I survived Insanity! My rubberized workout floor needs a good mopping now but I survived! What an awesome feeling, I feel fantastic. I have not gotten around to taking my “After” pictures yet. But to tell you the truth, since my “Before” pictures were so grainy, I’m not too sure how much help they would be.

I lost 7 lbs total and look leaner. I’m sure that I put on some muscle too. I feel better than when I started and I like the way I look. Isn’t that all that’s important?

Here’s my (somewhat short) Insanity review.

Overall I give it 5 stars. I would definitely recommend it.

Pluses –

• It will get you in the best cardio shape of your life.
• I am able to bring much more intensity to my other workouts after completing Insanity
• I love to sweat, and you’ll definitely sweat in this workout.
• I am able to do more pushups after completing Insanity than I was after many rounds of P90X.

Minuses -

• I am not a big fan of the stretches. I liked the P90X stretching much better. I didn’t feel like the Insanity stretches did enough for me and there was not enough variety for me.
• Throughout the workouts Shaun T. tells you to look at your heart rate but never tells you what to look for or what to do about it. Was it in the guide and I missed it? I found it annoying.
• I think that Shaun is not great with giving Queues. I would like him to workout less and queue more descriptively and provide more information. I had to look at him too many times during the stretches and during some moves. Tony Horton is great at queuing. Also, I felt that the producers of the DVDs could have done a better job at letting you know what the next move/exercise was going to be. P90X is much better at that.
• There are lots and lots of squats. Be careful, my knees got a little tweaky by the end. You REALLY have to pay attention to your form in order to not get hurt. And when you are doing so many squats it’s easy to get injured by losing concentration and letting your form get sloppy.
• I hated recovery week. It was too easy. I would think about throwing in a day or two of yoga.

Okay, I know I have more pluses than minuses but I really did love this program and would definitely recommend it. As a matter of fact, I like it so much that I am doing a P90X/Insanity hybrid now!

Dig Deep and Bring It!!

 

I was totally not into doing the Insanity workout yesterday. It was a double whammy of the Fit Test followed by Max Interval Circuit and to tell you the truth I was just plain wiped out and not wanting to do it.

Let’s see, I wonder if it had something to do with the fact that…

• I consumed alcohol the night before and didn’t get much sleep?
• Or maybe because I ate pizza and garbage the day before?
• Or was it because I skipped the Saturday workout and did it on Sunday and therefore did not get the proper break before Monday’s workout.
• Or was it the candy I ate 1/2 hour before the workout.

Whatever it was sure left me feeling very lethargic and not into it. But you know what? I went into the basement, pushed Play on the DVD player and forced myself through it. My Fit Test was not stellar but I did increase my reps on a few exercises. I was really spent by the end of it but at least I did it.

Today was Max Interval Plyo and my strength and intensity was back. I really pushed myself and felt great. But I far from “crushed it.” And if someone says that they “crushed Insanity” then they didn’t push hard enough.

This week I am going to start to rotate in some of the Insanity Deluxe workouts and maybe YogaX on Thursday.

I am really enjoying this workout but am looking forward to doing a P90X/Insanity hybrid in about 2 weeks. I miss lifting weights.

Till next time… Dig Deep and Bring It!!

 

 

Today was the first Insanity workout where I really started to wonder what the Hell I had gotten myself into. It was a rough one! One reason it was so rough was because I really screwed up during week 4 and during Recovery week. I went off my diet and missed some workouts. I missed 2 workouts in week 4 and 3 workouts during recovery week. Mostly due to travel. I always have such a hard time sticking to a good diet and exercise when traveling. I gained a couple pounds too. I’m at the same damn weight that I was at a month ago.
But I am committed to getting back on track and finishing out the next 30 days strong. I had a very hard time during today’s workout, I think I didn’t eat enough during the day and I bonked out during the workout. It was a crazy one hour and 30 minute workout and my HRM showed that I burned 1340 cals. INSANE! The first 30 mins was the Fit Test. I increased reps in almost every exercise but they were modest gains. Probably due to the fact that I slacked off over the past two weeks.
I like some of the new moves in today’s Max Interval Circuit, but some are still awkward for me to perform. I look forward to Max Interval Plyo tomorrow.

Till next time… Dig Deep and Bring It!!

I don’t have a huge update about my Insanity progress but I did take the second fit test the other day and wanted to post my results. I made some modest gains in the fit test but more than that I feel great. I have lost a few more pounds and my cardio is really coming up. I still Love, love love this workout.
More soon…

Today was my Insanity Fit Test. It’s a short workout but it’s a killer. I tried it out the other day as one of my cardio workouts during my last P90X recovery week so I knew what to expect. Even so, it’s a Mother of a workout.
I did take some pictures (well, actually I grabbed some stills from my video camera) and I must say this. Even though I came a long way from where I was a couple years ago and even 90 days ago, I feel like I should LOOK better than I do. And I have REALLY been focusing on my nutrition for the last month and have not seen much weight loss. I’m really hoping that Insanity will do the trick for me. And I may have to get even more focused on my food intake. Although I can’t imagine doing more than I do right now.
Here are some P90X After shots that will double as my Insanity Before shots. And my Fit Test Day 1 results. (The small numbers in the Day 1 column are from my unofficial Fit Test that I took the other day as practice.)


Till next time… Dig deep and Bring it!!