Insanity Inspiration

I am also doing weight training with Insanity - either 2 upper and 2 lower body days, or 2 full body, 1 upper and 1 lower (depending on what my trainer does). I do have some progress pics on my profile - the third one in the side by sides is one week into insanity, and the light blue sports bra and yoga pants is the start of week 4.

I don't know if you're a fan on teen mom, but Kailyn Lowry just posted pics that make me want to buy it
http://kailynlowry.tumblr.com/ )just scroll down a little

i do insanity and i like to add weight routines in with BBL Rio extreme or a jillian michaels dvd

I DO feel accomplished just after the warmup

lol I agree with that statement completely. I remember the first time I did Insanity and how horrible it was. I thought it was finally over with and was so excited and then I heard him say "Alright, now we're through with the warmup" I was like WTF!! That was just the warmup :noway:

As far as your initial question, are you tracking your calories burned doing Insanity and eating those back? I know not everyone follows the belief that you should eat back your exercise calories but you have to make sure you're giving your body fuel to form those muscles that you're looking for. It would be hard to build muscle on a low calorie diet. Also, are you only going off of the scale because you might not be dropping pounds but you could be dropping inches which is much better in my opinion anyways. Good luck and stick with it

Here is some motivation

After

I just finished the first month of Insanity. I'm in the first week of the second month. My knees are hurting. I bought ChaLEAN extreme. So my plan is to mix up the weights with Insanity.

Careful. It's been almost a year since I did Insanity and I have a bad case of knee bursitis that I can't get rid of. (Did 5 months of TurboFire prior to Insanity) Went to a doctor recently and went through Physical Therapy...$1000 later and it's still here.

wow! That is good to know! I am surprised I'm having pain because I run marathons and have no problems with feet pounding on pavement. But, I guess I will take this to heart and back off on Insanity for now.

this is from insanity?! one round!?

All the fat loss I have got is from dieting and insanity. I was going through a bulk on the first pic and I started insanity to cut my body fat percentage down. Not all of it is form insanity but most. It really is tough but if you can do it more than worth it. I am almost done with my first round of insanity, but on top of doing insanity I also lift weights 3 days a week

For impact issues, I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of 12"X12" foam mats and duct taped them all together and do all the Insanity work outs on that. The whole mat is a 8' x 4' piece and is 1/4" thick, height and width about the size of a standard doorway. I wrap my calves also if i feel any sort of pain from jumping. Its such a great workout, that i struggled with in the beginning, but now i love it.

I swear by the mats. Anything with high impact and jumping! Even something simple like Yoga. I've even put them under the feet of my treadmill just for the added cushion. hahaha. I use bright yellow duct tape and make a chess board pattern, which allows you to also mark how far your jumps are, using the the boxes as markers. Have Fun!

Edwin

If anyone has any questions feel free to add me.

Nope. No way

By how much should you increase your calories Spontaneous1313 to get out of a plateau?

Where did the tattoo on your right shoulder go in some of your pictures?

:huh:

It moved to her left shoulder. She was looking in the mirror.