I noticed an old friend from high school posting on the Facebook about he and his wife starting the insanity workouts… One night, shortly after I had read that I was downstairs trying to start a website design for a photographer and not getting anywhere… So I figured it was time to start the fun myself. I busted out the videos again. This time I don’t have the fitness center to run off to to get out of the house (we closed the doors to that endeavor over a year ago), but I’m not letting that stop me. And here I am now, finished my second fit test and not overly impressed with myself – but I am seeing progress. I’m down 6 lbs, sans 3.5% body fat and I improved on all of the exercises. Now i will admit i wasn’t in tip top shape by any stretch of the imagination… but to quote a generally overused expression, “it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish” I had to look back at my first insanity go-round a while ago to see how I compare and I’m actually not too far off. That surprised me a bit.
I don’t plan on posting every day as I had done last time. I think I was starting to run out of ways to say “sure was hard to get out of bed, it was a tough workout, I feel good about getting it done though” so I’ll spare the audience that tirade of synonymic sentences. I do think I’ll write up the results though. So without further ado:
My Results:
Exercise | day 1 | day 15 | day 36 | day 50 | day 66 | +/- |
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Switch Kicks | 108 | 109 | ? | ? | ? | +1 |
Power Jacks | 41 | 46 | ? | ? | ? | +5 |
Power Knees | 69 | 87 | ? | ? | ? | +18 |
Power Jumps | 28 | 36 | ? | ? | ? | +18 |
Globe Jumps | 8 | 10 1/2 | ? | ? | ? | +2 1/2 |
Suicide Jumps (burpees) | 12 | 17 | ? | ? | ? | +5 |
Push-Up Jacks | 18 | 31 | ? | ? | ? | +13 |
Low Plank Oblique | 39 | 48 | ? | ? | ? | +9 |
In comparing the two, I’m not completely too far away from where I left off which surprised me. I still need work on my diet – there’s no doubt in that. but if I continue to see the results and increases/decreases where appropriate – all the sweat and pain shan’t be in vain.