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According to quite possibly my favorite Quora answer ever, Insanity is when somebody isn’t mentally fit, while Insanity Asylum is where said folks go for treatment.

(Hey, they’re not entirely wrong.)

No, but really, Shaun T did us no favors by naming every Insanity program something totally non-descript like “Insanity” or “Max 30” or “Asylum Vol. 1” or — how clever — “Asylum Vol. 2.”

Both Insanity and Asylum Vol. 1 are in dead heat as the #1 and #2 toughest programs on the Beachbody platform. But what’s the real difference between these hit Insanity programs?

Read on to learn the difference between Insanity and Insanity: The Asylum.

Then again, we’ve yet to see a Shaun T program we’d call “easy.”

Insanity Asylum (Vol. 1) is almost 30 straight days of unrelenting training purgatory. (OK, that might sound a smidge dramatic, but many agree that Asylum gives Insanity a run for its money.)

This athletic-based program requires an insane amount of mental willpower, strength, and stamina. Shaun T even dubs these speed, agility, balance, and coordination-heavy workouts the “hardest” you’ll ever try … which is mildly terrifying considering he cooked up the OG Insanity.

Read more about the ridiculously challenging 30-day Insanity Asylum program below.

Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, one of life’s hardest lessons to learn is “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

Losing fat and building muscle is normally one of those this-or-that scenarios.

You can’t have both at once … or can you?

Well, that’s exactly what Shaun T’s Focus T25 program promises, which gets our skeptic juices a-flowin’. So let’s dig deeper to learn more about this program (yes, that was a Shaun T-ism).

Twenty-five minutes a day, five days per week, five weeks — just how hard can Focus T25’s Alpha phase really be? The answers online are a mixed bag.

Some say it’s surprisingly tougher than T25’s Beta phase and holds the most challenging workouts they’ve ever attempted. Others argue that the scaled-back Alpha phase falls miles short of Shaun T’s breakout hit, Insanity.

So are the Focus T25 Alpha workouts hard? Or are they somewhere in the middle?

Learn more in our full review below!

Sixty days older, five to fifteen pounds lighter, a hell of a lot fitter, and pumped to take your newfound gains to the next level with a new Beachbody program.

Insanity Max 30 and those brutal “Max Out” workouts are officially in the books.

… Now what?

Beachbody On Demand is home to more than 75 unique programs and thousands of workouts, which makes choosing your next program a little more complicated than, say, Athlean-X.

Are you ready to choose your next Beachbody program?

Here are our top picks for what you should do after Insanity Max 30 to continue making gains.