The workout are ordered the same way each week - Burn, Faster, Stronger, Powerful, Cut and Balanced. Each week they are different but stay in the theme of the workout, meaning Burn and Faster are more fast-paced and Stronger and Cut are a bit slower (but not by any means easier). Powerful pretty much wipes the floor with me. I literally laid on the floor during the stretching at the end because I could not pick myself up!
This week I added Built Stronger 1.0 and really liked it. I liked it enough that I did it twice. It's still using the step, but incorporating weights. I was super optimistic and started with 8's and quickly swapped them for 5's. I think I could have stuck it out longer with the 8's though so that will be a goal for next week.
Here's what I did this week:
Monday - Burn and Built Stronger 1.0
Tuesday - Faster, 10 Min Abs and 4 mile run
Wednesday - Stronger, Built Stronger 1.0 and 10 min Abs
Thursday - Powerful and 5 mile run
Friday - Cut
Saturday - Balanced and 9 mile run
Sunday - rest, watch Transform Your Life with Shaun T and Challenge Group call :)
I wouldn't necessarily recommend doing the 10 min Abs two days in a row, it's just how my schedule worked out. I probably should have done it again on Friday since it was single workout day, but I was tired and 20 minutes seemed PLENTY.
Speaking of tired, coupling this program with half marathon training is not for the faint of heart. I only run three days a week due to a prior injury, so my Tues/Thurs/Sat schedule seems very reasonable. After all, its only 20 mins a day, right? Wellllllll it's a LOT of leg work and by my Thursday afternoon run I felt like I was running in quicksand. I think the cumulative effect of the workouts over the week ran me over like a bus on Thursday afternoon. But, that's ok, means I'm working hard and my body is responding.
Speaking of responding - I'm wore a pair of jeans to work on Friday that I haven't work in over a year! The scale hasn't moved a ton, I'm down about 2 pounds, but my body composition is changing and that's very encouraging. I carry my weight around my middle and the only way I can describe how these jeans were fitting is "busted can of biscuits". Two pounds isn't a lot, but the change in the way these jeans feel is pretty significant. Winning!
I was not good about photographing my food this week, partly because I ate basically the same stuff as last week and partly because I was just busy. I did, however, discover a new favorite lunch.
This is red lentil pasta (I bought Barilla because it was on my ibotta app) with grilled chicken and pesto. And a side salad. It is DELISH and is 1 yellow, 1 red, 1 green, 1 orange and 2 spoons (the pesto).
Overall for the week I'm going to give myself a B+ for nutrition. I had wine on Wednesday and Friday. Sunday it was 60 degrees and sunny (rare in January!) and we sat outside with friends and shared another couple bottles of wine. Then we ordered BBQ for dinner, so not the best day nutritionally. We will see how much the scale punishes me!
Goals for week 3 are to complete all of the workouts (I'll be out of town for the weekend so this will be something I have to be intentional about) and use the risers as much as I'm able. At the end of next week I'll be halfway through!!
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