my day 1 was pretty good

fit test results
switch kicks 150
power jacks 65
power knees 125
power jumps 35
globe jumps 12
suicides 19
push jacks 31
low planks 73

huge caveat! this is NOT my first fitness test, rather a better indication of what you can expect on your LAST fitness test of Insanity. I finished my first round of Insanity mid December and have been repeating stage 2 workouts till the new year.

And you think, by doing this (repeating the second stage workouts) that the first stage workouts would be a breeze right? WRONG! First workout of Insanity after the Fit Test still kicked my *kitten*. I didn't burn as many calories, but i still struggled on the latter stages of the second workout.

and i friggen loved it!

couple tips ive learn from my first round of insanity.
* buy headbands. lots of them. especially if you sweat a lot and workout on polished timber floorboards. there's nothing more distracting, and potentially more dangerous than invisible sweat on your timber floors that will cause you to slip and strain muscles. ive almost injured myself a couple of times because of this. headbands have helped. i still sweat a lot, but it doesnt drip on the floor anywhere near as often.

* guys get sports shorts that are above the knee.

* i have the wrong footwear (running shoes) and have some minimal trainers in the post (new balance 20v3) and i find it helps to do the jumping exercises on a rug. workout mats tend to move around and provide a little too much cushion (pending thickness) but i find the rug a perfect solution.

good luck to anyway starting Insanity. take it from someone who's just finished his first round (and had excellent results), you wont regret it, stay focused, and more importantly, DO NOT use weight lost as a metric. Use sizes dropped, inches / cm lost, and the comments that people will tell you on how good you look. resist weighing yourself everyday. its counter productive and demoralising. in most cases Insanity first timers dont see weight loss till the beginning of the second stage. but by then you wouldve dropped a stack of inches.

to help your cause, stick to a good diet and use the MFP app. it rocks!

D3,
I would love to hear about your results. When I did Insanity a while back I didnt have a lot of weight loss but my body changed - drastically. What did you experience?

D3,
I would love to hear about your results. When I did Insanity a while back I didnt have a lot of weight loss but my body changed - drastically. What did you experience?

lost about over 9kgs.
dropped from a 36 pants size to a 32-33ish
lost quite a lot around my face and neck (looking at the before pics on my iphone are a good wake up call).

ive weighed less before, but my cardio was no where near this good.

so far Im still sweating it out, but finding my HRs are less and less which means Im conditioning well.

I have a goal to lose another 5-7kgs by the end of the second round, so ill try and work harder (most likely impossible) and eat better (entirely possible).

down side is having to buy all new clothes. which for some men (including me) is a huge hassle

Good afternoon everyone, as you know I'm incapacitated at the minute, Kara (kcrow4102) has kindly offered to help with the insanity group, so she will be running it, hope to be fit if you do another one march time, big maybe as might be too soon, we'll see. I will still be popping in to see how everyone is doing though, good luck x

first time doing the fittest today and it kicked my *kitten*. I had to take a break half way through because i was about to puke on my floor.

you know, as hard as insanity is (and it is very bloody well hard) the fitness tests I find the most "painful" and the only workout i dread.

even though they are the shortest, and I burn the least calories, I would much rather struggle for an hour, burn closer to 1k in cals, than to do those damned fitness tests.

puke worthy indeed!

steadily chugging along
day 3 cardio power and resistance done
is it just me or am i somehow several days behind O,O

Did Pure Cardio and thought I was gonna die. I stopped several times during the video. But its done. Also, today I took my before photos. I did this program over a year ago and didnt take the pictures and it was my biggest regret. This time I will not make the same mistake.

Although it was painful to take the pics, to look at them, and to admit that this was my body - I know that once this is said and done I will be happy that I did it.

did pure cardio this morning!

love it!

my most favourite workout. i feel like i could do it twice, i love it that much!