Insanity Breakdown #1 – Plyometric Cardio Circuit |

Alrighty then… the Insanity workout officially starts off with the Plyometric Cardio Circuit workout. The warm-up consists of jogging, jumping jacks, Heismans, 1-2-3 Heismans, butt kicks, high knees, and mummy kicks. The warm-up routine is repeated three times -each time getting progressively faster. This helps your muscles warm up, makes you sweat (a little – or a lot) and gets your heart beat going. Once that’s done there is a short break (about 30 secs), and you go into a stretch sequence (which is really important to prevent injuries and Shaun T does stress this in practically all of his videos). The stretch sequence has a series of breathing exercises and stretches, if you are doing them whole heartedly ie. ‘putting in effort’ you WILL notice you sweat a lot more during the stretches than the warm up which I found interesting!

Once you’re done with the stretches you get into the tough bit starting off with – # 1 drills. You will feel a lot of things you haven’t felt before like; your feet going numb, losing breath, wanting to barf, choking on water your drinking, light headed-ness, profusely sweating+ sweat dripping, wanting to give up, among other things.

The premise behind setting up the exercises this way is Interval Training – which allows your heart rate to shoot up while you workout for larger chunk of time and allow it to briefly come down while you rest for a short while before you start over again at high intensity. This is the secret behind this exercise program that defers from conventional exercises where the graph flips to offer larger chunks of rest time and short bursts of intensity which doesn’t offer that much of a workout.

The exercises you find in this circuit are:

• # 1 Drills: Suicide drills, Power squats, Mountain climbers, Ski jumps – repeated 3 times
• Finishing up #1 Drills with Switch feet, Football wide sprints – you get a 30 second water break here before going on to
• #2 Drills: Basketball drills, Ski abs, Level one drills (pushups + floor sprints), In-out abs
•  Finishing up #2 Drills with Jabs, Cross jacks, Uppercuts, Kung-fu Attacks 

The workout ends with cool down stretches and breathing exercises like the ones you did during the warm up.

That’s it for Plyometric Cardio Circuit. Peace out and Dig Deep!

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