New Rules of Lifting for Women

[daedala]

I've just started the workouts in The New Rules of Lifting for Women, with my sister and boyfriend. It's been reviewed in this community. We're all doing it at home with various equipment. (The bf and I have dumbbells; my sister has a Bowflex because child fingers + free weights = squish.)

Is anyone else working through this book and interested in talking about it? We're currently working out twice a week, and the goal is to go through the entire book.

ETA: For a little while, the comments will link to my workout log for the first three stages, in case you find their explanation confusing.

Comments

[daedala]

Here you go!

That won't be there too very long -- I don't want to leave it up indefinitely when it really is the heart of the book -- but it should make things a lot clearer. I'm kind of annoyed that they do such a frustrating job of laying them out for people, though.

Note that I did find an error when I started stage 1 and fixed it. Stage 1 should be good, but it's possible I goofed somewhere in Stages 2 or 3, too. :)

Anyhow, the spreadsheet is set up so that for each workout, you just do the exercises in order, resting after each one. If you're substituting exercises because of doing it at home, it might be helpful to do a find/replace. For my home gym setup, for example, I'm replacing seated rows with bent-over rows and lat pulldowns with pullovers.

[kerrypolka]

Thank you! I've grabbed it now. I agree the layout in the book is a bit frustrating, so thank you for clarifying it and sharing it! :)

[daedala]

Let me know if you find errors or if it's also confuzzling.

[daedala]

Ok, I've taken the spreadsheet down, but if someone needs it feel free to PM me.

[weirdquark]

I just started and I think I have figured out the spreadsheets, but I wouldn't mind seeing someone else's interpretation of what we're supposed to be doing.

[daedala]

Sorry, I've been busy. I've reposted it for a bit here.

[weirdquark]

Awesome, thanks. I did manage to parse out what it wanted correctly, though I structured my spreadsheet so I was tracking what I was supposed to do on each day of the week that I was doing weights.

[daedala]

That sounds helpful!

I found another error -- the bodyweight matrix in Stage 3 A workouts has too many lunges. It should be 12 reps, not 24, for the lunge and lunge jump.