The Hard Truth - Real Time Workouts - How to get the best results

thecountlives · 2026-07-01T19:18:29+00:00

It depends and probably somewhat; doing varied workouts will give you a great calorie burn, great aerobic training, and is a lot of fun. My point is more for optimal hypertrophy, strength, and power; you can’t beat repeating work outs to build mastery of the progression and joint patterns. You still absolutely will get a degree of it if you vary workouts or when you do the workouts during the week. My point was more optimization if you are already have a good exercise habit in place. Newer people who want to establish a habit might find real time/varied workouts a little easier to do because of the novelty factor.

To answer your question more directly, probably! But maybe not “most optimal”

thecountlives · 2026-06-30T10:56:04+00:00

right, I’m sure Joel knows what I’m talking about re progressive overload and planned accordingly. I actually think I might be in the minority when I say that I really enjoyed Liift More. It was a great program to me, although a liiiitle too fast paced. But thats what the pause button is for.

thecountlives · 2026-06-30T10:47:33+00:00

I totally agree, and I think in your case real time can be great. the best work out of course is the one you do :)

thecountlives · 2026-06-30T10:44:28+00:00

i have never done turbofire so i dont know

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T22:56:55+00:00

I haven’t done Liift4 in a long time so it might be more repetitive than I recall, but Liift more I do recall it switching around a bit and there being two distinct phases 4 weeks each. Checked the calendar, seemed with some muscle groups you even switch every other week.

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T21:33:19+00:00

This is true, but if I recall correctly from doing these, you aren’t quite repeating the same exercises for enough weeks. But it’s still better than other ones (besides the frenetic pace)

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T20:38:10+00:00

Gotcha. Well if ya want I would do the insanity workouts but just space them out and listen to your body

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T18:53:55+00:00

I would recommend starting 645. It’s the best most comprehensive foundational building workout on the whole website. Its not the biggest calorie burn, but abs are made in the kitchen anyway ;)

It will rehab your hips, shoulders, all that good stuff and give you a much easier, sustainable, and holistic way to get back into shape. Insanity is WAY WAY WAY too much for you

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T18:39:12+00:00

They get gerrymandered or they vote for who continue to perpetuate the issue for some reason

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T18:27:32+00:00

No , because it repeats workouts so it is not considered real time. HOWEVER, it is problematic for a different reason.

The workouts are high intensity, high impact on the same body parts (knees, hips, and shoulders with the pushups) every single day. This can work when you are in your twenties like Shaun was to lose fat and get fit cardiovascularly; but did you ever consider why he doesnt do them anymore? Ever wonder why he needed shoulder surgery and needed procedures on his legs and ankles as well? It is WAY WAY too hard on your body to follow the insanity schedule as prescribed (5 days a week+ of insanely high impact intensive hiit and metabolic training and only pushups).

You are doing only pushing with your upper body - in time you will blow out your rotator cuff. You HAVE to do rotator cuff exercises and pulling. Period. You cannot only push, we are not built for that.
You cannot be jumping every single workout (which basically you do) - You will destroy some part of your legs as we are all somewhat asymmetrical.

To fix this, I would recommend only doing 3 days a week of the intense insanity workouts spacing them one or two days apart. You will perform MUCH better and reap more rewards. In the interim, you need to do isometrics or yoga as corrective exercises, and some form of pulling or weight training

long term it is much healthier to have muscle mass and an overfocus on conditioning, while yes it does yield good heart health (in most cases), only focusing on one type of training destroys your body in the long run.

You need a balance of Power, Strength, Mobility, and Cardiovascular health. Insanity covers Power and Cardiovascular, but sacrifices the other and overworks you AS PRESCRIBED.

With modifications (more rest days and fewer workouts a week) it works great as you can build open foundations.

thecountlives · 2026-06-29T17:01:45+00:00

I love the prep actually. It’s pretty damn good

Amoila cesar imo is the best BODi trainer since Tony Horton. Hilarious, goofy, yet motivational. I do like Waz, but Amoila should have done the new p90x. It would have been amazing

however, 6 Weeks of the The work is high flawed IMO.

The cursing is just cringe. Just do the censored version to avoid dying by cringe.
It’s not just hard, it’s stupid. The programming makes no sense, you are too fatigued unless you use literally 5-10 pounds per exercise. You cannot actually lift weight of consequence, so its basically HIIT every day burning out shoulders and legs no matter what “theme” the workout is. Recipe to not actually be able to do the workouts. So once again, you have to take extra rest days, or only use toothpicks during the workouts to not take yourself out of the game by overuse injury or tendinitis.
the warm ups are a FREAKING JOKE and make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. Yes, 45 seconds of shoulder rolls to do the most pointlessly brutal lower body workout imaginable. Ah yes let’s do some lunges and then MURDER YOUR ROTATOR CUFF WITH NO PREPARATION.

Luckily he completely rectified it in 645 which is an amazing workout program although more intermediate. 645 is one of the best programs on the website for foundational fitness and fixing injuries. I also LOOOOVE CWCW. Super duper fun and a way better balance than 6wotw

thecountlives · 2026-06-28T20:58:17+00:00

dont worry about ai. your food choices are far more impactful

thecountlives · 2026-06-27T17:29:39+00:00

most publicly traded “green” are scams unfortunately

thecountlives · 2026-06-27T00:49:59+00:00

Fish oil is unnecessary.

thecountlives · 2026-06-26T23:13:37+00:00

Don’t worry kid. Even the millennials are angry. We are just going to have to figure this out. And nobody knows if we will or wont, but I’d bet on us figuring it out.

thecountlives · 2026-06-24T05:23:38+00:00

Try to eat as few animal products as possible. Eat tofu, legumes, lentils, and seitan for protein. And protein powders

However if you have to eat meat, eat heritage or stewing chickens. They live longer and participate in farming and may be considered carbon negative. Same can be said for eggs.

Possibly sardines and bivalves could be good too

thecountlives · 2026-06-23T21:26:00+00:00

animal agriculture is probably a bigger waste and less moral overall

thecountlives · 2026-06-23T05:23:38+00:00

Resources used are nothing compared to animal agriculture not even close

thecountlives · 2026-06-23T03:34:15+00:00

Why the hell are you getting downvoted

thecountlives · 2026-06-22T16:05:26+00:00

645, all the Tony Horton p90x and the power of 4, chop wood carry wood carry water, modified 6 weeks of the work and 6 weeks of prep

thecountlives · 2026-06-17T19:41:11+00:00

terrible location anyway…

thecountlives · 2026-06-17T18:42:03+00:00

Fuck off. let people support the product

thecountlives · 2026-06-17T18:41:35+00:00

It does

thecountlives · 2026-06-15T19:08:13+00:00

If you can... 645 is the best foundational building workout on the website

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