Beachbody Thread 3 (Insanity, T25 etc)

[Jacksterbear]

New thread for an (almost) new year, and almost exactly a year since the start of the original thread!

Caitlin my advice would be not to get one that does heart rate via your wrist. I have a Fitbit and it is terrible at accurate heart rate. I mentioned previously on the thread my average heart rate when comparing that to my polar one (which is accurate with a thing around my chest) was miles out, something like average hr during workout if 110 and 152. I've given up on it now. I then thought about getting an Apple Watch, thinking it must be better as its so expensive but appartly all the wrist hr monitors can be quite inaccurate. I've tried doing it in various positions on my wrist to see if it helps but it doesn't. Maybe I'm just unlucky but I'd definitely say go for one with a chest strap if you would like accuracy. I only use mine for workouts but ideally would like one I wear all the time as I like stats. Polar is a decent make.

Hi Eleanor - sorry you've not been well. No point in exercising if your body isn't up to it though. T25 is def a better option than shred. I always found the shred made me so sore the next day (and jillian is too bossy!)

Looked at jillian body shred - is it available in uk? I couldn't see it on amazon?

Did max out strength tonight. I loved it. Has been months since I did it. Those press up sets are slightly easier now, but still nails! The dc were watching frozen whilst I was working out. Was excellent as I just listened to the cues but watched the film. I may have lost the thread of the film a bit when all the press ups started tho....

Boobz - how are you getting on with goliaz?

And I saw the chat about line dancing. Unless I've very much misunderstood I don't see how line dancing could actually be a work out? Surely you can't break a sweat stepping from left foot to right and vice versa?

Yum- 'Sweat Fest' is part of an extra add-on set to Insanity Max 30. I don't know if it's available in the UK, as I don't live there for most of the year. It's a bit of a ripoff tbh.

Here is a link to the advert for BeachBody' line-dancing workout, 'Country Heat.' Cringe....

m.youtube.com/watch?v=havjBjC8A2M

That video is hilarious. I still can't see how you'd break a sweat doing line dancing. Might stick to max30 for now.....

Well done on all your exercise, ladies. Any serious runners on here? The London Marathon always inspires me for a few days... and then I forget about it.

Max Out Strength sounds fab, Pyrple- haven't got that far yet but tempted to skip ahead to get some strength in. Loving Insanity Max 30 but had to do NoMoreTroubleZones yesterday as don't want to lose my lovely biceps. kisses self on arm like awful David from Body Revolution

Friday Fight Round 1 today first thing, maxed out at 17min30sec. Annoyed because it was psychological... he said burpee lunges and my body just say PAUSE THE VIDEO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD and didnt let me attempt them fir a couple if minutes! Could and should've have kept going to the second water break, grr.

katie - lol at pause the video for the love of god. 17 minutes is really good!

Well my almost double left me feeling achey today (good thing?) so did cardio 1 and {drumroll} I managed 24 burpees when the cast did 25!! This is up from 13 when I started!!?!

Roastie, I should think about line dancing, I have only just got to grips with Tjacks, clearly I have coordination issues that need some work!

Ooh and yes please to purples request for an update if you see this Boobz!

Hope everyone else is doing well

Ah the burpee lunges are the killer in that workout. I always used to max out there too. Altho I seem to remember the moves after that are not actually better so it's just a miserable slog to the 2nd water break. On one triumphant occasion I did get through the whole workout without maxing which I was pleased with. No way could i do that with fight 2 as the hardest move is in the first 10mins.

Mth 2 will defo keep your biceps toned with the mental press up moves.

My ipad keeps crashing and doesn't like me posting on mn!

Line dancing? I can't imagine being coordinated enough to attempt it:) I can imagine being asked to form a line alone at the back.

I nearly panicked when I shoved in the first insanity month two DVD and it's nearly an hour long - I didn't get going til 9.45pm , and finishing later is so tiring.

I've decided to drop t25 in the morning, replace it with Pilates then run every day and do insanity at night. With some mad juggling and ignoring housework it can be done:) and it looks like I'll keep the longer hours at work. It's my tummy which is my bugbear. It used to be all flat and fabulous and now it not.

That's fab about the burpees poppy. Well done! It's nice to see you feeling the burpee love. You'll be nailing gamma speed 3.0 soon!

Lavender - doing a workout at 9.45? Wow. Maybe take the 'purple' approach to insanity mth 2 work outs and skip the 2 stretch sessions - that cuts out 15mins.... (Sorry Shaun!)

Is the Jillian Body Shred one of these expensive sets for 80 quid odd? Not sure I can be doing with that. I imagine the DVDs will stare at me from atop the piano, still in their wrapping

I did the Jillian Extreme Shred and Shed last night. Two thirty minute workouts she suggests you do the same day, but really, one was enough! Good mix of cardio intervals, yoga, weights and weird tai chi strength stuff. I liked it!

Thanks Roastie I will have a look at those, I thought that might be the case. Dh will probably go mental if he sees me spending any more money on fitness stuff so I might have to do some shopping around for a bargain. I've noticed quite a few Fitbit sales around and I wonder if it's because of all the bad press about accuracy.

Did P90X Shoulders and Arms followed by Ab Ripper X last night - had forgotten about Ab Ripper and thought I was done . 1hr 15 mins is a killer. Then went into the house and discovered that dh had eaten my tea!! wtf! I had said very clearly when I went out to the garage that I had made chilli and there were 2 baked sweet potatoes in the oven - he took that to mean they were both for him, for some reason. Who the fuck sees 2 ginormous sweet potatoes and thinks ah, Caitlin must have done two for me? His excuse was that he is currently doing Body Beast and assumed that I was trying to feed him up as he is on the bulk phase...

Purple How is your weight doing, you said the other day you were gaining? I just re read a section of Thinner Leaner Stronger to do with water retention, if you've still got it, have a look - I've no idea if it works, but since the general gist of his advice is to work out less to lower your cortisol, drink a ton of water and eat more carbs, I reckon it's worth a try!

Thanks Purple, I think max 30 might be coming into my life soon!

Caitlin lol that your dp thought you were trying to bulk him up! I would have been gutted though sounds like a yum meal. Sounds like a good moment to bring up needing a polar ;)

I did resistance 3, I was really annoyed because I got my pull up bar and there were none included....grr! It was hard though, I will have to work on form and complete it without weights, I literally cant do the lying down standing up thing without twisting onto my knees to get up, I didn't realise this was a thing I needed to work on! My knees are hurting a bit now as I was doing it with such bad form. I need to buy some lighter hexagonal weights for side planks with weights as well, maybe 3kg?

Rooners here is a link to shred - it is pricey but you get a lot of workouts - maybe a birthday present? to be fair though JM is hardcore so you will prob be fine just mixing in the new cheaper ones, I think reviews for killer arms look good amazon

Ooh purple one of the reviewers for bodyshred it is like p90x3 and insanity combined and her fav workout! Not planning to buy it though (unless I see a bargain ;) )

T25 landed this morning - so I put my rainbow leopard print leggings on, manned the fuck up and did Alpha Cardio - and survived (I think!). I think it's not so much that it's too easy, more like Shaun T seems tooo nice compared with Insanity and looks weird with hair!

I hope I'll be able to manage a T25 every day - I'm normally more completely hardcore or nothing at all, and this could be a good compromise!

I'm struggling at the moment as I have MS - it's been pretty much in remission for the last few years and I was hoping it had fucked off all together! I came off the medication I was on about 18 months ago as I was having side effects, but unfortunately it looks like it was working, and it the last couple of months bits of me have been radomly going numb and I general feel like I've got the worst hangover ever.

I've got a hospital appointment in a couple of weeks so I can hopefully start on new treatment soon :)

I feel a bit more wobbly after doing T25 but will see how I go, and hopefully have a go at Speed 1.0 tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Eleanor Sorry to hear that. No advice for you but . And I have you to thank for the BEST compliment I have received in many a year - upon seeing me in my rainbow leopard print leggings, my 4 year old ds just went "Wow Mummy. Your trousers are Billiant."

Good luck with T25 - I HATED the cardio/speed ones, but loved Ab Intervals and Lower Focus, and Total Body Circuit rules (in a good/bad way)...

eleanor, hopefully another treatment wont have the side effect x

Hi all!

Hello to the newbies - exciting to get fresh blood.

Sorry to hear you are suffering Eleanor - hope you can get it sorted.

Katie I am a runner - just did my first marathon a couple of Sundays ago, and now training for another one in October.

Haven't been on to post as life just continues to be ridiculously manic. I finally have 2 blissful hours (WITHOUT CHILDREN) on a train (with wifi!) so can finally catch up on MN. Since I last posted I managed to just about squeeze in all the week's Goliaz work outs, the TOUGHEST event (a bit like Tough Mudder - see photo - I am 3rd from right, DH is furthest right), a CT/PET scan to check cancer is still gone, a day's training in London for work (I live in Rome, for the newbies) and am now on the way to Bournemouth to meet DH who has just bought a car which he is now going to drive back to Rome, leaving me with the 3 kids to transport back to Italy via Ryanair starting from Salisbury. I am EXHAUSTED.

So am on week 2 Goliaz but so far haven't been able to do any of the work outs as I have been working/medical-ing. I will have to do doubles on Friday/Sat/Sunday as I am travelling tomorrow. TBH last week's work outs weren't as total balls-to-the-wall hard as I thought they were going to be, but one of them was a killer ab work out and I did feel like I'd been repeatedly punched the next day. I can't work out the Goliaz dude (he's called Eduardo) 's thinking/algorithm about my food intake, as he has upped my calories to 2100!!! I don't know whether to just ignore him and report my duties that I "followed the plan" or tell him I just can't each that much each day?!

Toughest was loads of fun! I felt like my upper body had been hit by a train the next day though - all that hanging off stuff. The wall you can see in the background is this like curved mega wall where you have to do like a parcour (sp?) style running jump to get over it - DH had to drag me up - was not pretty!

So the next few days are going to be just as crazy as I am flying back to Rome tomorrow, my nanny goes home for her annual break on Friday (a month away - sob!) and so it's all hands on deck marshaling the mugwumps. And then I go to the UK (AGAIN) on Monday for 3 days for my final breast surgery. I have to not exercise for 10 days, which again is not going to make Eduardo happy (he is a bit mean, tbh - certainly no Tony or Shaun!)

But then, in theory, I have done all my medical travels/surgeries/scans, I've done all my work trips, done all my marathons/guest-hosting etc., and the kids are back at school (they've been on hols for the past 2 weeks) and I can just get back to normal and concentrate on Goliaz/running/work.

And breathe.

Hi everyone - lots of chatter

Eleanor sorry about your health issues . Hope you manage to sort out medication which will get you back to being yourself again. As a committed T25'er, good to have someone else doing it to discuss the workouts. I hate the 2 cardio ones, TBC is a complete bitch of a workout and I won't go near the burpee hell of Speed 3.0. Other than that, I like all of them My fave is definitely Pyramid and Rip'T Circuit. Having not done Insanity, I only know Shaun T with hair so when I see clips of Insanity, it freaks me out

Boobz wow you really are a lean, mean fighting machine - one of those Tough Mudder events would be my idea of hell. Although me and my friends usually do the Race for Life every year and one has suggested we do the muddy version this year for a change...my face looked like this

So, me and DH have both really committed to dieting and exercising - we are both in desperate need of losing a few stone each and something seems to have definitely switched in both of our heads. However, I do spend most of my days feeling hungry - it is like I am doing a 5:2 fast day every day even though I am eating about 1500 calories each day. I am hoping it is going to get easier because the thought of feeling like this every day until we go on holiday is scary!!

Having said that, day off today as it is my birthday so I am eating chocolate, cake and drinking wine later and no exercise

Hi all,

Fab photo boobz, that course looks amazing (and hard!) but you look fabulous. Take a breath though, you're making me exhausted just reading your post! Hope the surgery all goes well. Ten days without excercise will be hard!

Eleanor I hope you get your health sorted with new mess or whatever they decide to do. I did giggle about the Shaun t with hair comment as I thought that too when I did it!

Only it will get easier, it really will. I remember when I started my weight loss journey (I sound so American calling it that, but it truly was a journey and a long one at that which I still haven't finished I was so hungry for the first few weeks but I did get used to it in the end. I cut down on things gradually to make it sustainable in the long term and tried fruit and veg to fill up on.

Yumy I'm so glad you said that about resistance 3. I HATE that workout, I can't do the standing up lying down thing either. Who would have thought it would be so difficult! It's one of those moves I really want to fast forward past I haven't yet though

Resistance 2 today (I'm going a bit out of order from the programme but it's kind of going to work out in the end) in the gym and cardio 2 and core 2 yesterday. Still bit wobbly with this virus that is still zapping my energy so not nailing it but heart rate is up high so at least I'm getting a workout.

Caitlin - weight I mysteriously put on just came off again. Weird. And it just so happened that I followed the thinner leaner etc advice to the letter by having a weekend with friends where I ate loads (he didn't mention wine did he, but I'm sure that helped too ). Will start watching cals again on mon.

Eleanor - I think sometimes we're all a bit hard on ourselves. We all are very fit, committed people and even if we dial it down for a while just by exercising frequently we're still hardcore by the standards of the population! Anyway - just get stuck into t25 - I did it again recently and was expecting it to be easy. It actually wasn't - it's as hard as you want to make it. The ab workout is ridicuous! Go easy on yourself

Boobz - I'm knackered after reading your post. Glad toughest was good. I loved my obstacle race and am plotting another one. Will you do another do you think? What were the obstacles like? On mine the men were really advantaged because they were taller - DH bundled me over loads of things like a sack of potatoes because I couldn't reach myself!

Did a double last night. was upper body and lower body strength. Not a great performance but I got through it....just!

And belated happy birthday only!!

Great work, all! Boobz, I can't believe your trained for and did a MARATHON while recovering from cancer. You are on a whole 'nother level of determined! Good luck on your flights with kids in tow- I know what a headache that is.

I'm just wondering about everyone's routines. Do you all tend to follow programmes / rotations quite strictly? At the moment, I'm doing Max Insanity 30 about four times a week, which feels like a lot- and also 2-3 Jillians, some JNL, whatever, as time allows. If seems to stave off boredom.

This morning first thing did JNL Lower Body Fusion, which is on YouTube. Has anyone done these workouts? This particular one never seems to get easier for me, even though all the individual moves are really simple.

Off to do Insanity Max 30 now... hope I can beat my previous time!

Also: this thread has given me a need for rainbow leopard of my leggings in my life. Would you mind saying who makes them, Eleanor? Sorry about the MS flaring up again- it is gruelling enough for anyone to do Shaun T without such a debilitating condition to cope with. You're a hero!

Katie - in case Eleanor's not around, they are from Tikiboo - but be warned, one pair is not enough, and they are not cheap! onlywhenyouleave had a discount code but I dunno if it is still valid. Only are you there? Hope you enjoyed your birthday!

Boobz that's quite a schedule, but I am well jell of you having a nanny Well done on the Toughest.

Purple Totally counter intuitive and I hate the expression 'refeeding' (makes me think of those geese they use for foie gras ) but hey, if it works!

Did Yoga X again last night ... .... it was ok, didn't get bored until just after the hour mark this time so perhaps my tolerance is increasing at least. I still look more like Mr Bean than a Warrior though.