I did insanity for 5 weeks and lost a lot then the hi impact stuff hurt my back so took a break and now back on it doing low impact alternatives to things like powerjumps. Noticed I hit a plateau doing just insanity 5-6 days a week.

I noticed I'm not building up any muscle and did some research of various sites and forums. What I'm planning on doing now is doing insanity 3 days and part 2 days with 20% cardio to warm up and 40% strength with weights/resistance bands. This is just my preference though. I'm doing stuff from resistance bands online and workouts from www.dailyhiit.com.

I had a couple of PT's talk about insanity and said that the full warm up stretch is too long (too pad out the DVD) so what I do is my own shorter stretch and use that time for some strength work too if I'm on a time limit. I've done turbofire with my wife which is the same amount of cardio and their stretch routine is minimal.

I mix in TRX & spin class somedays for variety and give my joints a break.

I'm waiting on P90x coming so that I can do a hybrid.