Body For Life

[MissM]

Is anyone here familiar with Body for Life?

We are starting it, DH has explained it to me a little bit.

Right now we are alternating:

cardio
upper or lower body
cardio
upper or lower body
cardio
upper or lower body
Rest day

Today is day 3 for us, we did Cardio, We both did 20 minutes high intensity on the treadmill today, then a 5 minute cool down.

[Tril]

I don't know much about BFL, but I do know it has a large following... and that plan looks good!

[merlot]

I just peeked at their website...looks like a really heavy workout! Good luck with it!

Toni

[Kisten]

Hey I didn't understand what's going on here...

[EdwinOliver]

Persistence.

I was told I would have to eat a low fat diet in order to succeed on the program but I have continued with my low carb lifestyle instead. The most difficult thing about BFL for me was doing my workouts even though I bicycled to and from work almost every day. As a result, my leg muscles are stronger but I only lasted to the end of Week 4. This was due to stress from work and from hearing bad news about family members. I also had stomach problems so I have to restart the program this week. The difference is I bike to work at 5:30 am and bike home at 12:00 pm. Then I eat some lunch, take a nap, and do my exercise routine. The weight workouts take about an hour for me. I don't do the protein drinks or bars because they don't work for me. Good luck on your week! May there be many more!

[EdwinOliver]

I began again this week.
Monday: 40 minute run
Tuesday: Upper Body (Chest, Shoulders, Back, Triceps, and Biceps)
Wednesday: 20 minute run
Thursday: Lower Body (Quadriceps, Calves, Abdominals, and Hamstrings)
Friday: 20 minute run or C25k routine
Saturday: Upper Body
Sunday: Rest

The goal is to start this week 10/03/2010 and end on 12/25/2010. I want to prove you can do low carb on this program and still be successful. The Body for life website does not recommend Atkins or a low carbohydrate diet as I previously mentioned. I will come back and update with my stats as much as possible in the progress board. I think if I can get to what is considered normal by BMI standards than I will start measuring my body fat percentage. I am still a scale man I guess.

[Barbgetfit]

I love body for life... but.. I am thinking of doing Atkins.. as I really want to drop some lbs .. so I am going to start atkins on monday and keep doing my body for life work outs..
Body for life really does amazing things to your body...and the lifting the way it is, works well at helping you lift heavier.

[nosnackdiet]

wow! that plan looks great. thanks for that.

[SkinnyGenes]

I was doing something similar to BFL, but now I am doing Full Body Workouts with H.I.I.T in between. This is my second week. So far so good.