Body Beast Women's Group!

pdhb- Welcome! I just usually tracking it as cardiovascular- and the select strength training. I also added my own exercises and created ones for Body Beast. I use a fitbit so that syncs with MFP and it calculates my calories.

Jennifer- Welcome! How long is the trip? If its only a week or two I say continue in Bulk, but if its any longer I would start again.

Hi Ladies,

It has been a crazy busy week!!

ambrosia and eating4me - Are you a member of the facebook group "Body Beast for Women" ? Yesterday there was a lot of chatter on there about how many calories to eat. Seems like a lot of people are struggling with that. I saw the words "getting fluffy" a lot. I am eating a daily average of about 1430. MelliChick who is on here is eating about the same and we are seeing good changes. I still need to lose a good 10-15 pounds so I feel like eating at a deficit is best for me now and maybe I will bulk some on the next round.

JenniferBabec - I think you are going to be about our 5th Jennifer on here! haha. I am a Jennifer too going by Jenn usually. I agree that you can just continue. Especially if it is only 5-7 days. I actually did doubles and skipped all my rest days when I started so that I would be ahead when I had to travel to my corporate office. I only missed 3 days and started right back up when I returned. No issues. I think your macros are fine from what I have read. I don't follow the diet. I eat LC. I think the biggest issue is to not over eat if you want to lean out. If you are bulking to add muscle and will lean out later I think extra calories in the form of protein or healthy fat are great.

pdhb1985 - I agree again. I started counting it under cardio as weight lifting. I have since added the names in to the "my exercise" section. I don't count these calories so I always change it to 1 on the burn. A heart rate monitor will be most accurate if you have one.

I hope everyone is doing great. I am soooo excited to be in my 2nd 30 days and to see what results I will get from that. My weight is staying steady, which is nice and verifies my losses have been real.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Jenn

Thanks for the tip on the FB page. I requested be added so waiting... I did legs today and that burned! I know I will feel it tomorrow. Been craving so many sweets lately and has been hard to fight. Im not sure what is going on as I have been so good for a while. Hope you all are doing well! Keep pushing!

Hi ladies :flowerforyou:

I just got this program and am starting on Monday... unfortunately my bench won't arrive until Tuesday so my first attempt at chest/tri's might not be awesome.

I've completed Chalene Extreme and Turbofire in the past (and still love both) but wanted a new lifting challenge, especailly a "proper" routing with multiple reps and rest periods.

Previously I've tried to do a regular routine, but I am just useless without a DVD to guide me/ push me.

I will check in on Monday

I will be starting on Monday, June 30th. I am a member of the fb Body Beast 4 Women group. I have a ? though, I am almost done with Focus t25 - does everyone follow the calendar that comes with the program?

Hi I'm Emily and I'm new to this group. I own BB and tried my hands on it a few months back but could never understand how to do the macros and then miserably failed. I have a upcoming cruise (August 31st) and would love to incorporate BB again (and also doing Piyo - just started that). My biggest problem is nutrition. I have about 15-20lbs to lose (which all seems to be in my gut apparently), and I just never knew how to do the nutrition part of Beast. I get figure out the math portions, but how to incorporate that into what I should eat everyday - it never seems to add up.

I don't even mind if I have to eat the same things every single day, but I just don't know what to eat in order to make this work. Any suggestions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

THANKS

Day 1 was great! Day 2 is still killing me (leg day). I actually started this week on Monday instead of June 30th since we were out of town and I didn't want to bring all of my exercise equipment with. Back & Biceps were a bit easier. My body is pretty sore (only on day 3). I figured an epsom salt soak would help as it did previously when I began Focus t25, but it didn't help.

Well got through my first week on the Lean calendar. Does anyone add cardio with this program (elliptical workouts or treadmill)? I would like to a few times a week if possible.

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since this is not conducive to P90X3.....a change in plans.... Back to Body Beast except "legs".

Good Morning All,

I only recently found Body Beast and decided to give it a try. I think I have almost every fitness DVD set available - start but never seem to finish them. So I am hoping that I will actually stick with this one. I would guess if I start seeing results I will. So I attempted to start the beast on Monday - and found that with the limited equipment I have available to me due to home construction it was an absolute waste! I begged my husband to put my bench in our "family room" for this time - and decided I needed to get new weights just for me. We have a full set - but the lowest is 10lbs and they are metal. Trying to work with the lowest weight of 10 - would never stick with it.

SO my official start was Wednesday... I went out and bought a set of Powerblock weights to keep the equipment limited in my family room.

My thoughts on day 1 - I didn't find it difficult in any way. What I did find was "the beast" to be annoying with his commentary, the need to change my weights so often annoying (but I will get over that one), and by the end of Chest & Tri's my arms were soooooo tired. Today - I feel them but I am not so sore that I can't handle it. My trainer has been telling me for a long time I am a lot stronger than I realize - I guess the mental part gets in the way for me.

So Day 1 down - hoping I stick to this one.

Look forward to chatting on progress

Hi! I was wondering the same thing as greeneyedmama. I have about 70 lbs to lose and was wondering if anyone has had a lot of success losing weight while on this program. I also like to lift and was thinking about not eating as many calories as suggested in the program and adding more cardio in.