Stupid Stage 2- NROL

ATLMel

I posted this in the NROLFW section, but thought I might get a little more feedback here. So, I'm sorry for the cross-post, but at least I'm not asking if anyone's tried Zumba....

I was in love in Stage 1.

I'm procrastinating Stage 2 because it's irritating looking. Here's why:

1- I can be done with Stage 1 in an hour, including my 10 min walk to the gym from my house. By my estimate, Stage 2 workouts will take me over 90 mins.

2- Some of the exercises would require me to lug equipment from one side of my gym to the other and take up a hell of a lot of space.

3- Aww, but I wanna pick up more heavy ****!

but, at 3 days a week, 4 workouts should go quickly....right? Maybe I should just suck it up and do it...although modified. I refuse to drag an aerobics step into my free weight area to do the deadlift from a box......

I get the feeling a lot of people feel this way. Can anyone share any modifications they made to make less, well, weird?

Here is what I'm thinking of changing:

Front Squat-Push Press: Using Dumbells so I don't take over the one rack in the gym.
Static Lunge w/ rear foot elevated: Just a static lunge. Otherwise my only option would be to use the weight bench and then it looks too much like a Bulgarian Split Squat
Deadlift from box: Just plain old Deadlift. Mostly cause I'm getting good at them and I love them

I'll also switch up the order a bit just for conviences' sake with my gym lay out.

The others I can deal with. Will I be significantly shortchanging myself with these modifications? Are there better ones to make?

(Note: I do plan to switch to SS after I'm done with NROL. But it has given awesome results so far and I feel a need to follow through.)

chayleah

I just did Stage 2 workout A today and it took less than an hour including the warmup and stretching. The squat push press is only 2 sets so you shouldn't be in the squat rack too long. For the static lunge I used a step which is the only extra piece I had to bring into the weight area.

For switching up the order, I think as long as you keep the supersets together you should be fine. I actually like this better than the first stage...it is certainly more interesting.