Yes, Insanity is aptly named!

Day 2 of insanity is done. That was Plyo Cardio Circuit. It consists of three circuits, each with three rounds. The warm up circuit goes straight through 4 or 5 different exercises. You start out slow the first round, then a little faster the second, then all out the last. That takes about 9 minutes then you get a 30 second break, then stretch for about 5 minutes.

After the stretch you do 2 more circuits, each with three rounds, and you go as hard as you can in each one. There is a 30 second break between each round. Needless to say, your heart rate skyrockets, and you burn a lot of calories. The entire workout is right around 40 min, and I burned about 500 calories, and that was with taking quite a few "unscheduled" breaks.

For me, the hardest part of the workout are the level 1 drills. You basically do a burpee, but instead of coming right back up, you do 4 push up, then run while in a plank position (usually called floor runs) then jump up. Personally, I hate push ups. It is one of the reasons why I like Chalean Extreme more than P90x. There are a lot of push ups in insanity, so I will just have to work through them.

I personally do not pay a ton of attention to the people on the DVDs unless I am really trying to get the form down. But the insanity workouts can be downright entertaining. All of the people on the DVDs are very very fit. However, nearly everyone has to take breaks aside from the 30 second scheduled ones, and by the end a good percentage of them are lying on the floor gasping for breath. You can also tell the people that were in the test group, vs. the people they hired to participate in the shoots. The test group people can get through the workouts keeping their form and taking a minimum number of breaks. Some of the others tend to start dogging it big time when they get tired.