Getting Serious is hard work - or is getting hard serious work?
Well, the title is prolly better than the blog entry, telling you that RIGHT NOW!
After over 6 months of pissing around at this "exercise" thing, I have tried a whole bunch of stuff. I keep coming back to weight training as the thing that seems to satisfy me the most.
So I have been doing 3 days a week pretty religiously now. My weight is dropping, clothes are not fitting right, my carcass is changing. Long story short - what I am doing seems to at least be having an effect.
However my approach has been sort of shotgun. Working mostly my whole body on every work out. Increasing weights and or reps as the exercise gets easier.But changing exercises to frequently to really track progress.
I seemed to have too many exercises and spend too long in the gym, it feels like I was holding back just so I could make it through to the end.
Then I got to reading about different types of workouts. This of course overtaxed my mind and caused me to totally get confused by the multitude of exercises available. After 3 weeks of study I think I have finally got a workout program ready!
I decided to go with a 2 day split. Mon., Wed., and Fri. Lower Body one day, upper body alternating day. Seven exercises and one alternate for each day. Get in - get her done- and bail.
Sounds good…maybe.
I will let you know.
July 23, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Bringing a lil small notebook has really helped me to track my weight training progress. That way every week you will acheive more ..and challenge yourself to do better than last week.
August 18, 2007 at 10:41 pm
The key is to do what feels right to your body and makes you feel good. I was doing six days, upper/lower body alternating but I started to get really fatigued by the last days of training. Now I am doing 30 to one hour of cardio daily and four days of weight training. I am still learning from my Trainer about the routine but so far its been Chest, Deltoids, Triceps..Day 2 Calfs, Hams, Quads and abs..Day 3 Biceps Back Abs..day four will be legs again. For me changing the routine up every few weeks helps and helps shock the muscles. I would love to know what you are doing.
Gwen
December 2, 2008 at 2:41 am
I am right there with you. I have been working out with a trainer to great success, but am moving on from him and trying this on my own. A split like Gwen describes is what I’m planning on adopting. We’ll see how it goes…is this really mine now?
Alissa