Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack Review

Here is my Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack review. With the release of Asylum 2 I had the pleasure of doing a workout called Back and Six Pack. It is a great workout that blends workouts for the back using a variety of upper and lower back moves alternated with core and abs work. This workouts makes use of dumbbells, plank moves, pull-ups, stretch bands and even a jump rope.

I want to preface this review with the fact that I was a bit worried about being able to keep up with this workout. I was just coming off of Ultimate Reset, so hadn’t worked out this intense in about 30 days. I also remember the Insanity Asylum Back to Core workout being relentless. I will say that my back was the most ripped ever when I completed the Insanity Asylum program.

SO, with excitement and apprehension, I dug into this workout and came up with this Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack review.

Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack Review – The Workouts

The warm up begins with a series of jumping jack sorts of moves holding a jump rope. Then you follow that up with a torso twist and short ab warm up in the C-Sit position on the floor with heel taps.

Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack is broken into sets of a back exercise followed by an ab/core exercise.
The first set of moves gives you a choice of using dumbbells for various rows, or doing pull-ups.

Series 1

• Bent Over Row or Wide Grip Pull-Up for 30 seconds
• Suicide Jumps
• Bent Over Wide Row or Close Grip Pull-up with Oblique Twist
• Ski Abs
• Alternating Bent Over Rows
• Floor Sprints

Series 2

• One Arm Shoot Through (see photo)
• Warrior One (C-sit ab move)

• One Arm Shoot Through with In and Out Abs
• Superman Hold with stretchy resistance bands (see photo)
• Side Plank / Arm Raise (see Photo)
• Pulse Up / Mountain Climbers

Series 3

• Alternating Hip Flys or Straight-Leg Pull-Up
• Five Count Abs (a series of 5 moves held for 5 seconds each)
• Hammer Hip Fly Hold or Close-Grip Pull-Up Hold
• Five Count Abs
• Hammer Hip-Fly Release or Wide-Grip Pull-Up Release
• Five Count Abs ending with a hold and then flutter kicks for 30 seconds (brutal)

Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack Review – My Experience

I love how this program alternated between back moves and then ab/core moves! A very nice balance. When I did the pull-ups I did find myself needing to go to the chin-up max from time to time, but mostly I was happy with how I was able to keep up. Since most of the moves are timed, I wasn’t focused on any certain number of reps, so just kept going.

In doing this Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack review, I was overall quite pleased with how well I kept up. I struggled a little bit with the pulse up / mountain climbers as you progressively increase the reps. You still lay on your stomach and hold a dumbbell straight out in front of you. Then you pulse up your arms and legs at the same time. You start with 2 and then drop the weight and go into a runners posed to do a mountain climber move. Then you go back to the floor and pulse for 4. You repeat this pattern until you get to 16 reps. That was super challenging even with using only a 5 pound weight.

The side plank moves with the leg shoot through was also a fun move. A great oblique, core and hip flexor move with engage almost all of the abs. The later variation makes use of a light weight dumbbell, so it really challenges you as you lift your arm and move your leg. It was one of my favorite moves!

To be honest when I saw the 5 count abs, I was fearful, but I conquered it just fine. All the way up to the flutter kicks, that is. That move put me in my place and I took several breaks. Something to improve on! I think Shaun T did that move with us in his live training at the Beachbody Coach Summit. This was a seated routine where you do five moves and hold each move for a count of five. Legs down, one leg up, both legs up, legs and arms up, and then lower the legs slowly back to the ground. Try it out and you’ll see. The end of the 3rd round is where he brings in the 30 seconds (seemed more like an hour) worth of flutter kicks.

When it came to pull-ups, like I said before I was quite pleased. The moves were not nearly as crazy hard as all of the hanging ones in Insanity Asylum Volume 1. The various pull-ups also bring in some ab moves (similar to ones found in Tony Horton’s One on One pull-up moves). Talk about using gravity to help tighten up those abs!

You do various pull-ups with wide grip, close-grip, and chin-up moves and some negatives.

Keep in mind that all of this upper back engagement can also be done without pull-ups and just using a variety of rows. I just happened to use the pull-up bar for this Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack review.

Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack Review – My Assessment

There you go! Sure, I didn’t go over every singe exercise in this Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack review, but when you get the program, you’ll learn them soon enough. I really had fun with this one and it is only 37 minutes long, which makes me smile. The other Asylum 2 workouts are closer to an hour.

So, if you are up for a challenge or wanting to take your agility and sports performance to new heights, you must get both Asylum 1 and Asylum 2. Especially if you are an athlete, looking to get ripped, or just a super huge fitness fanatic!

 

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Insanity Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack Review – Wrap Up

To wrap up this Insanity Asylum Volume 2 Back and Six Pack review, I’d say that it’s a fun workout you can do in a relatively short amount of time. It targets the back, abs and core! I am sure this is probably one of the easier Asylum 2 workouts. Now, I’m not saying it’s easy though! I just need to review the other Asylum 2 workouts! I just like how short the workout is!

Final assessment, I really like Asylum 2 Back and Six Pack. It’s a fun workout and I highly recommend it.

 

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