From the people that brought you The P90X Nutrition Plan Made Easy, we proudly present our breakdown of the Insanity Elite Nutrition Guide. We are following the meal plan approach and trying to stick with the plan as best we can. The nutrition plan is fairly straight forward. It includes five power meals per day with relatively equal caloric value. You’ll need to determine your own caloric needs using the mathematical formula in the Elite Nutrition Guide.
The Insanity Elite Nutrition Guide presents an incredibly powerful way to light your metabolic fire and keep it going all day long. The basic premise of the Elite Nutrition Guide is to eat 5 meals per day and have each of those meals be of nearly equivalant value. The first step in the nutrition guide is to calculate your calories. The calculations in the Elite Nutrition Guide are somewhat complicated. To simplify things we have created a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet walks you through the threes step process to determine your required caloric intake. Note that: (1) there are separate calculations for men and women; and (2) the process requires you to be honest about your activity levels and goals.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE REVISED INSANITY SPREADSHEET
Once you have the spreadsheet, you’ll want to watch the following videos that explain how to use them and give some ideas on how to lay out your daily food intake with the Insanity Elite Nutrition Guide.
In this video, Monica and I break down the plan, and show you how we intend to prepare ourselves for success, by prepararing our meals in advance.
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JK – that was awesome. It’s so simple that I feel dumb for not thinking of doing it that way: set yourself up for success by preparing every meal ahead of time. Brilliant!
Hey, thanks for the informative nutrition video. I am doing p90x and waiting for insanity to come in the mail. I think I have about 15 to 20 pounds of fat to lose. Does this program seem to build muscle the way p90x does?
Insanity is really designed to lean you out. It is cardio based, but there have been a lot of pushups mixed in. I’m noticing that my legs are getting stronger from all the plyo type moves. The guys in the test group did gain muscle, but they probably lost more fat than they gained in muscle. P90X is really more of a strength based program than Insanity.
Joey,
Insanity is really more of a cardio based program, but there is enough strength training involved that it will build muscle. It is different than P90X for sure. If you have P90X+, it is comparable to that program, particularly the Intervals Plus DVD. No matter what you are doing, your heart is pounding!
Dave