Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Insanity: Calories Burned



So Beachbody states that you'll burn up to 1000 calories per hour, but if you recall, very few of the videos are actually an hour long. Plus, you have cool down and stretching that does not burn that many calories per minute.
I searched and searched for the calories burned per video but also for a woman, I found many for men. SO here it is, not only based on a woman's performance but also by weight, no two women are the same. Note in the table I have a column per pound, per minute, and total. This is based off 150 pounds and the minutes are without the cool down and stretching.

 Video
Working Minutes
Cals Total
Cals/lb
Cals/min
Plyometric Cardio Circuit
28
388
2.586
13.857
Cardio Power and Resistance
26
358
2.386
13.769
Pure Cardio
25
343
2.286
13.720
Cardio Abs
11
149
0.993
13.545
Max Interval
46
658
4.386
14.304
Max Plyo
43
613
4.086
14.256
Max Cardio
36
508
3.386
14.111
Insane Abs
22
266
1.773
12.091

If you agree with the working minutes I used, just take the Cals/lb column and multiply that number by your current weight. That will be a most accurate approximation for how many calories you burned for the video.
You can add about 1 calorie/minute for additional time spent in stretch and cool down.

I hope this helps. If you would like additional BeachBody programs broken down like this just drop me a message or a comment below and I will gladly work on it.

Happy Insanity! ;-)