The Insane Beachbody Coach

2 Response to "Day 20: Insanity Workout Plyo Cardio Circuit"

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   Unknown says:

   June 6, 2010 at 9:05 AM

   Two things:
   1) After visiting your youtube site and hearing what you said earlier, it sounds like you may have experienced what is commonly known as disassociation. I am not a doctor (at least in the clinical sense) but it sounds very much that your experiences parallel to PTSD or AAD NOS. The reason I am familiar with this is because I have experienced episodes which are somewhat related, but more in a professional capacity. I could be wrong. In either case, I wish you well in your treatment/therapy.
   2) Upper body strength. My training partner, she experiences the same woes. Its funny because just the other night, we were in the gym and she leg pressed six 45 pound plates on each side, but she could not do that many upper body exercises. She wants to develop her lower body; as you can tell, she is extremely strong below. What I would recommend to increase your upper body strength is a combination of TRX or some type of suspension body training, in addition to your insanity workouts. Also, try some dumb bells, start small and work on overhead presses. Better yet, there are weighted rods that are about four feet long. If you can purchase one, I would suggest you start with that and again initiate standing over head presses. I would start with a 20 pound bar. Eventually you could move up to the dumb bell presses working the shoulders and back. Also start bicep curls and tricept kickbacks.
   
   Last, I would also include the backwards push up. Doing these types of exercises should start to wake up the muscles in your arms. Eventually, I would start to include full body exercises that should really give you more bang for your buck. These would include dead lifting and leg squats. They will work the obvious leg muscles, quads, hams and glutes. The latent body parts worked include the abs, the lower back, the shoulders and even the chest. If you have a fear of gaining muscle, I wouldn't sweat it. The reason is when individuals do make significant muscle mass gains, its a combination of an anabolic diet consisting of high proteins. Muscle actually, as you know increases the metabolism, and from there if you have active muscle mass, you will burn fat in your sleep. Good luck.
   
   Last, hopefully, if you take some time to read some of my posts, they should be able to help you cope even more with some of the topics you discussed at SDM, however, be warned, my posts do come from a male perspective and read almost at times like a novel as opposed to a blog.
   Stay well,
   Russell

   
   

   Tineshia Toole says:

   June 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM

   Thank you for the information. I am going to add weight training to my routine. I think my next workout program will be something that has weights in it. My friend is a personal trainer so he has been giving me advice on what I should do as well...I appreciate you for taking the time to type all of this. You are not only helping me but others who come to this blog.
   
   Tee