March 2010
7 posts
How RECOVERY is VITAL to your Fitness Progress by...
RECOVERY doesn’t get any respect in Fitness. Its like the last kid picked in School at recess when you are picking Teams for kickball. Its just not thought of until its polar opposite, OVERTRAINING decides to kick down the door to your House and stay for awhile! Talk about unwanted company! This article is going to focus on how your Recovery is essential to attaining yoru Fitness goals and...
THINK BEYOND 90 DAYS...THINK FITNESS FOR A...
Unfortunately, there are people today that have decided that Fitness just “isn’t worth the effort”. Our Fitness will determine our quality of life. That is very important to understand. Our mobility, flexibility, and strength, naturally decline with Age. Fight that with Fitness! Look at Kids today starting around 13 years old and older. Young girls with “muffin tops” wearing tight...
Tami's Healthy Chicken Scampi Recipe
Now this Chicken Scampi Recipe is based on our family and the six of us, so you may need to scale it back to fit your family or have some good leftovers! ;)
6-5oz boneless/skinless chicken breast, par-cook it then drain, chuck it up and place aside.
combine and cook on medium-low:
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
3/4 cup cooking wine
3 tablespoons of fresh garlic(we love it so you may want to...
Northwoods P90X/INSANITY Hybrid by Tami & Mike...
I give FULL credit to my gorgeous wife Tami for the creation of this P90X/Insanity Hybrid workout schedule. AWESOME job Honey!
Week 1 Monday: P90X Chest/back/Insanity cardio abs - Tusday: Insanity plyo cardio circuit Weds: P90X Shoulders/Arms Thrus.: Insanity cardio recovery Friday: P90X Legs/Back/Ab Ripper X Sat.: Insanity Pure Cardio Sun: off Week 2 Monday: P90X Chest/Back/Insanity...
RESOLVE TO EVOLVE V2.0 (Inside a Round of P90X) by...
You have accepted the challenge of 90 days of P90X. COGRATULATIONS! However, you have allot of questions. Here are some advice that can help you go from Day 1 Novice to Day 90 P90X Graduate! You need to a have a specific plan. The P90X Guidebook will be your Fitness Bible for the next 90 days. Settle on a specific Goal. Don’t say “I want to lose weight.” Instead say “I...
Want Upper Body Muscle? ~ Do Pull Ups!
Building a strong, V-shaped back is pretty basic. Do pull-ups. Its simple, just not easy! Pull-ups are hard. That is the exact reason that they are so effective in building the upper body muscle we all crave.
Pull-ups involve more total muscle in your entire upper body than any other back exercise. Pull-ups cause more stimulus to the muscles of your back, and your entire upper body, than any...
RESOLVE TO EVOLVE (Inside a Round of P90X) by Mike...
Clarity, like the fine edge of a newly sharpened blade. You have a plan, a goal, a schedule; you have your nutrition down to a point. Your workouts are intense, you suffer daily. You are making sure to get at least 7 hours of sleep every night to ensure adequate recovery from your brutal regimen. You are even doing your own version of “Doubles” whether its 20 minutes of HIIT,...
February 2010
20 posts
My Favorite Insanity Workout: Cardio Power &...
Today Tami and I had Insanity Cardio Power & Resistance. This workout is a BEAST and my favorite Insanity workout. Why is it my favorite? It starts in the warm up. From Power Jacks to High Knees, the warm up is rough enough on its own. During the 3rd phase of the warm up my heart rate climbs into the 160’s! Now that is a warm up! If you haven’t figured by now that this workout...
NUTRITIONAL TRANSITIONS
Effective Nutrition is a Lifelong process of adding in new foods & figuring our what works for each of us in regards to total calories, grams of protein, carbohydrates, and healthy fats. I have taken many different nutritional approaches over the years. 2 days after Christmas in 2009, Tami and I eliminated refined carbohydrates from our nutrition plan. We had a specific goal in mind:...
How Nutritional Supplements Fit Into Your...
We all strive to eat as best we can each day. We focus on total calories, grams of protein, grams of carbs, grams of healthy fats. 5 meals per day. Despite our best efforts nobody can have a perfect day of nutrition. We will be missing some nutrients no matter the wide variety of foods that we eat. This is where a comprehensive Supplement Plan becomes a great Ally in our fight to maximize our...
SERIOUSLY....HOW RIPPED DO YOU REALLY NEED TO BE?...
Ok, we all want low body fat. Low body fat is healthy. Our bodies naturally want to be lean and muscular. Body fat holds toxins and the poisons of the body. It is unhealthy. It doesn’t feel good or look good on our bodies. We eat as clean as we possibly can. Focusing on healthy, nutritious foods that help us reduce our body fat level. We strength train, and do intense cardio workouts. All...
THINK THE INSANITY MONTH 1 WORKOUTS ARE A STEP...
When Tami and I graduated from our 1st Round of INSANITY we were looking forward to starting the Month 1 workouts again. We assumed a couple of things: 1.) The Month 1 workouts are shorter and therefore easier than the brutal Month 2 workouts we have been doing for the past 30 days. 2.) Our vastly incresed physical conditioning from doing 30 days of the Month 2 workouts will allow us to...
Find Your Inner Workout "ANIMAL"!
Inside all of us there lurks an inner “Animal”. This “Animal” is a very primal creature. It has no fear. It never hesitates. It never backs down or takes the easy way out. When we workout we need to search for our own individual inner “Animal”. This is your quickest route to achieving your Fitness goals. You have already seen a glimpse of your own inner “Animal” and you probably don’t even...
TAKE YOUR FITNESS PERSONALLY!
There is a mindset that moves you closer to your Fitness goals. Its a positive, aggressive mindset and we need to try and cultivate this mindset every day in regards to making progress towards our Fitness goals. NEVER use the word CAN’T. If you think you will never achieve six pack abs or do 10 pull-ups, guess what? You never will! Focus and visualize your goals until you SEE them...
STOKE YOUR METABOLIC FORGE
Tami and I are get questions every day about why you need to eat so much food when doing a fitness program like Insanity and P90X. Here is our reasoning with a bit of a visual to amplify our point!
When you are working hard to create a lean, strong body you need to think of your body’s metabolism as a Blacksmith’s Forge. A Blacksmith uses a forge to heat metal and form whatever he/she...
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING...
I’m talking about a life changing, didn’t think you could accomplish it, goal.
Something out of your reach right now. Something you REALLY want.
Be it, reaching a body weight goal, reaching a certain body fat percentage, running a marathon, or completing a triathlon.
Achieving a goal that others doubt you can reach.
“Why did I achieve this goal? Because you said I...
GET "COMFORTABLE" WITH BEING "UNCOMFORTABLE"...
I strive to achieve a higher level of performance, strength, conditioning and fitness with nearly every workout I do. I try to push to 100% every workout. I take it as a personal challenge to work harder each workout.
Using the Fitness gift that is INSANITY, you get uncomfortable before you are ready for it, and then you are forced to deal with that feeling until the workout is over. That is...
IN REGARDS TO YOUR FITNESS - BE SELFISH!!
We all have complex lives where we have obligations. We have obligations to our Families, work, friends, ect. We give of ourselves everyday. Well, you know what? There is one thing where you can be the most selfish person on the planet…your Fitness. Why? Because the only person you have to answer to in your Fitness is YOU. BE the most selfish person in the world. When its time to...
WHEN YOUR FITNESS CHECK COMES DUE, PAY THE BILL!
Alright, you might be thinking “Mike has gone off the deep end with the Title of this note!” Maybe I have…LOL! :-) My Father said this to me a long time ago “Mike, make sure that when the check comes due, you can pay the Bill.” I wasn’t sure what he meant. I didn’t have much money at the time, I was a teenager, so I asked him what he meant. ;-) He...
Developing the "INSANITY" Mindset and applying it...
There is a mindset that Tami & I fight to cultivate every day. It is a mindset of being unconquerable. Of uncommon strength, will, focus, determination, and fearlessness. This mindset is taught to you while you are navigating your way through a 60 day Round of Insanity. Insanity, as you all know by now if you are paying attention at all ;-), is a favorite of Tami’s & myself. We...
HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR USE OF THE INSANITY ELITE...
You have decided to take your Fitness to the next level with Insanity, Shaun T’s 60 day total body thrash! You want your muscular endurance to go through the roof. You want other worldly cardiovascular conditioning. Bodyfat doesn’t stand a chance, and it knows it! Body Fat is AFRAID of Insanity!
Proper Nutrition is VITAL to maximizing your success when you are navigating your way...
WHAT IF...
What if…tomorrow you decide to make your daily nutrition as important as your workout?
What if…tonight you decided to go to bed tonight 15 minutes early and get up 15 minutes early tomorrow?
What if…you decided that your personal development was worth reading 10 pages of a good book before bed instead of mindlessly channel surfing?
What if…you stopped making excuses...
WALK THE FITNESS WALK...DON'T JUST TALK THE...
We all see it all the time. Someone has found the next “Big Thing” when it comes to Fitness. The newest or “most proven” way to eat to get lean. The very best way to workout to get muscular strength, cardiovascular conditioning, and very rarely flexibility.
They are convinced beyond a doubt that they have struck “Fitness gold” based on some proven“scientific fact” that if they follow a certain...
"DISCOVER YOUR ABS. THEY ARE HIDDEN IN YOUR...
Your commitment to proper and effective nutrition is far more important than your workout program. You could do the hardest, most intense workout program on the planet (Insanity) and if your nutrition is not where is should be, you are wasting your time. You just won’t see the physical changes you are looking for. You have to eat clean to see spectacular Fitness results. Make a deal with...
OUR LAWS OF SIMPLE & EFFECTIVE NUTRITION
**THIS IS WHAT WE DO NUTRITIONALLY. WE ARE NOT SAYING THAT EVERYONE SHOULD DO WHAT WE DO. YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!**
We have been getting ALLOT of e-mails and questions regarding Tami’s and my daily nutritional strategies. Tami has her own guidelines which are slightly different from mine. I am simply sharing what works for ME with simple guidelines that others could follow if...
WALK YOUR NUTRITIONAL TIGHTROPE
Since Tami and I started posting our daily nutrition in 2007 we have gotten a tremendous amount of questions about the foods that we consume, our caloric totals, and grams of protein/carbs/fats.
A good friend of mine asked me in a Facebook Message last night, “Mike, I notice from your daily nutrition that you post that you are taking in 2000 to 2100 calories. The P90X Nutrition Guide is...
FOCUS....and achieving your Fitness Goals
Focus is an amazing tool in our quest for our own superior Fitness. How is your focus? Can you block out everything when you workout and push as hard as you can or do you answer the phone and sometimes let your mind wander about whatever might be going on in your life at the time? The ability to focus on the task at hand is MONUMENTAL in your ability to achieve your Fitness goals. Shut off your...