Review: Insanity max 30

This program is more insane than the original Insanity. This is challenging from day one and is for the already fit. There are no weights involved and its only 30 minutes a day or till you "max out"
You do the workout and write down your time and get back to work. You get a mixture of cardio, ab, arms and legs. Although even if your doing abs, legs and arms you still do cardio with it. Each workout has a modifier if you want less extreme.

"I'm about to kill you, but you'll live" 
             -Shaun T

Here are the workouts:

 Month 1

• Cardio challenge- the hardest cardio workout you'll ever do
• Tabata power- 20 seconds on 10 seconds off. Strength training with tabata style.
• Sweat intervals- you'll sweat and burn off the calories in this challenge.
• Tabata strength- no rest tabata style strength workout. Yep NO REST!
• Friday fight: round 1- first break 15 min in non stop fat busting workout. 

Month 2

• Max out cardio- you think month one was hard. Be prepared for a more intense program starting with this fat burning workout. 
• Max out power- intervals are 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off. Tabata and plyo combined. Lots of push ups.
• Max out sweat- the further you go the more calories you'll burn. Dripping in sweat in the end.
• Max out strength- upper body focus. Everything will be screaming in pain by the time your done. 
• Friday fight: round 2- hardest workout ever. Moves are a minute long and harder than ever.

Rest days:

• Pulse- recovery workout. Low impact combo and stretching with a pulse.-20 min
• Ab attack 10- a full blown attack on your abs.

Deluxe edition:

• Max out 15- half the time, but more intense. -15 min
• Max out abs- alternate from seated to standing moves. Max out your abs. -15 min
• 360 abs- 360 degree attack on your abs and core. -15 min

Month one was amazing. I loved cardio challenge and tabata power. Tabata power was a combination of cardio and upper and lower body workout. Cardio challenge was just cardio and it is very hard, but the moves were enjoyable. The first week was very difficult. My muscles were sore and stiff.

"Your gonna max out, you're gonna push, and I'm gonna motivate you all the way through!"
                                             -Shaun T

Here are my max out times for month 1:
* I beat my time from before

Week 1-                                                                                     

• Cardio challenge- @10:00                   
• Tabata power- @ 20:00
• Sweat intervals- @10:00
• Tabata strength- @ 23:33
• Friday fight: round 1- @17:50

Week 2-

• Cardio challenge- @17:35*
• Tabata power- @30:00*
• Sweat intervals- @ 15:00*
• Tabata strenght- @ 30:00*
• Friday fight: round 1- @ 20:00*

Week 3- 

• Cardio challenge- @ 22:00*
• Tabata strength- @ 20:35
• Tabata strength- @ 21:35*
• Sweat intervals- @ 20:21
• Friday fight: round 1- @ 15:00

Week 4-

• Cardio challenge- @ 25:00*
• Tabata strength- @ 22:20*
• Sweat intervals- @ 30:00
• Tabata strength- @ 30:00
• Friday fight: round 1- @ 25:31*

As you can see I did not fully max out on all of them. Some days they were way hard and some days they were fine. On week 4 of cardio challenge we had 5 minutes left till I started getting really dizzy. The room started spinning and my workout partner says that we needed to stop. Turns out I didn't eat enough calories that day and I had already burned all of it off. Luckily nothing serious happened and luckily my workout partner was there.
I didn't keep my max out times written down nearby, I had them in my work planner. What I should have done was print a calendar out and hang it up where I was working out.

"When I lost all of my excuses I found all my results"

Month 2 is a more higher level of difficulty. It is very challenging and you are dripping in sweat withing 7 minutes. My favorite workouts are Max out power and max out sweat. I love on max out sweat how withing 5 minutes I'm covered in sweat and out of breath. Max out strength works your abs, back, legs and arms in this whole workout. While getting your cardio in. 

Here are my max out times for month 2
* I beat my time from before

Week 1-

• Max out power- @ 25:51
• Max out Cardio- @ 23:33
• Max out sweat- @ 18:00
• Max out strength- @ 23:35
• Friday fight: round 2- @ 11:00

Week 2- 

• Max out cardio- @ 20:00
• Max out power- @ 30:00*
• Max out sweat- @ 18:00
• Max out strength- @ 30:00
• Friday fight: round 2- @ 18:00 *

Week 3-

• Max out cardio- @ 18:24- I had to stop because my son was sick and wanted me to hold him:(
• Max out power- @ 30:00
• Max out sweat- @ 22:00 *
• Max out strength-@30:00
• Friday fight: round 2- @20:00 *

Week 4-

• Max out cardio- @30:00 *
• Max out power-@ 30:00
• Max out sweat-@ 30:00 *
• Max out strength- @ 30:00
• Friday fight: round 2-@ 30:00*

Max out sweat was the hardest of them all. I had such a hard time getting past 18 minutes... let alone 8. On week 3 I was at 18 min and told myself I can go till 22 min. Oh man I don't think I have ever pushed myself that hard.. EVER! 

It felt so good to finally beat that time. Especially when I maxed out at 30:)

This was after I pushed myself as
hard as I could

Friday fight took me a long time to get over that 18 min mark too. The water break is not till 15 min in the workout. There is a reason why he doesn't have a lot of water breaks in this one. Your doing so much jumping and burpees that if you take to many water breaks and drink to much water the water in your stomach will start to swish around. It'll make you sick and wanna puke. Trust me, my workout partner realized it and needed to warn people.
On the last week I got a really bad sore throat and chest congestion. I should have rested but I did the workouts anyway. I had one more week!! Come on! I had to get sick on the last day. I don't know what I had but I think it was strep... but I don't know. I had to take my rest days early I had shallow breathing, chest pains and major congestion in my sinuses. I had 2 more workouts left till I was done. I finally got enough energy to do max out strength, I mainly modified throughout the workout.  

Matching with Shaun T. 

Funny story on week 3, max out power I was doing all the push-ups that Shaun has you do and my toddler decided to add his whole 42 pound body on my back. I did 8 or 9 different push-ups for about 9 minutes with my toddler on my back. He was having fun and so was I.  I woke up to sore shoulders, butt, back and legs. It felt awesome!!! That means that I worked a new muscle. Also you do one armed burpees! its hard but you feel like a freaking rock star. 

"Burpees. Love them. Hate them. Do them."



Here are my results.
If you look at the bottom one. You see a huge difference in my back and arms. They are way more toned. Mainly toned in this workout.