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In the second week you add on about 15 minutes of abs to pure cardio. But, I found as I went through each video a second and third time, my form became much better and resulted in a much higher ab workout. Bad form = little ab work. Good form = abs constantly working.
Damn dude.Bravo.Week 8 - Day 1 - CompleteBesides being in the full swing of the max workouts I have hit my stride with my eating lifestyle(not a diet). I actually like eating more often than what I used to and I am never hungry. If I even pound down 50% of what my past meals used to be, I feel like I am going to explode. I got the disks for P90X a few weeks back and am going to jump into them as soon as my weights get shipped to me roughly 1-2 weeks after I should be done with Insanity. I think I made a great choice with trying Insanity first to decrease my body fat and then go more into the muscle performance of P90X. Although, I have been following a more P90X stage one meal plan than Insanity's plan. I started at 182 pounds and now am down to 168.4 pounds while I know I have gained muscle in my arms, shoulders, legs, and core. Besides the decent strength and great endurance gains, my body has toned up quite a bit. I now have concave in obliques even when I stick out my stomach, instead of flabby fatness. I can catch a glimpse of my upper ribcage and soon to be upper abs when flexing. Also, who knew, people have hip bones that stick out? My shoulders and thighs have had the fat just melt away. My waist used to be a 36 and now is a 33 while I can get by wearing a medium shirt(actually fit into a small for S&G's) instead of a XL.Two weeks left #####es!
Update: Since doubling my protein and adding about 550 calories to my daily diet, I've gained almost 8 pounds of muscle in 4 months. I also split my weight workouts across 6 days a week and reduced my cardio. My current goal is to get to 150 pounds before the end of September, while keeping body fat 15% or less.
have yet to gain any weight back since i quit this, kept lifting at the gym and I am at an even 200 now (lost about 8 anyways). Thinking about starting back up come sept. and see if I can get further than day 40 or whatever I made it too.Ned did you finish it?
Nope. I burnt out and got sick of it. I've moved on to training for my first half marathon. Buddy of mine challenged me to it, so it's on.
I hear ya, 6 days a week is alot depending what a person has going on in their life. Plus that second month sucked balls. good luck with the marathonNope. I burnt out and got sick of it. I've moved on to training for my first half marathon. Buddy of mine challenged me to it, so it's on.
Me and gf got through 7 weeks religiously and then got burnt out with 2 weeks to go.She still pops in a random month 1 workout a couple times a week as part of her weekly routine. I went back to my 5-6 days a week elliptical/pushup routine and haven't revisited Insanity yet, although am thinking about revisiting some month 1 videos soon.
was that you offdee that was saying you continued to lose weight after you stopped doing the workouts? anyways, my wife was down about 6-7 pounds when we stopped doing it and she continued to drop another 7 somehow. So I guess you could say she dropped about 15 total because of it, or maybe not, dunno but she looks damn good now days.
Yep, I only lost about 2lbs during the entire 7 week period, and then lost maybe 5 pounds the following month after not doing Insanity.Weird, but probably correlating to my metabolism going up from the workouts, but doing less of these explosive type workouts made the leg muscle mass drop a bit ending up in lowered overall weight.
The first week will send your body into a wt* are you doing to me shock, but in a good way. Night two, three, and four were the toughest for me by far, although some people have talked about that lasting the entire first week. The workouts will destroy you and you will last longer each and every time you do it again the next week. Their will be MAJOR soreness in your muscles on the first couple days and nights, but I found actually completing the set routine that day loosened up everything and helped a lot. Good luck and good job for your past efforts already.
Here's my post Insanity workout:Monday: Plyo Cardio Circuit
I just created a hybrid P90X/Insanity schedule for myself yesterday and I treat the two upper body P90X workouts as an off day for my legs. I think everyone doing Insanity, P90X, a hybrid, or their own workout routine should be doing AB Ripper X from P90X two to three times a week. It is the best core workout I have ever done in only 15 minutes and I could see it staying in everyone's rotation of workouts forever.
Good thinking. I checked the scale every one or two weeks and told me what I already knew. I could just look at my body and see the changes that were going on. The physical results and how you feel should be your rewards besides a number.
I agree and was just thinking about substituting AB Ripper X for Cardio Abs on Friday, and adding it to one of the other Insanity days.
You'll need to take rest stops in every single video for the entire 9 weeks. It's part of the program as the idea is to push yourself to exhaustion, rest for a bit and get back into pushing yourself to exhaustion again. Don't let that discourage you at all.
Take rest when needed and don't eat anything or drink too much water for one hour beforehand.
I just ate a Met RX protein bar an hour before hand. Not sure what happened with getting the green apple splatters midway through the workout.This battle will be won in the kitchen for sure...I notice there is no real off or cheat day so things are going to be interesting for me. I love cottage cheese so that'll help get me through a few meals per day. I love vegetables but I'm not a big fan of sweet stuff like fruit so I'm pretty much relegated to cantaloupe and certain berries.
John Bender said:
Honestly laughing WITH you on this one man. Don't let it get you down (like others already said). You'll be surprised at how quick your body will adjust. It's never going to be 'easy', but it'll become more tolerable as the days/weeks go on. When you hit month 2 and the Max workouts, you'll look back at month 1 and wish you could go back... 
Good job, don't worry about the small "cheats" that you have going through the process. I don't even consider them cheats, their more of rewards and you probably stayed within your calorie zone for the day anyway. I also find that the small meals every 2.5-3 hours keeps me from being hungry.I'm not sure if you like tuna fish, but I found it was an easy meal to make. One slice whole grain bread toasted. Mix solid white tuna in water in a bowl with a good amount of lemon juice. Put it all inside the sandwich with a a big hand full of spinach on top of it. Add some baby carrots or broccoli on the side and you have a quick and easy good meal. Just throwing it out their in case your looking for variety in meals.
Some people don't like pausing the videos and would go straight through exercises barely doing some of them. I opted to pause the video when I needed it for 15 to 30 seconds, mostly after doing exercises involving jumping since they destroy me. I did this especially at the beginning of month one and month two because I felt I would of wasted much of workout saying hello to my carpet.
I might start doing the videos again BECAUSE of her.Just thought I should add. I
Ariel.
