With fear and trepidation, my wife Susan and I started the “Insanity”
workout this past week. Insanity is a 2 month program led by trainer and former
pro athlete, Shaun T. For the next 2 months I will be journaling through the
program and give my thoughts on this popular home workout.
Insanity is quite a bit different from P90X* in that it is
VERY heavy on the cardio and sport drills training. In fact, there is very
little upper body resistance exercise, in my opinion, though my legs were
definitely given a good workout. The set did come with a separate upper body
weights workout, but it is not a part of the official “plan”.
The great thing about Insanity is that Shaun makes you dig
deep to find another level of intensity and with each set he pushes you harder
and harder. If you thought you could sit on a recumbent bike and casually read
a book and lose weight, Shaun tries to coach you past that natural passive
attitude and show you it is necessary to push yourself to succeed.
Prior to beginning Insanity, we did know that there was
going to be a lot of jumping involved, so Susan and I purchased a couple of
jump mats on Amazon, and I am pretty glad we did. This workout can be very hard
on your joints and if actually done on a gym floor as shown on the video, month
3 would be the “Insanity Joint Replacement Recovery Series”.
If you are trying to use Insanity to lose weight, definitely
utilize the meal plan as well. Since the workouts are a bit short, you will
need to keep a strong focus on nutrition and perhaps add a few resistance
workouts as well.
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