Warning: Insanity is not for people with health problems.... Day 1 - Fit Test

Incase you ever want to try the Insanity Workout, take heed of my warning. I would consider i'm in pretty decent health, no major problems of the sort. I started Day 1 of Insanity with the Fit Test. It's supposed to do a lot of cardio/strength related workouts to show your progress through-out Insanity every other Monday. I would say I did pretty well considering I've never worked out intensely pretty much my entire life. I wasn't at par with what they were doing on the video itself, but i assumed I wouldn't be, they've all done this before. For the first week, here are my results:

Switch Kicks : 41
-------------------- Yeah this wasn't so bad, I can do this....
Power Jacks : 32
-------------------- Im starting to feel pain here....
Power Knees: 50
-------------------- Here's where i started to feel like I was about to die.
Power Jumps: 20
-------------------- Jumps suck
Globe Jumps: 7
-------------------- Okay so Globe jumps are actually 4 jumps in one sooo if that makes it sound anybetter
Suicide Jumps: 8
-------------------- Push up position, "jump" your feet up to your hands, then jump up in the air, rinse repeat
Push-up Jacks: 15
-------------------- At this point it was even hard to write down my results
Low Plank Oblique: 20
-------------------- Finally... it's over... "And now it's time to do our cooldown exercises..." .....crap.

So overall, i'd say pretty decent. Not gonna lie, I felt like quiting by the end of the 3rd exercise. Each additional exponentially increased my want to quit, but I didn't. I'm pretty proud that even though it's the first day. I did it, didn't give up and literally gave it my all. I felt like I was going to pass out at points, felt like getting sick almost, yet I didn't. This is tough, real tough, it's only going to get more difficult, but I'm up for the challenge. If you think you can do it, see if you can beat my results, but again take my warning to heart. This is not easy at all.

Here's my daily food intake (crappy for day 1, but it's better than usual)
- Breakfast: Meal replacement shake - 2 peices of wheat toast - little bit of butter - overall pretty healthy
- After Breakfast Snack - 2 strawberrys and some grapes
- Lunch 2 slices of medium sized pizza -- Honestly just trying to eat it cause i didn't want to waste it.
- After lunch snack - Banana
- Dinner - Turkey /Provolone sandwich with mustard (spicy good mustard nom nom)

Oh and also what seems to be excessive amounts of water all day.

Well, i'm exhausted now and probably smell like a dairy farm, so I guess i'm done here. Time to go study for a Java & History test I have Tuesday and Wednesday. If your keeping track, i'll post late tomorrow (school till 10:00pm)

- Alex

First blog post - Tomorrow... Insanity begins.

So i'm gonna start off with... I don't write very much, I usually hate writing because it's usually a topic I don't want to talk about from English class. Even still, it really takes a strong topic that i'm very interested in. Anywho... i decided to start this blog in order to try and force myself to keep to the Insanity workout. I don't have anyone else that would do it with me to try and help me stay motivated in that kinda sort, so this is the next best option for me. I'll try to start off each of the posts with possibly what I ate and what workout I did, how it was, and how horribly sore i will feel lol. I'll probably mix this all with a sum up of what I did that day and such as well. BTW, if you don't already notice, I could care less about grammar, so take it for what it is :). Tomorrow I start the challenge wish me luck and time to get to it! Oh i'll think about taking before and after pictures but i'd probably rather not. Maybe if I look like crazy good by the end of this I will to show how much of a change it was. Regarding my "diet" with insanity I'm going to try and stick the the recommended calorie intake for low weight loss and lots of muscle gain (going for fit and tone, not gigantic muscle man) which is about 2000-2300 calories a day for me. To maintain my weight (195lbs, 6'2) Its about 2800 calories. So a 500-800 calorie deficit should suffice. I'm not going to eat everything like Insanity says for example the Recovery formula and such because I honestly don't want to have to spend much extra money. What I am doing is mixing in a lot more veggies, and going to eat out much much less. I will try to drink less on the weekends and eat all around better. I recently lost 15lbs in about 3 weeks and maintained that for about another 3 weeks (im on the 7th week now and still pretty close to the same weight). I know i can eat right, its just a matter of will power to do so. Here's my idea for my diet....

Breakfast - Meal replacement shakes - Very good for vitamins and low calorie - will range between 200-350 calories
Mid-Morning snack - Probably something along the lines of fruits/nuts
Lunch - Will consist either salads or whole grain wheat sandwiches, no more fried crap
Mid-Day snack - Probably something along the lines of fruits/nuts like the morning snack
Dinner - Who knows, i'll figure that out when it comes time


Eating like this should assist in the whole process, now what i need to make sure is that since i'm doing such a difficult, calorie intensive workout i need to make sure i'm taking in enough calories so my body can repair my muscles with ease. 


Last thing i need to worry about is mixing this in with a full-time school, full-time job... I don't want to be exhausted going into work every morning or struggle with school, both of those are first of course, however I think i can do it. It's going to be tough, but it will just be another thing to add to my list of accomplishments. 


Wish me luck, Insanity starts tomorrow.