A Cleanse and a New Workout!! I've Entered The Asylum!!

What's new? Well, I did a 3 Day Shakeology cleanse three weeks ago. I lost 7 lbs on the cleanse, but more importantly, I didn't drink coffee or have any sugar for three days, now that is an accomplishment. I am a coffee addict, in fact, in the past, I have gone a few hours in the morning with no coffee and had an awful skull splitting headache. This time, it did not happen and I realized that I can live without coffee, and, I can live without sugar. I have gone back to drinking coffee, but much less than before. I have also gone back to having sugar, but in much smaller quantities. I know, there are artificial sweeteners out there, but I don't like them, and in the long run, I think it is better to just cut back on the natural sugar than to eat some chemicals :)

                                                              

In addition to the cleanse, or Jumpstart, I also completed my 3rd round of P90X!!! I love P90X and I have achieved AWESOME results.  

So I started a new round right after doing my Shakeology Jumpstart. And just as I was finishing up my first week of Round 4, Beachbody made Asylum available for coaches!! I thought about it for a few days because I heard that the original workout from Shaun T was difficult, Insanity!! I never did Insanity before, but I tried some of the moves in a Super Workout that Beachbody released to it's members on their website. From just that small taste of Insanity, I knew it was difficult. In addition, I am a big fan of workouts that target muscle gain & toning, however, i am not such a big fan of cardio. It's funny too, because when I first started P90X, I hated the muscle workouts, now I LOVE them!! So I had to decide if I was going to start a workout that was going to be (from what I'd heard) the most difficult at home workout out there. And then a light bulb went off in my head. That was the point!!! The point was that it was the MOST DIFFICULT!! If I really wanted to see how far I had come and how much further I need to progress, then I had to try THE most difficult workout around. So I ordered it!!

IT'S HERE!!! I ran around work that day screaming!! It's here, It's here!! My boss couldn't imagine what I was running around with. ASYLUM!!! So I open the box and I see the agility ladder, a jump rope and bands and the DVDs. I get home that night and I do the athletic assessment which was difficult, but I was able to stay in the range of reps that the others in the video were doing. Not great, but nor terrible!! So on day 1 it took me about 2 hours to complete the first 45 minute workout!! Shaun T is nothing like Tony Horton in P90X, he moves very fast. So, since I am nuts about doing things right, I kept rewinding and starting over every time I screwed up. I enjoyed the next two days of workouts much more, Strength and Back to Core!!! Then  came the ultimate workout, and when I say ultimate I mean OMG!!! It's called Vertical Plyo, which means JUMPING and in some instances, you are doing jumps with bands attached to your ankles and wrists to give you an even tougher workout!! Check out the pic below, and I was not even completely through the workout yet!! That's my neck BTW!!

So now I know that I can do these workouts and they really are TOUGH!! But, I do like a challenge, so I have 24 more days and after I am done, I will post a few pics, and then I am going to start on a hybrid of P90X and Asylum!! That's right!! Oh but there is a very good reason why I am going to torture myself with the hybrid, I think that if I can do both Asylum and P90X, I can get myself ready for Beachbody's next offering... What is it? STAY TUNED!!!