The Summer Shred program workout schedule is Monday-Friday with the weekend off but I love getting my workouts done on the weekend so I did Phase 1 - Week 1 - Workout 1 on Sunday, May 23rd. As the summer progresses I'll probably stick more to the Monday to Friday so I can enjoy my time at the campground. Having said that, the schedule is totally flexible to make it work for you so I'm going with that!
I went into this workout knowing what to expect from the last challenge. It was tougher than it looks on paper though. I did the Gym version of the workout because I have a great setup at home but had to sub a couple of things. I didn't have the upper body strength to perform the assisted pullups and the weighted band I have wasn't enough to counter my own weight to help. I subbed that out for wide grip lat pulldowns for my back. The band assisted pull ups were supposed to be 3 sets of 10-15 so I did the pulldowns 3 sets of 15 instead. The next set of exercises involved a SuperSet of more wide grip lat pulldowns and hanging twisting knee raises so my arms were jelly after this lol. I can't give away the entire workout but it involved some back rows, planks, crunches, cable pulldowns and the finisher was a GIANT set. Now I know why Nicole has such amazing arms. For those that don't know what a Giant set is, it involves taking a group of exercises and going through them 1 after the other without any rest. So perform 1 set of 15 reps, immediately move on to the next exercise and do another set of 15, then another exercise with a set of 15, etc. I keep a record of my weights, reps and notes in a scribbler and actually wrote down "F*^K" for this one then immediately scribbled it out LOL. It was definitely effective though!
Kimmy
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