DAY 3 REVIEW
Posted on Jun 18, 2010
Still on the Diet, eating 6 healthy meals a day is great. My body feels great also. Never too hungry and I never have the stuffed "I ate too much" feeling.
Running: 45 minute jog this morning with a good long stretch after. The legs feel good, calves are a bit sore. I assume this is from the skipping, which I haven't done in a long time prior to the workout.
Workout: That was tough. I couldn't do all the reps you requested. I don't want to sound like a quitter, but I just couldn't finish. I did the exercises to failure though. Aaron, are people really finishing all the reps on this workout?
Looking forward to some more boxing tomorrow.
Til tomorrow,
Ryan
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Hi Ryan, I managed all these reps, but I have to say that none of my pull-ups would have been done to a good standard (actually even to a vaguely good standard), mainly because I don't know how to do pull-ups and could barely lift myself a few centimetres. Still I did the required number, pathetic as they were (and I went to the gym, specially cos I couldn't do those at home, so I guess a few people at the gym had a laugh at my efforts). Now I have asked somebody to teach me to do them properly...I guess I should add that to my short term goals..."do 1 pull up to a high standard" ha ha! Anyway, back to the reps, did you mix them up? There is no way I could have done each one as they were listed. I did each one I could till close to failure, then did something else. The 400 squats was a LOT though!!!
You did it right by mixing it up Susan - I'm sure there are very few people on the planet that could do that many reps of one exercise straight.
With respect to the pullups - if you're having problems with them and you have access to a gym, they often have an machine that will help you do "assisted pullups". Alternatively, if you're at home, you can use a chair to "assist". You simply put the chair under the pullup bar, step on it or put your ankles on the back of it and use your legs to assist with the pullup motion. I've attached a video from youtube to show you what I mean (until I get my own done.)
Ryan, it is a tough workout, especially for anyone who's never done any of this before, but it is possible to finish. Even if you need to do 1 rep at a time of each exercise, it's important to push forward. The "trick" if there is one, is not to go to failure on any exercise. Do reps until the muscle starts to fatigue and then switch to something else. If you go to failure, it will make it much more difficult to force them to do another rep. Some people can finish the workout in 1/2 hour, some may take an hour depending on how many reps they can fit into each set. Personally, when I do this, I generally do the squats in sets of 50-75, pushups anywhere from 15-30, pullups - 5-10, crunches - 30 and so on.
Keep working at it, you'll get there.
Sounds like you are doing a great job Ryan.
I wasn't able to do some of the stuff as Aaron recommended (running, pushups, pull-ups, etc). What I did was to stick with the mealplans and do as many reps of the exercises as I could - then start again.
On sone that I couldn't do (such as more than a few pushups) I modified the exercise a bit to work the same group of muscles (see Aaron's previous post).
For me it was important to try to do as many of the exercises as I could and build upon that number the next workout.
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