DIG DEEP

INSANITY is here!!!! This week starts my second week of INSANITY. Each Beachbody program comes with a buzz line, a mantra you chant when you are doing well or chant when you want to convince yourself you can do it. P90X - Bring It. Chalean Extreme - Go Heavy or Go Home and INSANITY - Dig Deep; these two simple words encapsulates the mentality necessary to attempt a program like INSANITY.

This program lives up to its name. It's thirty to forty minutes of butt-kicking, heart-pounding, sweat-inducing cardio. It's so INSANE, you will need a warm-up for the warm-up. As you are doing this workout, you begin to understand just how INSANE you are.

INSANITY is the only word to describe pushing through this workout versus performing some other type of cardio a bit more comfortable on your respiratory system and your brain. Doesn't it sound INSANE to keep working out when you are at the point of wanting to throw up or to do just one more squat when your legs failed you long ago?

By the end of the workout, you realize you are not crazy at all as you have become the personification of the mantra DIG DEEP.

DIG DEEP simply means find something within yourself that will move you past what you thought you could do. The beauty of INSANITY is that it is not INSANE unless you refuse to DIG DEEP because when you DIG DEEP you find that is where your sanity really lies.

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INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE

The loony bin may have a shortage on straight jackets. We will be insane real soon. Coming this month, the toughest workout every put on DVD, Insanity, created my Shaun T.--our former workout fun guy. Yes, he has gone rouge with a kick ass, nothing to laugh about workout.

As a subscriber of Tony’s One on One, last month I was honored with the sneak preview of Insanity’s Plyometric Cardio Circuit Workout (many others received this preview as well, but I can feel special, if I want). In 45 minutes, Shaun T. has brought a room full of fit people to their knees, with suicide drills, quickened jumping jacks, and football--hut one’s and twos. As I was dying in my living room, I took pleasure in watching those fit bodies plastered across my TV screen, those who were picked to show me how to do it—die as well (maybe I shouldn’t have taken so much pleasure in that).

If you are itching to get insane, don’t worry, you don’t have to wait long. Insanity will be released this month, yes….June.

Insanity will include the following workouts:

1. Dig Deeper/Fit Test

2. Plyometric Cardio Circuit

3. Cardio Power & Resistance

4. Cardio Recovery/Max Recovery

5. Pure Cardio/Cardio Abs

6. Cardio Abs

7. Core Cardio & Balance

8. Max Interval Circuit

9. Max Interval Plyo

10. Max Cardio Conditioning/Cardio Abs

http://www.milliondollarbody.com/store/insanity/index.htm

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'TAGGED' CARDIO

Have you ever heard of Laser Quest? Well, I hadn’t, but over the weekend my heart found a new way to beat rapidly. Laser tag is a fun game—a combination of tag and hide and seek-- where you strap on a pack, take out a laser and ‘tag’ your opponent. In the dark, you run through a maze, hide, strategize and position yourself to come out on top, as every player in the game is your enemy. There’s lot of running up ramps, squatting, quick movements and a little bit of plyometrics —before you know it, your heart rate is elevated, you’re breathing hard and sweating, all in an effort to not be ‘tagged’. Once, the game is suspended, it’s then you realize that amidst the fifteen to twenty minutes of fun, you’ve had an unconscious cardio workout.

Not one to like to make a fool out of myself—especially—in public. My fear factor was way up when approached to play this game. My first round I screamed each time I encountered a laser staring down at me. After a while, I was so into the game my initial apprehensiveness seemed (and actually was) silly. Out of 35 players, I ranked 11th, not bad for a first timer. When it came time for the second round, I’d observed some useful strategy and I positioned myself in a way to tag more than being tagged. This strategy paid off, this time; out of 36 players I ranked #1.

This game taught me so many lessons.

1. Don’t give into your fears.
2. Play with all your heart.
3. Be the best you can be.
4. Keep being active. It all adds up.

I can’t wait to go again. Laser tag will tag your pocket for $8 for a single game or $35 for the whole night.

Happy tagging,

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