Oh my! What have I done?

[happysal]

(This is a WOOT! Honestly!)

 

Soooo, almost finishing my first month of eating Paleo (85% of the time), started running and slowly building that up - planning to attempt a 5k on Saturday - and doing the Body Weight Workout. Body weight workout is great but I wasn't really sure how to progress my strength training. So I started to have a google at work yesterday for PT, gyms etc. and came across a weights gym, e-mailed and asked to have a look about AND IT IS PERFECT! No weight machines, no Smith machines, it IS a NF Rebels' dream. Before I knew it, my induction is on Monday... Kind of chuffed that I've taken the plunge and just done it. It's quite a small gym too so you get a lot of 1:1 time with an instructor - but without the price tag! 

 

In other "Woot!" news, the past 3 weeks I have lost 13 inches from my body and I'm weighing myself for the first time since I started on Thursday morning - quite nervous about that part! Hopefully at the end of month one I'll have a decent inch loss under my belt (quite literally!) and a decent amount of lbs lost!

 

Well thanks reading! Any advice for this new gym would be awesome!

 

Cheers,

Sal

[Super Destroyer]

Way to go, Sal! Since you are in a real gym, you might consider 5x5 strength training. Keep up the aawesome work!

[Timmy M]

jealous much? fyi there's more to beginner lifting than 5x5, Paul Carter had good results with his 13yr old daughter with this:

 

For the first 5-6 weeks or so this is what I had her do on a weekly basis -

Monday - Pressing and Rows

Incline Press - 8-12 sets of 5-8 Cable Rows - 5-6 sets of 10

Tuesday - back Work

Chins - ladders 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3, etc until I was done with rack pulls. Hypers - 4-5 sets of 10

Wednesday - Misc.

Ab Wheel - 5 sets of max reps Upright Rows - 5 sets of 10-20

Thursday - squats

Squats - 6-8 sets of 5’s or 3’s Lunges - 2-3 sets of 15-20

friday - off

saturday - back Work

Cable Rows - 6 sets of 10 Ab Wheel - 4-5 sets of max reps Arm Work - 3-4 sets

sunday - Misc.

Chins - more ladders More Abs

 

When the workouts started, she was 98 pounds, and I can tell you what she couldn’t do.

• She couldn’t incline the standard bar for a single rep.• She couldn’t squat the standard bar for more than 3 reps • She couldn’t do a single chin

At the end of the 6 weeks she was incline pressing the bar for 5, squatting 65 for 5, and doing lots of chins all on her own. She had also gained 7 pounds without changing her diet. (it's mentioned later that her first ever deadlift was 2 x 2 with 135lbs)