I'm on my third round. Love it!

I just finished my third week. I love it!

I just started on Saturday and today was my rest day, I'm sore, especially my arms! I'm sure tomorrow I'll be even sorer.

me - I work out in the evenings though

I'm in! I started today, Monday 4-2-12. I just finished the first workout about an hour ago. I'm a total newbie at this.

But....I'm disappointed in my workout. I think maybe I underestimated my weights, so the workout seemed very easy for me. I'll have to use heavier weights on Wednesday.

I also think some of my "That's it?" feeling is because I've been doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred/Ripped in 30 and am somewhat used to Jillian trying to kill me.

I feel like I still need to exercise today.

(Edited because I apparently had no idea what today's date was!)

You sound just like I did when I started. It took me until week 3 to feel as though I was truly challenging myself with the weights. I was used to doing lots of cardio so I felt like I was missing something. I did add in more cardio than the program had for my non-lifting days. Sometimes I jog after my lifting workout. I take my rest days now though.

I can already see a difference in my arms. I haven't taken my second measurements yet. I have some work pants I haven't been able to wear in months. Just last week they were snug in the derriere. The scale has not budged in two weeks, but I'm wearing the pants right now and they are loose. When I was where you are now, I read these types of posts and wondered how that could really be. Yet here I am three weeks later with loose pants.

Karen

I plan on starting this evening but i will be using resistance bands!

I'm in! I started today, Monday 4-2-12. I just finished the first workout about an hour ago. I'm a total newbie at this.

But....I'm disappointed in my workout. I think maybe I underestimated my weights, so the workout seemed very easy for me. I'll have to use heavier weights on Wednesday.

I also think some of my "That's it?" feeling is because I've been doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred/Ripped in 30 and am somewhat used to Jillian trying to kill me.

I feel like I still need to exercise today.

(Edited because I apparently had no idea what today's date was!)

I started this morning too and loved it, but I felt also like maybe I didn't push myself hard enough. I also just finished 30DS on Saturday, although I didn't do the 30 days consecutively, I did it 3 - 4 times a week. I'm going to do week 4 day 1 of C25K tonight to get my cardio in. I guess I'll guage how my muscles feel tomorrow and then decide if I need to up my weights a little.

Guys if you get to the 12th rep and feel like you can do more then your weights are not heavy enough. She repeats this over and over. You have to be struggling to get that 12th rep up or you need to increase your weight. I did week 3 burn circuit 1 today and have increased all my weights from the first week and I barely got through the first week. It is supposed to be hard or you aren't doing something right.

I know that it's supposed to be hard, but with it being my first day I really had no idea what weight to start with. Now that I have Day 1 under my belt I feel like I have a better idea of what weight to use on the next workout. It wasn't until the 5 or 6 rep on each exercise that I thought I should have gone heavier.

I'm chalking some of this up to a learning curve. You don't know what's too light or too heavy until you try it, right?

I found this to be very true. My first week gave me an idea of where I could go heavier, lighter, or harder this week.

I'm at the end of week one of the beginning of the program! I'm also doing Insanity, please feel free to add me as a friend for support! I also have a group called Love Beachbody Fitness, check it out!

So I've now completed BC 2 of Week 1 and I have to say -- today went MUCH better than my first day! My weights were more appropriate and I felt like I had worked out. In fact, my arms are burning just a bit as I type this.

But this leads me to another question. (Remember, I'm new at this...) I only have dumbbells in 5 lb increments and only up to 20 lbs. Today I used mostly 10 lb weights. When should I move up to the 15 lb weights? When I feel like the 10s are getting "too easy"?

And, thinking even further ahead, the 10s seemed a little too easy for some of the lower body exercises, but is jumping up to 15 lbs going to be too much?

I have a feeling I'm going to have to find some money (or win the lottery) pretty soon and upgrade to heavier weights.