Captains log... wait... okay, so here is my long ass update.
To preface this, I'll open by saying I have had a rough few weeks recently in terms of my lifestyle. My wife and I are both starting new jobs, my oldest child started school back, etc., so it has definitely taken a toll on my regimen and diet to some degree. I was in my 2nd week of the 2nd month of Insanity when these recent events all kind of impacted what I had grown accustomed to over the summer. So, over the last few weeks, I have ate more fast food than I would like - usually pizza or fried chicken is the worst of it. But, I've limited myself for the day if I HAD to eat fast food. If I had to go to chickfila or something, I opt for the grilled chicken nuggets, which nutritionally are amazing aside from the sodium. Also have mixed in Subway. And if I have to eat pure crap, like fried chicken, I eat one piece and leave it at that. I'd also say, for the most part, I'm undereating. Some days ill eat just one meal and a snack or two. Thats not by design, I just haven't had much time to preplan or cook lately. Furthermore, I have restarted this same week of insanity for probably a month straight, lol. I'll get in like 2 days and then I have to take a day off or so and feel like I'm way off track and then just start it over the next week, only getting 2 or 3 days of it in each week.
So, that leads me to this... I had to go to the doctor's for a physical for the job I just got on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. I knew going in that they apparently put a monitor on you and make you do a step test. So, I go in, the doc is real cool. They out the monitor on me and I'm a little anxious, but all it was, was stepping up and down on a stool and they wanted your heart rate to stay below a certain number to pass on to the next phase of it. So, I stepped the first 3 minutes and he says,"what do you do to stay in shape?" I told him insanity. He says,"you can tell." So then he tells me that my HR barely moved and if I make it past the next phase, ill reach a level that he's only seen 22 times in 4 years of doing these physicals IIRC. SO, then I get a little nervous. I start the next 3 minutes, this time stepping faster. I get done and ask him if I made it, he said the limit for that phase was a HR of 128 and mine reached 133. I was so pissed at myself.
Why?
Because I had literally done nothing but ab exercises, pushups, and pullups for the last 5 days or so leading up to the appointment. If I had done insanity like I should for thr last week, I'm absolutely certain I would've made it under that rate easily. He tells me the guys who have made that level consisted of former pro athletes and special forces guys. He then tells me if I want, I can stop by the office again down the road and he'll do it again for me to see if I make it. So close...
But, I was still proud of myself because I've been slack but still making sure I do something EVERYDAY. And apparently, the 2 or 3 days I've been doing insanity each week has maintained my level of fitness since I got to that week of the program. And, I guess the undereating has helped in some way as well, although unintended... I'm hovering around 181-184 everyday after starting the year st 195 completely sedentary. So some of that weight is muscle and I still have lost that much fat. And you can tell... I've also been using an ab wheel as I did back in the day when I was really cut up and you can now see each and every ab muscle. Now my goal is to complete the rest of insanity, clean up my diet a little more, and then start the new FocusT25 program, for the immediate future at least. I still have to get a layer of "extra off" before I'm ready to post the pics here though... I'm thinking another 10 lbs and I'm ready and I can see the light! I feel young, attractive, and virile again lol.
