week3/4- Insanity

As I sit behind my PC eating my breakfast (whole wheat slices, boiled egg and hot dog sausages) I can’t help but think that Shaun T is indeed Insane. For months I’ve been hearing people swear by the Insanity work out tapes and how challenging they are. I figured if I could go an hour and a half in the gym and hike for 3 hours on any given day, what’s a flimsy 35 minute workout tape. Little did I know that you had to be insane to try it out in the first place! So last Sunday while brooding over the fact that the gym wasn’t open and I was in need of a good sweat I popped in the DVD and decided to do the abs circuit. It started out gingerly enough until I realized I began missing a few seconds of my life. The positions and intensity were grueling to say the least.

After the “warm up” my shirt was drenched. I had to grab a towel to prevent me from drowning in my own sweat. By the time I was finished you would have sworn there was a water main leak in my living room. I was not only impressed but out of breath and minutes away from calling my mother and crying. I know they say “no pain no gain” but what ever happened to “slow and steady”. Fortunately for me I have friends in the struggle who share my pain (Meka, Khels, Michelle, and Dwight) and are equally as insane as I am. The road to a better body and optimum fitness is not an easy one but hey I got the rest of my life to get there and I will take it one day at a time, hopefully with my sanity intact.

My 30 day no cake challenge caught a snag in my 3 week but insanity and the gym are sure to sweat out any alcohol/pastry that is left in my system after last Sunday.

Summer has another month and a half to go and we all want to hit the beach looking fly as kite so get out there and get active. Go for a jog/walk, go swimming, running join a gym and if your really brave go out and get the insanity work out DVD and commit yourself to the fitness asylum.

P.S. I hear P90x is Insanity’s big brother…… (walks away slowly)….