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Limiting my sodium is one of the reasons I started using this site. I have moderately high blood pressure, and my doctor wanted me to try to get it under control with diet/exercise before putting me on medication. After more or less ignoring it for a year I realized that unless I track what I'm doing there's no way to…

I know the rest day is important, but now that I've had a day off from this I'm all antsy to rock out cardio power and resistance. I think I'm addicted.

I'm usually too out of breath to say anything to him other than to grunt incoherently.

There's a relationship blog I read on occasion called the "Married Man Sex Life". There's a lot to his thinking, and it makes some sense if you can get your mind around it, but this summary is probably going to sound a bit shallow. His overriding theory is that people generally end up with someone around the same level of…

Cardio recovery was a pretty nice break from the first couple sweat pouring workouts, but all the yoga-strength type stretches made me realize how weak I am in quite a few areas. For some reason the hardest thing for me was the standing hip flexor stretches. I wasn't able to hold that stretch for more than a few seconds…

This. What level are you at right now? A lot of these specific training questions are going to be more or less irrelevant for people just starting out running. If you're not a runner at all, and have trouble jogging for 30 minutes without taking walk breaks in between, I'd probably start on building that up first. Having a…

I'm only a couple days in, but so far: Fit test was about 350 Plyometric cardio 690 Cardio power and resistance 650 Recovery 290

I think I'm in the same boat with the calories. I'm butting up against my goal weight (4 lbs to go) and eating at a deficit of around 400 calories. I think I need to increase up to near maintenance and probably eat a good chunk of my exercise calories back which means I'll be adding around 600 or so calories to my diet.…

I missed cardio power and resistance last night so I did it this morning. Hopefully your review of the recovery means that I won't kill myself trying to do that tonight to get myself back on schedule.

Due to some stuff I couldn't put off last night I was left choosing to do the Cardio Power and Resistance last night around 11PM or get up early and do it before work this morning, I decided to do it this morning. We'll see if I can make it through the day. I added a protein shake to my normal breakfast and am feeling…

I'm only on day 2 of this, but my shins are definitely stiff to the point where I feel like I'm making a conscious effort to not look like I'm walking funny. As a distance runner in high school, shin splints were more or less a part of life, and it sounds like that's what you have going on. The only prescription for that…

Whew. I'm walking more than a little stiff today, but I feel pretty good knowing I got through day 1 and am confident I can do this. I was pretty surprised at how high my calorie burn was again. I'm used to burning around 600 in a session on the treadmill, but I was 100 over that on the first day. I suppose that's probably…

wow, you really rocked it out.

I just started last night with the fit test too. I was expecting to have a harder time with the strength to do the moves than the cardio of keeping moving, but it was closer to the opposite for me. Looking forward to pushing play on the real first workout tonight. Joseph

Forgot to mention yesterday, my new HRM (happy birthday to me) said I burned 366 calories doing the fit test, so I'm probably going to have to start eating higher in order to do this without hurting myself. I've been eating 1800 cals /day, but now I'm around 5 lbs away from my goal weight so I'll have to push my calories…

I started today too: Switch Kicks - 56 (I'm not quite sure how to count these, that was 56 with each leg) Power Jacks - 35 Power Knees - 56 Power Jumps - 21 Globe Jumps - 4 (my lungs were burning at this point) Suicide Jacks - 12 Push-Up Jacks - 12 Low Oblique Planks - 23

lol, I thought my cardio was better than it is. Switch Kicks - 56 (I'm not quite sure how to count these, that was 56 with each leg) Power Jacks - 35 Power Knees - 56 Power Jumps - 21 Globe Jumps - 4 (my lungs were burning at this point) Suicide Jacks - 12 Push-Up Jacks - 12 Low Oblique Planks - 23

I'm starting it up tonight too. I've been excited to see how I could do on this program for a while and just got back from vacation so now is the time.