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Insanity starting 12/6

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  • edorice
    edorice Posts: 4,519 Member
    i'm in week three and i've only done the recovery workout once and haven't taken a rest day.
    worst idea ever!

    needless to say i have to take more breaks during each exercise, i'm hurty, exhausted, and i have no energy.
    i can't wait until sunday rest day!!!!!!!!

    Make sure you take your rest days going forward. Insanity is real hard on the knees.
  • ErinMarie25
    ErinMarie25 Posts: 733 Member
    Hey all! I started Insanity 5 days ago. :) Hoping to shed my little bit of body fat off.
  • mamaisis09
    mamaisis09 Posts: 143
    Yesterday's Insanity Day 4 stats:
    Cardio Recovery - 33 minutes - 204 calories burnt
    Elliptical - 20 minutes - 228 calories burnt
    Ab Ripper X - 16 minutes - 100 caloried burnt
  • mamaisis09
    mamaisis09 Posts: 143
    Day 5 of Insanity
    Pure Cardio - 39 minutes - 429 calories burnt
    So tired...
  • mamaisis09
    mamaisis09 Posts: 143
    I was gonna keep up with my daily updates of Insanity, but everyone disappeared. I'm wondering why during this second week of Insanity my average HR is now about 4-5 beats slower than last week (though my max is the same) therefore my calorie burn isn't as impressive (only by about 10-20 calories but still....)
  • ErinMarie25
    ErinMarie25 Posts: 733 Member
    Maybe you're getting more used to the workouts?
  • MarthaSM
    MarthaSM Posts: 9
    I'm on the 2nd day of Week 2 (repeated Week 1 because I skipped the Saturday workout) . So far I've been logging it as "Circuit training, general" but I end up starving at the end of the day. What do you guys use to calculate calories burned? I have a heart rate monitor (I'm going to get a new battery for it, b/c it's been giving me crazy readings 154 then suddenly 90...) anyway.. where do you guys plug in your pulse to calculate calories burned?
  • mamaisis09
    mamaisis09 Posts: 143
    My HRM tells me how many calories burnt, so I simply read that and go to MY EXERCISES tab, then I CREATE NEW EXERCISE and put down whatever Insanity workout I did. Afterwards I can just go to recently added and adjust the time/calories burnt as needed.
  • edorice
    edorice Posts: 4,519 Member
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  • mamaisis09
    mamaisis09 Posts: 143
    So how many calories is everyone burning doing Insanity month 1 work outs?? I'm ranging between 400-450ish, which seems kind of low to me. My heartrate is on average at 80% of my max and the highest it usually gets is 95-97% of my max heartrate.
  • mirahonthawall
    mirahonthawall Posts: 236 Member
    well you can check out my exercise diary (just ignore the fact i skipped recovery week last week lol) and you can see....they ranged anywhere from 400-500 cals.

    i finished day 1 month 2 and nearly died! 1035 cals burned, but that also includes the fit test. i'm hoping to push it and burn 800 cals with each workout in month 2 so we will seee!
  • mamaisis09
    mamaisis09 Posts: 143
    Why did you skip the recovery week?? I was thinking of doing that... but I changed my mind... maybe:)
  • mirahonthawall
    mirahonthawall Posts: 236 Member
    well i had plans to work out when i was at home visiting the family, but i just didn't.... after today i wish i had done something -- anything during the recovery week!
  • MarthaSM
    MarthaSM Posts: 9
    Day 2 of my fourth week (I repeated week 1 because I skipped that Saturday's workout). I've definitely noticed an improvement since I got my POLAR watch and started calculating my calories burned based on that and not the generic calculation (under exercises). I lost 3.5 lbs last week! :D The hardest thing for me right now is not giving in to sweets/carbs (I'm on my "time of the month") but I definitely recomend INSANITY!
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