Insanity workout on carpet........

I do Insanity in my bedroom, which is carpeted. I have no issues because I use a yoga mat for the floor moves.

I completed the INSANITY workout on my living room carpet. No problems.

I do mine on carpet with no issues.

I also do insanity on the carpet and use a yoga mat for the floor moves. The other thing that I do, which I don't know if this should be encouraged, is that I sometimes workout without any shoes on and only have my socks on. This way I make less noise when I am bouncing around and it can be more comfortable without shoes. I just watch my form a bit more and not jump as high so I protect my knees. I hope the carpet and yoga mat work for you!

I had this problem with Zumba when we lived in an apartment with someone below us..I simply went downstairs, made a new friend and said, I work out between 8 & 9 am...you're going to hear some bumping around....does this bother you? Most people will say NO if they know ahead of time. If they still have a problem, ask them what time of day would work for them. You live in an apartment, you have to work together to live your lives the way you need to. If they don't want to cooperate, I say, be as bad a neighbor to them as they are to you and do your workout whenever the hell you please. They know it's only going to last an hour...they'll get over it. Point made.

Edited to say: Do your workout on whatever surface works best for you. For me, it was carpet, barefoot. But i needed to pivot on my feet...not possible in tennies and carpet. Do what you have to do but try to engage your downstairs neighbor first. If they refuse...have at it.

I don't think I'd use ply wood only because of splinters you could get doing the push ups, planks and all the other moves where you touch the floor. Do you know the type of "mat" or "flooring" people get for their office chair if their desk in on carpet to help their chair move? I'm sure Office Max or Staples might have something like that and I think that would work pretty good.

I was doing insanity in my living room with is hard wood. I have a HUGE area rug over the top of it. Before I got carpet stickers I would slide everything around, the rug, the pets on the rug, the couch. EVERYTHING! I would only assume that doing Insanity on wood on top of the carpet would be the same way...

I have not tried it sense I have placed all the carpet stickers down. Anyone else have this issue doing the workout on an area rug?

I scratched brand new hardwood floors with a damn sliding area rug and the thing is almost 15 feet long and it STILL moved. I did put the huge carpet pad under it finally and you cant even budge the thing now. I do certain parts of the Insanity workouts on the hardwood floor like the mountain climbers you do standing up, the Heisman, basketball moves where you do the lunge with one leg and your hand wrapped underneath or in between your legs and then jump to the next leg back and forth, forgot the name of that move and then Suicide drills have to be done on a hardwood floor for me. I have almost broken my *kitten* and my face from sweat puddles though and if I don't use my push up stands when I am sweating and/or have leather finger-less gloves on I will and have slipped from sweat and fallen on my face and my elbows from my hands being so wet. Thats about the time I am cussing up a storm lol. I do not workout on carpet at all even with skid proof shoes on. It doesn't work for me AT all. But area rugs are fine as they are super thin and not all carpety lol. I hate trying to workout on bushy thick carpet, it messes up my knees. Area rugs work way better I think.