People tell me, “Man, I tried Insanity. I got like two minutes into it and I knew I couldn’t do it.”
Well, of course you couldn’t!
Could you sit down at a piano and instantly play it the first time you saw it? NO! Could you visit a foreign country and immediately speak the language without having been exposed to it before? NO! You have to work at it, learn, practice.
It’s the same with an exercise program.
QUESTION: How much are you going to improve your body if you choose to do a workout that you can easily complete the first time you try it.
ANSWER: Not a whole lot. If your body can already do the workout, you would, at best, maintain your current fitness level.
In order to improve, you have to work harder than you are accustomed to working.
That’s what I love about Insanity. I have been doing the Insanity workouts for about a year now — not straight through, but off and on, coupla times a week, along with other stuff — and there is still not one of them I can get through without extra breaks. Not one.
I hope there will come a day when I don’t need extra breaks, but until then, I will keep doing Insanity and taking those breaks, knowing that my body is inching closer and closer to the time when I’ll be able to do “Pure Cardio” all the way through without stopping!
I will never forget the feeling I had the first time I made it through Tony Horton’s P90X “Plyo” workout without taking any extra breaks. Not only did I feel great about having completed it, but I also knew that I wanted to stay in good enough shape to complete it. And that keeps me going.
So choose a workout program that challenges you. You’ll not only improve your physical fitness, but you may also find that you are driven to work even harder.