Insanity

Okay, I mentioned getting fit again after having gotten badly out of shape. I will go into more details in the future, and really talk about it. But I figured that for now I would just mention one thing.

I started (my wife and I did, actually) Shaun T’s Insanity on Monday. Insanity is a 60 day program, 6 days a week, based on the concept of max interval training and plyometrics. Regular interval training has you doing 2-3 minutes of moderate exercise followed by a peak of 30-60 seconds of maximum effort, then back to moderate exercise. Max interval training reverses that. You work at maximum effort for 3 minutes, followed by a 30 second rest, and so on.

Day 1 is a fitness test. It consists of 8 different fairly demanding exercises, like push-up jacks and plank obliques. You do as many as you can in one minute, then rest for 60-90 seconds, then on to the next exercise. You take the fitness test every two weeks (Day 1, 15, etc).

The program consists of 4 weeks of “interval training”, follo…