Always talk with your health care provider to determine a healthy weight for you before starting a weight-loss diet./span> Can you lose 10lb in a month?īy making some small changes to your daily routine, you can safely lose up to 10 pounds (4. If you can eat 500 fewer calories every day, you should lose about a pound (450 g) a week. If you weigh 250- pound, you will need to reduce your daily calorie intake to about 1,250 calories per day, an amount which is too low amounting to starvation./span> How much weight would I lose if I ate 500 calories a day?įor most overweight people, cutting about 500 calories a day is a good place to start.
If you want to lose 5 pounds in a week, you will need to reduce your food intake by 17,500 calories, which is a huge calorie deficit. How many calories should I eat to lose 5 pounds in a week? A person doing nothing will burn approximately 1. If they are standing or fidgeting they will burn more calories per hour. The average person burns 75-100 calories resting and doing nothing. How many calories a day do you burn doing nothing? The body does not require many calories to simply survive. Above is a picture of Melinda and I right after the workout.Though it differs depending on age and activity level, adult males generally require 2,000-3000 calories per day to maintain weight while adult females need around 1,600-2,400 according to the U.S Department of Health. By the time this last segment ends, you are drained, and shouldn’t have a dry spot left on your body. Don’t be fooled though, because this is not just an ab workout, but a crazy cardio that makes it near impossible to catch your breath. You do exercises like Ski Abs, In and Outs, and Basketball Drills. These last few exercises are super intense, and really focus on the entire core. By the time I finished the last speed, I was completely drenched and already wore out.īefore you begin the last set of circuit exercises, you get a much needed 1 minute break.
There were a few times that I had to pause to take a deep breath, but then pushed myself to continue. I would say my average HR for the entire workout was around 182. There was one point of the workout where I looked down at my HR monitor and it said 191! WHOA! I don’t ever remember my heart rate going that high during a workout. There are exercises like the Mummy Kicks and Ski Jumps, which really get your heart pumping. Between each set of exercises you get a 30 second break, but it’s really not enough to let your heart rate settle, but at least gives you a time to breathe somewhat normally. The next part of the workout works with the same concept as the warm-up, involving different exercises at 3 different speeds. This was about the point where I got a towel so that I wasn’t dripping all over the floor, and we haven’t even started the workout yet. By the time the warm-up was done, I already had a constant flow of sweat dripping from my forehead. You start out doing the 5 at a slow speed, and then do them again a little faster, and finally repeat the entire thing again at high speed.
The warm-up is it’s own little cardio workout itself and involves doing 5 exercises at 3 different speeds. Below is my Day 1 Insanity Review.Īs I said above, we did Plyometric Cardio Circuit, which is the first Insanity workout. I have done some modified Insanity workouts before in groups, but never did the actual workouts, and let me tell you that this program is legit! Yesterday we did Plyometric Cardio Circuit, and I never realized how great of a cardio workout the Insanity Workouts really are. I’ve been looking for a way to mix up the workouts a bit, and I figured that doing some Insanity along with 2-3 days of heavy resistance training would be the way to go. As most of you already found out, Melinda, Greg, and I began a round of Insanity yesterday.