Insanity: Max 30 Journey Day 44 - Max Out Power

During the course of two months, I'd like to take you into my journey as I strive to retain a healthy lifestyle through a healthy balanced nutrition program and Beachbody trainer extraordinaire -- and Men's Health cover man -- Shaun T's brand new workout regimen Insanity Max 30.

Day 44: Max Out Power

Today was hard. (I feel like this is something that keeps being brought up by me lately, and I'd love to share with you why that is, but, I just don't know.) Perhaps it was the extra-early wake up call to make a 45-minute drive into the airport, followed by the drive back up to go to work; or maybe it is just the intensity of the Max 30 Month 2 workouts kicking my butt.

I can tell you this, to start my Max Out Power workout on Tuesday (which I hit play at 8:30 p.m.), I was focused. I was making a concerted effort to have precise form and do each move to the fullest, and feel the source of the muscle I'm working on. Typically, what happens is I'll go frenetically throughout the entire workout and I don't feel a thing until I'm at Max Out Time.

I was feeling that burning sensation in the warmup and for the first portion of the workout. And I got through those with relative ease. What got me -- er, again -- was the pushup sequence. My arms were on fire and I just couldn't push up another time, as I got a mere 10 seconds into the third move of the sequence. My Max Out Time was 13:10.

That Max Out Time is actually worse than last week's time by 15 seconds, but as I said, I was slowing down a bit to maximize on form, which brought a different burn to my body. So, really, the Max Out Time today was quite an accomplishment, in my opinion.

I carried that stellar form throughout the remainder of the workout, and yeah, I took more breaks with my body feeling like jello, but I continued to dig deeper. I'm not trying to make any excuses. It's tough. It's tough for you, me and everyone. If it were easy, no one would be maxing out. That's why we do this -- to challenge ourselves and push us to new levels. Without that, we'd just be spinning our wheels and going nowhere. I want to move forward to bigger and better things. I know you do too. Let's do this together.

Ultimately, today, I was stopped in my tracks by the darn pushups. And, with one more shot at this workout in this particular journey, I hope to get past that. More motivation as I continue forward in my journey, one day at a time. Next up: Max Out Sweat.

Recap

Workout:               Max Out Power

Max Out Time:     13:10
Weep Time:           23:17

Weekly Weigh-in:   Stay tuned for Day 50 of the journey

Monthly Photo:       Stay tuned for Day 60 of the journey