Insanity: The Asylum, Day One

I'm interrupting my regularly scheduled Monday Nutrition Tip of the Week because this is a very big day around here, fitness-wise. It's the first day of our new Insanity: The Asylum program!

For our first official workout we will meet our small group of crazies who volunteered to do this program with us up at the high school. It's going to be great!

Saturday morning Zach and I did the nine-move, 25-minute Sports Performance Assessment included with the program. I was pretty nervous about the test, but we both did fine. For the most part we were in line with the participants on the screen. Here are Zach's and my pre-test results. All exercises were performed for one minute, and the numbers represent reps completed: (Zach's numbers are first, mine are second.)

Agility Heisman     10/7
In and Out Ab Progression     50/37
Pull Ups     15/10
Mountain Climber Switch Kicks     74/60
Agility Shoulder Taps     6/5
X Jumps     40/35
Moving Push Ups     DNC*/3
Agility Lateral Shuffle      15/13
Agility Bear Crawl     13/8

* DNC: Did Not Complete. Zach pulled a chest muscle a few weeks ago and is nursing it back to health. There have been a couple of set-backs where he thought it was ready to go -- it was not. He'll be sitting out of the Asylum exercises that use the chest muscle for several more weeks.

I'll be sure to post our test results at the end of the 30-day program.

In the meantime, here's a look at what we'll be doing today during the Speed & Agility workout.

Asylum uses a jump rope and an agility ladder (and weights in other workouts). Each person needs a ladder, but the program only comes with one. So Zach built another ladder last weekend out of motorcycle straps held together with rivets. It works great!

Only three hours to go till I enter the Asylum. I hope I make it out of there alive...