Insanity Challenge Start

I must be crazy... But isn't that why they call it "Insanity"?

After completing almost 30 days of BeachBody's P90 and Les Mills Combat hybrid, I decided to step it up. I had hit a plateau. I lost about 12kg/27lbs and hadn't been losing for 2 weeks straight. I was still eating the same, working out every single day but it wasn't doing a lot for my weight. Even if I did take pictures before and after those 2 weeks and saw that my body changed, I - a slave to the scale - wanted to get that scale moving, and read up on things (as I always do before I change my habits).

I found out that a plateau is mainly caused by routine and too few calories. You have to "shock" your body in order for it to start changing again. I knew I had to switch things up. I decided to get Insanity... You know, the workout that everybody is afraid of?

Yeah. I thought I was ready for it, even though I knew it was going to kill me, it looked like something for me - it is a very (very!) tough workout that focuses on plyometrics and athletics. It is not recommended for beginners, and even though I still consider myself a beginner, I knew I was stronger and fitter than I'd give myself credit for. After all, I love pushing myself beyond me limits.

I started Insanity on Thursday. It starts off with a fit test, you have a warm up, stretch and then 8 different moves and a minute for every move. You basically count how many reps you can do within that one minute, and as time goes on, you repeat the fit test every 2 weeks or so to see how you are progressing.

The next day I had dropped 1kg/2lbs overnight, just because I switched up my workout routine and upped my calories (I will blog about this later).

Friday was day 2 and it went well, even though I had to take a lot of breaks, I was happy that I got through it.

Then, Friday night, I was doing some ankle stretches and I overstretched. Yes, as stupid as that sounds... I had to give my ankle some rest.

On Saturday I found out that Shaun T, the creator of Insanity was going to start the program on Monday (which is yesterday). He had never done the program before (60 days straight) but he wanted to, and so he jumped in and asked people to join him.

I decided to join in, because I had lost 2 days of the program already and being the perfectionist that I am, would want to start over anyways. Also, I loved the idea of doing it at the same time as Shaun T, his team and thousands of Insaniacs all over the world.

So, yesterday I started over. 60 days of Insanity. 60 days of clean eating. 60 days to push myself. 60 days to dig deeper :) I am excited. Today is day 2. I will blog about my progress and my week on Saturdays or Sundays, so stay tuned :)