Day 1 - Cardio Challenge

Oh man....let me tell ya something.....Oh how I have missed Shaun T. Don't get me wrong, Sagi (body beast creator) is awesome and he really knows his stuff when it comes to body building, but the push, push, push, dig deeper, do a little more mantra that Shaun T gets you into is incredible. Since I have really only been lifting weights for the past 6 months, my cardio has suffered greatly. You can only lift weights so fast....sorry that's just a little lifting humor. However, muscle memory is amazing. Yeah, the heart is a muscle and it will get back into it quickly. I maxed out ( had to stop and catch my breath ) at a mere 2:05 last night, but I jumped right back in the game and kept pushing until I had to stop again. Some of the new moves took a second to get down and none were very hard to do, but the get the job done for sure. I really like the format of these workouts (assuming they all follow the same pattern). You do 3 or 4 moves, then you repeat them 2 more times ( i think ) One really cool and innovative feature of the Max 30 workouts is that you can choose the option to have the modifier ALWAYS on screen. As with almost all Beachbody workouts, there is one person doing the modified version of the workout. That is the person doing the no impact, less rigorous version of the move everyone else is doing. However, the modifier in some workouts is only shown very briefly for each move and that is it. Kudos to Beachbody for incorporating this very helpful feature into the DVD.

After the workout was done, a shower was, as you can expect, much needed and surely earned. I haven't continually poured sweat like that in a very, long time. I kept sweating for another 15 minutes after the workout and I got in the shower ! Sweat is fat crying !! Tonight we have a workout entitled "Tabata Power". from the description, it sounds to be right in my wheel house. But Shaun T will make it tremendously hard, as usual. I can't wait.