Month: September 2015

Focus T25 Day 21 (Total Body)

277 calories

Barely made it.

Week 5 begins. And it was a disaster. The break from the program really did a number on my endurance. I was unable to keep up with the planks and jogged instead. My punches were weak at the end. All in all, I did a terrible job.

I had been contemplating earlier whether to repeat the Alpha stage at the end of the five weeks. After today’s performance, I’m leaning that way. If the Beta program builds on this one, then I’m going to be in trouble. If I’m barely making it through the Alpha stage, then it’s probably not worth it to continue to Beta.

So after this week, I plan to restart Alpha.

About this blog, it’s largely for me to put my thoughts down to track progress. But I also thought it would be helpful for those beginning the program to read what it’s like for a regular guy to start the program. I suspect, through 5 weeks, you’ll probably get the gist of it, so I’m not sure if I’m going to continue with giving daily updates, especially when I’m restarting the Alpha program. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. And then I’ll have to make another decision in about six weeks when I will be ready for the Beta program.

Focus T25 Day 21 (Speed)

308 calories

Barely made it.

This was to be day two of the double day Saturday, but I was beat from the previous routine. I had just come back from vacation and spent time catching up with work. Plus, it was the beginning of the school year and we were just getting our schedules in order. The end result was that I put off continuing with the T25 program for about a week and a half more than I should have.

I was unmotivated and I realized that I cannot say to myself, “I’ll do it in the evening” because I won’t. Thus, I’m forcing myself to work out in the mornings. And that’s tough sometimes because I’m not a morning person.

Anyway, this was the second day back from a long break from the T25 program and it didn’t go so well. I was clock watching the entire time, and it actually felt like yesterday’s routine went more smoothly, even though the Abs routine is the most difficult for me.

Going by the calories burned, it was in line with my previous efforts, but I always aim for improvement. Unfortunately, the long break was too much to overcome. It’s very important to commit to the workout schedule.

Focus T25 Day 20 (Abs)

240 calories

Barely made it+.

Back from vacation and back into the groove. After a couple of weeks without doing the T25 program, I thought I’d be pathetic at it. I was, but not as bad as had thought, well, for this routine. I actually felt pretty good and, while not being able to keep up, I wasn’t discouraged by the ‘V’ exercises. In fact, after I finished the routine, I thought, “Was that it?” Granted, it was tough, but it wasn’t as tough as the memory of it prior to my vacation.

This was day one of the double-day Saturday, but it really took a lot out of me, so I saved the second routine for the next day.