Sarah’s Blog

Reading the pdf for 1 Rep Fitness 1repfitness.com/aff/FitnessFor   I knew I wanted to do Fabrice Rinaldi’s program. Doing workout nr one on Sunday, I was convinced that this was the right decision. Having completed week one, I can honestly say that I haven’t had this many muscles as sore as this and at the same time, for a long time J hey, even my abs were sore for 3 days! (they never are!)

 

The workouts are intense, concentration is a must. I have the stereo on in the gym but frankly, I don’t even hear what’s playing. I am too much in a mind-muscle connection to hear anything outside of that. That’s of course also why I’m getting more sore than usual.

 

Just a word on the abs exercises. There are many versions of crunches – floor, ball, reverse, weighted with the weight on your chest, weighted holding the weight at arms’ length above your face – I’d tried all of these. However, with 1RF’s 25 crunches at a shot, I found my neck was getting tired and took away the concentration from the abs. Holding a hand behind my head to help support it was one solution, but then I had an illumination: I placed the weight plate behind my head, resting on it but of course using the abs-contraction to lift my upper body, not my arms!

 

This version not only eases the stress on the relatively small neck muscles, I found it to be much harder on the abs! Followed by the second abs exercise, it would really have been more strange had I still not felt any soreness.

 

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I trained last Sunday before lunch, then on Tuesday and Thursday between getting home from work and supper. Thursday I even stopped at a couple of shops on the way home, and I had a splitting head-ache. I still went, telling myself that allowing one excuse to keep me out of the gym would snow-ball into more skipped workouts. The funny thing was, after that workout and shower, the head-ache was gone, and I felt more alert and awake than I had going in.

 

The few muscles that didn’t get sore, still feel very much tighter than they did the previous week. Those that did get sore and got over it are certainly tighter as well.

 

I am keeping to a Monday morning official weigh-in and calliper bodyfat test to ensure that I stay on track over the weekend, but I do keep an eye on the scales during the week. There hasn’t been any significant weight change this week, but I haven’t checked the callipers (them I only check on Mondays). Watch for the update next Saturday.

 

I am awaiting the instructions for the coming week by e-mail today, maybe cutting it a little short since I need to know what I’m doing tomorrow. I would have preferred having the instructions last night so that I had the whole day today to prepare myself for the Sunday workout that I do as early in the day as I can so as to liberate the rest of the day for other activities. As long as I have the instructions by lunch I’ll be ok though.

 

In the mean time, I suggest you check out 1 Rep Fitness 1repfitness.com/aff/FitnessFor   and join the fun!

 

Sarah, CPT

PS: this program is for serious trainees only, you will be stepping out of your comfort zone several times!