I am nearly half way done with 6 month workout bet (11.5 out of 26 weeks done) and started my exclusively strength training segment of my 26 weeks! I planned out my 26 weeks with a build up and slow down to hopefully keep from burning out.
Again, the bet is to complete 4 workouts a week for 26 weeks, with a total of 104 workouts.
My plan:
- 1 week warm up (mostly low impact Fitnessblender workouts)
- 8 weeks of FB30
- 12 weeks of modified Female Training Bible
- 4 weeks FB Strong
- 1 week slow down
- ….hopefully continuing with a new challenge with another awesome prize
I discovered Fitnessblender.com when I first started getting back in shape after Olivia (my first). Back then, I made a bet with my best friend Christina, that I would lose 1.5 lbs a week for 10 weeks and needed some exercises to go with the calorie cutting I was doing.
I discovered BodyBuilding.com and found the Female Training Bible as a great full strength training program. The Female Training Bible is broken down into 3 sets of 4 weeks and I adapted the workouts for my home gym using only dumbbells. Isaac has a bench and barbell in the basement, but I love just using my Power Blocks (a reward for another fitness challenge I did) which can go up to 24 lbs per hand.I start each set of weeks trying to find my starting weights so that I can incrementally increase the weight that I do for each exercise. If you can see in the photo below, I make notes about how much weight and how many reps I do for each exercise that week. From those notes, I know whether I need to push myself harder the next week (“do more”), or whether those exercises were “good”. Lately I’ve been watching Ultimate Beastmaster on Netflix while doing my strength training. Athletes launching themselves across the course makes feel like a couple more reps is nothing 🙂
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| If you want to see my modified version of the Female Training Bible, simply comment and I’ll be happy to share my Google Sheet. |
I am planning at the half way point of the challenge to measure against a fitness test I did at the beginning. Come back and see how far I have progressed!
Anyone else out there enjoying a fitness challenge right now?
