After yesterday’s “Back to Core”, I really didn’t think The Asylum could get any better … but it did.
Today’s “Vertical Plyo” routine was the hardest workout I have ever done. It was intense, difficult, unrelenting, impossible — you know … everything I love in a workout.
Yeah, I made it all the way through Insanity, but this workout still rocked me. Hard. Good thing it only goes 40 minutes, including warmup and cooldown. I don’t know how much more I could have done. And that was even with taking some breaks to run the DVD back to try to figure out some of the moves.
The equipment used was both bands and the agility ladder, all of which came with the program. The also-included jump rope was used, too, but I don’t have space for that, so I just simulate.
If you’ve done the Plyo routine in P90X or the Plyo Legs routine in Tony Horton’s One-On-One series (that one is the very first DVD in that series), then you have a good idea how tough a plyo workout can be.
I am extremely familiar with both those workouts, but I was not prepared for this one.
Not only is there a lot of jumping, but the jumping is intensified with the bands.
Sometimes there is a band around your hands as you work your back and shoulders while working the legs.
Sometimes the band is around your ankles to work even more leg muscles than you otherwise would.
And sometimes there is a band around your ankles and around your hands. And I might mention that this is while you are doing plyo pushup jacks and then while doing X jumps.
Yeah.
Tomorrow is a rest day (I think it’s the only rest day for the entire 30 days, although there are days when “Relief” is the workout, and I assume that is some kind of low-level stretching routine). I’m going to need that rest. Will probably just do a little yoga, or maybe I will check out “Relief”.
Wow. The Asylum. Shaun T is really bringing it with this program.