INSANITY Workout – any CP Insanity veterans in here??

[-King-]

Found all the discs. Will start as soon as I buy a good exercise mat this weekend.

[Omaha]

Where is frankotank?

[frankotank]

Originally Posted by Omaha

Where is frankotank?

I is here! Wow this thread got lit up.
I’m still chugging along. It’s a bitch sometimes but I’m am seeing results. Tomorrow morning I will complete the third week. I will not step on a scale again for a long time – I weighed in after the first two week and I had gained a pound!!! I am more solid now though, I am changing. One pair of gym shorts I was wearing on week one…I can’t use them anymore, they start falling off.

OK…..alnorth….I really hope you are a young dude talking about heart rate of 170….either you are young or I have my heart rate calculation way off! I need to know if I’m doing this right. Very important!
I have been using this formula…..220 – age times .65 for low end and 220 – age times .85 for high end. I’m 47. My low end is 112 and my high end is 147. I frigging LIVE in the 150’s. I just can’t help it. Am I calculating this right???

Buehler445 - by the time I’m thru the “warmups” and get to the stretching….I don’t think it’s a joke. Sometimes I can’t even hold the positions as long as they can. Keep doing it! Don’t skip it. I’m sure it will help you avoid injury.

Chiefs1968 – keep going! Who cares if you miss days…keep doing it. It’s GOTTA make you better. Better….stronger....FASTER! (can anyone identify that tv show?)

My immune system is ASS. I usually get sick when starting out on a physical fitness odyssey. I’ve been taking a daily vitamin and popping some airborne at the slightest hint of feeling bad. So far so good. Painful as it is sometimes….I don’t want to get derailed. Also another thing I started doing….drinking a protein shake after the workouts. I’m feeling pretty good.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by frankotank

OK…..alnorth….I really hope you are a young dude talking about heart rate of 170….either you are young or I have my heart rate calculation way off! I need to know if I’m doing this right. Very important!
I have been using this formula…..220 – age times .65 for low end and 220 – age times .85 for high end. I’m 47. My low end is 112 and my high end is 147. I frigging LIVE in the 150’s. I just can’t help it. Am I calculating this right???

Yep, definitely younger than you. During the insanity workouts, I'm mostly in the 160's or low 170's. A normal workout or weightlifting routine is supposed to get you around 60% to 80%, but from reading around, there's almost no chance of staying under 75% or 80% while doing insanity without really long breaks, so I'm just trying to stay under 92%-ish or so.

(Also, this is probably only interesting to math nerds like me, but the traditional 220-age formula which became really popular is apparently thought to be not the most ideal formula. Some researcher just threw that out there years ago as a rough estimate and heart rate monitor companies just took it and ran with it. There's a lot of other more complicated formulas out there, one that was created a few years ago is calculated as: 163 + (1.16 x age) - (0.018 x (age^2)), but 220-age still gets you pretty close to that.)

[frankotank]

I've been considering the possibility of doing the first month a second time and THEN moving on to the harder workout dvds. I looked at all the workout times and the second month gets even longer. I'm not sure I'll be ready for the next level of torture in another two weeks.
does anyone that has done this before think that is a stupid idea? remember I'm 47!

[donkhater]

Originally Posted by frankotank

I've been considering the possibility of doing the first month a second time and THEN moving on to the harder workout dvds. I looked at all the workout times and the second month gets even longer. I'm not sure I'll be ready for the next level of torture in another two weeks.
does anyone that has done this before think that is a stupid idea? remember I'm 47!

As long as you don't get bored with the routines, this isn't a bad idea. Just remember that you don't want to get into a comfortable routine as strange as that sounds. You need to keep challenging your body to make gains.

After the first month I felt I was ready to move on and the second month is no joke. I had plateaued in my weight loss. Now, only five workouts from the end, I can say I'm down 10 lbs, two belt loops thinner and can start to see some inkling of ab definition, but it wasn't until now that most of that came in.

Edit: I'm 40 for what it's worth.

[frankotank]

Originally Posted by alnorth

There's a reason for that. Previously the conventional wisdom is to stretch first, then warm up.
Basically its the "you shouldn't try to stretch a frozen rubber band" theory.

makes perfect sense to me. I think I'll stop doing my pre-stretching and see how it goes.

Originally Posted by donkhater

As long as you don't get bored with the routines, this isn't a bad idea. Just remember that you don't want to get into a comfortable routine as strange as that sounds. You need to keep challenging your body to make gains.

After the first month I felt I was ready to move on and the second month is no joke. I had plateaued in my weight loss. Now, only five workouts from the end, I can say I'm down 10 lbs, two belt loops thinner and can start to see some inkling of ab definition, but it wasn't until now that most of that came in.

Edit: I'm 40 for what it's worth.

maybe I'll do the first week of the max workouts (when I get to them - started week 4 today) and see how it goes. if it's just destroying me I'll jump back to the first set of workouts. I know that day 1 of the max workouts includes a fit test and a workout....I think the total time is like 80 minutes or so. damn. that's just mean! I don't plan on finishing the 60 days and then just stopping the workouts anyways...I want to keep going. I'm already seeing that hitting my max heart rate doesn't hurt as bad as it did the first few weeks.

[alnorth]

Did my 2nd fit test, and I'm a little suspicious that maybe I was sandbagging the first one, but I cant remember because it was 3 weeks ago. (lost a week from the cold) I couldn't help but think "wow, I only did that many last time? That number sucks!" before destroying each of them this time.

I think I'll dismiss those first numbers as "I was a lazy SOB" and see if I improve much in 2 weeks.

Does anybody know if Peyton Manning does Insanity?

[ChiefFripp]

I bought the NFL workout video game for the WII. I couldn't get through more than two sets of excercises.

[donkhater]

Well, I completed Insanity. Here are my results followed by some comments:

Starting Weight: 207.5 lbs
Ending Weight: 198.5 lbs.

Starting waist (across belly button): 40 in.
Ending waist: 38 in.

Starting chest: 45 in
Ending chest: 43 inches

Fit test (Day 1-Day 63):

Switch Kicks: 48-67
Power Jacks: 47-62
Power Knees: 75-106
Power Jumps: 35-52
Globe Jumps: 8-12
Suicide Jumps: 18-24
Push-up Jacks: 20-37
Low Plank Oblique: 42-64

I didn't measure my body fat% before (or yet).

Comments:

I didn't really follow the nutrition plan (other than some portion control) which no doubt affected my measurement results, but I feel like I improved my cardio and strength quite a bit. I'm glad it was only 2 months, because I was kind of getting bored with it. It did give results and I'll probably use some of the circuit training DVDs once or twice a week in addition to the running I'd like to do. I'll also probably go through it again next January as I find that these DVDs are good excercise routines to do during the winter months. I just can't do these programs when it is so nice outside.

Also, it took until the LAST workout to finally go through the MAX Cardio Conditioning with virtually no break so don't sweat it if you are taking breaks. The fit test is actually maybe one of the toughests workouts, probably because you are busting ass to try and beat your previous best. There's a lesson there maybe.

Anyway, that's my experience. Time for the T-shirt.

[donkhater]

One other thing.

If there is anyway you can do this with someone else, do it. I found that I pushed myself much harder with someone else doing it with you, for either competition or motivation reasons.

[suzzer99]

Originally Posted by donkhater

Well, I completed Insanity. Here are my results followed by some comments:

Starting Weight: 207.5 lbs
Ending Weight: 198.5 lbs.

Starting waist (across belly button): 40 in.
Ending waist: 38 in.

Starting chest: 45 in
Ending chest: 43 inches

Fit test (Day 1-Day 63):

Switch Kicks: 48-67
Power Jacks: 47-62
Power Knees: 75-106
Power Jumps: 35-52
Globe Jumps: 8-12
Suicide Jumps: 18-24
Push-up Jacks: 20-37
Low Plank Oblique: 42-64

I didn't measure my body fat% before (or yet).

Comments:

I didn't really follow the nutrition plan (other than some portion control) which no doubt affected my measurement results, but I feel like I improved my cardio and strength quite a bit. I'm glad it was only 2 months, because I was kind of getting bored with it. It did give results and I'll probably use some of the circuit training DVDs once or twice a week in addition to the running I'd like to do. I'll also probably go through it again next January as I find that these DVDs are good excercise routines to do during the winter months. I just can't do these programs when it is so nice outside.

Also, it took until the LAST workout to finally go through the MAX Cardio Conditioning with virtually no break so don't sweat it if you are taking breaks. The fit test is actually maybe one of the toughests workouts, probably because you are busting ass to try and beat your previous best. There's a lesson there maybe.

Anyway, that's my experience. Time for the T-shirt.

That's pretty good results. The waistline thing shows you're firming up a lot, probably more than is shown by just looking at weight. From my experience with these things the body has kind of a lag effect, and you should be poised to lose a lot of weight if you follow any kind of diet and normal exercise routine now.

I met some dude at a party last night who said he lost 55 lbs in 6 months on insanity.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

I met some dude at a party last night who said he lost 55 lbs in 6 months on insanity.

I'm losing at roughly that rate. I'm down a bit over 6 pounds after 3 weeks. 2 lb/week, assuming you aren't drastically dieting, is a pretty good, steady, healthy rate.

[RockChalk]

What the hell does any of that have to do with Peyton Manning?



JK. Nice work on completing it. I'm about to start it myself, just waiting on my broken ribs to finally heal. What a pain in the ass that has been. I'm convinced that I would rather break just about any other bone (except for neck/skull/spine) than ribs.