My mom's been doing the NROLFW Stage 1 workouts on and off since April (mostly off). She works out by herself in the basement, and she had never lifted before Stage 1. She hasn't really increased the weight on the lifts, and since there's no one to spot her I really don't want her going on to some of the more complicated movements. (She does, however,
love the lat pulldown and seated row. The rest, eh, but she loves those two.)
So I decided that instead of putting her on Stage 2 that I'd move her over to
Red Carpet Ready. Lower weights (I think the max is 10 or 15lbs), but it still uses lunges, Romanian DL, overhead press, planks, etc. Easier for my mom to do by herself. Each workout (A and B) has 3 circuits that you do 2-3 times; each takes about 1 hour. Cardio is intervals, 30 min, on non-weights days.
I'm also going to run all the calculations from
FLTS for her. (She's probably a candidate for
Repair. Eh, I'll have to read all that again and see what we can do.) Her biggest obstacle is food, especially not eating enough during the day and then too much at night and on the weekends. She doesn't stop to eat during the day because she's too busy at work; however, she works with my dad (just the two of them), so I'm going to recruit him to make sure she eats lunch at least. And she needs to sleep more.
This week is a sort of "break in" week while she works on going to bed earlier and getting up earlier, packing & eating lunch, and getting used to the movements in
RCR. She did Workout A, one time through each circuit, this morning and said it was a lot harder than it looked: "I have to do that more than once through??" I'm still trying to talk her in to taking pictures, at least so she can see her progress.
She was excited, though, when I showed her the program; she liked the name, especially.
