I set up a corner of the attic with floor pads and a DVD player.
Taking breaks during instanity full#
Rachel has tried Nia and a trampoline workout, and I figured that I'd commit to Insanity - or perhaps one should say, be committed to Insanity - for the full 60 days. If you suspect a set for sale might be counterfeit, you can report it to was my first venture as part of CommonHealth's summer fitness initiative, Shake It Up, a series of forays into new forms of exercise - at least, new to us. I'd naively assumed the Craigslist set was used, but the set was clearly brand new and I've now learned that Beachbody is plagued by piracy.
(My apologies to Beachbody LLC, the company that makes Insanity among other workouts. I found a set on Craigslist for just $60, and met the seller in front of a pizza restaurant for a transaction that felt oddly illicit. So I took the plunge - well, a discounted plunge. He ended up with lower body fat and feeling great. And, as I wrote when I embarked on my Insanity, I was inspired by a 58-year-old doctor I deeply respect, who reported that the program was certainly intense but did not have to be truly insane.
That approach struck me as meshing well with a wave of recent research findings that shorter, very vigorous workouts can provide surprisingly strong health benefits. The Insanity workout flips that formula, so that you do longer high-intensity intervals and then have relatively short rests. To wit: Typical "interval training" involves several minutes of moderate intensity and then a minute or so of high-intensity push - a sprint, if you will.
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