Pure Cardio 2 and 80 DO - Day 34 Cardio Core

I decided to warm up with some Shaun T for an extra burn and destress (rough morning) with Pure Cardio 2 then on to Cardio Core.

My shoulders still cause me to take breaks in these plank moves grrrrrrr. Still toast from yesterday it seems :(.

I decided to use my power stands on the last move and it did make it a little easier so I think I might try it for all oof them next week. It certainly helps my wrist, gives me a little more range of motion in the pike up moves and if it takes a little weight of my shoulders, I should get more out it overall while my shoulders build more strength - sound reasonable???

Shaun week Insane Focus day 7 - Dig Deep = Shaun Week Complete!!

Shaun week Insane Focus day 7 - Dig Deep = Shaun Week Complete!!

I don't normally workout out on Sunday's but for Shaun Week I made an exception.

 I dug deep, was cautious with my knee, but pushed hard and completed Shaun week wahoo!!!

Congrat's to everyone who completed it ;)

Shaun week Insane Focus day 6 - Speed 4.0

Shaun week Insane Focus day 6 - Speed 4.0

Had an interruption just after starting but got straight back to it and loved, loved, loved it!!! Totally awesome!!!!

I did watch it through first just so I had an idea of the moves because the fast ones are harder going in not having a clue.

It was fast and crazy ("not Speed 4.0 more like Speed 100" lol) but apart from a few 2-3 second breathers here and there I kept up pretty well. I used power stands like Shaun's push up stands and it was just brill!!!

Definitely one of my top favorite cardio routines of all time!!

I did a long stretch afterwards to cool down and this heat I'm still sweating a hour later.

Shaun week Insane Focus day 5 - Ripsanity

Shaun week Insane Focus day 5 - Ripsanity

Loved this one!

I modified the warm up to protect my knee ready for Speed 4 tomorrow (I'm a little scared about it to be honest lol) but loved the weights.

Very Asylum Strength'esque I thought. The set with lots of moves got a little complicated and fast but it will be better next time through. I really enjoyed the hammer, upright row, hip flys move that really made all my muscles cry a little as I got the weight right ;)

The leg and overhead press section was pretty burny on the legs and much more than I expected. I also dropped to a low weight for the sets of 14 presses = Crazy Shaun!!!

Didn't go crazy with the ending and overall really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to doing this one again with better weights selection. I used 5kgs / 11lb down to 2kg/4.4lbs. Some were too light and some were too heavy.

Shaun week Insane Focus day 4 - 25 Abs

Shaun week Insane Focus day 4 - 25 Abs

I followed the modifier for the whole warm up today to rest my knee (it gets upset when I do too many consecutive days of jumping :( )

Abs started out pretty easy but ramped up to OUCH!!!! The In and Out abs with oblique knee was just plain cruel for me - I only got 2 reps and collapsed, 2 reps and collapse OMG!!!!

 Some of those sets were tough to say the least - great core workout and not just abs - I love the way Shaun hits the back ie the whole core and not just the front ;)

Nice recovery workout, well for everything except the core of course lol

Looking forward to weight again tomorrow with Ripsanity!!

Shaun week Insane Focus day 2 - Insane Weights

Shaun week Insane Focus day 2 - Insane Weights

I had to be steady with the warm up and some of the jumping today as my knee is starting to complain ;( but following the modifier worked well.

Enjoyed the weight although it moves pretty fast and although he says concentrate on form its very easy to try and keep up with them so I can find that a little stressy but other than that is was good fun.

Having got used to asylum I though this would be a walk in the park but it still had me gasping for oxygen in places.

I used 5lbs/2.2kg for 1st round, some shoulders and flys and 4kg / 8.8lb for everything else.

Shaun week Insane Focus day 2- Pure cardio 2

Shaun week Insane Focus day 2- Pure cardio 2

Enjoyed this, some new moves I haven't done before and def got the heart rate up there!

Pretty much kept up, had a to take a breather about 3 times and followed the modifier for a few seconds when I couldn't manage full bore - which actually was faster and allowed me to get my knees up higher so all good. I did my best and that's what counts.

Looking forward to the weights tomorrow :)

Shaun Week: Insane Focus - Day 1 Insane Basics,

After a few days rest, fighting a minor bug, I'm ready and raring to go into Shaun Week.

Shaun Week Insane Focus - Day 1 Insane Basics and it was pretty good. A nice quad burner (deceptively so I thought) followed by some different plank/row combos and abs.

Over all really good building up of exercises and I loved the speed and agility part as it was familar to me and I could get stuck in lol.

Excited for tomorrows day 2