Christine loves bumbling around in Belgium

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Starter Program 18 months ago

So,

I have been doing 86 leg-raises daily and will up it by 10% next month.

Also was able to keep my minimum of daily 5km (3miles) walks intact. Now, however under the burning Spanish sun, which mercilessly tries to destroy my plans!

MERCILESSLY!

(is that a word?)

Well, anyhow – lots of improvements made, plus my beautiful Shakir provides daily fresh fruit juices and extra vitamins for me. :)

YEY.



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yes, it is a word

sounds like you’re doing good. However, i would suggest instead of long walks (which were destroyed by your spanish sun anyway) do timed sprint sets. This helps to boost your metabolism moreso than really long distance excercises, which actually cause your body to adjust to your workouts and burn fat at a slower rate, at least I believe that happens. However I’m not a certified nutritionist, all I know is that after i cut out the long distance running and switched to sprint sets every other day with lifting in between, I started seeing results.

You might also want to vary you ab excercises a bit, leg raises are good, but just like the long distance running, your body may just adjust itself to the excercise. Throw in some crunches and plank stances.

Christine loves bumbling around in Belgium

Crunching tiger, sprinting dragon

Wow, thank you so much for your input.
I absolutely must have repressed what happened the last time, after I had a short term period of exercise motivation.

I exploded like a little muffin!
A little self-conscious with the sprinting though, mainly because I have the fitness of a marshmallow when it comes to running…

However I have a skipping rope – could that replace the sprints?

Also worried about my back when it comes to crunches, any alternatives you can suggest for abs exercises?
(I will be looking up those plank stances – they sound very pirate-related at this stage…)

Well, thanks again for helping out, I will start today by doing some changes!

Drewgie is optimistic

Fitness of a marshmallow?

Weird expression. . .

Anyhow, I wanted to encourage you to keep up the work. You’ll get your amazing gut ;-)

One question for you: I plan on starting my exercises off reaaaaaal slow so I don’t burn out and quit the first week. Obviously I need to make gradual difficulty increases. You mentioned boosting your leg lifts 10%, is that usually how much you increase by? Also, how low did you start to avoid burnout? Stupid low, or reasonably high reps?

Christine loves bumbling around in Belgium

Burn out

I started stupid low, thank you very much. :) Actually three years ago I could only do half a push-up (downwards) and discovered I had the ability to do five leg raises.

This time I started with round about 60 leg raises and pushed for a 10% increase every two weeks.

I don’t put every ounce of concentration in each one, it is just to make me proud of myself. Quantaty above Quality right? ...

Actually this was only my quick fix solution for bathing suit season… i which I intend to be as lazy as possible. Only to regretfully take up my efforts stating at half my reps for puppy tummy season..

No burnout, lots of “holidays” ;)


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