After putting on a full metal knee brace, an ankle brace and wrapping my whole abdominal area with the binder I got when I had surgery, for two days of insanity, we decided that it just wasn't for us. Kind of bummed, but it's probably for the best. Jodi didn't like it, I didn't mind it, but I don't think I was doing everything correctly, so that's why I didn't mind it. I went in knowing I hadn't did anything like this in over 13 years. I figured it was tough, but I still wanted to do it. I also kept saying lets do this at our own pace and just try to get through it. I figured, at least we are doing something for 45 minutes a night instead of sitting on our asses watching tv. The bad thing about doing any of these "fitness DVDs" is that with my knees, anything involving lower body moves is painful. So I have to modify pretty much every move in the Insanity arsenal, which in turn, makes everything easier. Im also looking at it like this, I have to go to a job outside of home where I have to climb up and down out of a truck all day, I don't need to be injuring myself and being out of work with no pay. So where Jodi was full on doing everything like you should, I was basically half assing it. Even half assing it, it was still hard as hell. So we decided that going from not doing anything remotely close to insanity to diving right in to it, probably wasn't the smartest thing.
After the insanity fail, Jodi said we should try Jillian Michaels 30 day shred. I was a little hesitant at first because I looked at it as a women's work out. Then after doing level one of it, I realized it was pretty tough. This was more up our Steam Pipe Ally. It wasn't crazy like the insanity DVD, but it wasn't just a stand around and move your arms a little bit DVD either. Probably a better choice to start out with, honestly. I guess I don't care what the hell we do, as long as we are doing something together. I wanted us to workout together so we didn't have the excuse of saying we had no time to workout. I always felt bad going to the gym after work around 5pm and coming home at 6pm to eat dinner, get kids their bath, put them to bed, then off to bed in an hour or so after that. That gave no time for Jodi to go to the gym at a reasonable time and workout. I figured, if we both did a DVD workout, we could get everything done by 8pm, then get ready to do a workout by 8:30pm and then have some time to chill after, before bed.
So now we decided that we would do her Jillian Michaels 30 day shred DVD a few days a week. Throw in a few days of bike riding after dinner. Also we would do the Insanity Fit test every Monday and Friday and maybe throw in another one of the insanity DVDs to work out with as well. I don't want to abandon the idea of doing insanity. Who knows, maybe I'll do it on my own in the morning, just to see how long I can do the program itself. Yeah, probably not. Ha!
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