Monday, January 2, 2012

Insanity

New year, new goals. I'm not one to make New Years resolutions, but I asked my parents to get me Insanity for Christmas. You might have seen the infomercial below.



The program is 60 days and is split up into 2 sets of DVDs - 5 for the first month and 5 for the second.  The before and after pictures are pretty convincing.  The program comes with nutrition recommendations but I'm not sure I want to be that strict about it.  I also went to GNC for some vitamin supplements and protein recovery mix.  The Insanity program recommends their own supplements, but I figured that it would be easier and cheaper to get them separately.

I thought I could use the fitness boost since I've been back in Atlanta for a few weeks without access to waves. Paddling on my board along with pullups and pushups over the past year to bulk up my arms has kept my strength up, but the cold weather and travel have pulled me away recently.  One of the best benefits of the Insanity program is that I only need DVDs with no extra equipment.  I can go anywhere and pop in a workout.

Here is one of my 'before' pictures... I'm not out of shape by any means, but we'll see if I can get the results they promise on the video.  I'm starting out at about 12mm body fat on my abdomen (measured by calipers) and 190 lbs.  We'll see where we go from there!

Which way to the gym?