Insanity workout calendar

Cardio Recovery is the workout performed once a week in order to allow your muscles and cardio engine to recover from the brutal intensity that is the INSANITY workout. As such, there is no cardio whatsoever in this workout, no leaping or running or anything that would cause your muscles to protest even further.

Instead, Shaun will lead you through a half hour’s worth of stretching, yoga poses and deep muscle work.

The workout is just under 33 minutes long, and begins with a slow, three minute warm up. One of the big focuses of this entire workout is breathing, and Shaun T emphases over and over again throughout, but especially during this warm up.

Much of this warm up will be familiar to you, from the deep lunges, arms extended, to the hamstring stretches, but now Shaun throws in ‘pulses’, where you flexion slightly and get more of a deep burn. The warm up also flows more, as you change from one position to the other rather faster than you normally do, building up a good burn despite the warm up being only 3 minutes.

The first exercise involves a deep inhale w

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