Insantiy

Same here, but I was wondering how hard it will be on my knees. I saw an infomertial on it a few days ago and it looks WOW!

I have completed Insanity 3 times and just finished up Insanity The Asylum for the third time the other day. Get it! Modify the power jumps if you have bad knees, that's all I had to do in the beginning because I have a bad right knee and now I do tons of them and it doesn't effect me at all and I never got any injuries from any of his workouts and push myself harder than most people tend to.

You will not be disappointed with these workout at all I promise you. It trains your body AND your mind at the same time, and in my opinion that is what people need who are on any kind of fitness journey, whether we're doing it for weight loss or just to tone and tighten. We need something that's going to challenge us and make us want to come back tomorrow and do it again even when we feel like throwing up lol, which almost happened to me twice in the first week. I did not throw up but I felt like I was going to.
Insanity helps with the mind by seriously pushing you, pissing you off, getting in your face and forcing you to do better. If you don't fix what's going on in the inside you'll just keep repeating the same bad habits, whether its overeating, not working out, not working hard enough etc... once your mind is right everything falls into place in my opinion.
Shaun pushes you beyond your maximum and at times you may not feel like you're going to be able to make it and that is when you need to get inside of yourself and just tune everything else out. DIG DEEP as he is famous for saying. That was when I started getting my best results was from pushing myself beyond my threshold. I had better stamina, strength, power, confidence in the end because of it too. He is the best personal trainer EVER in my opinion. No one gets inside of your head and challenges you, pushes you, makes you see yourself in a different light like he does.
Its not the exercises themselves that are hard but the length of time you do them without breaks or very short ones. Insanity changed my life. I wasn't doing it to lose weight or anything, I lost my bf in a motorcycle wreck and was out of my fricking head and needed a major release so that I could cope with waking up everyday and was taking a year to prep and condition myself for Krav Maga training, so I did both of his programs and I swear it changed my attitude and my mind better than anything else ever has including a Life Coach. When you're pushed like that, the way he pushes you in these workouts you start to "get it" and you start to care about it and it becomes your life's goal to want to change yourself and your ways, and of course to be able to kick his *kitten* and hand it right back to him lol. Insanity changed my life period.

Good luck to you and wish you all the best, sorry for such a long *kitten* reply. :blushing:

I had a question regarding insanity as well. I have bad wrist problems, doing push ups or any body weight put on my wrist tends to make them scream in pain. In the info commercials I see them doing a lot of moves where there may be a lot of weight put on wrist. Does he have modified versions of using push up bars? I wasn't sure with some of the moves if those would even work out properly.

Thank you very much. Just doing one push up with my wrist, and I'm crying in pain and usually have to wear a wrist brace for 2 weeks afterwards. Thanks for the quick response. I was worried if some of the moves didn't allow the modified way and I didn't want to get it, if I wasn't really able to do most of the exercises. I'll have to look more into it. Thanks again.

Asylum is the one you want to watch out for if you have bad wrists

Certain workouts from Insanity hurt my knees. I just sub something else for that part.

I have two bad knees, bad wrists, one bad elbow, and about 30 lbs to lose. I do Insanity every day and I absolutely love it! I started out having to modify everything. And I mean everything.

With my bad knees, I can't do any jumps and am not supposed to do anything high impact. I have a mini trampoline that I use for the high impact stuff. I get on there and do everything just like it is in the video, but the mini trampoline takes out most of the impact. There are certain things that you just can't physically do as fast on a mini trampoline as you could on the floor, so with those things, I just do as many as I can.

Then I move down to the floor for the things like push ups, ski abs, etc. If my wrists are good that day, I'll do regular push ups, but if they aren't, I'll do push ups or whatever off of the side of the mini trampoline. The side of it is about a foot off the floor and takes most of the pressure off of my wrists.

I highly recommend getting even a cheap mini trampoline for high impact workouts if you have bad knees. If I didn't have one, I wouldn't be working out nearly as much as I do...or at least not doing as much as I do. The one I have is a little more expensive and has bungee cords instead of metal springs, so the bounce is much softer.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can modify just about everything in Insanity and still get a great workout. I have been doing it long enough now that my knees have actually improved and I don't have to use the mini trampoline for as much as I did in the beginning.

Love the idea of mini trampoline. My aunt used one of those in the 70's and swore it was the best workout ever haha. I'd get one just for the fun of it and might. I love trampolines they are a blast.

Your aunt was right!

It really is a great workout in and of itself, but add in Insanity and you can be sure you'll get an even better workout. Of course, everything in Insanity is harder on the floor, but it isn't *that* much easier on the trampoline. It is fun too! I love it and am so glad I have one to use!