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 Two days: two workouts, four meals (lunch and dinner today, to come), three snacks, a lot of water, all my vitamins, and a completely emptied out reserve tank of Will to Live. Jillian Michaels wants me to die, and she doesn't care who knows it. The things I like about this so far: cooking! I am cooking for every single meal (except snacks. You don't have to cook yogurt or almonds, you know) and it feels pretty nice. I am lucky in that I do not have to stagger home at the end of a long day and stare balefully at my stove, wishing I lived in helper robot times. I don't have to plan ahead for lunches, or get up early for breakfasts, and I am very lucky in that. The recipes are gigantic, so I've had to cut them in half, and probably will cut them into thirds. And so I will be repeating meals, rather than following the meal plans exactly, so my grocery bill won't be as enormous and awful as I had hoped. Things I don't like: exercise. Consulting a sheet of paper, and then doing a rep, and then consulting a sheet of paper and doing another rep made me feel like a giant dork. It was also a pain in the ass to race around trying to find the correct equipment for the next step, and boy, did I feel dumb, dropping down in the middle of the weight room to do a plank, or racing over to the treadmills for my sprint, which completely destroyed me, and felt wonderful. Ow, my Jell-O legs. Like Stephanie, I had to take many breaks, and I also had to cut down on my reps. I still can't do real push-ups. If I can do ten real push-ups at the end of this, it will be the greatest triumph of my tiny life. If I can do more than that, I will be unstoppable, and probably spend a lot of time showing you my guns, the next time you see me. So far: I like this plan. I don't think it is meant for wimpy people like me, but I'm going to try to keep up anyway. It is also not meant for busy professionals. Or people who are going out of town for the weekend, as I am. I am pretty sure I am going to be taking a weekend-long break, while I'm in San Francisco, but I will be back on Monday, to conquer the push up. Viva los pectorals! 5 CommentsLeave a comment |
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I love the cooking as well. I am not a cook and I love that her recipes are easy to prepare and easy to follow. In fact since I bought this book I have spent more time in the kitchen than I have in the three years I've been living in my house. And one meal lasts me days since I'm the only one eating them. Definitely saves on the grocery bill when I'm not making a new lunch or dinner everyday.
The exercises are no joke. I am glad the third day was a rest day as I am still limping slightly from days 1 and 2. It has been a long time since I've been so sore it hurts to sit down and if my shoe comes untied....I just leave it. No way am I getting down there to tie it...I might not get back up!
I had to modify the sprinting because the treadmills at my gym are on the second floor and after having just done FIFTY plus squats or lunges there's no way I'm going up a flight of stairs to sprint. So I just substitute in running up and down the basketball court at what I'm assuming is close enough to the correct speed.
So far I'm loving it, but I agree that this book isn't for everyone. Not only do you have to already be in fairly decent shape for the book, but I think you do have to be just a little bit crazy. I think this book will yield great results, but only because the workouts really do take you to the next level and that level is pain, pain, and more pain....at least for me. But hopefully the soreness will fade...I hope! :)
It's okay. Jillian doesn't like exercise either.
And no wonder! I don't like Jillian's exercises either. But I am doing them -- Day 1 was last night. I am wimping out on the exercises that require gym equipment, because I'm doing this at home (although I can approximate a bench with my handy exercise ball), but I also did a full Pilates mat routine first. I am also not making it through all the reps on the pushups; I can do plank with no problem, but my pushups are just an embarrassment.
After reading an article about muscle soreness, I had half a protein bar immediately after the workout -- I'll find out tomorrow morning whether it helped. I notice that my thighs are already strongly registering the squats and sumo squats.
No, this plan is most certainly NOT for those who are on-the-go.
The end of last of week involved a conference during the day followed by smoozing into the evening. I skipped the booze, and tried to eat using Jillian’s plan as a guideline, but I was far from perfect. On the weekend I played a football game (we won!!), which necessitated some snacking that was again outside of the realm of the eating plan, but I again skipped the booze and fried food when I went out with the team to the pub (the latter being easier because of the former). The big falldown was yesterday when I was on the road for about 12 hours.
Still, not too bad overall… my meals are fairly well planned out today, with the exception of supper which involves the last night of smoozing (however, we’re going to a restaurant, so I won’t be limited to the pre-choosen conference food). I did the exercise plan and really enjoyed it, on some sick level. Nothing is looming for the next couple of weeks, so I should be able to stick with things a lot better.
Yeah, it's going to be a pretty damn busy month for me, and I have basically just skipped the meal-plan part of the book altogether -- not least because I would have needed to take the time to alter all the recipes to fit a vegetarian diet. I'm pretty comfortable with this; I was eating healthy before, and I had naturally fallen into a slow-oxidizer pattern anyway, because those are the foods that keep me feeling energetic and good. I won't lose as much weight as I otherwise would, I'm sure, but I would have just ended up putting it back on after the 30 days ended, so what the hell.
Speaking of eating, though -- if you can fit it into your meal plan for the day, it turns out that it does make a HUGE difference to eat something with a mix of carbs and protein immediately after you finish the workout (like, literally immediately). Yogurt, chocolate milk, protein bar, something -- it helps your muscles start rebuilding immediately, is the theory, and it seems to bear out for me. I would ordinarily be ten kinds of sore today (two days after starting an intense new program working muscles I don't use much), and I'm astonishingly fine. I can feel that I've been working these muscles, but I'm feeling good enough that I am going to do my usual Tuesday-night Pilates routine instead of taking the day off.
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