Last night, Kenny and I had our first brush with Shaun T and his band of merry mentalists! 45 minutes of high intensity max interval training. HINT: the warm up was hard enough.
It starts with a 5 minute warm up consisting of jogging on the spot, kicking your own arse, power squats, and a few other moves including what I like to call “groove zombie”. It steps up from a slow pace, to a fast past via moderate. No rest. Sounds all good so far. After a few minutes of stretching and a 30 second water break you are basically thrown into a pit of sweaty despair as you jump, thrust, push, leap and shimmy through a circuit of 4 sets of exercises at a minute each, with no rest, followed by a brief 30 second water break and straight back into the next 4 sets….at an increased intensity! We were failing by the end, giving up 10 or 15 seconds from the end of each set and doing as much as we could of the next before literally grinding to a halt. We persevered though and got to the end….. soaked, in my case…. sunburn red in Kenny’s, but both totally done in. After that we watched the Muppets before bed time….. pain and stiffness had already began to settle in.
I am sat here now with stiffness in the following places: My ass cheeks, my thighs (front and back), my calf’s, my lower back, my lats, my delts and my traps. What’s insane about Insanity is that we have to do it all again tonight, while already being as stiff as Jimmy Savile in an orphanage!