also, moving up and down a lot is not good if your nose is running because of hayfever...

There's about 8 minutes left of the workout now as I'm writing this because it keeps buffering so I'm leaving it to load (sweet, sweet breaks) and fyi earlier I could smell bacon from the kitchen, now all I can smell is burnt toast...

--- Okay finished now. I think I not concentrating on the workout today as I've lots of stuff on my mind as we're leaving at 4 and I sort of haven't finishing packing and stuff so I really just wanted this one to be over.

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Day 26: (Part 2) Cardio Abs

Had to basically not do any of the jumps in the warm up as I'm in the attic and people are asleep below me. The Pot Noodle was great by the way. 

Doing all those things in the c-position when I'm on my left leg makes something pop somewhere deep in my hip. It's not sore or anything but I can feel it each time and it's just a bit weird. My lower back still hurts a bit doing plank work but now the pain goes away the second I finish so that's good.

Up at 8.30am tomorrow in an attempt to get Welcome to Night Vale live tickets for Dublin & do Plyometrics (and tomorrow was my rest day too) and then down to Dublin for my flight on Wednesday!

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Day 26: (Part 1) Pure Cardio

This workout seemed really short today?? But that meant it was over quick which I'm glad of! The shaking has stopped all together with this workout but I noticed today I'm not doing the deep lunges right; I can't keep my knee behind my toe as far as they do and when I try, I fall backwards ugh more practise needed then...

I was finally able to pick up the pace in Level 1 drills. I was nearly touching the floor in the pushups and (using ever last bit of strength), straightened out my arms again and I was like "??? Body what? How??"

So yes getting a little, tiny bit stronger which is a very clear improvement which means I get to eat something I haven't eaten in about 4 weeks... Pot Noodle

yes i will do cardio abs tonight