New and slightly overwhelmed

[night1021]

I'm new to the NROL. I am a 25 y/o female and I really want to get back into shape. I bought the book and read through everything, but I'm kind of confused. I'm suppose to start lifting tomorrow, BUT I look at Stage 1 and workout A and I'm not sure I have it right?

So day 1 I should to Workout A starting with:
Squats
Then Pushups alternating with Seated Row
Then Step-up alternating with Prone Jackknife

So Day 2 would be workout B:
deadlifts
Dumbbell shoulder press alternating with wide grip pull down
Lunge alternating with swiss-ball crunch

Then back to Workout A on day 3?

I read and re-read this a few times in the book and I just wanted to make sure I was accurate on this. I looked through the threads, but didn't really find one that this question was asked. I'm really excited to finally be doing something different. I'm not really sure what I am going to do about nutrition just yet. I've done weight watchers before and I know it works, but it just seems like this workout is going to require more calories than WW gave me.

Best wishes to you all.

[missjane]

Stage 1

Week 1
Workout A – 2 sets of each exercise – 15 reps
Workout B – 2 sets of each exercise – 15 reps
Workout A – 2 sets of each exercise – 15 reps

Week 2
Workout B – 2 sets of each exercise – 15 reps
Workout A – 2 sets of each exercise – 12 reps
Workout B – 2 sets of each exercise – 12 reps

Week 3
Workout A – 2 sets of each exercise – 12 reps
Workout B – 2 sets of each exercise – 12 reps
Workout A – 3 sets of each exercise – 10 reps

Week 4
Workout B – 3 sets of each exercise – 10 reps
Workout A – 3 sets of each exercise – 10 reps
Workout B – 3 sets of each exercise – 10 reps

Week 5
Workout A – 3 sets of each exercise – 8 reps
Workout B – 3 sets of each exercise – 8 reps
Workout A – 3 sets of each exercise – 8 reps

Week 6
Workout B – 3 sets of each exercise – 8 reps

[Bonnie]

Night 1021, Day 2 should be a rest day. Day 3 should be Workout B. So it should be something like:

Monday: Workout A
Tuesday: Rest
Wednesday: Workout B
Thursday: Rest
Friday: Workout A
Saturday: Rest

No more than three workouts in a 7-day period.

Hopefully I didn't get that wrong; it's what I've been doing myself. I had to sketch everything out because I couldn't understand how it all fit together until I wrote it down on paper.

I'm having a similar mental block on the Stage 2 workouts and just spent about an hour figuring it all out on paper. I know other people here just seem to know how it works, but I am dumber than the average bear.

As for calories, I started this on 1/6, have kept my calories on an average of 2000-2100, and I've lost 10 lbs. I didn't do any additional cardio or anything other than what was outlined in the book and I added extra rest days when I felt very sore.

[LisaS]

its the same thing - just depends if you are numbering on every day of the week or only numbering the workout days (1st wo, 2nd wo, 3rd wo, etc)