Focus T25 by Shaun T - Just starting. Accountability and motivation.

rkae I have always had to modify press ups. can manage a few then its to my knees! cant imagine I will ever able to do enough to complete a whole workout. I aim to do a bit more each time but it won't be anytime soon!

No weights for Alpha phase

Hi - I had hodgkins too and also I am hypothyroid (a side effect of the radiation damaging the thyroid gland). The thyroid problem makes it particularly hard to lose weight, but not impossible. I find I plateau all the time - loads of people on here will tell you it is a simple equation of calories consumed versus calories burned - I even used to believe that myself until the thyroid stopped functioning. For us it has to be much more scientific - it's about what foods those calories consist of. I weigh everything, log everything and wear a HR monitor to get accurate calories burned on work outs. I rarely eat back my exercise calories and sometime despite all this I will go for 2 week periods with zero weight loss. When I plateau like this I up my calories to about 1800 per day for 3 days - all healthy calories. I eat protein with every meal and loads of leafy greens- sadly very little carbs and virtually no sugar at all except those naturally present in fruits which I only eat in the morning to give me plenty of time to burn it off. This is sad because if you are hypothyroid you often lack energy and carbs give me the energy I am desperately lacking - they also make me fat. I just pile my plate with tons of veggies and salad and add in seeds like flaxseed and nuts (all calorie counted) - these help fight cancer causing free radicals too. Then after 3 days I go back to my regular 1200 calories per day ( again all healthy calories as above - just less!) and I start to loose a little weight again - but it's slow - but it will come off eventually.
After cancer I know it feels harder to compromise - 'why shouldn't I have the food that I love, I've gone through enough' - I have been like that for a long while. Finally I have reached a place where I miss the pre-cancer me. It means I have to compromise on the foods I like to eat,- forever, realistically if I want to keep the weight off, but I want it badly enough to make these compromises and I wish I had done it before. I have lost about 10lbs and have another 10 to go - despite working out like crazy ( various Beachbody every day), running 3 times per week, walking my two big dogs daily, being a Mum and working on my feet and eating a max of 1200 calories per day (I'm only 5ft4") I will be lucky if I lose half a pound per week ( although I am staying positive that sometimes I will do better). You may have to work harder than other people to lose weight but when you really want it and commit to it you can and will make it happen. I wish you the very best of luck for a bright and healthy future!

So update, I woke up this morning feeling not so well. Throat is on fire with a runny nose. Ugh Part of me wants to do my T25 workout for today but part of me wants to rest. I'm not sure what to do.

Lat night was week 2 Day 1 Beta- did Dynamic Core- I think I like that one, some of the Ab stuff is kinda crazy but I def. feel it.

Great thread for motivating each other. I've enjoyed reading everyone's workout stories so far. I did the whole Focus T-25 program a few years ago and it was a nice follow up after doing Insanity. 4 weeks ago I had major abdominal surgery and was told by my surgeon that I was only to do light walking every day until my 6 week post op check up. Well I've been good about walking everyday, but was getting bored of walking 10 miles everyday. So I decided that I would try doing the modified version of Focus T-25 for the first month as my incision, tissues, and muscles continue to heal. Since I'm only doing the program again to build my strength back up again and not lose any weight, I'm not going to bother with doing body measurements. I will have to eat a little more, though so I don't lose any more weight than I already have since my surgery.
Yesterday was day one and it went really well. I didn't think I'd like doing the modified T-25, but it turned out that I was able to go at a pretty good pace anyway and burned 113 calories. Tonight I did day two with Speed 1.0. This went better than day one even because I felt up to going just a tad bit faster than yesterday, and burned 125 calories. As long as I don't start hurting from doing this workout on top of doing my 18,000 steps a day I'm going to finish doing the modified version of Alpha and then I should be able to do Beta at full pace.
Congrats to all those who have finished or are close to finishing Focus T-25.

Has anyone tried and other BB workouts and which did you like? I am trying to figure out what I am going to do after T25..21 day fix maybe?

wow motivated sister thats dedication. hope you feel ok tomorrow.
thanks for all good wishes for my husband. it is lovely to have him home.
look after yourself fit Philly. please take things really slowly. so easy to push it a little too far.

glad youre feeling better rkae

I have done insanity. had great results. but the workouts are very repetitive. I still do one most weeks. but every day can be monotonous. I prefer the variety and time of t25 . insanity is 40 to 60 mins with a long stretch and breaks between sets. (the sets are very high intensity) there is a lot of jumping so not great if you have any joint issues.

I think 21 day fix may be less intense than t25.

I did Insanity maybe 4-5 years ago...I don't recall finishing though. I don't think it was a matter of not being able to push through, but I remember at the time I started traveling for work pretty heavily and then I relocated and my new place was upstairs versus a downstairs unit so with all the jumping in Insanity it just wasn't feasible anymore in the space I had. It was a great workout! I would love to do it again, my only hesitancy now is time. The thing i love about T25 is it's still HIIT like Insanity, but because it's short I'm still able to do other workouts/classes at the gym. If I did Insanity I probably wouldn't have the time to do all the other stuff that I like, and would have to do Insanity solely.

Even further back I did Hip Hop Abs. I didn't finish that either, but wasn't really motivated to I was in good shape so it just was something to do if I couldn't get to the gym or something. I liked Shaun T, but I thought the program lacked variety.

With summer here I'm probably gonna have some obligations that won't allow me to have all this time (2+ hrs a day if I want) to spend working out. So after T25 I'll probably need another home workout that I can get in quick...so curious to see what others will do next!

Just finished Dynamic Core and headed to the gym for a class. I won't have time for the remaining 2 workouts left this week before I leave. If I can't get it done while I'm away for work, my plan is to do them both Sunday when I return. Luckily I should get back early enough with plenty of time to get them in.

Day number 3 of Alpha went well. I had to back off on some of the floor work though, because I'm not supposed to be working my core yet. The lunges weren't bad. The whole workout was pretty good overall. Tomorrow looks like it is an all abdominal workout so I'm not sure how I'm going to do that one even with the modifier.