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Its time to explain day 3 of the Insanity workout program and it continues to live up to its name.  If you’re wondering the picture you see to the right is me sweating my butt off at a workout with Shaun T himself.  Before you start make sure you have the recovery drink in hand as it helps give you energy throughout the whole workout.  So on average the first month of workouts consist of around 40 minutes and Cardio Power is just short of that at 39 min and 18 seconds.  In that time period I think I counted seven 30 second breaks.  I am starting to notice that the warm up is pretty similar to the rest of the first set of DVDs.  The warm up consists of Jogging, Power Jacks, Log Jumps, Heisman 123, Butt Kicks, High Knees, and Vertical Jumps.  If you would like a better explanation of any of the above check out my Plyometric Cardio Circuit post.  These moves are 30 seconds each and are repeated in 3 rounds.  Oh and no breaks in between but if you have done Click here to continue reading

This is pretty much the first DVD in the set and boy was I surprised how hard a 42 minute long workout was.  The Insanity workout begins with a warm up that  consists of 3 minute intervals.  These intervals are supposed to get your heart pumping and in the first 3 minutes I was pumping.  You warm up for 9 total minutes and each round consists of  jogging in place, Jumping Jacks, Heisman’s, Heisman 123, Butt Kicks, High Knees and Mummy Kicks.  You can easily understand a few but a Heisman 123 is going back and forth and then going into a quick Heisman pose.  Mummy kicks are kind of a joke but still decent cardio.  Start with arms straight out and as you shuffle your feet you have to cross your hands at the same time.  After all is done you get a quick 30 second break and holy crap that was just the warm up. 

So honestly before I go any further Insanity is not a joke people it’s the real deal.  I thought P90X was challenging but Insanity is challenging because there is a lot of non stop