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Insanity workout

  • 31-08-2014 8:03pm
    #1
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭


    Hi all.
    Was planning on doing the insanity 60 day programe and was wondering what people think of it. Im not totally out of shape but im not fit if you get me. Would insanity be suitable for me? What type of diet would you need to have? Is it only effective if you go the same pace as the dvd? Any other information would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,997 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    deadybai wrote: »
    Hi all.
    Was planning on doing the insanity 60 day programe and was wondering what people think of it.

    Its a very easy to follow intense cardio program.
    deadybai wrote: »
    Im not totally out of shape but im not fit if you get me.

    I don't get you. Fit is entirely subjective to the person. Can you run 5k? Do you do any cardio work at all? Lift weights? Go swimming.
    deadybai wrote: »
    Would insanity be suitable for me?

    The thing about most forms of exercise is that they can scale to the person doing them.
    deadybai wrote: »
    What type of diet would you need to have?

    A good one. Lots of protein for recovery.
    deadybai wrote: »
    Is it only effective if you go the same pace as the dvd?

    Your given a time period in which to do as many movements as you can. The only pace is what you can achieve. The end goal is that you do more in the same time period.

    Insanity does this through a measurement routine once a week. You count and record, as time goes on you get better at it.

    deadybai wrote: »
    Any other information would be greatly appreciated.

    If you have wooden floors get a yogo matt. If your in a apartment and have neighbors, consider them while doing the exercises.


  • #3
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭deadybai


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »


    I don't get you. Fit is entirely subjective to the person. Can you run 5k? Do you do any cardio work at all? Lift weights? Go swimming.

    Like 5k would be probably my limit in regards to what i could run. I do light running maybe twice a week and walk every other day.


  • #4
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,997 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    deadybai wrote: »
    Like 5k would be probably my limit in regards to what i could run. I do light running maybe twice a week and walk every other day.

    You should be good then for insanity.


  • #5
    rankingelite
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭rankingelite


    After a while insanity gets kinda boring


  • #6
    thegreatiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭thegreatiam


    I got bored of it very quickly.


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  • #7
    siblers
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    Been doing it for about 6 months. It'll make you incredibly fit, you'll lose body fat and gain defenition. Small price to pay for it being boring (and incredibly hard)


  • #8
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭deadybai


    i forgot to post in this but im going to start this again when the hurling season is over. it will probably prevent injury again


  • #9
    IvoryTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    there's a thread for people who do it here, I can't link it as im a "new user" but its probably one or two pages back


  • #10
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    My brother did it last year, he was fairly chubby starting it and looked like a different person by the end, think he lost something like three stone. From what I can tell it's good and you'll get results so long as you stick to it. You obviously won't build muscle or anything from it, he had to start weightlifting for that. It wouldn't be my thing personally, it's extremely intense but I've seen first hand that it works for weight loss.


  • #11
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭deadybai


    norwegianwood wrote: »
    My brother did it last year, he was fairly chubby starting it and looked like a different person by the end, think he lost something like three stone. From what I can tell it's good and you'll get results so long as you stick to it. You obviously won't build muscle or anything from it, he had to start weightlifting for that. It wouldn't be my thing personally, it's extremely intense but I've seen first hand that it works for weight loss.

    Ive heard that it builds lean muscle and burns fat but you generally don't lose weight


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  • #12
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,654 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    deadybai wrote: »
    Ive heard that it builds lean muscle and burns fat but you generally don't lose weight

    Depends on how much fat you have to lose and how food your diet is.


  • #13
    norwegianwood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭norwegianwood


    deadybai wrote: »
    Ive heard that it builds lean muscle and burns fat but you generally don't lose weight

    I don't know a huge amount about it, but surely if it's mostly cardio you wouldn't gain significant muscle mass from it? I could be wrong, that's just what my brother told me about it.


  • #14
    IvoryTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    well there's a lot of jumping squats, pushups etc, so to a lot of people that will build muscle, as they can barely do them in the first place


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