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I don't drink beer often but once or month or so I will allow myself to have a couple on a Sat night. The first sip after not having one for a month is just amazeballs.

Well I have been using Shakeology for the past 2 years and I love it. It's expensive, like $4 a day expensive. For some people that makes sense. For others it's a ridiculous price to pay for one meal. The original formula had a bit of an aftertaste that people tended to dislike (kinda metallic, like liquid barium) . The…

^Agreed For me it makes sense. I do use it as a meal replacement. I just simply do not have the time to pre prepare lunches. I drink it for lunch on weekdays with some PB2 and milk mixed in (My diary is open for anyone who wants to see). It keeps me full enough until my preworkout snack. The amount per day it costs me was…

Can you be more specific about what you don't understand? This article is a pretty good place to start IMHO: http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/vitamins-minerals/micronutrients-what-they-are-and-why-theyre-essential.html

^ Yea I took the trial quiz or whatever it is on the webpage and it's recommending that Black Fire for me. Sounds scary :s In comparison to Insanity... harder?

I like to spend a few minutes at the end of my workouts on direct ab work. I know alot on here are anti ab stuff but the video packages I've done (Insanity, T25, Body Beast, Tapout XT, Insanity Max 30, Turbofire) all have videos specifically dedicated to direct ab work. Some of the programs have it as an add on video after…

Been interested in trying it. Saw it on the Roku. I really need some new cardio vids for my cardio days. Getting quite tired of Insanity and T25 vids. Sounds like Daily Burn has a wide range of them?

OP you look great, keep up the good work ;) This forum can be ridiculous at times with all the curmudgeons on here. Don't let it get you down. :)

Whelp looking at that list I can safely state I DO NOT eat clean in any regard :s

Yea it's the Beta Alanine. Some people have no reaction to it whatever. Others have different degrees. I get a slight itch from it, my brother on the other hand gets an unbearable itch from it so he uses a preworkout that doesn't have it. For me once I start sweating the itch goes away.

I also echo C4. I workout in the late afternoons after work around 5:00PM and by then I find myself in an energy lull. So as soon as I get home I take the C4 and it re-energizes me. How much of it is placebo effect I don't know. But the Beta Alanine itch alone makes me want to hurry up and get a sweat on to get over it lol.

Agree with poster above me. Move on to Body Beast and do a hybrid of Insanity and Beast. Follow the Beast schedule but sub in Insanity vids for the Beast cardio days. The Beast cardio is pretty awful. I currently do Beast 3-4 days and Insanity 2-3 days a week depending on how the schedule falls. I've had my best weight…

Since you referenced a bunch of the Beachbody programs I assume you are mostly looking for an at home fitness program. I've done more then a few of the Beachbody programs. As far as best it really depends on what you are looking for. Insanity: Heavy Cardio based, but includes Plyo, strength, and body weight circuits. Good…

I swear by C4. Can usually catch it on sale on Amazon. It has beta alanine though so it may make you itch. Start with a half scoop or 1 scoop dose and see if you get any reactions. I used to mind the itch but now it barely even phases me. As far as energy goes... it gets my blood boiling and makes me eager to get a sweat…

Frantic is the best I can describe them. I've only done a few of the HIIT videos but wow she's a nightmare to keep up with. :s

I have bought Insanity, Body Beast, and Insanity Max 30. A couple friends of mine have bought a few others and we swap and share type thing.

I use an HRM that gives me an approximate baseline number to use. But I pause it during the stretching periods. I'd be careful with the online calculators I found they were giving me very high numbers compared to what my HRM says. MFP also gives very high numbers. For instance in Pure Cardio my HRM says I burned 350-400…

In INSANITY®, Shaun T uses a method called Max Interval Training. It's not your typical interval workout. You'll do cardio and plyometric drills with intervals of strength, power, resistance, and core training. It all happens in long bursts of maximum-intensity exercises with short periods of rest, so you can get…

Yea probably just semantics. She said "toning and building muscle" so to me I took that more along the lines of losing fat and gaining strength which I feel you can do very easily with Insanity. Obviously if you want to bulk you need to be doing something like Body Beast for at home workouts. My issue was more along the…

It's one of the most intense programs BeachBody offers so don't feel bad about not being able to do it right out of the box. T25 is a better program to start with because it has a modifier on the screen at all times that can help you ease into the program, then as you get better and learn the moves you can start doing the…

Fair enough. But I still think you are selling the program short. It's obvious you have never done it so probably shouldn't speak in definitive about it. If someone told me they wanted to add muscle I wouldn't directly suggest Insanity, it's not the ideal program for it. But the body weight circuits alone can be quite…

Def regular Insanity. I'd probably rank them: Insanity T25 Insanity Max 30 Insanity Asylum Wasn't a big fan of Asylum at all.

Yep. Between T25, Insanity, Asylum, and Max 30 I've called him every name in the book at this point.

That's not entirely true. There is a video as part of the series specifically for upper body weight training: http://www.fityouforlife.com/shaun-ts-deluxe-upper-body-weight-training-review/ Also almost every video has a circuit in it dedicated to upper body using body weight exercises. I would say Insanity is not an ideal…

Chips for me. I used to down bags of chips while watching movies, playing games etc. Doritos are my vice. I don't think I will ever be able to eat them in moderation so I don't keep them in the house anymore cause I can't trust myself. Even the whole pour out some on a plate and eat them slowly thing doesn't work. I will…

I'm doing it as part of a hybrid with Insanity. I just feel like the cardio in Beast is lacking so I sub in Insanity Vids instead for my cardio days. But feel free to add me. I'm also not following the diet yet because I have another 18 lbs to go before I hit goal weight. Right now basically using Beast to keep up my…

So 40 minutes of interval training and 40 minutes of Yoga both burn 240 cals? Or is it more like a system where at the end of the week it all evens out? Reason why I'm curious is because if someone on here is doing a program like P90X3 the schedule is erratic. One day it will be an Agility Vid with high cal burns, next is…

I have purchased both Max 30 and I drink Shakeology daily. For me personally crunching the numbers the Shake wasn't much more expensive then what I was spending on my daily lunches and the nutritional value was double then what I normally ate. So for me it made sense. I also hate veggies and only like certain fruits so if…

Pre Workout: C4 Post Workout: Amino X and About Time Protein Shake I kinda hate veggies so I drink Shakeology for Lunch everyday and that supplies a rather large spectrum of my daily nutrients. Not sure if that's considered a supplement or not.

I would say workout DVD is extremely obtuse but whatever not going to argue over semantics.