Hi all.
I recently started a women's bootcamp fitness program in my area, that I love. I am hooked. It's a 6 week program that has just been amazing. You can go as many times per week that you want, with some nights focused on strength trainign with cardio intervals and other nights are cardio focused with a little bit of strength training.
I started out only being able to do 5 full style pushups (plank style) and now I am up to 15. I started the program with 4 lbs weights and after three weeks, move dup to 8 lbs weights. I also started having never run before and my goal at the end of 6 weeks is to be able to run a lap around the track that we use, and I am almost there -- being able to make it 3/4 of the way around.
However, the downside to this program is that it is outdoors.
Today is a rainy day, and for the first time in my 5 weeks of doing the program all the classes were cancelled today due to rain. This brings up somethign I have been tryign to do for weeks, as I have been learnign during the program -- having a gym routine to do at the gym when it rains.
In the past, when I've gone to the gym, I've walke don the treadmill and done some of the machines, and just didn;t feel like I was pushing myself, really I felt so awkward. However, now that I have been working out for the past 5 weeks, I feel incomplete without my bootcamp days.
So, I need your help in coming up with some kind of routine I can do at the gym. I've heard it's best to have a plan when you go out on the gym floor, and in the past, I've lost motivation mainly because I haven't had a plan of what to do.
I'd also, eventually, like to get to the point where not only am I doign my bootcamp (awesome motivating group of women), but having my days at the gym where I am workign upper body, lower body, or having a core day, arms/back day, that kind of thing. I am just overwhelmed with takign all of the specific exercises and putting them together into something.
Anyone have any routines they like to share or any good websites I could go to.
P.S. A good cardio routine would be helpful as well.
P.P.S. I've also run a 5k course (walking/jogging) in 48 minutes. That was at the end of week 3. I told my trainer "Well, it takes me an hour to walk 3 miles." to which she replied "Well, it won;t take you an hour, because you won;t be walkign it." Of course, I thought it was torture, but at the end, the other ladies in the class (who had already finished) joined me for my last third of a mile and ran with me to cross the finish line. Many of them told me how proud they were of me. Now you know why I love my bootcamp classes so much.
I recently started a women's bootcamp fitness program in my area, that I love. I am hooked. It's a 6 week program that has just been amazing. You can go as many times per week that you want, with some nights focused on strength trainign with cardio intervals and other nights are cardio focused with a little bit of strength training.
I started out only being able to do 5 full style pushups (plank style) and now I am up to 15. I started the program with 4 lbs weights and after three weeks, move dup to 8 lbs weights. I also started having never run before and my goal at the end of 6 weeks is to be able to run a lap around the track that we use, and I am almost there -- being able to make it 3/4 of the way around.
However, the downside to this program is that it is outdoors.
Today is a rainy day, and for the first time in my 5 weeks of doing the program all the classes were cancelled today due to rain. This brings up somethign I have been tryign to do for weeks, as I have been learnign during the program -- having a gym routine to do at the gym when it rains.
In the past, when I've gone to the gym, I've walke don the treadmill and done some of the machines, and just didn;t feel like I was pushing myself, really I felt so awkward. However, now that I have been working out for the past 5 weeks, I feel incomplete without my bootcamp days.
So, I need your help in coming up with some kind of routine I can do at the gym. I've heard it's best to have a plan when you go out on the gym floor, and in the past, I've lost motivation mainly because I haven't had a plan of what to do.
I'd also, eventually, like to get to the point where not only am I doign my bootcamp (awesome motivating group of women), but having my days at the gym where I am workign upper body, lower body, or having a core day, arms/back day, that kind of thing. I am just overwhelmed with takign all of the specific exercises and putting them together into something.
Anyone have any routines they like to share or any good websites I could go to.
P.S. A good cardio routine would be helpful as well.
P.P.S. I've also run a 5k course (walking/jogging) in 48 minutes. That was at the end of week 3. I told my trainer "Well, it takes me an hour to walk 3 miles." to which she replied "Well, it won;t take you an hour, because you won;t be walkign it." Of course, I thought it was torture, but at the end, the other ladies in the class (who had already finished) joined me for my last third of a mile and ran with me to cross the finish line. Many of them told me how proud they were of me. Now you know why I love my bootcamp classes so much.
