According to Chris Powell's book, Choose to Lose, he recommends the first two weeks doing the 3 days of shapers and 6 days a week of shredders. For the past week, I've been doing these like normal (doing the shapers and shredders after we get home from work), and adding some extra activity during the workday and on Saturdays. For the past 4 days I have been doing Chalene Johnson's Turbo Jam 20 minute workout and Shaun T's 5 minute Hip Hop Abs workouts on my lunch break. Then, last Saturday in addition to our workouts on the treadmill and elliptical, we went for a 3 1/2 mile walk around Universal. We were repeatedly climbing the stairs and everything at City Walk. It feels great to be active. It really does.
Just got back home from our cardio/shredders (ate dinner too once we got home, etc.). Today I pushed myself harder than I ever have before. Normally for the first week Chris suggests doing 5 of the six minute shredders (I think I mentioned this in a post before, but a shredder for me is three minutes of walking, two minutes of walking faster, and one minute of jogging/running). Today we not only did that (and I wasn't all that out of breath like usual), but I surprised Superman by starting to run again two minutes after our last jog and then stopping. Then I further surprised him by running to this long flight of stairs and running up them (We also ran in the parking lot to the car, too. Probably not the safest idea in the world, but we really hauled it all the way to the car). Superman said that he has never seen so energetic before. That made me feel pretty good :) I think that maybe the extra energy may have had to do with today being a high carb day on the carb cycle. So toda...
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