I did it!

[daedala]

I mentioned that evil bodyweight matrix. The first time I tried it, I bombed, but this time, I finished it! The jumps at the end were pretty pathetic, but whatever -- I got all the way through, twice.

Then I staggered up the stairs to get some protein. Luckily the cats stayed out of my way, even the one who usually likes to help my workouts. Today she helped by walking back and forth under my face while I was doing the plank, since my arms were not free to pet her and that was clearly what I was supposed to be doing...

Be warned that Stage 3 of NROL4W takes a long time for each workout. If I am on the ball and do them every other day, I can finish Stage 3 before Wiscon, which would be kind of awesome.

Er, so maybe I should stop spamming the comm...

Comments

[cereta]

Noooo, do not stop posting! I'm reading!

[daedala]

Oh, ok. :)

More people should post! Then I won't feel loooonley!

[weirdquark]

I was going to wait to post until I finished stage one, which will be in about a week and a half. I'll be at a con the following weekend and have to figure out if I'm going to start stage two while I'm there (pros: hotel gym instead of working out at home, so I'll have more equipment; cons: no sleep and poor nutrition!) or if I should wait until I get home. I don't want to take a week off, I already took a week off while I went to a different con in the middle of stage one...

How long did stage two workouts take compared to stage one? I've been looking at them and thinking that I won't have time to do the B workout before going to work like I've been doing, but that means two workouts a week instead of three. On the other hand, my plan if it takes too long to do as many Turkish get-ups as I can get through in the time that I do have, so it's not like it'll be totally restful.

[daedala]

You have asked the right person! I track things a little obsessively!

For stage one, especially the last half, I tended to take 30 minutes or so (the first half, with only two sets, often took less time, if I stayed focused).

Stage two tended to take 40 minutes or so, keeping in mind that I never did the intervals after workout B, but did them at other times.

Stage three is taking 70 minutes or more. Ick.

I doubt an extra week off would hurt your progress much. I'm trying really hard to finish this stage before the con so I can feel I've come to a stopping place, since I really doubt I'll do any weights workouts there, but I'm not sure I will make it; I have work, and class, and all the household stuff that got put on hold while I prepared for a presentation at a work conference.

[weirdquark]

Hee!

Cool, thanks. Stage one has been taking me a bit longer than that, but I do them first thing in the morning so it's been taking me about fifteen minutes to drag myself out of bed and then forty plus-or-minus five to stretch and lift, depending on how much I space out in between sets. ::g::

So I may be able to get through both stage two workouts before work if I get up a bit earlier... I'll time it and see. I'm looking forward to summer session starting up again so I'll only have to do it one day a week. (I work Saturday afternoons and am normally off Mondays, so I have two mornings free on my normal schedule, but when classes aren't in session I have different hours.)

What I'll probably end up doing is taking a week "off" by which I mean I'll go to the gym if I can get out of bed in enough time to do that before whatever con things I'm doing and do something, but not bother with a full workout. And not kick myself if I don't manage it.

I know what you mean about wanting to come to a stopping place before having to take a break; good luck! And go you with managing the bodyweight matrix after the workout!

[daedala]

I found that my interval mixtape, which alternates 1-minute and 2-minute stretches of songs, helps keep me from spacing out too much between sets. Because, yeah, that's a real problem for me too. It really helps me keep time, when even a clocks and a stopwatch didn't, and it's more interesting than just interval beeps.

[yarngeek]

I'm really glad that Stage three takes you longer than 1 or 2; I had been wondering why the hell I was so wiped after.

[daedala]

Oh hell yes. Stage 3 is hard.

Well, ok, workout A is hard. I am not so sure about workout B -- how are you feeling after it? I work out at home, so I'm still trying to figure out the correct substitutions; the first time I did it, with all the low-weight balance exercises and the core work, I found it tedious, but it didn't really feel like a lot of effort.