INSANITY
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3 lbs off, have not measured yet. Will when I heal up lol.0
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That's pretty good! What's your starting weight?0
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I was planning on running yesterday but it was raining so I ended up doing Insanity fast and furious. Since it was only 20+ minutes and that I've done it a few times before, I tried to really match the reps that the folks did in the video. For the most part I'm on par with them and maybe did a few more in some but power jumps still kicked my butt. I was aiming for not taking breaks during the power jumps but next thing I know I was taking breaks whenever they did the same LOL.
Today is biceps and back and ARX. Can't wait to get home to hammer it out!
BRING IT!!
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Yesterday I did fast and furious. Nothing fancy there, just good old max interval. I like how it got my heart rate up pretty much the whole time! I went to help my sister ,ove earlier. She didnt have a lot of stuff and thats why we had to stop by and picked up quite a few furnitures from the stores. A bunch of loading and unloading.. Took like 6 hours or so. Wish we had more help but i kind of liked it as nothing was too heavy for me
Today is legs and back and arx! 0 -
Happy Wednesday team!
Last night I did Fast n Furious and went for a run afterward. It was a bit warm here in Dallas but I managed to run for about 25 minutes at 6mph. I came across an app called Runtastic which I've now installed on my phone. Didn't get a chance to experiment it yesterday but it appears that it tracks the route, distance and speed in real time. Have you guys had any experience with apps like this?0 -
I use runtastic, really like it, syncs to MFP as well so automatically updates your run time/calories burned.0
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No the GPS tracks it for you and then you can look at the map and it shows you where you were fastest, where you slowed down etc. Then it gives you total distance, average speed and calories burnt. That's on the free app. It lets you know when you hit 1 km ( Canada eh..lol) and your time for doing so and then again at 2 km. Probably can do in miles as well. If you upgrade ( I haven't bothered) it will give you voice over at every km ( not just to 2).
You can also listen to music at the same time and it just mutes your song while its talking.
And 6mph wow your fast, I jog like a snail. Just hit my first 5 km of running the entire time. Going to work on speed next.0 -
Wow that sounds pretty fancy. I'm for sure going to try it out. You know there are just so many apps for running and it's overwhelming to try them all out
Thanks for the tips!
I thought 6 mph was pretty slow LOL.. my friends are normally doing 8 mph and they called me slow!0 -
Good morning!! Yesterday was fast and furious for me again. I've been doing it twice a week as my cardio routine of choice. As my BF% is hovering around 7%, I thought I could cut back on my cardio and focus more on weight to gain or at least condition the muscles. This is a very SLOW way to getting cut and ripped as I've noticed myself. But on the other hand, since my BF% is rather low or close to my goal, I don't want to end up losing much muscles due to the calorie deficit that I'm having. It's slow but I'm still seeing result. My advice for you all is: if your body fat% is not below 10% and if you're still not seeing the abs, stay on a fat shredder diet with calorie deficit. It will work!
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Afternoon folks,
I'm on week 7, and I'm planning on running through Insanity a couple more times, back to back (because I'm really starting from scratch with fitness, each round I'll be stronger and finish those moves with the right strength!).
Does anyone have advice for how to leave in between finishing and starting back again? Maybe a week off, then a week of recovery and then back, or maybe just a week of recovery?
Well done everyone for starting, continuing, finishing Insanity, I certainly feel so much stronger already!0 -
Good job on hitting week 7!! You can just take a week of recovery and back again if you can't stand without working out for another week and losing the steam How's your result so far? 0
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duplicate post somehow!0
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Going goodly! I'm getting used to being up at 5.30am - FINALLY - that took longest to get used to I think!
I'm much stronger, on the up side, but I'm also up a couple of centimetres all over, and up 2kg since I started. However, I finally started going down again this week, so I'm curious to see where I'll be in a few weeks. I've got about 10-15kg to lose, and would like to go from about 35% BF to about 25% (as rough as that is, as I'm just using online calculators).
One thing though - I still cannot do a press up, I have no arm strength where is joins my shoulders, whatever that muscle is called? I can plank and hold it, but thats with stomach muscles keeping me up, not chest/arms. Do you have any tips for working on this, perhaps?
Thanks for the suggestion of recovery then carry on, I love that I'll get stronger all the time!0 -
That's great! Make sure you eat at a calorie deficit and your weight loss will be like clockwork!
I wish there was an easy button for instant strength LOL.. The only way to do it is to keep trying and enduring. I remember I was only able to do 1 pull-ups in p90x. But now I can do 10. Keep trying.0 -
I started eating more about 2 months ago, as I was averaging about 1350 and my TDEE-25% is about 1800 but I spent so much time thinking about how to boost it properly, it was daft, so I've stopped, just gone back to normal and now I'm averaging about 1600 of good cals. See how that goes
No instant button required - just wasnt sure if there was something to focus on to improve that in particular but it's fine to keep working and building slowly!0 -
So I had been doing a mix of running and asylum. Then my husband said he wanted to start walking with me in the morning. Since he could use the exercise and we could use the time together I said sure. So now my run has turned into a walk, that's ok I'll power walk. Nope ...he strolls. So I got him up to a medium walk, but still missing my cardio. So I start throwing in some Insanity, problem solved.
Ha, then fate kicks me a good one and I tweak my lower back/upper glute. No biggy until the spasms start. OMG that set off the rest of my back ( upper back injury from a car accident) and I look like the hunchback of notre dame !!!! ( think spasms lower back and mid back all on left side)
Now ( one week later) my back is down to a dull ache, I'm back to walking and have been doing Asylum relief and Insanity Cardio Recovery. I'm hoping by Monday I can start jogging ( I've decided Hubby is going to do C25K...hahaha he doesn't know this yet:bigsmile: ) and I think I'm going to start Insanity from the top, maybe every other day if running, every day if walking.0 -
@ghsfitnesspal - if you have doubts about how much you should be eating, here's a quick calculation that I use and recommend. http://www.fearlessleefit.com/nutrition/how-to-calculate-my-calorie-needs/
@lyndayh - welcome back! Haven't seen you for quite a while. I'm glad that you've been pushing play and running. Great job! What's c25k? 2.5 miles?
I did Fast m Furious for my cardio yesterday. Nothing fancy there but good ole cardio! My weight has been hovering around 151 but my muscles appaer to be more sculpted week by week. That might have given the impression that the muscles are getting bigger The last time I did a tape measurement, they were about the same so I know they aren't getting bigger but hey I'll take that even if it's an illusion LOL.
I've been experimenting with what I called the "dynamic p90x diet". See there are 3 phases in the p90x diet plan - fat shredder, energy booster and endurance maximizer. I thought I could adjust the macros (e.g. switch between the diet) based on the workout I have for the day. For the most part I stick to fat shredder but on the cardio days, I upped my carb to as high as 40% (protein 40%) to give me the extra energy for the cardio workout. On the resistance days, I lower my carb back to 30% and protein 50% for the muscle recovery and growth. I felt better on the days I had more carbs but I didn't necessary feel more energetic. I think it's more of a mental thing. I just started this a few weeks back so it's still early to tell if this has any impact to the result just yet. Now I don't feel comfortable going to the endurance maximizer diet which is a 50% carb 30% protein diet just yet (or ever) because 50% carb is just way too high and I don't think or feel I have the need to have that much carbs. Anyway, the key in this "dynamic p90x diet" is that the calorie target should still be maintained throughout. Meaning if my calorie target is 1700 a day, not matter what I do with the macros, I should never exceed the calorie target for the day so that I continue to have calorie deficit. It's important because that makes the weight control a lot more predictable.
Again, it's an experiment I'm doing now and not something that I would recommend just yet. Until then, let's keep digging deep!
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C25K is a running training program. It starts you as a non-runner ( which hubby definitely is...lol) and over 9 weeks gets you running 30 min straight ( or 5k ish which would be about 3.12 miles) . I did it a year or so ago and it was awesome. I don't run in winter due to snow and cold so this spring I dusted it off and started at week 6. It does intervals run walk increasing running time. you do it every other day and sometimes it increases each day and later weeks you repeat longer runs each day ( ie week 7 is 25 min all 3 days).
Once my ack is better I'm going to work on increasing my speed and then maybe endurance to 10 k0 -
Couch to 5k is a superb program, I came across it when I was able to run about a mile and although I loathed the music at the time, there have been loads of programs created which are so much better! I recommend Zombies, Run! too, you're a runner in a land plagued with zombs, as the characters call them, and you have the option to be chased by zombies to push yourself if you want!
Insanity question - looking at the DVDs, and on the Insanity website, I dont see a reference to Insane abs, or Sports trainings, which is on the Xcel spreadsheet, am I missing something?0 -
@lyndabyh - that sounds fun! I tried to run a few weeks back and I was able to do about 30 minutes nonstop at 6mph. I guess I could try to do a 5k!
@ghsfitnesspal - Insane abs isn't part of the basic insanity program. Cardio Abs is the one that comes with Insanity.0 -
Thats what I thought - I wonder why it's on the spreadsheet then. I'll stick to what I have, thanks0
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after about a month off i'm finally back. hope to be posting a lot more
doing p90x again but preparing to be very board with it lol0 -
Welcome back bro! Good to see you again after a long while.0
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Good morning team!! Yesterday was cardio day but I didn't get a chance to do any cardio. I didn't get off work until very late so I decided to hit the driving range instead. Since they opened until 12AM, I was able to squeeze in about an hour or so of practice time. There's no much burn there but it was a good upper body stretching exercise LOL.
I'm going to be doing Biceps and Back and ARX tonight. Time to push hard!!
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very sore, more sore then the first round of p90x i did. posting in this thread because it seems more popular lol.
about a month off of any beach body program and all i wanted to eat was something out of a wrapper.
two days into p90x and i'm craving steak.
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@no-finish-line : glad to see you back. Your probably more sore due to being off for a month. You'll probably find you recover faster though. Good luck0
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thanks lyn!
got thru shoulders and arms last night without having to pause it or back it up. thats pretty good for me for the first time through this workout this round. Tony moves a little fast for me.
and this was also the first time i experienced ARX with a sore core lol. it hurt
then i did some jump rope afterwards because i am truly 100% addicted!0 -
So my back/ hip are feeling much better and I've been easing back into things . Last week just walking and asylum relief but this week I was able to run ( made 5k twice this week ..yeah me!!) and do relief. Today I added Insanity abs and tomorrow I think I'll attempt Asylum strength again.
Going to continue running and adding either Insanity or Asylum for another week and then start Insanity over beginning of July0 -
Speaking of running...Yesterday I did 35 minutes of running at a speed of 5mph for the first 10 minutes and then increased to 6mph for the remaining 25. The temperature finally cooled down a bit at around 9pm but was still around 85. I haven't run for a few weeks now so I thought I would give that another try. It was more difficult this time around due to the heat. Even though the sun was setting, there were still significant radiated from the roads. I ran slower in the beginning just so I could acclimate myself to the heat. I must have sweat gallons LOL before I decided to take it up a notch. Surprisingly I didn't get worse. At the end, it almost felt like I was in sauna for a couple of hours.
I'm going to swap out legs with chest today. And of course ARX!0
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