So as many know I’ve been trying to figure to get back into a fitness and nutrition routine since the beginning of the year. I’d be going good for awhile and then slide backwards, and then crawl forwards, and slide backwards again.
I’m a firm believer in Beachbody workout programs—I’ve been a customer since I think 1999 (basically whenever Yoga Booty Ballet came out)—and yes, I’ve been struggling with my weight for basically 20 plus years. But that issue has been solely on my shoulders—I cave to mistakes way to easily, and then allow the problem to get even bigger before I try to take on a fitness routine again.
I’d made a good start several years ago when I started with T25 (it is a great workout program that is only 25 minutes a day for 5 days), then went on with a few other programs as well (CLX—Charlean Extreme, 21 day fix, 21 day fix extreme, Les Mill Pump), but at the same time slid backwards on my nutrition and allowed an injury that sidelined me for about two months to stretch into about three and half years. During those three and half years—I gained all the weight I lost and then some. While I didn’t (and don’t) really hate myself—I am disappointed in myself for allowing myself to slide so far back (basically I’m back at my grad school weight).
So I’ve decided that I’m going to start again, and this time in “community” setting. I’ve decided that I’m going to try LIIFT4, which is one of the two new programs that beachbody is going to be rolling out this fall. LIIFT4 is basically a program that combines resistance training (weights) with HIIT intervals; and it’s only 4 days a week.I enjoy doing weight training (Les Mill Pump is still one of my favorite workouts), and decided that maybe trying something new in terms of weight training is the way I need to go. So day one is done—my chest muscles and upper arm muscles aren’t really talking to me (I don’t know how well I’ll be able to move my arms tomorrow). So far the only exercise that I’m going to have to figure out modification/replacement for are doing the tricep pushups—I don’t have the upper arm strength, and I’m not sure my arms like going in that direction anyway. So stay tune, within the next two months I will hopefully be sharing at least one series of comparison photos (it may be just the before and after—not sure).