Sarah’s Blog

The idea of 1RF 1repfitness.com/aff/FitnessFor is great, giving you access to one week at a time, four weeks of nutrition, no skipping ahead, you simply have to follow the plan as it was meant to be used!

There is of course the fact that almost every exercise in the program calls for a machine you have to be a gym member to have access to, but it IS possible to use substitution exercises to be able to do this program at home. Remember, there are only solutions, not problems!

For instance, like I told you last week, I have had to change the hack squat to a ball squat – the closest alternative I could think of; using ball leg cur.ls for a lack of leg cur.l machine; entirely skipped the leg extension – no machine, and there’s a limit to how many squats and lunges I can do, but I substituted for a lighter-weight Db squat, keeping the Bb squat as the 1-rep exercise.

For the glutes, abductors and adductors, I switched to the low-pulley cable on my lat-tower since I don’t have the specific machines. Works just fine, I get as sore as if I was using the gym machines!

Seriously, the workouts are challenging, tough, and totally worth the price of the program just by themselves! I recommend 1 Rep Fitness to anyone who likes to have fun challenging themselves in the gym.  1repfitness.com/aff/FitnessFor 

This past week, I had to switch workout days from Tuesday to Monday because we were invited to my in-laws Tuesday night. In fact, I will be doing Monday-Wednesday-Saturday training from now on – personal reasons. Our home gym has one set of selectable Dbs (PowerBlocks), one bench, a few weight bars and a lot of weight plates, one lat tower, two Swiss balls. If Lewis and I train at the same time, we either end up waiting for the equipment, or hitting eachother with the Dbs/Bb – not the ideal scenario for a workout. Since he’s not home Monday nights, I have the gym to myself; also, bu starting his week on a Sunday, he finds it easier to keep going the rest of the week. Guess it’s another example of how you can (habe to) be flexible and make sure you get

Getting the nutrition mapped out without having to calculate – just weigh/ measure up the given quantities of selected foods – is a time saver and makes meal preparation super easy.

I am ready with phase 2, starting tomorrow. More news in a week!

PS. I’ve seen the “blueprint” of an absolutely gorgeous dress, one shoulder covered the other not, draped across the bodice, skirt flowing below the drapings … I will wear that, in a size S, when it hits the stores. Probably in 12 weeks max, which co-insides with Lewis’ birthday. And yes, there will be a photo right here!