{"id":634,"date":"2020-08-11T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coolthingsland.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:45:00","slug":"the-truth-about-insanity-workouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolthingsland.com\/the-truth-about-insanity-workouts\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about Insanity workouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essentially Zumba on steroids, Insanity fuses callisthenics (bodyweight exercises) with martial arts and plyometric work (jump variations) to make a series of short, high-intensity workouts. And its creator, Shaun T, claims it, “Turns old-school interval training on its head.”<\/p>\n

How so? He told us, “You work flat out in 3 to 5-minute blocks, and take breaks only long enough to gulp some air and get right back to work. It’s called Max Interval Training, because it keeps your body working at maximum capacity through your entire workout.<\/p>\n

You keep pushing your limits – so your body has to adapt.<\/p>\n

A slick, well-marketed pitch, but does it work? We completed the Insanity workout below, which you can also try at home, then performed a strength and conditioning autopsy to see if there’s any truth behind their claims of melted\u00a0man boobs, solid\u00a0six-packs\u00a0and the general consensus that it’s the greatest creation in\u00a0sports nutrition\u00a0and exercise conditioning since the invention of the dumbbell (ancient Greece, if you’re wondering).<\/p>\n

Exercises<\/h2>\n

Double Diamonds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trains the shoulders, abs, glutes and thighs<\/em><\/p>\n