So I did my final fit test on April 8th and started my vacation about an hour later. Just doing some cardio the last week to keep active. I think I'm going to start Asylum in the next week or two, my friend is just finishing up and offered to loan it to me.

I didn't lose any weight but I did lose a total of 4 inches, most of it off my lower abs and waist so wooohoo!!!
I also really noticed a difference with my fit test. Heres the numbers ( original/final)
Switch kicks 46/116
Power jacks 35/49
Power knees 57/98
Power jumps 21/41 :noway:
Globe jumps 7/10
Suicides 13/19
Pushup Jacks 18/26
Low oblique 20/31

All in all I have to say I loved Insanity. Yes it was hard but II feel so accomplished.:laugh: I've already marked it on my calendar, starting again September 2nd ( loaned it to some people , doing Asylum(?) and swimming and running outside this summer)

Awesome results!

Im starting my Core Balance/Recovery week Tomorrow! Im so happy to have made it thru month 1. Im a little intimidated by month 2 but oh well! Id love to make friends with anyone doing insanity now for support :happy:

Asylum Vol 2 X-trainer:

Actually had fun during this work out. Didn't realize how boring p90x is lol. you just did everything, weights, jump rope, push ups, agility drills. suprised he didn't have us on the pull up bar but i think thats tomorrow.

'this is the moving pushup matrix... whatever plank position you find yourself in is what you hold for 5 seconds, there are SIXTY of them'
i've reached failure doing pushups before (of course), but i've never gotten to the point where my elbows just gave out because they simply could not support me any more, until last night lol.

there were a few sequences that i had to back up over and over again because the moves were to complex for me to pick up right away... and they were part of the warm! i thought i was in the main workout and then he starts streching lol.

I am glad i took the two weeks prior to do the pratice dvd a few times, because there is no instructions for the moves on the practice disc when they come up in the workout, becasue your supposed to know them already. two of them were in the first workout. also, one of the jump rope tricks he does in the warm up was one i just happend to pick up in the two weeks right before asylum, so i felt as tho the two weeks was really time well spent!

Did Cardio recovery today. Still kicked my butt. Not looking forward to pure cardio tomorrow lol.

No AC anywhere in the house. Believe it or not, i don't like to work out in AC, but i don't have to deal with Texas temperatures lol. I have two big fans down there, but i hardly ever turn them on.

Asylum Vol 2 - Upper Body Elite: This was an awfully demanding workout. always identified myself as sort of a 'weight lifter', but for some reason the 'strength' ones in the asylum series are the ones that really knock me out. no pull up bar suprisingly. A ton of wide push ups and a variation of the 'single arm push up'. you really use two arms but he has you put on arm so far out in front of you or to the side of you that it has very little leverage and can only offer assistance. and of course there was a lot of toe tapping agility stuff too.
This program is quite a departure from Insanity.

i'd say gaining muscle would be almost entirely contingent on how many calories you are eating.

if you eat the propper amount of calories you should be able to add muscle. Even the insanity guide discusses how to eat to gain muscle (didn't think it did but i just looked at it yesterday).

So could you gain mass doing it? most definetly, but there are a lot more effective ways of doing that and they are probably a lot less demanding.

Pure Cardio was ok. Again doing better than I expected. I have followed P90X with Insanity before and always thought the p90x cardio didn't prepare me very well for insanity. This time around is much different. I have changed the way I look at food and eat and I recover quickly during the rest breaks. So defiantly a change from last time I did all this.

I wasn't impressed with my pic results from p90x. Feel like I look exactly the same in day one pics vs day 90, so we shall see if insanity changes that.

last night was power legs. didn'thave much energy because of Shawn T's concetration camp like diet lol, but that didn't matter to much once i got started.

where i was watching the clock like a hawk during the upper body dvd, this one was a lot more fun... at times lol.

some dumbell but not much, mostly jumps. at one point i found myself making a lot of noise, which is unusual for me. then i paused for a second and i realized that everyone in the video was loud as hell too lol, then Shawn says something like 'if they don't know your working out two houses down from you, your not doing it right' lol

Arrrghhh two more weeks and I can't get into it! Motivate me, please!

So my freind sent over the discs for Asylum last night. I think I will start on Monday, have to get an agility ladder so that's on the to do list this weekend ( if everything goes well and I get to town). If so Asylum here I come!!

by my calc, Shawn wants me to eat 1800 cals.

that seems hella low and completely crazy to me.

but i stepped into the asylum so... when in rome.

power Man way to go!!

I completed p90x last summer and loved the results. I started insanity today. The fit test made me sore, so I know it's going to be a rough 2 months. Would love some insanity buddies! Please add me if you're currently doing insanity.