Am I insane enough to do this?

"I want to do Insanity' said my colleague, Becky.

"Woah, do you know what Insanity is?" I responded. "It's really hard you know? My brother did it and was sweating buckets.'

"Well, I'll find it easier if someone else is doing it with me" she said with a glint in her eye.

"Hmmm, I'll do some research tonight and will have a word with my brother", I said far from convinced that this was for me.

So I went home and watched a couple of Insanity promo vids to try and get an idea of what's actually involved and what results can be expected. I've got to say the marketing behind this is pretty damn good. The videos are fast-paced,, high-energy, lots of people sweating, really getting pumped up and puttig their all in to these workouts. You're shown photos of some amazing before and after results. The women are slim ad toned whilst the blokes are ripped! As a skinny guy who's never had much muscle, this was starting to appeal to me! "See insane results in 60 days!" bellows Shaun T, the creator and instructor on the programme.

I also promised myself that this year I'm going to push myself out of my comfort zone...so I'll call my brother to as him about it and see if he's still got the DVDs.

I called him up and said "Pat, tell me about Insanity." He said it was hardcore, that he used to do it first thing in the morning (before eating anything)and that he actually got to the stage of enjoying it. "Do it, you should do it", he said, adding "you're young, you can do it". I'm 35 and thought, this is a bit of a challenge, I should go for it. I was going to settle for doing '100 push-ups a day' but this Insanity sounds like a more of a game-changer. I went back in to work the next day and said "Becky, I'm doing Insanity!" To which she said, "It looks really hard!" "Well, I'm doing it".