I started Insanity on Sunday, so Day Four was today.
Wow.
If you’ve been following my posts, you may remember that I had planned to start the program earlier this year, but I was concerned about my arthritic left knee. Well, I finally got to the point where my knee was feeling pretty good, and I figured that if it got feeling good once, it can get feeling good again, if Insanity messes it up.
So, onward I pressed into Insanity.
The first day was the Fit Test. The program is set up so that the Fit Test is incorporated into it every two weeks. That is, instead of a workout, you do the Fit Test. This is so you can track improvement.
Don’t think that just because you are doing the Fit Test you are not getting a workout. You are. It’s tough. I have to admit, I did better than I thought I would on some, worse than I thought on others.
Switch Kicks : 55 (2 kicks = 1 rep)
Power Jacks : 38
Power Knees : 78
Power Jumps : 23
Globe Jumps : 7 (4 jumps = 1 rep)
Suicide Jumps : 14
Pushup Jacks: 28
Low Plank Obliques: 36
These numbers don’t mean much outside the context of Insanity but feel free to compare mine with yours if/when you start the program.
Days 2 and 3 are pretty heavy cardio days, and day 4 — today — was a cardio rest day, so we focused on strengthening and stretching. And, yes, it was still challenging.
So far, so good, with my knee. It feels great, actually.
The workouts to this point are no longer than 45 minutes, which is nice for people with little time. The program lasts only 60 days (as opposed to 90 days for Tony Horton’s P90X, so that’s cool, too.
Having done three of the workouts plus the Fit Test, I have to say that I really like the format. We go through a series of moves, slower, then faster, then faster, so we get a chance to learn the moves and to improve with each set. There are several cycles of moves for each workout. There’s also a good long warmup — which is challenging in itself — then a nice stretch for the cool down.
As I said, so far, so good. I’ll reassess after a couple weeks.