Insanity.

Alternate titles for this post…Sweat-Fest 2011, I Didn’t Know My Heart Could Beat That Hard Without Leaving the Basement, Oh Crap, What Did I Buy??

So Insanity came today.  I was really excited when I logged into Amazon today to see that my DVDs had arrived at 11:40am!!  The sister and I decided to jump right in and give the first disk a shot.  We skipped over the Fit Test because the instructions for that seemed a bit confusing and it was easier to just watch a DVD, or so we thought  The first DVD we tried was the Plyometric Cardio Circuit.  All I can say is OH MY!  I got a pit of humble pie served to me tonight…

I imagined this DVD would be hard but I figured I would at least be able to complete the various moves appropriately but um… not so much!  There were one or two moves that I had to just shuffle through because it was such a thorough butt kicking!  I got these DVDs to help get in better shape for an upcoming vacation and try to get rid of my half marathon “train gains” (FYI, if you are susceptible to gaining a few lbs during training, it’s not the best idea to load your summer full of races… oops) and all I can say is if these DVDs don’t get me in shape, I am pretty sure nothing will.  I had soooo much sweat dripping from my forehead it was flying all over the basement.  Sorry if that was gross but it’s all too true.  And I am the girl who does not really sweat “that much” during hot flow yoga…

The full Insanity plan calls for 6 days of work and one day of rest.  I still want to keep up with a bit of running (one tempo, one long run) every week so I am planning to modify the plan a bit to incorporate 4 days of Insanity and 2 days of running and one day of rest.  I know that’s not technically what will give the best results but hopefully it will at least help a little bit!  Sister and I took “before” measurements and pictures so we shall see what our “after” photos end up looking like… provided you can tell the difference

I am very excited to get started with this program and DVD 2 is on tap for tomorrow night!!  Hopefully I can manage to survive that… and hopefully I can manage to stay awake for the end of Castle, one of my favorite TV shows… massive fails so far this season.  Can you say Old Lady??