well thats what i did, does it matter if you stay down in the lunge or are you supposed to come all the way back up to a standing with feet together position for each lunge...
Oh shoot, then I did them wrong too... I stayed with my legs apart and did all 12 lunges one side, then the other side... guess I have to fix that next time
It's alternating lunges. Think about it. It's supposed to be a metabolic circuit. Which lunge gets your heart rate up more? Of course you'll be moving your feet. This is what we're doing instead of intervals. It should feel a lot like the intervals.
Take a look at this and watch the guy in the video dying during this leg matrix. HA! The Leg Matrix
Huh? He does exactly what we're supposed to be doing (just not very well). He goes through Alwyn's bodyweight matrix once. NR4W Stage 2 workout A prescribes the matrix to be done twice. You rest twice as long as it took you to do it the first time through. That's why he was timing it. Then we're supposed to do it again. You don't rest between the four individual movements.
Matrix = fancy name for this group of four exercises
Huh? He does exactly what we're supposed to be doing (just not very well). He goes through Alwyn's bodyweight matrix once. NR4W Stage 2 workout A prescribes the matrix to be done twice. You rest twice as long as it took you to do it the first time through. That's why he was timing it. Then we're supposed to do it again. You don't rest between the four individual movements.
Matrix = fancy name for this group of four exercises
Well thanks for that...today was my first stage 3 matrix workout and i read that to mean rest in bw each!
but now i see i was wrong on that too
also i saw that in the book it explained the lunge....geez.
i didnt even look for it bc i didnt see a page number in the routine sheet
oh well
thanks
again
It's alternating lunges. Think about it. It's supposed to be a metabolic circuit. Which lunge gets your heart rate up more? Of course you'll be moving your feet. This is what we're doing instead of intervals. It should feel a lot like the intervals.
Take a look at this and watch the guy in the video dying during this leg matrix. HA! The Leg Matrix
Lisa, I'm glad you posted this link. I read the whole thread. What stuck out to me was the question/response about changing the order of the matrix exercises. It's not something I would have considered if I hadn't read that.
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I did this the first time today and it was so hard I had a brain fugue or something. I completely missed the "alternating" part, even though I specifically looked in the book to check.
So when Miss Jane said alternating, I ran to get the book to PROVE HER WRONG but dang, if she isn't right. That sucks. (No offense, Miss Jane.)
By the way, the first matrix took me 5 minutes! But I only rested 5 minutes because I could hear my legs plotting to overthrow my brain and I needed to quell that mutiny real quick.
At the end of the 2nd matrix I think my heels were leaving the ground but those toes weren't going anywhere.
Stage 3 matrix lunge question?
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