Day 1 - The Fitness Test

I thought this would be an easy start to Insanity.

A warm up. 7 exercises. Do as many as you can in a minute. Record your score.

I was sweating like hell at the end of it!

Before I get to the details of the fitness test I'll say about the other tests that are done. There's a whole list of measurements to be done first, such as weight, body fat percent, resting heart rate, blood pressure, chest size, waist size, bicep size and a few more. I just took the ones that I could do since I had no way of doing cholesterol measurements.

I knew beforehand I was carrying a little too much weight, but felt healthy in myself otherwise I wouldn't be going to the gym 3 times a week and running about 10km every week. The whole point of me doing Insanity is to tone up, lose the belly and feel better about my body.

Anyway I did all the measurements and here are my stats for before I started the Insanity programme. 

This is my baseline and I hope to improve on every one of the measurements.
One thing I was a little worried about was that I thought my blood pressure was too high. It was last taken last year sometime and it was more like 130/60, so I think I need to keep an eye on that.

So on to the fitness test. The test involved the following exercises : Switch Kicks, Power Jacks, Power Knees, Power Jumps, Globe Jumps, Suicide Jumps, Push Up Jacks, Low Plank Oblique. I'd never heard of any of them. Before each exercise, Shaun takes about 90 secs to explain the technique of each one of them. They were all fairly straight forward and did not require time to learn them first.

The one's I really did not like were Globe Jumps and Suicide jumps. They hurt like hell and I had to stop mid way through the minute to grab some breath. Push up Jacks and Low Plank Oblique were probably the most technical exercises.

So, how did I do? Here are my results for the first fitness test.

Whilst the DVD is playing, Shaun asks the 2 people doing the tests what their starting figures were for their own fitness tests. One thing I was really pleased with was that my results were not far off what the guy doing the test scored. At least that shows me that I put in a good effort for the fitness test.

I'm hopeful I can improve on those scores when the next test is in 2 weeks time. I stopped and caught some breath for a few seconds for about 5 of the exercises, so if I can go straight through next time I am sure I can beat these scores.

On to the proper workouts tomorrow. Bring it on !