Insanity

MeganRhea_x

For anyone that has done the Insanity workout program... do any of you pick a cardio exercise from MFP list to track your exercise? I've asked before and someone mentioned just buying a heart rate monitor and track the calories myself but the one I have is cheap and doesn't work and I don't have the money to spend on a nice one. I was just curious if anyone knew of a pre-set exercise with calories burned on here that was closest to what you would burn in an insanity workout. Thanks!

volrathdesign

Hello,

As a fellow Insanity user you need to buy a HRM nothing on this website will give you the correct results you're looking for when it comes to how many calories you burn.

The workout is 100% purely based on the amount of effort you put into it. If you dog the workout one day you might find your calorie burn is only 400 calories, but if you push yourself hard and do the entire workout from beginning to end your results might be 800+ calories in total. I've done it myself so I can testify to having great results and bad results (mainly when I started doing Insanity)

On here it just asks for the amount of minutes you put into the workout, it's not accurate, buy a HRM.

MeganRhea_x

Can you recommend one to me? I bought a cheap one that said I burned like 80 calories which I know what wrong. I just don't want to invest in something that I know nothing about and waste the money. Thanks

volrathdesign

I've been using this one for about 2 months and I think it's fairly accurate. But maybe not I've contemplated buying an expensive one myself but the reviews were pretty solid for this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Timex-T5G971-Unisex-Personal-Monitor/dp/B000P8VWQS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321373251&sr=8-1

MeganRhea_x

Thanks! I guess I'll have to give in and buy a decent one.