Month Two has begun and I am finished

Alright, I know it's been 3 weeks since my last post where I promised to post more frequently, but this time I'm in it for real.  Month 2 is just too insane to not blog about.

After 35 days of doing Insanity, I'm as sore today as I was after the first day.  I think it's safe to say that the only point of Month 1 is to put you in a position to survive Month 2--but that's no guarantee it'll happen.  Here are my quick thoughts (granted, after only 2 days in the second month) about the differences between Month 1 and Month 2:

1. The first month was very much focused on cardio. 
While my muscles would burn like crazy and I would often have to rest them (read: curl up and cry on the ground), the exercises themselves weren't impossible to do.  That is, I could at least wrap my head around them and do a few reps.  Most of the time when I'd need to rest, it was mostly because I was sucking wind so badly that I couldn't imagine getting into a push-up position.  I think that's what made the workouts seem "easy" by the end of the month.

Now, each exercise absolutely destroys me and my muscles go to failure, which happens after about 20 seconds.  Since I'm blogging so frequently from here on (no...really...) I'll save descriptions of particular exercises for future posts.  But trust me...they are hard.  And that is why I was waddling around the office today.

2. The workouts are a LOT longer. 

First of all, workouts are now around an hour.  Month 1 workouts were between 30 and 45.  That's a lot more time to get a little crazy.

Second of all, whereas workouts were broken out by 30 second exercises previously (each "set" would have between six and eight 30 second exercises), they are now 45 second intervals.  It doesn't sound like a significant change, but there's a big difference when you're jumping up and down or doing push-ups.  Yikes.

3. We have a bunch of new professionals doing the workout with us. 

I'm currently working on a post that highlights some of my favorites dudes and dudettes from the first month, but we have a whole new cast of characters.  My favorites are the girl who always works out in hats, the guy who for sure is a clone of Shaun T, and the psycho girl who doesn't shave her armpits to a satisfactory level.  She's one of my favorites because she is even more intense than Tanya, and anything that makes Tanya look worse is awesome.  I've caught Tanya looking over her shoulder to see what armpit chick is doing a couple of times.  Love it.

4.  We have new music.
The "intense" workout music during the dig deeper part of the workout in Month 1 was, as B Spec pointed out, very much like the Top Gun music.  It made you feel like you were working out with Goose and Maverick.  So far in Month 2, it makes me feel like I'm in a music video for a B-side Blink 182 song, which surprisingly is a compliment.  Thank you crazy guitar riff guy for your pop-punk rock motivation.



Expect posts about the 3rd Fit Test and my quest to destroy Tanya, what the "rest week" was like last week, a full breakdown of the professionals doing the workouts with us, and my favorite Shaun T-isms to follow soon!  Stay tuned and make sure you keep checking the blog.  It's starting to get CRAZY and I LOVE IT.  (Preview of a Shaun T-ism)

Stay Classy,
B-Mil