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maggieandmommy · 05-05-2008, 06:31 PM

I was reading Nancy's post about the body matrix and it reminded me of something I've been thinking over the last week or so.

Does it ever make sense to extend a stage by a week? Would that be counterproductive? For Stage 1 and 2, I progressed nicely and made nice gains and by the end was doing things with nice form and good weights. For Stage 3, I'm struggling. I've barely increased weight at all, and I still look like an absolute disaster on the body matrix. Seriously--I can only do 4 or 5 lunge jumps before I have to stop and catch my breath and my balance. Pathetic. Plus I'm having lots of knee pain with the exercises in this stage (there's lots of lunges, though, so that doesn't help). I've got arthritis, but it's fairly well under control, and I did take a week (or most of a week) off between Stage 2 and Stage 3. I don't know what to do.

I'm halfway through with Stage 3, and I just feel like I'd made more progress by this point in the other stages.

Any ideas or thoughts?

05-05-2008, 06:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
maggieandmommy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alabama Posts: 159 My Profile	Extending Stage 3? I was reading Nancy's post about the body matrix and it reminded me of something I've been thinking over the last week or so. Does it ever make sense to extend a stage by a week? Would that be counterproductive? For Stage 1 and 2, I progressed nicely and made nice gains and by the end was doing things with nice form and good weights. For Stage 3, I'm struggling. I've barely increased weight at all, and I still look like an absolute disaster on the body matrix. Seriously--I can only do 4 or 5 lunge jumps before I have to stop and catch my breath and my balance. Pathetic. Plus I'm having lots of knee pain with the exercises in this stage (there's lots of lunges, though, so that doesn't help). I've got arthritis, but it's fairly well under control, and I did take a week (or most of a week) off between Stage 2 and Stage 3. I don't know what to do. I'm halfway through with Stage 3, and I just feel like I'd made more progress by this point in the other stages. Any ideas or thoughts?