I decided to try this because I had been having a hard time doing a workout that I really love - Turbo Fire. I had previously finished Turbo Fire a few years before this with great results. About a month before I was set to finish Turbo Fire I started having really bad pain in what I thought was my left hip. I had also started training for my first 10k about two months before finishing so I was doing both and doubling up a few days a week. The pain finally got to the point where it was disrupting my sleep and while I could run fine, the shooting pain caused me to limp a little. So I went to a sports medicine doctor told me I would need to stop working out it for a month. The pain I thought was my hip ended up being my IT band so he sent me to physical therapy three times a week. I continued to have pain despite the fact that I was not working out. A month of physical therapy led to three months (all without working out) and I had started to gain weight. I explained to them that I had to start working out again, but no matter how much I stretched and went to physical therapy the pain persisted. Since then I've had three cortisone shots, went through two years of physical therapy, and even tried acupuncture before giving up. I have learned to live with the pain, which has it's good and bad days.
So I decided to try the Live Fit Trainer hoping that if I work really hard, maybe I can get my legs and core strong enough so that I do not have the IT band pain anymore. Since starting, my pain has been minimal. Cardio does not come into the program until week 5, so I'm hoping I will have really made some headway on my strength by then. It may not work, but I have nothing to lose.
So what can I say about week one...
Week 1 was difficult because I was transitioning to a new diet and workout which can be stressful. Luckily for me, I am completely obsessive when it comes to planning things out so for about three days before I actually started on it, I spent my time trying to figure out what I was going to eat based on her meal plan, when I was going to eat it, what time I was going to work out, etc.
I loved the workouts in week 1. During this week, there were only 4 days where you workout and the workouts did not take any more than 45 minutes. I started on a Monday, so the schedule was:
Monday - Chest & Triceps, Tuesday - Back & Biceps, Wednesday - Legs, and Thursday - Shoulders & Abs.
At the beginning, I was terrified of weight training section of the gym. I'm now three weeks in and I feel silly thinking of how intimidated I was. I told myself everything...people are going to stare at you...you aren't going to know what you are doing. I do have the support of my husband who is doing it with me (he's the best!), which definitely makes it easier. I look at the breakdown and photos each night for the next workout, but it's always nice to have him there because when I forget he knows exactly what we need to do.
I was also a little scared about the fact that it was all weight training and absolutely no cardio, but honestly it was a relief not to have cardio. I was sore the entire week! Not so sore that I couldn't move but my muscles were definitely letting me know I worked them. Legs were the absolute worst! I was probably sore from Wednesdays leg workout until Sunday morning.
A few benefits of this so far is I am definitely sleeping better and I really have not been craving junk food like I used to.
So my review of the Live Fit Trainer as of week 1 is that it is wonderful. I love it and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it! I'm halfway through week 3 now, so if you have any questions for what it is like going forward feel free to ask!
Do you do any warmups?
ReplyDeleteI do not do any particular warm up. The first two exercises are what I think of as the warm up. She incorporates them perfectly so that you warm up the muscles you are going to use before doing the more complex movement exercises.
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