Monday, November 5, 2012

Insanity Workout Review

So, you may have seen Insanity on the late night infomercial. Looks a bit different from the Ab Circle and Shake Weight, but it's still on TV. Can't work can it?

As a woman, I find it hard to burn as many calories as my husband does. I just don't have the muscle that he does and quite frankly, I can't push my body to go as hard. I would love to see 10 cal/min burned, but it doesn't happen. So how many calories can I burn doing Insanity? I did Day 16 this morning which was Plyometric Cardio Circuit.





After 11 minutes or so of the warm up I was at 102 calories burned. Almost there! After the stretch, I didn't stay as high, but I was glad to see my burn at the end of the 41 minute workout to be 324 calories. 8 cal/min average. Not bad at all, says this mama.

But, the INSANE thing about it is that my body has continued to burn at a higher rate ALL day. It has been 9 hours since I started my workout this morning and I have burned a total of 1630 calories. Doing a bit of math shows that I have been burning about 3 cal/min average all day that I have been awake.

These crazy workouts do work. Push play. Put in your best work and get it done! This ain't no Shake Weight or Ab Circle, yo. This is INSANITY!