Official Women's Insanity Group. "Time to Change"

I just completed week 1 and my legs definitely feel it! I bought insanity because it's similar to some bootcamp classes I was going to and enjoyed that had become too inconvenient to work into the schedule. With insanity I can do it whenever and it's great cardio! Was sad that I didnt lose any weight on week 1 but going to keep it up and hopefully will start to see results soon.

Quick question what are you guys doin calorie wise? Ive always had mine set at 1500 for the day and then i'd add in workout cals but after working out what im meant to have via the nutrition guide i Should be having around 2200-2500 depending on the activity amount.

everyone is different when it comes to eating back workout calories, I use an hrm and each insanity disc burns a different amount of calories, the only thing I can offer for info from personal experience is I have never burned 1000 calories doing insanity, my highest burn so far is very close to 500.

Starting on Sunday : )

I am starting Monday! I started about 2 months ago but only did it for 3 weeks. My son is 10 mths now so I need to do something now.

Let's encourage each other on this journey, I am begnning Monday....

I finished month one today!! I'm glad to see recovery week is finally here, although I watched some of that video & it doesn't look like much of a recovery!
I can tell a difference in my stamina, but haven't lost much weight. I'm excited to measure though!

Ding Ding, Round 2. I didn't want to lose any momentum I gained from my first round of insanity. I jumped right into the first workout for round 2. My reward for completing insanity is when I started round 2 the first workout felt amazing!!! Month 2 gets you so whipped into shape for month 1. lol. It went by in a blink and I had no trouble keeping up. I am a disgusting puddle of sweat enjoying my exercise high. Keep pushing everyone, its so worth it!!!

Wow congrats on finishing! I just started Month 2 and it is SOOO HARRD...how did you do it! I'm about 206 so it's not easy getting this body to do all those moves...but I really want to finish...so badly...i jus need the motivation...please share

Ding Ding, Round 2. I didn't want to lose any momentum I gained from my first round of insanity. I jumped right into the first workout for round 2. My reward for completing insanity is when I started round 2 the first workout felt amazing!!! Month 2 gets you so whipped into shape for month 1. lol. It went by in a blink and I had no trouble keeping up. I am a disgusting puddle of sweat enjoying my exercise high. Keep pushing everyone, its so worth it!!!

Well done for getting right back in there! I'm going to do the same - well a hybrid of Insanity and running - i've got 4 workouts left of Round 1!

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Wow congrats on finishing! I just started Month 2 and it is SOOO HARRD...how did you do it! I'm about 206 so it's not easy getting this body to do all those moves...but I really want to finish...so badly...i jus need the motivation...please share
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Thank you. I found month 2 challenging as well. What keeps me going is a combination of the program itself and everything I learned from reading MFP. I started insanity specifically for the cardio. I definitely got that! I also got definition in my upper arms and legs and inches lost that comes with losing 2lbs per week. When I started I was set to sedentary (1210 calories per day) and eating my exercise calories. I realized early on eating at sedentary kept me sedentary outside my workout. I needed more fuel to stay active throughout the day. So I bumped up to lightly active. That gives me a base of 1350 plus exercise calories. Now all of a sudden I have enough calories to fit in a complete social life. No more trying to lose weight on salads. All of a sudden beer and pizza nights, steak and potatoes, ice cream are all fitting into a ‘weight loss program’. Every morning a huge chocolate bar for breakfast (bio protein bar double chocolate), fresh fruit and/or veggies with a lean protein for lunch and tons of calories left over for anything goes dinner. (I never eat anything deep fried) Insanity has opened up a lot of positives. The only negative is that moment of ugh, its time to do your workout. Lol. I have been dieting and exercising on and off for 20 years and this is the first time I am enjoying it. Never again will I struggle on 1200 calories now that I know I can lose a healthy 2 lbs a week eating more. I am sure there are many exercise programs that will burn the same or more calories, but I love the cardio aspect of insanity. I tried P90X a couple years ago but I was disappointed with the lack of cardio.

I would not recommend skipping Cardio Recovery. The purpose of it is to RECOVER and let your muscles to some deep tissue work rather than cardio. Even though you don't really break a sweat during it, it is important. And I think if you pushed your muscles extra hard that day then you would be feeling it the next day during a high intensity workout and you may not be able to give it 100% as you would have if you did Cardio Recovery.

I went back and fourth on this quite a bit. I finally settled on jumping back in and skipping the recovery week. I figure if I chose a different workout to start, it wouldn't start with a recovery week. I also decided on round 2 I will skip the fit tests, that means I did cardio recovery just a couple days in, also I decided because I skipped the fit test that leaves an extra workout that needs to be made up for so I will just do cardio recovery again on Saturday. I know you are right, but I reasoned it out and this is what I came up with as a kind of comprimise.

I just attempted Max Interval Plyo and I at a certain point I just felt like "what's the point?" Honestly, I nearly pressed stop halfway through the video...sooo many push ups! (and I still can't do them)...nevertheless...somethign is better than nothing right? I don't know but I see myself doing some modification this month because it was kinda discouraging not being able to do so much of this workout...i still managed to be wet at the end (that's one thing that's consistent...lol) and even a bit sore (which i'm sure will be CONFIRMED in the morning)...so...will try to push play again tomorrow for Month 2 Day 3!

I hated max plyo. I procrastinated every time I saw that on the sheet. I never got the enjoyment in month 2 that I did out of month 1. As you said something is always better than nothing. I don't know if it will help you but I would break the videos down in my head. You warm up for a few minutes, then you stretch, on the videos that are only 45 minutes, by the time you get to the actual hard workout, its really only 20 minutes that you are pushing it, then a little stretching and you're done. There was nothing that made me feel better about that plyo workout though. lol You're doing great. If you have to modify, then modify cause its TUFF.

i have one more workout left but cant bring myself to do it lol i think I lost momentum a little plus my half marathon coming up in just under 5 weeks! Ive promised myself that I will complete the last Insanity workout before the end of the week so hold me to that people!

i have one more workout left but cant bring myself to do it lol i think I lost momentum a little plus my half marathon coming up in just under 5 weeks! Ive promised myself that I will complete the last Insanity workout before the end of the week so hold me to that people!

I certainly understand the momentum thing but........... Only one workout left! You're so close! Try to sneak it in there so you can check it off the list and get if off your mind and you can say DONE! Best of luck with the half marathon.

i have one more workout left but cant bring myself to do it lol i think I lost momentum a little plus my half marathon coming up in just under 5 weeks! Ive promised myself that I will complete the last Insanity workout before the end of the week so hold me to that people!

I certainly understand the momentum thing but........... Only one workout left! You're so close! Try to sneak it in there so you can check it off the list and get if off your mind and you can say DONE! Best of luck with the half marathon.

thanks soo much! yep i'm going to try and do the last workout on Saturday