INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning Review

Hello all of you awesome people! I’m back with another workout review on my fitness journey! Today, I’m reviewing INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning. What an intense workout! If you thought Pure Cardio was bananas, you haven’t tried Max Cardio Conditioning!

INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning Review – The Basics

The workout starts with the standard warm-up, including jogging, jumping jacks, and switch kicks. It really is nice to notice the different you will start to make when you warm-up regularly with INSANITY. At first, it will feel like the warm-up should be the entire workout! Then, over time, you’ll get better at it (I promise…just stick with it and do your best!). At first I felt like I was going to DIE during the warm-ups. Over time I noticed that I was able to get through the entire warm up and feel amazing – What a great feeling to get that “accomplished” feeling!

The difference between Max Cardio Conditioning and the other Max Circuit workouts that you’ll find in Phase 2 of INSANITY is that there are no breaks. That is the key with interval workouts. Periods of intense effort, with a short break. Max Cardio Conditioning laughs at “breaks”….HA! What are they? See me suffer in my review video below:

INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning Review – The Video Review

Check out my video on this workout! Now, I do modify quite a bit near the end. My goal is to maximize every workout and move. I don’t want to take a whole lot of breaks and suffrage. So, any slight modification, as long as you’re still moving, is key!

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INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning Review – The Moves!

• High-Low Jab with Squat (In video above) – Jumping into the air, throwing a jab, and then squatting as low as you can, and throwing another jab. Repeat! (You are throwing the jabs to the side of you, not to the front).

• Football Runs – wide open sprints, and when Shaun T makes the call, drop to the floor in low plank! Ouch, right? Make sure you focus on your form, it is highly important so that you maximize your abs and muscles.

• Basketball Shots – This is similar to the first move, only this time you are shooting a basketball instead of throwing a jab. Make 4 shots, then sprint around the “U” and do 4 more shots on the other side.

• Right/Left Kicks – This is a nice recovery move. It’s still intense though, so don’t lose the form! Maintain your balance, and kick with only your right (or left) foot, barely touching the floor when its in the down position.

• Diamond Jumps – You thought the last move was easy? Time to fire up the BBQ again folks! You are forming a diamond with your body when you jump. Tapping the soles of your feet together and the tips of your fingers together when jumping. BOOM

• In/Out Push Up Jacks – This is a repeat move from some of the other INSANITY workouts, but it is still intense, especially after a beast move like Diamond Jumps. Think of a jumping jack and a push-up combined, that is what this is!

• Suicide Jumps – You love them, you know them, and you do them….here in INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning 🙂

• High Knee, Low Knee, Floor Sprint – A cool cardio move that I like (and will get your heart beat skyrocketed). Do high knees until Shaun T makes the call, then do low knees (almost like a low sprint), then floor sprints (like floor mountain climbers).

• Ski Abs – another repeat workout in this monster. Jump your feet from side to side, curled, in a plank position.

• Kick, Step Back – Kick with your leg, and step back in a low squat. Another nice recovery-type move.

• Squat Twist – It’s like a jumping jack, with your arms criss-crossing while squatting, touching your opposite foot (right arm to left foot, left arm to right foot, while jumping jacking lol).

• Over the River Hops – Just what Grandma ordered! The pumpkin pie is in the oven!! A nice, relaxing move quite honestly, when you stack it up against the rest of these. I think you’ll liek this one a lot.

• Attack – Not like the other moves in the other workouts in INSANITY. This one is a side to side move with the attack hand, jumping side to side.

• Power Knees – The same as the fit test, only in this crazy mother of a workout!

• Ski Down Hooks – The ski down move has always been a great move in INSANITY, and many people really like the move. With this one you are also adding a hook as you jump from side-to-side down the mountain.

• Belt Kicks – This one is about squatting while keeping your hands at your belt line, and kicking when you come out of the squat, alternating legs.

• Forward/Back Suicides – A great move! We are all familiar with the suicide drills (or at least you should be if you do INSANITY). This one combines that move with a forward and backward movement. Be careful going backwards!

• Push-Up Abs – You go down into a push-up while bringing each leg up to your elbow, one at a time. Don’t worry too much about getting your chest to the floor as this is primarily an abs workout, especially for your oblique muscles.

• Plank Punches – This one I find to be a bit difficult for some reason, but its one of my favorites. You are in a plank position throwing punches with your fists, one arm at a time (obviously one arm at a time lol…the person who can throw both at the same time deserves some type of reward!).

• 8 Jump Ropes & 8 Hop Squats – This move is a bit self-explanatory. Although with the jump ropes I recommend trying to really get your legs in the air to maximize your core and also get the jump rope under your legs twice before you return to the floor (I know that can be a bit difficult but its a bonus!)

• Squat Speed Bag – This is the first time I’ve seen this in INSANITY, and I’m excited to have it in the workout! Get your butt low and cycle your arms as if you are punching a speed bag. Speed speed speed my friend! Your arms will be on fire after this one.

That is the workout, my friend! Crazy, huh? Have you conquered INSANITY Max Cardio Conditioning yet? If so, comment below and let me know what you think!

Until Next Time,

Bob Sharpe

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