INSANITY!!!!! SUPPORT THREAD FOR NEWBIES OF INSANITY!

I am doing pretty good, today's cardio recovery felt really good (except on my thighs!!! LOL!) but I feel more prepared to get back to the jumping and stuff tomorrow morning! I think you are right, I am going to name each workout. I will have to go back and update the last couple of days though. For today I didn't have very much calorie burn because it was the recovery day so my heart rate didn't get too high, so I want to be able to see how/why it was lower when I look back at my progress somewhere down the road.

Regarding HRM and the website, yes, they do average lower calories burnt on the website than you will find when you start using a heart rate monitor. Sometimes by quite a bit!!

I have my caloric intake set to 1350 a day right now, though I may have to adjust up soon. I can tell if I may not be getting enough calories by my lethargy. I was told by a good friend of mine once that you set your calories at your goal weight x10, so I am trying that right now because 1200 (what mfp set me at) was too low and then another formula I tried was too high for me.

Good luck!!!

How was Cardio Recovery? Thats my disc today..yesterday was Power Resistance...im starting to really get into this Insanity thing!! i was so scared to start...!! i must say the calories burned from what i hear seems unbelievabley high!! i dont have a hrm but for people that do...geezz!!! 500 cal plus is what i hear!!! i think if you are working out with insanity you will eventually have to eat more than 1350 calories...Our bodies will let us know.

This is a post from another MFP memeber regarding calories burned in insanity. This is how i decided to eat 1500 calories. Also looked at another mfp members numbers with similar weight/height as me. Her is the post:

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find it difficult to micromanage my consumed to burned calories while doing insanity. So I manually override most of the calculations of myfitnesspal. This is what has worked pretty well for me:

Figure out your own caloric needs using the Harris Benedict:

Men: 66 + (6.23 x weight lbs) + (12.7 x height inches) - (6.8 x age in years)

Women: 655 + (4.35 x weight lbs) + (4.7 x height inches) - (4.7 x age in years)

That will account for your sedentary calorie needs (everything before activity)

Then take that number and figure out your activity level. If you're doing Insanity 6 times a week your activity level is probably 1.7 If you're doing it 3-5 times a week then your activity level is probably 1.55. If you are doing insanity 3-5 times a week and then you work as a server, than 1.6 may be more appropriate, etc.

So take that sedentary calorie need amount you found in the equation above and multiply it by your activity level.

If you are looking to lose weight. then subtract the necessary calories from that amount. 1lb = 3500 calories so if you want to lose 1 pound a week you would take 3500 x (pounds) / 7 and that's the number you want to lower per day. So if you want to lose 1 pound a week it's 3500 x 1 / 7 which is 500 calories to lower. If you want to lose 2lbs a week it's 3500 x 2 / 7 = 1000 calories to lower. Same with half pounds (.5) etc.

Once you have calculated this final number of calories per day. Manually override the myfitnesspal to that number, I also have it stated that I want to "maintain" my current weight etc. But if you do this, it's important that you DO NOT ADD THE INSANITY EXERCISE TO YOUR DIARY as it was already accounted for in 'fitness level'.

If you "record your new weight" often, you can still use the fun little scale to get closer to your goal, etc.

I know it's longer and more complicated, but it's a bit more accurate, and then you don't have to worry so much about the calorie difference between recovery weeks, versus month one, versus month two.

I know there are still some out there that insist on keeping the HRM store in business and want to nail every single calorie, etc. And that's cool, to each his own. I just found that this is a pretty easy way for those who are not into the "technical" side of fitness training to have a good base to go from, especially with making myfitnesspal compatible with Insanity, as the myfitnesspal is a great way to keep track of calories, and carb/fat/protein ratios.

Hope that helps. "

I am doing pretty good, today's cardio recovery felt really good (except on my thighs!!! LOL!) but I feel more prepared to get back to the jumping and stuff tomorrow morning! I think you are right, I am going to name each workout. I will have to go back and update the last couple of days though. For today I didn't have very much calorie burn because it was the recovery day so my heart rate didn't get too high, so I want to be able to see how/why it was lower when I look back at my progress somewhere down the road.

Regarding HRM and the website, yes, they do average lower calories burnt on the website than you will find when you start using a heart rate monitor. Sometimes by quite a bit!!

I have my caloric intake set to 1350 a day right now, though I may have to adjust up soon. I can tell if I may not be getting enough calories by my lethargy. I was told by a good friend of mine once that you set your calories at your goal weight x10, so I am trying that right now because 1200 (what mfp set me at) was too low and then another formula I tried was too high for me.

Good luck!!!

How was Cardio Recovery? Thats my disc today..yesterday was Power Resistance...im starting to really get into this Insanity thing!! i was so scared to start...!! i must say the calories burned from what i hear seems unbelievabley high!! i dont have a hrm but for people that do...geezz!!! 500 cal plus is what i hear!!! i think if you are working out with insanity you will eventually have to eat more than 1350 calories...Our bodies will let us know.

When I did this last message was after I did Cardio Recovery. My HR didn't get very high, it was mostly all yoga type stretches, but with some squat pulses and lunge pulses put in. It felt really good, but there was a lot of burn in the thighs!

Today we (DH and I) did Pure Cardio... prepare yourself with knowledge, that is all you can really do! So, we figured out that the stretch and warm up are spliced in from another DVD because we were looking at each other saying, I think we have done this before! But then when the workout starts, we realize we have not done it, and we were not going to make it! Well, we survived, but we took a lot of breaks. To sum it all up, the workout portion is straight through, no grey bars of 30 second water break goodness. It is constant movement, some moves done earlier in the week, some new, but none are repeated during the workout, just one move after another! The folks on the screen were dropping like flies, so I didn't feel so bad!! My heart rate stayed up in high 160 - low 170 range on average the entire workout. My calorie burn was 564 and I rested quite a few times.

Hope all this info helps!! Good luck today!

awesome awesome...soooo basically, yoga today, and back to hardcore tommorow, lol!