My Accountability Thread.
IHateThinkingOfAUsername
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Hi guys, I know this isn't the most active of groups, but I want to start this thread to make myself more accountable for you guys.
So... I got YAYOG a while back, and I spent 3-4 weeks doing it along side my usual cardio routines (at that time Elliptical Trainer). I've lost 26.5lbs so far, and have 21lbs to go. I have just restarted doing swimming, and have joined a gym. Okay so I could use the weights at the gym, and I might do depending on how my journey goes, but I use the gym mainly for the swimming. My current aim is just to preserve the strength that I have. So here I am... today will be Week 1 of Day 1 of the Basic Guided Programme. I might not get it done in the 10 weeks suggested, due to other commitments (I will be aiming to swim at least twice a week, and I will still be using my Elliptical Trainer twice a week).
So here we go!
So... I got YAYOG a while back, and I spent 3-4 weeks doing it along side my usual cardio routines (at that time Elliptical Trainer). I've lost 26.5lbs so far, and have 21lbs to go. I have just restarted doing swimming, and have joined a gym. Okay so I could use the weights at the gym, and I might do depending on how my journey goes, but I use the gym mainly for the swimming. My current aim is just to preserve the strength that I have. So here I am... today will be Week 1 of Day 1 of the Basic Guided Programme. I might not get it done in the 10 weeks suggested, due to other commitments (I will be aiming to swim at least twice a week, and I will still be using my Elliptical Trainer twice a week).
So here we go!
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Week 1 Day 1 (Arms Day)
Classic Push-Ups From the 3rd step up on my stairs - Ladders - I managed 40. By the end it was getting ridiculously hard to push myself up.
Let Me Ins With knees bent Using the newel post of my stairs instead of a door handle (My door hinges cannot take the strain) - Ladders - I managed 51. Found these quite easy to be honest. Didn't feel at my limit.
Seated Dips With knees bent Using the arm of my sofa which is about bum height - Ladders - I managed 46. Found my shoulders hurt to begin with but this eased.
Let me Ups using my lower desk (it's about arm distance high) - Ladders - I managed 45. I cannot do these with my knees bent and my torso and upper legs in a straight line, I did these with my bottom on the floor, lifting only my torso.0 -
Week 1 Day 2 (Legs Day)
Back lunges - knee close to the ground but not sure whether I'm stepping back too far, front knee looked to go towards 90 degree when I did look down; Ladders - I managed 33 reps.
One Legged Romanian Deadlifts - I struggle with my balance with these and focusing on keeping my hips parallel to the floor and my toe point downwards - Ladders - I managed 16 reps. (Disappointed with this, but pleased with my form).
Squats - no modification - Ladders - I managed 45 reps.
Swimmers - tried hard to really lift and squeeze, possibly was going too slow and holding for too long as I only managed 25 reps doing Ladders.0 -
Swimmers - tried hard to really lift and squeeze, possibly was going too slow and holding for too long as I only managed 25 reps doing Ladders.
This simple fact is one reason I have moved away from YAYOG, I seriously struggled to hit the 'expected' reps on squat ladders with the intended pause, similar with the single legged deadlifts if done with decent form.
Good on you for giving the program a go.0 -
Thanks!!
I plan to do it twice this week coming, I've been away this last week so wasn't able to do it then but I'll put up a progress report soon.0 -
Week 1 Day 1 (Arms Day)
Classic Push-Ups From the 3rd step up on my stairs - Ladders - I managed 40. By the end it was getting ridiculously hard to push myself up.
Let Me Ins With knees bent Using the newel post of my stairs instead of a door handle (My door hinges cannot take the strain) - Ladders - I managed 51. Found these quite easy to be honest. Didn't feel at my limit.
Seated Dips With knees bent Using the arm of my sofa which is about bum height - Ladders - I managed 46. Found my shoulders hurt to begin with but this eased.
Let me Ups using my lower desk (it's about arm distance high) - Ladders - I managed 45. I cannot do these with my knees bent and my torso and upper legs in a straight line, I did these with my bottom on the floor, lifting only my torso.
Week1 Day 3 (Arms Day)
Gutted the app crashed just as I finished today so I have no idea my rep numbers, I know on all 4 exercises I reached at least 40.
Classic push-ups - again from the 3rd step of my stairs. I did the first one on the 2nd step, and whilst I managed it I knew I wouldn't be able to complete the routine down there so I went back up. I found the last 7 or so hard. And I know my body wasn't always a straight line (lifting my bum up).
Let me ins - again still fairly easy, my legs seem to feel this more than my arms, standing with knees at 90degs.
Seated dips - used a low window sill to do these, as last time found my shoulders feel it to begin with. Also suspect my thighs are doing some pushing when I'm at 90deg bent knees. Looking forward to trying these with legs straight.... Eek.
Let me ups - I managed 2x 2with my bum up off the floor, but the rest I did with it on the floor. I love watching my biceps as I do this!0 -
Good work. Glad to see you got back to this. I'm going to start next week myself.0
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Cheers
I'm planning on doing week 1 day 4 tomorrow. 0 -
Week 1 Day 2 (Legs Day)
Back lunges - knee close to the ground but not sure whether I'm stepping back too far, front knee looked to go towards 90 degree when I did look down; Ladders - I managed 33 reps.
One Legged Romanian Deadlifts - I struggle with my balance with these and focusing on keeping my hips parallel to the floor and my toe point downwards - Ladders - I managed 16 reps. (Disappointed with this, but pleased with my form).
Squats - no modification - Ladders - I managed 45 reps.
Swimmers - tried hard to really lift and squeeze, possibly was going too slow and holding for too long as I only managed 25 reps doing Ladders.
(I'm quoting the last legs day so I can compare my results).
Now typically my iPad ran out of power part the way through this so I lost my rep count - lol. It feels like I'm making excuses now!
Week 1 Day 4 (Legs Day)
Side Lunges - I managed at least 32 of these in Ladders. Really felt it on the inside of the straight leg. (I don't have much flexibility in my leg muscles).
One Legged Romanian Deadlifts - Ladders - I managed 22 reps of these (I remember cause I was pleased that I beat last Leg Day's reps). Struggled on my non-dominant leg. Balance just wasn't there. Next time I'll check I'm hydrated enough.
Squats with 2 second pause - I managed at least 32 of these in Ladders.
Russian Twists - Managed 60 reps of these in Ladders. I *think* I was doing these properly but my rep count seems ridiculously high so who knows. I lowered my legs and back down until I felt my abs engage and then twisted from the waist.0 -
Hurrah had no technical issues today!Week 1 Day 1 (Arms Day)
Classic Push-Ups 3rd step - Ladders - 40.
Let Me Ins With knees - Ladders - 51.
Seated Dips With knees bent - Ladders - 46.
Let me Ups with bum on the floor - Ladders - 45.
Comparing to the first day since the last one I had issues with the App.
Week 2 Day 1 (Arms Day)
Classic Push-Ups - Ladders - 43 (increase of 3). I managed 7 on the 2nd step, unfortunately my form began to slip so I moved it up to Step 4 for the last 10
Let Me Ins With knees - Ladders - 54. (increase of 3)
Seated Dips With knees bent - Ladders - 46 (Same as previous) and I did this with my legs further out so my knees were at 90 to my feet - this reduced the amount that my thighs helped with the push up section.
Let me Ups with bum on the floor - Ladders - 46. (Increase of 1) but with my bum well and truly on the floor - I tried 1 as the App says and really struggled. I suspect my other training is impacting on this, with my muscles not being truly rested in between YAYOG routines.0 -
Great work. I'm starting next week.0
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Great work. I'm starting next week.
Will be interesting to know how someone else is doing... although I am prepared you'll kick my *kitten* given your male and I'm not. I just want to be the strongest I can be 0 -
Great work. I'm starting next week. Will be interesting to know how someone else is doing... although I am prepared you'll kick my *kitten* given your male and I'm not. I just want to be the strongest I can be
You don't have to worry about that, day one kicked my butt. I had to work some of the kinks out as I was going along. It can be hard to figure out exactly what you're doing since the exercises can be a little atypical. I have plenty of room for improvement, but am pretty happy to be getting a start.
Pushups- 60
Let me ins- 63
Seated dips- 54
Let me ups- 540 -
Wow and what a great start it is!! Well done! I'm not due to do this until Friday/The weekend. Tonight I'm off swimming, tomorrow I've got my gym induction so I might do it on Friday. The dreaded legs day lol. 0
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I was surprised how much my quads were feeling it during the let me ins. I'm not sure if I just had bad form, but they were a little sore this morning. I'm also running couch 2 5k so it will be interesting to see what that's like after an actual leg day.0
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Yea I noticed the Let Me Ins worked my quads - I don't think it was bad form, I mean you are squatting and supporting your body via your legs. 0
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Cool. I did c25k today And really noticed it. Tomorrow should be fun.Yea I noticed the Let Me Ins worked my quads - I don't think it was bad form, I mean you are squatting and supporting your body via your legs.0 -
Yea I know what you mean, when I've tried to do the Elliptical trainer after a legs day they've been like stone!
Hope they aren't too sore today!0 -
Motivation was hard to come by, but I managed to drag myself into doing Day 2
Week 1 Day 2 (Legs Day)
Back lunges - 43 reps.
One Legged Romanian Deadlifts - 34 reps. These were really hard.
Squats - 63 reps.
Swimmers -51 reps I just put my head down and hit Increase/decrease as appropriate. Not sure if my form was everything it was supposed to be.0 -
Great stuff - I think I'll do W2D2 tomorrow, W2D3 on Saturday and then I might go to the gym on Sunday for aquacise... (My rest days are now Tuesdays).
Will keep you informed!0 -
Hello! I will be probably starting this program in October. I'm putting it off because of a 10k race I need to train for at the end of September, a different challenge I joined, and time constraints. I'm going to try to do the first two workouts before October comes so I know where I need to start in the program. How are you liking it so far? Your determination looks nice!0
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Welcome aboard VeryKatie Ooo a 5K run good luck, you'll love it, well... you'll love the feeling afterwards at least lol. It'll be nice to have another person doing this and comparing notes (if you wish). It's nice to see what other people struggle with (like those romanian deadlifts, - damn hard to keep correct form (hips facing forwards/down not to the side) whilst aiming for the back leg to lift high and maintain balance!!) Let us know how to you get on when you get started. In the mean time it's nice to have another set of eyes reading through this 0
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Welcome aboard VeryKatie Ooo a 5K run good luck, you'll love it, well... you'll love the feeling afterwards at least lol. It'll be nice to have another person doing this and comparing notes (if you wish). It's nice to see what other people struggle with (like those romanian deadlifts, - damn hard to keep correct form (hips facing forwards/down not to the side) whilst aiming for the back leg to lift high and maintain balance!!) Let us know how to you get on when you get started. In the mean time it's nice to have another set of eyes reading through this
Good to know you aren't annoyed with me posting in your thread. Hopefully we will pick up some more folks along the way.0 -
Ha no not at all
If I could I'd change the title to OUR Accountability Thread. When I started this there wasn't anyone else posting in here for weeks (months?) so I didn't expect anyone to join me. But it's great you have.0 -
Week 2 Day 2 (Legs Day)
Back lunges - 40 reps in ladders (+6 from last time)
One Legged Romanian Deadlifts - Forgot to say I don't actually touch the ground, my hamstring on the supporting leg is too tight - my body gets to around parallel with the ground. Managed 25 this time! (+3 from last time, and +9 from Day 2 Week 1!)
Squats - slow (no pause) - Ladders 55 reps (+10 from first time)
Swimmers - 36 reps in ladders (+9 from last time and I hit the target rep!)0 -
Yay good work guys!
I bet even though you feel like stone on the elliptical after legs day that it's really good for you - I can't imagine a better way of loosening up the muscles again (though I'd be tempted to decrease the resistance and go just for the flow haha).
I attempted a 5k on the weekend but was late because of a softball tournament so I skipped a bit and probably did about 3k. I'm working on the Jillian Michaels 6 week 6 pack DVD too... my core is my weakest point so I think it will be good to have a bit more strength there before starting YAYOG in October - I am guessing it may help me prevent myself from hurting myself.
IHateThinkingOfAUserName, I would also love to hear what kind of measurement changes you go through doing this program (no need to share the actual numbers if that makes you uncomfortable! Maybe just the differences eg. +1" on chest?) - I've heard this kind of training can do a lot for inches even if it doesn't seem to do as much for weight. I have an inkling I might be wedding dress shopping in a few months time so I'd be worried a little about messing that up (you know, buy it in one size and then change so much it's too hard to alter...).0 -
I haven't taken any measurements lol so I can't tell you specifically what I've lost, but since starting my journey 140 days ago I have lost 28.5lbs. I wouldn't say I do this often enough to really gain anything. (My butt still knows it worked after the squats and lunges from Saturday lol). I'm currently swimming 3 times a week, so that leaves 3 days for YAYOG and my elliptical trainer. I think once I've shed all my weight I'll make it 3 days YAYOG, 3 days swimming, and sell my elliptical trainer.
Any reason why you plan on starting YAYOG in October and not today? 0 -
Week 1 Day 3
I was messing with the settings on my app and found that unchecking Variable Set Ladders stopped my ladder at 4 before working back down. The last two sessions I was working up to 7 then working down. The shorter ladder made some of my exercise reps go up and the let me ins decreased. I did the let me ins at 45 degrees with my legs after reading a FAQ about them on Mark Lauren's YAYOG site. That should save them a little for tomorrow's run. Took me a while to get back to Day 3 because I took a rest day and my couch to 5 k is my focus while we still have good weather. I'm hoping to run a 5 k in October.
Pushups- 70 (+10)
Let me ins- 58 (-5)
Seated dips- 60 (+6)
Let me ups- 70 (+16)0 -
I haven't taken any measurements lol so I can't tell you specifically what I've lost, but since starting my journey 140 days ago I have lost 28.5lbs. I wouldn't say I do this often enough to really gain anything. (My butt still knows it worked after the squats and lunges from Saturday lol). I'm currently swimming 3 times a week, so that leaves 3 days for YAYOG and my elliptical trainer. I think once I've shed all my weight I'll make it 3 days YAYOG, 3 days swimming, and sell my elliptical trainer.
Any reason why you plan on starting YAYOG in October and not today?
Yeah it's because I'd already signed up for a Jillian Michaels 6 week 6 pack challenge plus I was bad and didn't train for a 10k race.. now I have to cram it in. So I'm already doing nearly 1:15 - 1:30 minutes of exercise a day and I need rest. And I don't really have time to add more exercise unless I stop doing one of those.0 -
I haven't taken any measurements lol so I can't tell you specifically what I've lost, but since starting my journey 140 days ago I have lost 28.5lbs. I wouldn't say I do this often enough to really gain anything. (My butt still knows it worked after the squats and lunges from Saturday lol). I'm currently swimming 3 times a week, so that leaves 3 days for YAYOG and my elliptical trainer. I think once I've shed all my weight I'll make it 3 days YAYOG, 3 days swimming, and sell my elliptical trainer.
Any reason why you plan on starting YAYOG in October and not today?
Yeah it's because I'd already signed up for a Jillian Michaels 6 week 6 pack challenge plus I was bad and didn't train for a 10k race.. now I have to cram it in. So I'm already doing nearly 1:15 - 1:30 minutes of exercise a day and I need rest. And I don't really have time to add more exercise unless I stop doing one of those.
Lol will let you off then!
Oh I forgot to say - I have dropped my dress size from a size 14 (or at least a very tight size 12), down to a 10. 0 -
I haven't taken any measurements lol so I can't tell you specifically what I've lost, but since starting my journey 140 days ago I have lost 28.5lbs. I wouldn't say I do this often enough to really gain anything. (My butt still knows it worked after the squats and lunges from Saturday lol). I'm currently swimming 3 times a week, so that leaves 3 days for YAYOG and my elliptical trainer. I think once I've shed all my weight I'll make it 3 days YAYOG, 3 days swimming, and sell my elliptical trainer.
Any reason why you plan on starting YAYOG in October and not today?
Yeah it's because I'd already signed up for a Jillian Michaels 6 week 6 pack challenge plus I was bad and didn't train for a 10k race.. now I have to cram it in. So I'm already doing nearly 1:15 - 1:30 minutes of exercise a day and I need rest. And I don't really have time to add more exercise unless I stop doing one of those.
Lol will let you off then!
Oh I forgot to say - I have dropped my dress size from a size 14 (or at least a very tight size 12), down to a 10.
Ow ow! Nice going!0
