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March 1st, 9:45pm 0 comments

it's all just INSANITY!...

hello blog follower-folk, it's tuesday, march 1st... today i'm embarking on a painful (yet, hopefully very rewarding) journey. i'm beginning the 60 day INSANITY! workout. i've tried once before and made it 22 days. this time i've enlisted an old college friend, tracey, as a long-distance workout buddy. we plan to motivate each other to last the entire 60 days. so far, 1 day in, we've done a lot of swearing and laughing. it should be an interesting journey... i will keep you all updated.

our reasons for attempting 60 days of INSANITY! are different...

mine: i have a wonderful family and a fabulous group of close friends. i have a job that i absolutely love. i'm overall pretty happy. later this year i will turn 30. it's about time i make the "me" now an even better "me" heading into my 30s. besides, i'm still single. and as determined by my fellow single gal pal, lexi, and myself... this IS "the year of the bf"... so, INSANITY! here i come because i might as well be looking good while hunting down the fellas! :)

tracey: back in college she was one of toughest people i knew, both physically and emotionally. she probably still is, but she just doesn't give herself the credit. she has been through a lot over the years and is still one of the happiest, most genuine people i know. she is a 28 year old wife and mother... but she's lost herself a little over the past years. tracey has always taken great care of everyone around her and she now deserves to take great care of herself.

randy, tracey's husband, is attempting to join us in this journey. (i only say "attempt" because after today's first workout randy had a few "choice words" that leads me to believe he might throw the tv out the window if he continues for the next 59 days... but here's to you, randy, i'd love for you to stick it out with us. you can be our comic relief. i'm not sure whether i'm more sore from the actual workout or from laughing at your comments about the workout).
either way, i'm glad to have you both to share this with. cheers to our next 59 days. and that's one helluva CHEERS because we are definitely gonna need a shot (or ten) when we finish this. xo


INSANITY!: every 2 weeks i will take the same "fit test" to track my progress. and this blog is where i will tell the world (and by world, i clearly mean my 27 followers) my results. if you don't understand the exercises, just assume my day 1 totals are not impressive. and watch as i, fingers crossed, get better as the 60 days goes on. (motivating emails, thoughts, texts and calls will be appreciated. and i thank you in advance)

here goes........................
day 1: fit test
switch kicks: 71
power jacks: 29
power knees: 51
power jumps: 22
globe jumps: 8
suicide jumps: 10
push-up jacks: 16
plank/knees: 28

day 1 post-workout photo....

Insanity_day_1

(stay tuned for updates)


A SPECIAL THANKS TO:

sam gay: for introducing me to the scary scary world of INSANITY! and more importantly, for teaching me that when speaking of INSANITY! it is to be referred to in no other way than in ALL caps and always concluded with an exclamation point. a painfully perfect description.

nnamdi gwacham: for making me not only one, but two, copies of the full dvd INSANITY! set. ok, and i secretly enjoying blaming you in my mind for all the times when i think INSANITY! will be the death of me. you are too kind, my friend!

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