Daily Accountability Anyone
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Total Body Circuit done! Only one more time for this DVD. Wondering if I'm going to be ready for Beta since I still have to modify the spider and oblique knee pushups and I need to pause for a second at the end of the burnout before I continue on to doing the floor sprints. Anyone else experience this?
Also, I've watched this DVD so many times that I wonder if anyone else has noticed the white powder all over the gym floor that you can see when there are 42 seconds left to go. What is that? I'm hoping it's just chalk dust!0 -
Accountability T25 Round 2 Week 3 Day 5
Comlpeted Core Cardio and am on track to smashing it by the end of week 5. Completed the spiders and first round of spider push-ups. Avg HR 142 (highest so far. I completed 45 Burpees this am. I can instantly tell when my HR goes above 150. I was at Burpee 30 and I collapsed, lungs burning, body giving out. Laid on my face for about a minute and pumped out the last 15.
Now if only the scales will show some improvement this week.
Saturday will do abs + coach + ref football.
Bedrock - I am on round 2 of T25. I am still mdifying parts of Core Cardio. You will nail Beta with or without modifying. You will get the same burn. Only major difference is the start of each DVD is faster. Speed 2.0 is a blast. I was scared of Gamma so I did round 2 of T25 but after this round I will be ordering and modifying through Gamma. I have bad knee issues so some moves I am not able to do. You still get a good burn doing mods.0 -
Thanks for the info on Beta, Jake!
So Beta has modifications, too? That's great! And great for crushing Core Cardio!
I just did T25 Cardio tonight. I took Wednesday as a rest day this week and didn't do doubles today, so I still have to do T25 Lower Body Focus and the last Total Body Circuit before moving on to Beta.0 -
STATurday
Total Weight Loss: 33.2
Weight 1
Waist 1
Hip 0.5
Chest 0.5
Right Arm 0
Left Arm 0
Right Thigh 0
Left Thigh 0
Not bad, after this weekends splurge and yesterdays brownie with caramel + almonds + oatmeal cookie I expected to have no change this week. a 1 pound loss and 1 off my waist was a happy bonus.
Bedrock - I have only done doubles 2 times during the entire program. Good job on Cardio.0 -
Jakeyuma: great job! I, on the other hand, I am getting a bit disturbed; my weight went up 2 pounds but body fat decreased 2 percent; hips went down in inches but all my other measurements went up. What gives? Anyone else experiencing this? I do know I'm stronger and have more endurance but seeing measurements go up instead of down is taking a toll on me. Even if my diet hasn't changed, shouldn't I be losing inches with all this exercise?0
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Okay, T25 Lower Focus done. Now just need to do my last Total Body Circuit and I'll be moving on to Beta! How's everyone else doing?0
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Alpha done! Just finished my last Total Body Circuit! Glad to have that done with! Still sweated buckets. Also, previewed Core Cardio Beta and I'm a little scared; they definitely jump right into it--not even a pretense of a warmup. Oh oh!0
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Hay Bedrock, This has been a rest weekend. 2 things very important when working out and dieting.
1. T25 will build some muscle and you may see some increase but keep pushing play and results will come. I have had at least 3 weeks of increase in weight and inches but they go back down and I am at 31 pounds lost total so far.
2. Keep on the diet. If you are busting your but and still not losing you may need to increase how much you eat by 200 cals and see if results happen. I was platued for 2 weeks, increased my food intake and bam, weight loss. Your body can slip into starvation mode if your not careful.
Keep pushing play, I have been where you are many times. My wife is having the same struggles as well.0 -
Thanks for the encouragement, jakeyuma! It helps keep me going and I appreciate it! let me know how I can help you, too. Is your wife doing T25, too? I begin Beta at some point today.0
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Yes, she is doing T25 with me as well. She has no wait loss but is constantly losing inches around her body. I think she is building muscle at a higher rate than fat loss. Muscle weighs 2 x as much as fat
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Accountability
Just went for a 10 mile bike ride with my wife and boys. Burned 476 calories for the 1hr 7 min ride.0 -
Great job, Jake! I wish I could get my daughter bike riding with me, not to mention my son! Good parenting on you!
I just did my first Beta: Core cardio, found it not necessarily enjoyable but doable. Oh, and I think Alpha Cardio was harder for me the first time I did it than this one was the first time, so I hope that says something good about my fitness level..0 -
Accountability Round 2 T25 Week 4 Day 2 Double Cardio/Abs
Was not able to work out Monday as we did a lot of family stuff, bike rides, playground, walking dog but burned a bunch of calories. Today we did a double to make up for yesterday. Nailed both Cardio and Abs today. I made it through Abs without any major breaks, still a struggle but best I ever did. I now only have Core Cardio left to kick its but. After that I can say I totally nailed Alpha. Less than 2 weeks until I start round 2 of Beta.
Kicking my diet up to 1900 calories per day + eating back exercise calories seems to have helped with energy and wait loss. Looking forward to a good STATurday this week.
Hopefully I can earn a treat 3 weeks in a row. If I lose at least 2 pounds or I lose 1 pound + 2 inches off body I give myself a small treat on the weekends. My motivation has gone way up. I also found out Sarachi Sauce goes great with Tuna.
Bedrock - Way to rock core cardio. Alpha realy sets you up well for Beta. Biggest change I saw was Beta starts you right off with fast movements where alpha easied you into the workout. How old are your kids? Mine ar 6 and 4 October they will be 7 and 4.0 -
Jakeyuma: I have a 15 year old daughter (10th grade) and a 17 year old son (hs senior). They are both bookworms and exercise is way down their priority list.
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Accountability Round 2 T25 Alpha Week 4 day 3 Core Cardio
Gahhh, I nailed everything but the damn plank push-ups. Made it through the first round of tap left right, tap push-ups, next time they showed up I floundered miserably. I punished everything else. Only a few more shots at nailing this workout before Beta
Burpees after Core Cardio kiled me. I did complete 65 today.0 -
hey guys its been a while since ive checked in...i was helping my lil sister with homecoming over the weekend...last week of alpha for me...im startin beta next week...and yes im exciting with a lil fear...but more excited...In 4 weeks i have lost so far 13lbs...and my goal to to loss another 2 by my next weigh in for it to be 15lbs in 5 weeks...
I see eveyone is doing well...keep up the outstanding work...T 25 style...all smiles0 -
Accountability Round 2 T25 Week 4 Day 4 Lower Focus
Well, this is my least favorite workout in the series. I can push as hard as I need to and barely keep my HR over 100. At 1 point I hit 135 but for the most part it stayed in teh 90's. Perhaps if I add waits. I do feel the workout in the thighs though and I guess that is why its called Lower Focus. Thank god for the 70 burpees right after the video. That raised my HR into the 140's and I had an over all HR of 120 for 40 minutes of workout.
70 Burpees done adding a push-up for the last 10. Tomorrow is supose tobe rest I think but I will try for 75 Burpees with last 15 adding the push-ups.
Hope - Great job on the 13 pounds. My lose is slowed to about 1.6 pounds a week. I am hoping that goes up as I continue to do my extra workouts (burpee challenege). I enjoyed Beta much better than alpha.0 -
Rip't Circuit done! I liked it. Unfortunately, I missed one exercise (lawnmower) when my shoelace cam untied and I couldn't stop the DVD (remote must be dead!), and then I think I did another one wrong (with the plank when you're supposed to move your feet in and out, I didn't realize you then had to put your knees down). Still a good workout, but need new batteries for the remote!0
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Bedrock - Happy BETA Phase, I will be back to Beta in exactly 11 days..Can't wait. I miss Beta. I finally was able to nail every Alpha Video except Core Cardio. I am hoping to nail Core Cardio by the end of week 5 but the planks are a killer on my shoulders.0
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Accountability T25 Round 2 Week 4 Day 5 Doubled Total Body + Speed 1.0
I tried my hardest to smash Total Body but in the end TBC won. I followed it up with Speed 1.0 and figure I smashed it. I specificaly worked on pushing everything to the max today and think I actually completed Speed 1.0 the way it was designed. For the entire hour I avg a 138 HR with a max of 162. I don't think I had my max HR that high for a awhile. I was quite impressed I was able to keep my HR in the 130's throughout Speed 1.0 even with stretch breaks. The majority of the speed video I was in the 140s and even up in the 150's for roughly 3 minutes.
Very happy with my performance this morning. I changed from a egg/english muffn sandwich to a 3 egg white 1 whole egg omlete with 8 oz chicken breast, peppers, mushrooms and 1 (actually 2) tablespoons of cheese plus 3 oz of orange juice. Adding OJ to my morning seems to give me that added boost to push just a bit harder.
No burpees today as I am taking it as my rest day. Saturday will be 80- Burpees with 10-15 push-ups.0 -
JakeYuma: You go! I just did Beta Beta Upper Body Focus. So far my least favorite of the T25 DVDs. Didn't think it flowed well.0
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STATurday
Total Weight Loss: 36.2
Weight 3
Waist 0
Hip 0
Chest +1
Right Arm 0
Left Arm 0
Right Thigh 1
Left Thigh 0.5
At least I am showing a 3 pound weight loss for the week. Not really sure where the weight came off. Small movements on the measurements. My waist hasn't moved in a couple of weeks emoticon I am hoping it is simply replacing fat with muscle and in a few weeks I may see a difference. I will take a 3 pound loss and hold onto hope that I potentially could hit the 220's next week.
Bedrock - I didn't care much for upper focus myself- I never could get my cardio high enough with it.0 -
Speed 2.0 done. Very hard to keep up with that one and it made the soles of my feet hurt. Didn't like it too much. Missing Alpha! Anyway, still have to do Core Cardio and Dynamic Core to finish out Beta Week 1.
Jakeyuma: Congrats on the 3 lbs. down!0 -
Core Cardio done. Much better second time around. Liked it more. Can only do the speed kicks unmodified on one side, not the other!0
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Accountability
Today we took a 5 mile hike up "Telegraph Pass." This is a rocky hike, first you hike roughly 2 miles over rocky/hilly terrain then the fun starts as you climb a half mile paved trail up a service road roughly 1500-1800 feet. The hole while I was carrying my 3 year old on my shoulders (34 pounds) Runkeeper app said I burned 717 calories, MFP said 1826 cal, Calories burned calculator said 1600 calories. I am siding with the 717 calories. HT ranged from 91 - 191 with an average of about 102, 30 minutes at 148. Am I under or over estimating at 717 calories?
Total hike was 2 hours 47 minutes including the 20 minute break at the top.
Bedrock - Speed kicks are hard for me due to poor knees You are doing great. Keep pushing hard and pushing play. 0 -
Did Dynamic Core. Nearly had to stop during the bicycle/V-UPs! Those are hard! Not one of my favorites in Beta so far. So far, I like Rip't Circuit the best followed by Core Cardio. Maybe the others will grow on me.
JakeYuma: That sounds like quite the hike! :happy:
Next stop for me: Beta Week 2.0 -
Accountability Round 2 T25 Alpha Total Body Circuit
HR High 171 Avg 144. I finally broke through my wall and maintained a 140 HR for the entire 25 minute work out. I pushed through everything taking only 2 10 sec breaks during oblique knee push-ups. Nailed 98% of this work out. With 2 more goes at this week, expect to see a "NAILED THE MOTHER Workout." It is in my sights mwahaha.0 -
Accountability Round 2 T25 Alpha Week 5 Day 2 Abs
NAILD IT!!- Pushed hard and made it through the workout with 0 breaks and 0 mods. Abs are killing but I did it. Little disapointed that HR is low in this workout but it is still a good ab work. 3 more workouts and back to BETA..Goal is to Nail Total Body tomorrow and then push forward to BETA next week.
Almost forgot, I completed 80 Burpees after the ABS workout including push-ups on the last 20 burpees.
Wow, I have so much energy this morning, my legs cant stop moving.0 -
That's great, JakeYuma! My news isn't as stellar.
Yesterday, I binged and didn't do any workouts. Today, I just did Beta Upper Body Focus. Still not crazy about it but liked it better than the first time. No binge so far today and hoping to do another T25 later as well as an half-hour Insanity Class at my gym tonight.0 -
Forget about the binge. Keep moving forward starting today:) Its been a little while since I did upper focus. I think I remember it being a bit low on the HR Burn.0
