Ok, so I breezed throught he break in workout and started FLII. I'm not sure I'm following the program correctly, I was in the gym for 2.5 hours and was only halfway done. Granted I didn't hold fast to the rest periods because I wanted to make my way through the work out without throwin up and I definately wasn't lounging around or wasting that much time. Maybe I'm not reading it correctly, are you really supposed to do 180 squats? I made it through the squats and rows but only halfway through the barbell push press and the leg curls....HELP
Ok, so I breezed throught he break in workout and started FLII. I'm not sure I'm following the program correctly, I was in the gym for 2.5 hours and was only halfway done. Granted I didn't hold fast to the rest periods because I wanted to make my way through the work out without throwin up and I definately wasn't lounging around or wasting that much time. Maybe I'm not reading it correctly, are you really supposed to do 180 squats? I made it through the squats and rows but only halfway through the barbell push press and the leg curls....HELP
Whatever you did, you are WAY wrong. Are you paying attention to the chart showing which workouts you do with which number of reps?
Your first FLII workout is 3 sets of squats at 12 reps alternated with 3 sets of WG Row with 60 seconds rest between each movement. And, then it moves on from there to the next superset.
LOL...that's actually good news because there is no way I was going to make it through.....The book has workouts 1-6, 3 sets a piece with varying reps, what did I miss...to me it looks like
Now, the first time you do fatloss 2A, you'll do each exercise for 3 sets of 12 reps each with a 60 second rest in between the reps. Then, the next time you do it, I believe it's the same. The third time you do it (workout number 3 for FL2A) you'll drop your reps to 10 and your rests to 45, still doing 3 sets of each.
You do NOT do squats 3x12, 3x12, 3x10, 3x10, 3x8, 3x8 or anything like that in a single workout.
Now that looks manageable!!!...Thanks Aoife....When I graduated with an engineering degree my mom got me a magnet that said, "I don't know where you got your education buy you should get a refund." I think I'll keep this mix up to myself...LOL
In this context, a workout is "what you do in one trip to the gym".
You will end up doing 12 workouts in FL-II, 6 of A and 6 of B.
If you workout 3 times a week, this will take you 4 weeks.
I understand that the word "workout" is used a lot. It's "workout number 1 of workout A" for instance. But no one is so cruel as to make a body do that much work in a single session. If you're more than an hour just lifting, you're either very slow, or doing WAY too much. (This is a general statement about these workouts. Just to keep those pesky PLs/BBs of my back. heh)
That has always been my rule of working out, to keep them under or around an hour but I thought maybe when working out for fat loss it's diiferent. Once again thanks for the help.
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oh, and if you're interested in logs like in my visual, the link in my sig will get you them. *shrug* ya just need the book handy.
Really, though. It's happened to a few of the ladies when they started New Rules for Women. I donno if it's the wording, or the sample log in the book that throws people or what, but it is a common occurrence (hence, I was pretty sure what you did when you said you did 180 squats).
On the bright side, kudos to you for being ABLE to do that. It musta sucked really huge donkey balls.
Surprisingly I was able to walk out of the gym by myself....SLOWLY. I rushed to the store to pickup a protein shake though. Fortunately I was able to walk in the days to follow, I just made sure I spent time icing them down and heating them up.
During the work out I don't remember how much fluid I took in, I just kept refilling my water bottle when I got to low.
Aoife, it did suck big ones!!!....Treading back and forth between the squat rack and the cable rowing station was a huge turn off and thinking about what I had left was not working. Glad I have it straight now, should be a lot more fun now :-). Thanks for the link, should save my butt next time ;-).
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