Chris Fehnel

Insanity Day 3 – Cardio Power and Resistance – this one killed me. My shoulders were pounding, my triceps were burning, and my heart rate was through the roof. I was a little disappointed with myself in this one, but I can’t wait to try it again.

Insanity Day 1 was pretty insane. Insanity Day 2 was really insane. I can’t even imagine what the MAX workouts are going to be like. But man, I had an absolute blast doing this workout. As Tony would say “How could you be in that much pain, and be having that much fun?”

If you want to give this workout a shot, make sure you are already relatively physically fit. If you are unsure about any workout program, ask your doctor before you start. Also, invest in a heart rate monitor. You should really have one for this workout.

What is Insanity like? Day 1 may not be the best barometer, but you’ll see what comes with Insanity and what the fit test is like. But suffice to say, it’s definitely different from P90X style, minus the plyometrics.

I’m nervous and excited to see what the next 59 days will bring. If the short fit test was this hard, I can’t imagine what a longer one will be like. The time literally flew by, though. I’m hoping the 30-45 minutes will seem like nothing once your in the midst of enjoying the sweat and hard work.

More semi-daily updates to come.

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What are you waiting for? Order your copy now! This workout program looks awesome. Beachbody and Tony Horton have a huge hit on their hands with P90X. By the looks of the trailers and the early reviews of Beachbody’s Insanity with trainer Shaun T, they could have another one.

Instead of 90 days, this one is 60, but it looks far more intense in different ways. It looks much less muscle building, but more just straight up cardio / plyo / get your heartrate through the stinking roof while gaining a little muscle. It looks like it’s designed, not to get you big, but to get you ripped and the most athletic you can be.

That’s where I’m at right now. I have gone through P90X once and am in the process of going through it again. I gained some size with it and lost nearly 40 pounds, but I’m still not ripped yet. This is to absolutely no fault of P90X, it’s just that when I started, I was really out of shape.

I’m hoping that I have a foundation to build off of, and I’m hoping that Insanity can take me to the next level. I’m not in this to get huge, not to be ripped for the sake of being ripped, but to be in the best shape of my life and be the most healthy I’ve ever been.

I’ll be writing some reviews of the program as I go through it. Be sure to check back soon and if you’re crazy, join in on the fun with me, Mike Stickel, and whoever else wants to go insane.

In my 60 day P90X progress update, I vented some frustration that I was not seeing the results that I wanted, not as much as the first phase, even though I actually upped my workout amounts and intensity. I was a little flabbergasted about this and, to be honest, mildly discouraged.

Two weeks into my third and final phase, I decided to sit down and read over my nutrition guide. I recalculated the calories I was supposed to have for the day and realized that I should have been in the Second Level on the nutrition guide, which basically equates to eating a THOUSAND less calories a day.

I lost 12 pounds my first week doing P90X and by the end of my first phase, I was down about 14 pounds total. With this weight loss, I should have bumped down in how much I was eating. If I had followed the program and actually read the manual, so to speak, I may have had better results.

There are two ways I can handle this setback. I can get frustrated, mad because 90 days have almost gone by, and I haven’t gotten the results that others have had even though I did my best. Or I can look at it as an opportunity to get stronger with the extra weight, use it as another excuse to do another 90 days, and trust that I’ll get the results I want.

I am going to go with the latter option, but the important lesson I learned is that – if you trust the program and you follow what it says, it will work the best for you. So this next go round, I’m going to use the Beachbody shopping list. I’m going to buy the groceries it tells me to buy and eat exactly what it tells me to eat. Then I expect results.

Don’t get me wrong, I have had great results and am completely happy with the way my 90 days is going and mentally I’m in a far better place as far as exercising in general. But, I can’t wait to see what I can accomplish now that I have trust in the system and am going to follow it exactly the way it was meant to be followed.

Everybody pushing play, keep on keeping on and bring it everyday.

Check in after next week, when I will have my final 90 day results.