Not today

I'm taking today off from Insanity.  Today would be Day 3 but it's going to be tomorrow instead.  My lower body muscles are in rough shape.  I can't jump into this as if I've been regularly working out up until this point.  I have lead a very sedentary life for awhile now.  Going from 0 to 60 is not the right move.  I am not upset I can't follow this round of Insanity perfectly.  I need to do it at my own pace to avoid injury.  An injury is what got me into this mess to begin with.  I was running for awhile and doing fabulous at it.  However I ran too much, too fast, and without enough time to allow my body to recover.  I was running 7-8 minute miles.  I pushed too hard and got the WORST shin splints ever.  These were sore to the touch.  I couldn't even walk properly and would sting and shoot pain up my legs while I was relaxing.  Common sense would suggest to take it easy and lay off my legs for a bit.  Unfortunately I was unable to.  It was the beginning of summer and I was working 10 hours shifts at Dunkin Donuts on my feet.  Summer and Dunkins = very busy.  I was constantly running.  During a time when I didn't have these shin splits, I would come home in a lot of pain still.  So to add these ridiculous shin splits to my regular 10 hour day of constantly running, I was in rough shape.  They never healed.  I have tried running since then and I can't.  The pain comes back.  The pain started early summer 2012 and now, almost two years later, I still can't run.  So I refuse to damage my body again so I'm taking this first round of Insanity at my own pace.  Maybe in a couple weeks I will have the endurance to do it 6 days a week like it's meant to be done.

I don't plan to sit all day though.  I will be busting out my hand weights and doing a bit of that since it's my lower body that is absolutely killing me.  Those moves that require starting in a squat position and jumping up and down has destroyed my legs.  Today will entail lots of stretching too.

Later I will update what I actually chose to do.  But for now, I've got to get on with my day.