Feeling Brave: Insanity Max 30

Hello!  Welcome to my blog!  Today I am here to share some details on Beachbody's NEWEST program!!  Insanity Max 30 will be released on Tuesday, December 2nd!  The infamous Shaun T is the trainer behind this program.  He is the creator of Insanity and T25.  This will be my first workout with him!  I began my own health transformation with ChaLEAN Extreme, then moved on to the 21 Day Fix and PiYo.  For the past two months I have been truly enjoying a hybrid schedule that involves ChaLEAN Extreme and PiYo.  

TIME to change things up around here!!!  I will be the first to say that it was in a moment of courage that I decided I would absolutely go ahead and commit myself to DOING Max 30 myself.  It is waaaayyyyy out of my comfort zone to be doing this much extreme cardio.  But I know that I need it!  I have plateaued with my own progress and it is time to pick up the pace in that area.  I do not have any physical limitations and it is time to dig deep and see what I am capable of in this area!  So here we go!!!

Oh this is bound to be helpful!  An option to see the modifier all of the time.  Nice!!!  Although I do not have any old injuries or troubles that are reason to not push myself in my workouts, I do have very FLAT feet.  Extremely flat.  They can not take endless jumping.  So there may be times that I follow the modifier who does everything low impact.  I will be using my fantastic Beachbody Jump Mat along with a pair of supportive sneakers.

 

Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with our lead coach Melanie Mitro who is currently in the Max 30 test group with Shaun T!!  They are currently two weeks into this and she said that the results that she is seeing posted even after just two weeks are pretty incredible!!   Melanie shared that this workout is really hard but awesome.  Plenty of it is physical (of course!!) but it is also mental as well!  I have heard that our body will only go where our mind will allow it.  So I am honestly gearing myself up now to begin this program in a couple of weeks!  The workout are each 30 minutes in length and the idea is not to just "get through" the workout but to push yourself to where you "max out" and have to take a break and then come back to it a few seconds  later!  Check out the Max 30 official preview via this YouTube video.

The one that I HAVE BEEN WAITING for!!

Guess what?  It is almost time for me to start a new workout program!  PiYo!!  And this is literally one that I cannot wait to purchase!  This is a program that uses your own body to strengthen, sculpt, and increase flexibility. I LOVE the idea of low impact and no extra equipment needed!  Plus, what could possibly be bad about mixing Yoga and Pilates?!

 
This program isn't available yet, but will be on June 23rd. Initially PiYo will only be available through a coach (like me!).  Please contact me for information on how to get this program before it is made available to the general public, as it will sell out FAST!!!

Here are some of the things that have intrigued me as I contemplate my own beginning with this new program...

The trainer for this program is Chalene Johnson.  I love Chalene.  I really, really do!  She is the one who created Chalean Extreme which is the program that got everything started for me.  Chalene has a fun sense of humor but is also no-nonsense with her approach to fitness. Through her instruction I found this reassurance that if I would follow what she was telling me to do with my body position, I would get results.  It just works!

Here are some details on the program that are available to me through my coaching office page:

"Carve an intensely defined physique-without jumps, without weights, and without joint strain. Using body weight, PiYos uses low-impact, high-intensity movements inspired by Pilates and yoga. The result? Long, lean, muscles, a high, firm booty, and tight, flat, sexy abs. PiYo will work every single muscle to stabilize, stretch, and strengthen every inch of a body."

Workout Length 25-46 minutes

Workouts Included in PiYo:

Align (46 mins): The Fundamentals 

Upper Body (20 mins): this focused workout will strengthen and stretch your entire body, while building on the movement patterns you have learned in Align.

Define: Lower Body (25 mins) will shape and tone everything from your glutes, hamstrings, quads and calves gently, yet effectively to help you get sleek and lean legs.

Sweat (35 mins) is a traditional PiYo Workout that is fast paced with body weight strength training and ab work!

Core (30 mins) an ab-centric workout that targets every angle of the abdominals and back. I’ve read this will be a calorie-torcher too!

Drench (45 mins) is a total body workout to get you sweaty, burning calories, and going to have your metabolism on fire!

Strength Intervals (25 mins) designed to tone the whole body and burn tons of calories with no weights required!

Sculpt (30 mins) no weights are required for this intense, full-body workout either!

Check out this PiYo Preview Clip.

At the end of this month I will be launching a challenge group that will run for 60 days.  This is the length of the PiYo program.  We will begin with preseason on June 30th and our actual "Day One" will take place on Monday, July 7th.  Would you like to join me?