I Finished Insanity Two Hours Ago.

Although, if I were grading myself, I'd probably get a C+. With the + being from pity.

I think it would've been different if I'd been paying any attention whatsoever to nutrition during the second month. I wanted to quit Insanity during the first week of month 2 because the workouts had gotten longer and more difficult. If I'd been eating vegetables and stuff, the right number of meals and calories - instead of skipping meals, letting vegetables rot in the fridge, and my amazing birthday cake,

and too much fast food - I know I would have done better. Last time I did something like this, I learned that nutrition really does affect how great I am.

And so I wasn't great. It's a little disappointing. But not really, because the important thing was to just get through it.

Okay, here's a list of everything I did wrong that wasn't food:

• INJURY DAYS: 5 - Actually, these were legitimate. Jumping wrong = back pain for four days. The other day was a knee day.
• EXTRA REST DAYS: 6 - Maybe I can just call them mental health days? I can't even tell you how luxurious it felt to be like, "I'M NOT DOING IT AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"
• CANCELLATIONS: 1 - It was Shaun T's birthday gift to me.
• CANCELLATIONS, FOR REAL: Okay, there were 2. One of the workouts is crossed off, and I didn't actually do it, and I wasn't going to tell anyone.
• CANCELLATIONS THAT HARDLY COUNT: 4 - See those "Core Cardio and Balance" in the middle that I didn't do? I decided to skip to Month 2 instead of completing the recovery week, because I wanted to make sure I had enough time to "complete" Insanity before we leave for Japan tomorrow, and also Core Cardio and Balance is EZ MODE so I thought it would be okay.
• HALF-DOING IT: 1 - One day, I just played the first 20 minutes of a workout and mostly read a book but sometimes did some of the exercises they were doing on the screen. I think I did about 1/3rd of 20 minutes of that 60 minute workout.
• SUBSTITUTE EXERCISES: 5 - During the second month, on four days, I chose to do an outdoor activity instead of an Insanity. Those were actually still challenging and good (but still technically cheating.) Also, one day during the first month, I chose to do an easier workout than what was scheduled, which was not actually challenging or good.
• SPLIT DAYS: 2 - Some days, the schedule said to do the 8-exercise, 25-minute "Fit Test" to track my progress AND THEN!!!!@!!! do a 60-minute workout on the same day. I didn't do them on the same day.

NUMBER OF DAYS ON INSANITY SCHEDULE: 56

NUMBER OF DAYS I REQUIRED: 72 (EMBARRASSING)

TOTAL NUMBER OF NOT-INJURED 

FAILURE DAYS:

21

OR 37% OF SCHEDULE DURATION

I would say "Oh well, maybe I'll do better next time!" but I don't think there will be a next time. INSANITY IS REALLY BORING.

Really boring, but effective. Obviously. (I'd imagine that ANY workout would be effective when done approximately 6 days a week.) I lost fat and gained more upper-body strength than I've ever had before in my whole entire life, and I made progress on the "Fit Test."

I can now do in rapid succession a lot of made-up moves even better than I could in January! HOORAY!