First Day of Insanity - Need Help with Counting Calories

i would highly suggest a HRM...that way there is no guessing. MFP tends to over calculate clas burned.

Hi! I used a heart rate monitor. Everybody's calorie burn in different, and the HRM I use (polar is the brand) you put your stats in. I ate around 1500-1700 calories, lost about 10 pounds, but I lost mass inches, so don't worry about the scale because I freaked when I gained4 pounds the first month! lol The second month is where you notice he most changes if you want my opinion. I am going to do a hybrid wth weight training an Insanity starting next month after my vacay! Good luck, I really enjoyed it!

I did the same thing! After the first month I got on the scale and it was up 4lbs and I freaked out! It really is the second month that you start to see the change and drop in lbs. I agree with getting a HRM then you don't have to guess and over estimate you calories burned!

I did not log cals burned my first round. I ate around slightly below my sedentary maintenance of 2100. Dropped 20+ lbs. Don't stress too much about cals burned, just push play and go harder than you think you can.

Hi All! Yesterday was my first day of Insanity and I did my Fit Test. But now Im not sure how to put the calories I burned into MFP. Will I need to get a heart rate monitor in order to more accurately calculate how many calories I have burned? Thanks for your feed back.

Also, does anyone have an tips on how they got through Insanity?

As others have suggested, use a HRM to accurately track. I finished my first round of Insanity last week and I couldn't recommend it enough. The first month I didn't use a HRM, so I was using the following site to track my calories.

http://www.everydayhealth.com/food-fitness/exercise-activity/calories-burned-conditioning-exercises

It's a rough estimate but it's not TOO bad. I found when I got my HRM that most of the time I burnt more cals than what the site recommended, but for others I did less. It all varies.

As for tips to make it through Insanity..

Whew..

Well, just breathe and take it one day at a time. Don't think too much about it as a whole, just think about it as one single day at a time. Keep pressing play, keep listening to that beast and keep trudging through. Feel free to FR me if you want to talk more about it. I'm planning to start a P90X cycle up next week and then i'll probably do another round of Insanity or a P90X/Insanity Hybrid after. But I already miss hearing Shawn scream at me!

I'm on week 3 of first month. I was only sore the first week, I guess my body got used to the workouts....no soreness after week one, just a lot of sweat !

I'm also thinking about purchasing a HRM as I just use MFP to measure my cals. Just can't decide on one.