Missed a few days, worried about momentum

Simbii95

Hello everyone! Hope everything is doing well. I've been doing beachbody insanity now for a month and been seeing good good results. Lost about 8 lbs in the first month. Unfortunately due to the nature of my job and unforseen circumstances I missed a few days in week 4. Becuase of this I repeated week 4 and ended up missing 3 days yet again. Should I just move on to recovery week or should I repeat week 4 of month 1 once more. Really confused about what I should do I don't want to screw up my momentum and progress. Thank you to everyone in advance that take time out of ther busy to respond to these messages. Cheers!

AnnPT77

No one has answered yet, so I'll take a speculative stab at answering in a general sense, even though I'm not a Beachbody coach (just coach-educated, formerly certified, in my very different sport).

You may not be feeling this way, but in reading your post, it almost sound like you're thinking of fitness progress as a sort of fixed formula that must be gotten exactly right, or progress and momentum will be materially impaired. I don't think that's true.

Sure, there are better ways and less good ways to go about things, but (short of injury-causing stuff) about the worst that can happen when tweaking a decent program is that results will come a small bit slower, or one will get a little over-tired. It's not worth agonizing over, IMO.

I'd also say that I think some programs - don't know about that one - encourage users to believe that their personal perceptions are not a useful part of the process . . . that the video coach's formula rules, no questions, no exceptions. (That can be a thing that keeps us buying, y'know - the usurping of our individual insight and power.)

Again, generic advice, not Insanity or Beachbody specific: If you're following some kind of training plan, and other parts of life gets in the way (as it will), think about the point of the program (to you), and how you feel in that context.

In your case, it sounds like the program intends you to go steady/hard for 4 weeks, then reduce intensity (or volume/duration/combination of those) to get a bit of a recovery-focused deload of physical stress.

So, how do you feel? Are you feeling like it's time for that deload, to rest/recover a bit, metaphorically pull back the bowstring so queue up future more intense work to really fly? If so, I'd say to go on to the recovery, if I'm properly understanding its point.

On the other hand, depending on how stressful the life-stuff that caused the interruption in exercise was, it could be that your days off a couple weeks in a row have given you some mini-recovery, and you'd have the energy to productively hit week 4 fully before going on.

Also a consideration: If you're champing at the bit to move beyond your current program into another, that psychological aspect is also relevant, might push you toward the recovery week, so you can move forward from there. OTOH, if you'd feel more accomplished by completing week 4 as defined, that's also relevant.

Regardless, I think you have insights about yourself you can use to make this decision. It's not like some Beachbody coach needs to come along and unlock a secret, or all is lost. If you guess wrong, the implications will be minor, and you'll learn useful things about your personal fitness/recovery tradeoffs. I think that in itself can be useful and empowering. Just my opinion, though.