Not feeling challenged at stage one

jbella99

Okay so I did workout B #2 yesterday and when I was finished the 5 exercises I did not feel challenged at all. I mean sure I lifted heavy enough to just get that last rep but it took me about 20 minutes. I am used to doing splits working two muscle groups a day 5 days a week with heavier weights and feeling a little sore the next day. This exercise prgram except for maybe the lunges seems too easy. Should i have started with more sets or is this normal??

jbella99

I guess I'm the only one

juicemoogan

I don't understand how you don't feel challenged if you were lifting as heavy as you could. I think that in itself is a challenge.

Give it a chance.. you are only on workout B2.

If you have a history of lifting heavy already before starting this, sure it might seem a little easy at first because you are already used to this kind of thing..

deninevi

Stage 1 is for getting comfortable with the moves if you haven't lifted before. You can always do couple more of stage 1 workouts and move on to stage 2. If you have lifted before you know all about squats, DLs and the rest.

jenniet04

Stage 1 is for getting comfortable with the moves if you haven't lifted before. You can always do couple more of stage 1 workouts and move on to stage 2. If you have lifted before you know all about squats, DLs and the rest.

^^^^This, or you could jump right in to workouts 5-8 to increase your sets.

jbella99

i will stick it out and see. did some hiit today on my "rest day"

Natihilator

Have you modified any of the exercises to be more challenging, besides adding more weight? If lunges are too easy, try doing walking lunges, or lunges off a step. I don't know if you read the NROL4W book page to page (I didn't, haha) but it gives increasingly challenging variations for a number of the exercises.

Polly758

I think the point of stage 1 is to gradually get females lifting heavy. If you already have that in your history, I don't think it would hurt anything to go on to stage 2.