INSANITY Workout – any CP Insanity veterans in here??

[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.)