The rest of the workout tends to follow the format of doing a few exercises at a moderate pace, and then repeating a select few of those exercises giving everything you got. The first few moves in every workout are kind of tame to ramp you into the main section of the workout.

It is all cardio based and the strength element, comes exclusively from body weight. Basically, the way I looked at it was how did the 25 minutes of a T25 workout compare to T25 minutes of doing Insanity Asylum or P90X, etc…Īlpha is a nice way to ease into T25. Additionally, I did not consider the fact that the workouts are only 25 minutes in my assessment. My intensity level does not take her into account, so the program is much more approachable for beginners if you follow along with Tanya. One nice thing is Tanya, a familiar face from Insanity and Insanity Asylum, serves as a modifier for all the exercises. I think this is an ideal cardio program for someone who has knee issues. You are never jumping as high as you can, and the jumping exercises you do make up very little of the overall routine.

Also this program is much lower impact than Insanity or Insanity Asylum.

The coordination element as well as the strength workouts, make it a much more natural precursor to entering the Asylum. I recommend that people who want to do Insanity Asylum, but do not think they are ready to do T25 instead of Insanity. In that sense I would say T25 is way more in line with Insanity Asylum then Insanity. Whereas Insanity was all about going at your own pace and not trying to look pretty. There is a lot of fancy footwork and trying to match your pace with the music. Another nice thing about T25 is that it requires way more coordination than Insanity. The cool downs that follow the workout are not part of the 25 minutes, but come after as an additional 2 to 3 minutes. That fact alone propels these workouts a level above the difficulty of the 21 Day Fix workouts. Which, means you need to be able to focus and make it through without a water break. All the workouts are 25 minutes non-stop. The difficulty of level of T25 varies from phase to phase. This is a very solid program, but has a few drawbacks, that prevent it from hitting platinum status.

The program has dedicated strength routines, but will work best for those with cardio in mind. Great program for those wishing to workout a half hour a day (including the cool down).

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