Insanity Question

Basically, I know it might be different for each person and might depend on whether you listen to your body but I want to get the sense of whether it is 60 days of suffering only during the exercise or 60 days of suffering all day each day. That's the gist of my question. It makes a difference.

It all depends on your fitness level. I completed Insanity last year. The first couple of weeks were challenging because my body was not used to the extreme cardio! I did not suffer the rest of the day.........I have heard that some do. Regardless, you will feel tired until your body accepts the workout. Once it does, you will CRAVE the HIGH!
whatever you do.....DO NOT GIVE UP! IT WILL GET EASIER, I PROMISE!

Nice. Thanks. I don't mind suffering for the 30 min to 1 hour each day but I don't want something that has me suffering all day.

I'm in week 4 of Insanity and its tough, but doable. Some time in Nov I tried doing it and was doing well, but the jumping was too much pressure on my left foot and put me out of working out for a couple weeks. I've also had this happen with another program so its not just insanity. Everyone is obviously different though.It also left me sore for the first week lol.

Well like I said I am back on the program and so far I'm doing great.. no soreness, pain, or injuries as of yet. I say go for it and see how you do. It gets a lil easier after the first couple of weeks.. and then they switch em up lol.

Thanks for that bit of detail. I have a left ankle that bothered me when I started doing the gym treadmill in Nov. I was a trooper and switched to bike to give it time to heal but sometimes it was bothering me until I switched to home treadmill soft track (Healthrider). That makes a difference No pain in joints.

I'm sort of glad I stopped. Pain and acheyness in a joint means damage is occurring. It's not suck it up. I've decided to respect ALL joint aches (and try to go more slowly, change surfaces, give time to heal etc). As far as muscles, my thought is if it is bilateral pain, good...suck it up...let the soreness occur and I'll grow...but if it is unilateral, look into it to see why only one side is hurting. Did i do something wrong? We'll see how this philosophy works.

I accidentally ended up on the grass last week and I loved it. Now I enjoy doing jumping jacks and other jumping in the grass and not feeling guilty about my knees etc. I got this free floor exercise mat one time that I never opened. I'm thinking I might move that outside and toss it on the grass and move the TV with built in DVD player outside each day to do it (it's light). I don't need to finish with a better body and damaged knees.

We'll see.