insanity workout

I have used the insanity workout. In fact I use it the first 3 weeks of school as the "re-conditioning" phase of my off-season. I also use it when the weight room is not available for use to use and on rainy days, instead of speed and agility work outside, we do insanity. I know for a fact other coaches in Texas are using this workout because I have talked to them. You might want to also check on the P90X workouts - not the weight lifting - the conditioning and plyo. Send me private message and I'll send you what I have - its organized and easy to implement without the video. Coach led workout. But if you have the video - use it - the boys will like it.

I have done the Insanity workout and it works. I am not a big weightlifting person so it was right up my alley. The kids would like it because it is non-stop agility drills. As far as a baseball workout I cannot comment on but it will definitely get all the players in shape.

As far as baseball specificity, Insanity doesn't do much in my opinion because it doesn't build strength or power. But I have never been dripping sweat as much as I am after a day of Insanity. For pure fitness/weight loss/muscle toning and sport notwithstanding, I think its pretty legit.

The part that interested me was the ballistic plyo movements and core training that I saw on the website. They looked to be strong in explosive low weight movements that looked very benefitial. Did you find some of that to be the case when you tried it, JH? By the way, thank you all for the feedback it is appreciated.

P.s. kdog - sent you a PM.

hsballcoach- With respect to gaining explosiveness, I think Insanity's major flaw is the lack of rest time. Shaun T takes high intensity interval training to the extreme here, and it is very difficult to continue each exercise at 100% effort through the entire workout. I had to continuously take breaks throughout each portion and very rarely was able to keep up with the instructors. As a result, the explosive nature of the program was somewhat lost because I was not able to continuously put 100% max effort into each exercise for that extended period of time. I don't doubt that the exercises in and of themselves promote explosiveness and athleticism, but in the overall context of the program I think it is lost because of the sheer difficulty of the workouts all combined.

When I complete plyometric circuits in my own training, I implement several of the Insanity and P90X movements in my daily routine. This hybrid combined with the weight training that I complete for baseball is, in my opinion, a much more ideal workout for the sport-specific nature of the craft.

Thanks for the feedback JH. That is what I was looking for. Sounds like I will keep what I am doing but maybe add some of the exercises suggested by these workouts with a shorter duration and longer rest time.