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Insanity: Day 2 – Plyometric Cardio Circuit

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters;

W. H. Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts

Suffering is probably the best way to describe my experience on Day 2 of the Insanity program. Plain, simple, painful suffering. Yesterday was a rough day for me. Getting my big body moving after how many years of no significant activity put me in a place of anguish and pain. This morning, after 24 hours of letting that anguish and pain fester, it has evolved into morbid suffering.

I've been sore before. And this morning was really not the worst I've been sore, before. But it certainly was more sore than I have been in a long time and, guessing by my desire to not touch the DVD player, it is a good thing that I am working myself out like this.

So up I was, at 5:15 this morning, to get my Insanity on. I popped in the DVD and let it play. But there wasn't much playing.

The exercise started pretty much right away, and opened with the warm up I described yesterday. Except this time, the warm up calisthenics were done not once, but three times through, each time getting faster and faster. That meant opening up this morning with about 10 minutes of extremely fast paced warm ups, and lots of sweating, before ever getting to the actual workout.

Which invariably leads me to admit that I don't recall much of this DVD at all. After the warm up I spent most of the next 30 minutes on my face or jogging in place. I managed to do some of the exercises in the program this morning, but the truth is I was dead after the warm up and didn't really get to too much of that actual plyometrics this morning. Which really is to say that not only did I not complete the program this morning, I ended up worse off than I was yesterday, in a much worse state of soreness and anguish.

I hope I can adjust to this quickly or I may find myself repeating the entire program after I get through it this time. Which might not be a bad idea, seeing as I should probably already be in that good of shape to even be considering doing this one.