Day 28 - First day of Recovery Week

Welcome to Recovery Week

(granted it's not as cool as Shark Week, but we will try to entertain you all the same.)

Ahoy, fellow Insaniacs. We dove into the recovery week workout yesterday not having any idea what to expect. We love this workout, and its a good thing too, because we get to do it all week. This workout isn't about intensity, its about focus and control. Once we are good with the focus and control, then we can amp it up a little bit. I found myself really keeping my core contracted throughout every move. And i can feel it this morning. It feels great ! Although this workout is not intended to be intense, we both found ourselves sweating a lot !  There is a lot of variety in this workout. You never repeat a move, but towards the end, you build on the previous move. Talk about a workout. The balance moves were enjoyable, the toughest ones for me were the knee lifts part 3. You stand with one leg lifted, knee bent towards you chest, fists by your ears, core tight, and you straighten out the leg you have lifted. That move by itself isn't that hard, but put it after two previous moves involving that same leg and you start to get muscles crying for relief.  The jabs, hooks and elbows towards the end are always fun to do. I did notice that when everyone is doing Hiesmans, it seems like everyone is doing them differently. I try to do them Shaun T style, but not as fast (yet). We are tackling this workout this morning, my first a.m. workout in forever, because we are taking a day-cation to Hershey Park today. Mmmmmmmm chocolate.......drooling......tongue hanging out

Hopefully I can control myself, but I wouldn't bet on it.....Have a great day everyone.