Day 1 of Insanity finished with a vengeance

I was all jacked up about starting Insanity until I actually started. We started with a warmup of about 10 minutes worth of jogging in place, high knees, jumping jacks, and heisman poses (followed by double heisman). This warmup wore me out! I figured this would happen because I havent done this type of workout in over two years, but what a discouraging beginning. I mean, if you can't make it through warmups without getting short of breath what's the rest going to be like? Well, I found out. The next ten minutes we stretched and stretched and then we stretched some more. These were not your typical "gym" stretches, no sir. We did some yoga and kenpo stretches (from P90X). After this, we started into the meat of the exercising. We did some suicide runs (two steps in one direction, touch the floor, then back) mountain climbers, jump squats and then up downs. Up downs are when you touch the floor with both hands, kick your feet back to a plank or pushup position, do four pushups and then move your feet forward and back (alternating them for 8 reps). Bring your legs back up, stand up and start over. At one point, he switched it up and had us move our feet simultaneously to one side and then the other all the while maintaining the plank form.

You talk about kicking your butt! I had to rest more than once during this part, mostly because my legs and not in good enough shape to do this yet. After a brief water break (30 seconds) we did some basketball squats, and more up downs. We got 30 second water breaks after every sets of exercise and I could always stop if I had to (which was the case alot of times). The whole workout lasted 40 minutes and I have to say that I did better than I thought but hopefully no where near what I'll be able to do toward the end. I did go all out and could barely move afterward. My legs are nice and sore, but I do feel good. Yesterday, I ate cereal for breakfast, an apple and cliff bar for snack, grilled chicken salad and yogurt for lunch, two muffins and a peanut butter foldover for snack, spaghetti for dinner and a fruit smoothie with protein mix for snack. I haven't calculated how many calories that is yet, but according to the formula (to determine BMR and how much caloric intake you need to maintain and lose weight) I can have 3600 calories and lose weight, so happy eating. More of the same today so stay tuned.