Langhorne, PA
2 years ago I did yoga booty ballet and loved it. Then I fell off the wagon and well here's my story...
I started INSANITY..
Everyone said I couldnt do this but I am LOVING it... Let me introduce myself and repost something I had on facebook so you can see how beginner I am and how I am totally loving this! I just finished my 2nd fit test and my numbers almost doubled in every test!!! I may have
2 years ago I did yoga booty ballet and loved it. Then I fell off the wagon and well here's my story...
I started INSANITY..
Everyone said I couldnt do this but I am LOVING it... Let me introduce myself and repost something I had on facebook so you can see how beginner I am and how I am totally loving this! I just finished my 2nd fit test and my numbers almost doubled in every test!!! I may have failed the first one but that was all the more motivation to push on thru. I didnt expect to improve that much but wow... I feel like the little engine that could only in my case its "will". I will finish this and will continue to improve.
Ok so here was my status at the end of last week...
Wow I cant beleive how many people are calling, emailing, asking about Insanity and what this crazy new thing I am obsessed with is all about. I have even gotten some emails saying I motivated u to get off ur ass and workout (and from some pretty tough looking dudes, lol). Wow my family and my former gym teachers would fall over if they heard this.
I am the girl who would research rare and deadly diseases (the names) just to get out of gym class. In overnight camp, I hid out on the rocks, or the nurses station to get out of sports. There was no way this gal was gonna run unless I was being chased by a pack of hungry wild beasts that were going to rip my flesh off and eat me. There was no way I was going to play a sport, break sweat or do anything physical even if u offered to pay me money.
A huge part of it was laziness, fear and quite frankly I am really uncoordinated. I just dont see the point of having a ball thrown at your head and trying to hit it with a stick n if you survived not having your head bashed in the you have to run and have them try to throw the ball at you again? Call me crazy but WTF, is up with that.
I remember living with my high school boyfriend and an army recruiter called and wanted me to meet with him. I was like u clearly have the wrong name. Aside from the fact that I tan, wear makeup, huge hoop earring and am never going to miss my soaps, I do not respond well to yelling and someone telling me what to do. Just ask my parents how well we got along when they y and told me what to do....So save ur breathe there is nothing u can offer me that would make me sign up for anything physical and ordering me around by choice ....
So of all the things that look appealing to me... BTW this has to be weirder for my friends and family to see me take this challenge on than it was when I decided to become a romance diva and sell romance enhancers to over come being afraid of being the center of attention. Since I had my surgery (gastric bypass) I havent found one plan or workout routine that I could stick with or wanted to. I was too tired, too busy, to cold, too hot, too lazy, etc. I decided to check out beach body the company that did the yoga booty ballet bc that was fun to see if I could find something that would transform me. I already got a whole new body with help, can I get a whole other one but this time on my on with beachbody's help??? Well Insanity hit the spot. Aside from me people a total beginner and me not being like anyone else they interviewed. This is the program. Shaun T totally makes me what to dig deep and put in my 100% and worker harder every day despite the pain, the sweat and the growling physical challenges.
So I am not at their pace and will never have "Tanya's" freakish speed and form but I am holding my own. I am making it thru the tapes with a few extra sips of water than they do but I dont pause, I finsih each workout completely and if theres something I just cant do, I go back to the prior workouts. The only thing I really have problems with are the push ups and obviously push-up jacks and moving pushups. When in my life would I ever do a push up? And how would one learn how? I am attempting "a girl push-Up" during some of these but other than that... I have never jumped so much in my whole life combined either. After the 2nd round of warm ups, it seems like Shaun T is out to kill me. Half the dvd hes yelling Rachel and yelling at me to go harder, faster, higher. hes in my face in the dvd. Somehow I find It amazing. I cant wait to see my results! The first fit test was a joke, since I clearly was a mess but I suspect there will have to be improvement, lol. Hell if I make it thru this, theres no way I can be scared of my pole anymore! oh and btw
Ladies, who have asked do u really sweat like the guys in the video.... UMMMM YES. I didnt know that that much sweat could come out of me, lol. I have the windows open, fan on, no heat, and I think I almost ran out in the snow naked just to cool off, lol. Ladies u will sweat like a BEAST, no joke a crazy freakin wild BEAST. My head looked like I got out of a pool. Sweat pours from places u didnt think could sweat. I think my finger nails even sweat, lol. Friday finished up week 2. (my start day is sun, not mon). Have a great night YALL! Bring it on week 3!
Hugs,
Rachel
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