Day 2 - Bets have been placed.

Today is the the first day of Insanity. My friend Ken and I have both started the Fit Test about eighty times and never get further than that. Yesterday we came up with a plan. 60 days with Sean T and Insanity. Both of us are putting $50 in and we can miss four days, but have to do two a day to catch back up. Technically, I guess it is 59 days since we are starting with day 2. Surprisingly, after having done the Fit Test several times every two or three weeks the numbers don't improve.

Today was the Plyometric Cardio Circuit. I am marking today as done even though it was less than spectacular. I think I threw out more curse words than moves for a large part of the 41 minutes. Also fyi, Sean T., it is less than encouraging for me when people who have been through this already, still cannot do the workout with you and are collapsing before the video is over.

The first circuit (warm-up) is actually fun but for some reason I cannot coordinate and keep up with the crew during the 1 2 3 -1 2 3. A little spastic to say the least. Even the stretching is so far out of my league. Flexible - that has never been a term to describe me, ever. Even as a child I was not flexible. I was in dance for most of my childhood and yet could never ever do the splits nor a high kick without a bend in the leg. Thankfully, I have a yoga block and it saved my life today. Just for future reference, I am not good at anything regarding fitness. Perhaps with the exception of planning. I am great at planning it out, not so great at getting started. At any rate, the yoga block made the moves much easier for me to attempt, yes, I said attempt. It is so sad that even the stretch had me panting and my muscles screaming at me. I guess you can only go up from here. I hope anyway.




So with every round you go a little faster in each circuit. This seems to defy reason as my body had already moved as fast as possible. With the start of the second and third circuit, I became slower and frankly, looked like I was moving in slow motion. I honestly do not think what I was doing could actually be considered working out much of the time.

Level 1 drills...are you serious? In fact, are you serious with this whole circuit? By the third, I did ONE of each and I should say I barely did one of each. When you can't physically will your body to do something I feel like it is probably time to call it a day. But I busted through the cool down and was thoroughly soaked by the end of the workout. I had high hopes to walk on the treadmill tonight to keep my muscles loose. But I think at this point I think just walking to the bathroom is victory enough for me.

I forgot to wear my monitor to keep my heart rate in the right zone, but quite frankly, I am not in prime physical shape. It was not really hard to determine that when my heart felt like it was going to bust out of my chest, that I should take it down a notch. And if at any point I could have had a conversation, I guess I would know that I could work a little harder. As it was, that was not a problem. So I am weighed and measured and no you don't get to see either but I will post the good or bad results as the weeks go by.