The first week is always the hardest...besides all the other weeks

Week one:  check.

I learned very quickly that there is a difference between being “in shape” and being “in Shaun-T shape.”  The former involves jogging on Sunday afternoons and going for hour-long bike rides. The latter involves a jumbo-sized bottle of ibuprofen and trouble getting out of chairs.

Luckily I’m writing this while sitting down. I’m not looking forward to standing up.

Insanity includes a lot more squats and jumps than I was expecting.  My new goal is to be able to dunk by the end of summer. Ok, maybe I’ll only be able to dunk a volleyball – but I’m going to throw it down like Phil Dalhausser.

Below are the results from my first fit test. Every other week we do a fit test to track progression (which may become a digression if – as I suspect based on my level of soreness – my muscles begin deteriorating like the Nazi’s faces at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark).  We can only hope I’ll be so lucky.

Move	Fit Test 1
Switch Kicks	131
Power Jacks	47
Power Knees	84
Power Jumps	35
Globe Jumps	6
Suicide Jumps	19
Push-Up Jacks	35
Low Plank Oblique	43

I like you but you’re crazy,

Sam

Pleading Insanity

Hello Blogosphere! Welcome to AJ and Sam's insane asylum.

Over the next 60 days, AJ and I will go from mildly demented to completely insane with the help of Shaun-T and his Insanity workout dvds. Before starting the program, B-Mil gave me the advice, "The first month is hard, but more makes you feel good about yourself. The 2nd month will murder you beyond belief." Oh boy.

A few caveats:
1) This is a direct rip-off of Ben and Ben Go Insane. To read about their (more interesting and humorous) journey, visit benandbengoinsane.blogspot.com.

2) I'll try my best not to rag on Tonya. For those of you who hate her with a fiery passion of a thousand hells, I'll again direct you to benandbengoinsane.blogspot.com, or "like" the facebook group called "I hate Tonya.... From Insanity" at http://www.facebook.com/Ihatetonya.

3) Because I'm going to be an accountant and AJ is going to be a lawyer, this blog will be written using financial statement analysis and legal memoranda -- can you say "Pulitzer"?  I can't. I'm not sure if it's Pull-itzer or Pyoo-litzer.

As we get progressively more sore, any encouragement/ice bags/ibuprofen are greatly appreciated.

So grab your straight jackets and padded solitary confinement cells cause it's time to go insane!

I like you, but you're crazy,
Sam