Insanity May Kill Me !!

What a great present to yourself!

Insanity is definitely a tough program, but I find it worth the pain. I wouldn't stay on the same workout every day - go through the workouts as laid out in the schedule. The idea isn't necessarily that you are able to do all the exercises for the full time every day, but that you get up each day and hit 'play.' If you give your all (with GOOD FORM!) every day, your strength and endurance WILL improve.

Don't hit pause or stop the video early - just do what you can! (If you watch, even the fitness professionals in the video take breaks!!) Eventually you'll find yourself needing fewer breaks and even competing with various members in the video! I have friends that couldn't make it through the warm-up without stopping for the first several weeks. Eventually they were doing whole workouts at a much higher fitness level than they ever would have believed!! Like I said - the first step is to get up every day and hit 'play!'

There are several Insanity groups established here on MFP. It's helpful to have somewhere to turn for support to keep you accountable and a dedicated group understands your specific gripes and successes!

I just added a cardio activity for each of the workouts and estimate the calories burned based on what I know about my body / the time of the video. I really need to get a good heart rate monitor to get a better estimate of calorie burn!

Good luck & hang in there! It DOES get better!!

Hi I'm new here and making my first comment, I have also treated myself to the insanity workout for Christmas not yet started though, I'm not really sure if its for me. I'm not concerned about the level of exercise and yes I understand its for fitness more than looking good but I'm going to be honest. I'm going visit my boyfriend in USA who had to move due to work and since he left I have gained so much weight. I need to loose 7 stone to get to a healthy weight for my body height. I'm 5'7 and 16st 13lb the heaviest I have ever been!! I'm distraught! I'm leaving 4th April for 2 weeks to visit him and I know its not realistic to loose that much weight unless I have lipo lol. But do you guys think insanity can help me get started and at least look and feel better about myself?

I understand I probably wont loose many pounds but hopefully inches and tone up my flabby belly and thighs. I love exercise so I'm not concerned about how intense it is, the more sweat the better I find the nutrition guide a bit of a boggle as well. Much help needed thanks.. :-)

Congrats on finishing the video! I personally love insanity. Just keep going at your own pace, but remember to push yourself. You will get with the program in no time.

Just thought I would give a little update on my Insanity workout tonight. I did the same video again because I didn't finish it last night. Tonight my goal was to finish the video so I decided I would stay at a comfortable pace for me. I also changed a few exercises that I found very difficult to low impact. So I am actually proud of myself. I finished the whole video and I feel great !!

Thanks all !!

Great job! I did Insanity earlier this year and loved/hated it lol. The workouts are challenging and even at the end it was still necessary for me to take breaks. And like mentioned above, even the pros take breaks, so there's no reason to feel bad about taking a minute (or two or five) to catch your breath. :laugh: Give it a real try and I think you'll be happy with your results. I didn't lose weight (I also didn't really watch my nutrition though), but my endurance was at it's best.

Hey there everyone,I am quite new here. Started insanity since 5th November this year and now am on my second month for the insanity programme. Had to skipped few days when I was being too busy....today will be day 4 of the 2nd month.I actually tried insanity last year but flunked out on the 2nd month.This year I am going to try stay committed,so just looking for support group.I don't really have much weight loss up to date but my body really toned up great and i have better endurance..one thing i realize is that my body stays sore for quite long even for starting of second month training and there are workouts that i can't even do..such as the push-up balance. Fingers crossed that i will be able to finish the 2nd month this time around....:)

Al, great job on finishing! I did the full Insanity program last year. My core got soo much stronger. And I had a lot more tone, which is what I was looking for. If your food intake is clean and you stick with the calendar, and modify as needed, you will definitely lose the weight!

By the way, hello to all the new people on the thread as well - jelly, karen, Myxa, Shiba, Mascol, suezy, cyclerjenn I'm fairly new to MFP so I want to try and stay connected myself.

Way to go Al! Keep it up!

I also got Insanity for Christmas and I am going to start tomorrow. I am a bit overweight and out of shape. I'm hoping, even if I don't lose weight, I can lose a good amount of fat and start to look more toned

I was curious too how to add it in, how you figure out the calories burned? I am just started it and it's kicking my bioty, and decided to use mfp again for accountability.

I just started another round yesterday, i remember the first round i almost died the first few weeks. good luck

Yeah, I'm going to be very unpopular in this thread, but you may want to rethink the whole Insanity thing. I've done both P90X and Les Mills Combat from BeachBody, but I won't go near Insanity after reading what the American Council on Exercise had to say about it. They did a comparison of P90X, Insanity, and RushFit. I've completed both P90X and RushFit and I have to say that they pretty much nailed the strength and weaknesses of both programs, so I'm pretty sure they aren't far off on Insanity. Essentially, they described Insanity as having been put together without any foundation in exercise science at all, with the only conceivable goal being just to tire people out. They do a great job of making the comparison really easy to read by breaking everything out into tables. I'm not sure if this thing accepts links but you can find the article here http://www.acefitness.org/certifiednewsarticle/1443/ .

I Love this! LOL! I totally have a feeling I bought death in a box too. I am still waiting for mine to be delivered outside my door today. Cant wait to join you all! Good luck to you!

I completed the insanity program about 8 months ago and had very nice results. I lost 8lbs and 6-7 inches off my waist! My advice would be to always always always use good form when performing the exercises. Insanity was very hard on my knees and at some point my knees were hurting on a daily basis when I wasn't even exercising.

Also its perfectly okay to take more breaks than the video allows you to. As long as you keep trying your hardest, you will eventually build up more endurance and be able to keep up a lot more. Good luck to all of you doing this!!

Hi All, I am on my first week of insanity after just completing t25. I lost 7pounds doing that and am hoping to lose another 7 doing insanity. loving it so far, but finding it much harder than T25