Insanity Max 30

This past summer I discovered Beachbody. My husband had previously bought a set of workout DVDs called Insanity. I'd tried them with him a couple of times but thought that the name truly fit the workout. It was insane. No way I was doing all of that jumping craziness for an hour.

I ordered a set of DVDs called Piyo and started a local 60 day challenge. It's a workout which combines Pilates and yoga. No jumping or harsh moves. More like a strength and endurance workout using your own body as weights.

I'm proud to say that I completed all 60 days, working out for 8 complete weeks, 6 days per week. And I never missed one day. I did it out in the yard at my parents house while we visited, in our trailer while we went camping and of course at home. I toned up a bit while doing it and lost about 15lbs. I also won the Piyo challenge in my area. Go me!

Well I finished the Piyo challenge back in September and until now I didn't really have a new plan.

Then the new year hit and Beachbody came out with Insanity Max 30. My husband wanted to buy it. I told him I'd do the workouts along with him. The DVDs arrived and we started the journey, week 1. It was hard but being only 30 minutes long I figured I could make it through.

I've now completed month one and all 4 weeks, 5 days per week, without missing one day. Month 2 is substantially harder workouts but in noticing that I am getting better at the moves which originally I thought I couldn't do. I'm also noticing toning happening and I'm liking it. I'm not losing any weight but I suspect that has more to do with my diet (and eating too little calories each day). So I'm now logging all of my food into my Fitness Pal app and I was very surprised to see that I've been running at a deficit of over 600 calories per day!! I'm excited to eat more!!

I'm down 80lbs since having my baby 14 months ago today, and I plan to keep working on it.