Who's starting 22nd July?
GuybrushThreepw00d
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After a non-starter last week (dvd's hadn't arrived in time) i'm ready to go INSANE now. 
It'll be my first time on Insanity. My first home DVD exercise program. I'm a little scared. :noway:
Anyone who's starting 22/7/2013 and wants to help kick my *kitten* / support me - please ADD ME.
It'll be my first time on Insanity. My first home DVD exercise program. I'm a little scared. :noway:
Anyone who's starting 22/7/2013 and wants to help kick my *kitten* / support me - please ADD ME.
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A group of us started on 18th July so you'd not be far behind if you fancied joining in. Good luck!0
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I'm starting tomorrow! I did Body Revolution last year and had great results. I've been doing Jillian Michaels videos for the last 2 years so I look forward to changing things up.0
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I may be, my DVDs look like they're going to get delivered tomorrow. If they do, I'll be doing the fit test in the evening after work. I'm really excited to start.
I've got the fridge stocked with healthy food and I'm about to take measurement and do a before picture.
skrakalaka, I did the 30 Day Shred and the 30 Day Extreme shred a while back, but I haven't worked out at all since around January except a 2 week round of Evil Russian (http://evilrussian.blogspot.com/) we did in my office about a month ago. Soooo, this will be a fun week. :laugh:
I haven't been using MFP that much lately, but I think I'm going to track this one in my journal because I really want to finish no matter what.0 -
I will be starting tomorrow also.0
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You probably should be a little scared, it is a tuff program.
I am getting ready to make another go at it.0 -
I started today - just finished the fit test:)
This is my second time round as I didn't get to finish last time due to illness followed by some personal issues:( It isn't any easier second time round!0 -
Hi everyone! I just completed the Fit Test today - Day 1. I would love some new Insanity friends for support. Anyone feel free to add me :] I need all the support I can get, lol.0
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well, did my fitness test today, though on the legs mostly. We'll see how sore I'm feeling tomorrow.0
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Just finished the fit test. I didn't do stellar by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm also not as out of shape as I expected either.
I wish I could have done the fit test earlier, since I'm going straight into the first workout at 4:30 tomorrow morning and it might be hard to get going after that. Can't wait for it though, it feels good to sweat again.
Reminded me how much I suck at plyo though...0 -
Ow! I ache today:( I'd forgotten how much it hurts....
Didn't manage to get up early to work out this morning due to having revoltingly interrupted sleep last night (read, no sleep for more than 10 mins at a time) so will do it this evening instead.0 -
Done with cardio plyo a little bit ago. I'm not really sore today but my muscles feel really tired, especially in my legs. I bet tomorrow or Wednesday I'm going to be really sore though.
MrsAgi, sorry you didn't get any sleep last night.
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Here's my fit test results from day 1. How do they compare?
I lost count on the globe jumps.
Switch kicks 80
Power Jacks 40
Power Knees 72
Power Jumps 35
Globe jumps ??
Suicide Jumps 14
Push-up jacks 14
Low plank oblique 440 -
Here's my fit test results from day 1. How do they compare?
I lost count on the globe jumps.
Nice! Mine are:
Switch kicks 57
Power Jacks 48
Power Knees 65
Power Jumps 33
Globe jumps 4
Suicide Jumps 14
Push-up jacks 8
Low plank oblique 18
I really lost steam at the end, I have been pretty lax with diet and exercise lately and just came off a long vacation that included too much beer, too much food and plenty of laying around around on the beach. So this time my goal was just to get a number on everything with as good form as possible for now.
I'm expecting to see a lot of improvement by the second fit test since I'm pretty out of shape right now. I also think I might start wearing shoes for the workouts, I usually workout barefoot but I'm not sure that's going to work with all the jumping on a hard floor.0 -
Hey awesome results! mine are:
Switch kicks 60
Power Jacks 40
Power Knees 80
Power Jumps 26
Globe jumps 11
Suicide Jumps 10
Push-up jacks 20
Low plank oblique 45
Hoping to improve by second fit test!0 -
Here's my fit test results from day 1. How do they compare?
I lost count on the globe jumps.
Nice! Mine are:
Switch kicks 57
Power Jacks 48
Power Knees 65
Power Jumps 33
Globe jumps 4
Suicide Jumps 14
Push-up jacks 8
Low plank oblique 18
I really lost steam at the end, I have been pretty lax with diet and exercise lately and just came off a long vacation that included too much beer, too much food and plenty of laying around around on the beach. So this time my goal was just to get a number on everything with as good form as possible for now.
I'm expecting to see a lot of improvement by the second fit test since I'm pretty out of shape right now. I also think I might start wearing shoes for the workouts, I usually workout barefoot but I'm not sure that's going to work with all the jumping on a hard floor.
I tried doing the workouts barefoot but i ended up getting shin splints from all the jumps, eek! I wear my running shoes for the workouts and since I don't have a carpeted floor, I also lay out my yoga mat for extra cushion :]. So far no problems at all with my shins this time around!0 -
Well, just finished my second day about an hour ago, it was rough, especially with how sore my legs and calf are. I'm can see why they call it insanity. I'm still excite it about it, having someone show you what and how to do it plus having different workouts makes it fun.
Switch kicks 66
Power Jacks 17
Power Knees 50
Power Jumps 12
Globe jumps 4
Suicide Jumps 4
Push-up jacks 12
Low plank oblique 160 -
Overslept today so I didn't have time to workout until way late, but still managed to sneak in today's workout. Cardio power and resistance is tough.
Tomorrow is cardio recovery, so hopefully I can actually get out of bed on time and get it done early. Unfortunately, getting up on time to do it before work requires me to get up at 4:30 or 5, so I may end up just switching off to doing them at night even though I hate working out before bed.
Hope everyone else is still hanging in there and you all aren't too sore!0 -
Anyone still there?
Pure cardio = :sad:0 -
Pure Cardio is a killer! I thought I was doing well this time round as I had managed to do everything (except level 1 drills) without having to take loads of breaks (last time round it was week 4 before I made it all the way through warm up!!!!!!!) but Pure Cardio has ruined that idea for me. Needed LOADS of extra breaks:(
But on the plus side, after today's work out we will have made it through one whole week! AND we get a day off tomorrow:)
Only 8 weeks more to go:/0 -
Pure Cardio is a killer! I thought I was doing well this time round as I had managed to do everything (except level 1 drills) without having to take loads of breaks (last time round it was week 4 before I made it all the way through warm up!!!!!!!) but Pure Cardio has ruined that idea for me. Needed LOADS of extra breaks:(
But on the plus side, after today's work out we will have made it through one whole week! AND we get a day off tomorrow:)
Only 8 weeks more to go:/
YES! First week down! We made it! My boyfriend has been listening to me go on about Insanity and was sort of intrigued so he just started yesterday too.
If you look at it that way, there's actually only 3 weeks left until the recovery week! :smokin: (Yes I know month 2 is brutal, just let me have that little shred of optimism.)
Pure Cardio was really hard but I think the one I suck at the most is actually the cardio plyometric circuit. It starts out ok until I get to that last set of exercises and then it just quickly falls apart. I am not good at jumping at all, I think I have like a 3 inch vertical or something, lol. So the ones that have a lot of explosive jumping off the floor exercises just kill me. Both times I wanted to throw up by the time the second set was over. And today my dog found a beanie baby somewhere and started tearing it up on the floor right when I was doing it so there were 2934849484933 beads all over the floor while I was in the plank position.
I think cardio plyo was my least favorite workout this week, and even though it's super hard, I liked pure cardio the best this week because even though I died all the way through it, when I got done I was like WOOOOOO I FEEL AMAZING! for hours afterward.0 -
Week 1 DONE - WOOOOOOT!!!
Only 8 more to go:/0 -
Oh I took my measurements today too. In just one week, I've lost:
An inch off my neck
An inch off my chest (bra band)
2 inches off my waist
1.5 inches off my hips
1.5 inches off my thighs
So in total, 7 inches. That is completely crazy.
I initially lost 5.6 lbs but I think I gained a couple back so I'm trying to stay off the scale for a few more days or just suck it up and accept that it's going to go all nuts for the next few weeks.
That far exceeded my expectations though, and I've never had results like this from anything else I've done this quickly. Hopefully that will keep up, I have a lot of weight to lose too.0 -
Oh I took my measurements today too. In just one week, I've lost:
An inch off my neck
An inch off my chest (bra band)
2 inches off my waist
1.5 inches off my hips
1.5 inches off my thighs
So in total, 7 inches. That is completely crazy.
I initially lost 5.6 lbs but I think I gained a couple back so I'm trying to stay off the scale for a few more days or just suck it up and accept that it's going to go all nuts for the next few weeks.
That far exceeded my expectations though, and I've never had results like this from anything else I've done this quickly. Hopefully that will keep up, I have a lot of weight to lose too.
wow! that is an amazing result in just one week!0 -
Ok so my shorts fell off (all the way to the floor) during the warmup for the plyometric cardio circuit! :blushing:
That was rather unexpected...
Meanwhile, the scale won't budge, but I've heard that happens so I'm just looking forward to measuring and doing new progress pictures on Monday and taking another fit test. I feel way stronger and I can't wait to see what the results are.0 -
Ok so my shorts fell off (all the way to the floor) during the warmup for the plyometric cardio circuit! :blushing:
That was rather unexpected...
Did you have an audience? :laugh: :laugh:0 -
LOL, no but I was in the living room and my front door was wide open so I had to scoop them up quite promptly because there were some people outside! :glasses:0
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Oh, I was going to post these in case anyone is getting a little down in the middle of the second week...
Day 1:
Day 10:
I'm not taking my "official" progress pictures until Monday when I do the fit test, and I know the angle is a little different (and oh yes, that's a dryer sheet on the floor in the second one, blame the puppy, lol), but I just wanted to show that even if the scale doesn't seem like it's going anywhere that just 10 days can make a *huge* difference. For reference, I am 5'1, started at 173 and I'm hovering around 168 or 169 this week.
And there's only 50 left!0 -
Week 2 is DONE. Rest day tomorrow.
This was the first day with cardio abs added on. It's short but it's a killer but I think I might switch it up to insane abs instead because I really need to extra core strength.0 -
I just completed Insanity and started a different program but just wanted to congratulate you all and tell you to make sure you get enough sleep! Also, I was very hungry during the first few weeks of the program. Make sure you eat enough.
I did all Insanity workouts without my shoes on, on a nice 1cm thick workout mat, I had shin splints for a few first days, after that they were history!
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Thanks for the encouragement, SleeplessinBerlin! :flowerforyou:I did all Insanity workouts without my shoes on, on a nice 1cm thick workout mat, I had shin splints for a few first days, after that they were history!
Did you go through the whole two months without shoes? I started without shoes and it hurt my feet and knees to jump so much. I was thinking about adding my mat over the rug because wearing shoes when I'm sweating that much grosses me out. Like my feet get all hot and by the cool down I've usually taken them off. I tend to rip them off first chance when I know I'm not jumping anymore. But I'm afraid I'll mess up my knees for good.
Soooo, fit test 2. Anyone still hanging in? I haven't done mine yet but I can't wait to see the improvement. I feel a lot stronger. I'm going to take a new set of progress pictures today too and I measured.
I may not share those until the end, I actually feel fatter this week for some reason, my stomach looks all terrible and like it has cellulite on it and so do my upper arms. I had some modest progress on inches lost but nothing like the first week. So everything stayed the same except I lost 3/4 inch off my bust and a half inch off my waist, hips and thighs. I'm not going to complain about a loss, but WTF is up with my body. My scale weight is all over again, I've been up and down like 6 or 7 lbs over the past 2 weeks.
It's sort of interesting, like watching a science experiment in progress.0
