Carrying on from the blog post I first wrote about the 'Body Boss Plan', here is the two week review:
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| BEFORE (hope you like the skirt I drew) |
If you want to skip the breakthrough of the weeks, just scroll all the way down the bottom to check out the '2 week review'.
WEEK 1
Monday
It's 8 am on Monday 27th February. Dexys Midnight Runners (Come On Eileen if you're curious) on spotify and I'm ready to start my journey on the way to awesomeness.
Provided on the app (and in the book) you will have a 6 minute warm up and cool down that is best you stick to, to avoid injury. So far so good. Stretches feel good and I'm ready to start the first Full Body HIIT. There are 7 different things to do and each of them have their own reps or times for you to stick to. Once completed, you then take a 3 minute rest and do this aaaaaaaaall over again - joy.
"It felt good."
As I go through each exercise I start to notice a small burn and loss of breath, sweating starts around midway through the first set (in all honesty, I sweat pretty easy, so don't be surprised if you don't sweat as soon into the exercise as I do). My favourite 'ab bikes' is in this first HIIT and I'm super happy because they are my favourite things to do - done that with complete ease.The second round of completing these exercises (I found) was actually easier than the first set. I don't know whether it was because I knew what to do and I had my mind set to a final goal or what, but it was easier to do after my 3 minute rest. Don't get me wrong, though, it was still hard at points. After completing my first set, I realised how unfit I must be. Should I be this out of breath and sweaty? Lungs burning on just the first HIIT? Who knows! Either way, it felt good.
Tuesday
Today is rest day. I woke up ready for work with my calves aching like a right bitch. In the plan, this is the day to do light exercise... Maybe a bit of walking or swimming? Due to me having work, I was on my feet walking all day anyway, so I feel like that contributes as light exercise for the day? Either way, there wasn't much to do today and I'm pretty glad because it's currently 9pm and my legs are still killing me. Rest of the body though? Feeling pretty normal.
Wednesday
So I woke up with my legs still aching like mad. It was pretty hard to get walking because my legs were so stiff, but after doing the warm up, ready to start the next HIIT, my legs had loosened up.
"Not to judge by first glance"
Whilst looking at the sheet of what to do this morning, I thought, 'oh! This looks well easy! I can do this!'... I think I've learnt not to judge by first glance - it was harder than it looked. Fair enough, it's not the hardest thing to do in the world, but there were times I was slowing down. Again, busting a sweat... Luckily my legs don't hurt anymore though.Thursday
Cardio day! This is the day to go old school and do a little cardio. Either a run? Bike ride? Brisk walk? I opted for the brisk walk because that's all I had time for. 20 minutes of that, and that was Thursday DONE.
I'm so far not noticing any kind've effect, so we'll have to wait and see...
Friday
I personally found this the easiest one of them all so far. It was only 6 minutes and I had to repeat 4 different things constantly until the 6 minutes were up - it went really quickly.
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Tuesday
Today was all about doing the 'Body Boss Challenge'. You get a list of things to do and you basically time yourself and see how quick you complete it. You will occasionally be doing this throughout the plan and you'll be able to see how quick the time gets as time goes on and your fitness goes up. I'm unsure how bad my time was (considering I had to keep getting my annoying pets out of the way) but I done this in 4 minutes, 26 seconds.
Wednesday
Another HIIT work out! However with this one, it is to be done THREE TIMES! In apposed to the usual 2 times that I'm used to. Surprisingly I didn't find it too hard! Different things hurt at different times (if that makes sense?) So for example, the 'plank rotations' didn't hurt the first time round, but did the second time round.
Friday
The day before (Thursday) was a cardio day and I had literally NO TIME to do this. Today, however, is a full body hit session. My fabourite so far is definitely the Friday sessions because you get 4 things to do and you just have to keep repeating it until you reach 6 minutes. For this Friday's full body, you have to repeat it twice and it actually felt soooooo good!
Week 2
Monday
So it's been a week since starting the plan. I've ordered myself a jump rope from amazon (for £1.50, woo!) because I thought I'd prefer that on cardio days rather than running around the block with the shitty weather we've been having recently. I haven't noticed much of a difference on my body yet, but I still have this week to see if there is any difference made (the site says how you will notice a difference in 2 weeks, so we'll see).
Another HIIT workout out of the way and it went pretty well today.
Tuesday
Today was all about doing the 'Body Boss Challenge'. You get a list of things to do and you basically time yourself and see how quick you complete it. You will occasionally be doing this throughout the plan and you'll be able to see how quick the time gets as time goes on and your fitness goes up. I'm unsure how bad my time was (considering I had to keep getting my annoying pets out of the way) but I done this in 4 minutes, 26 seconds.
Wednesday
Another HIIT work out! However with this one, it is to be done THREE TIMES! In apposed to the usual 2 times that I'm used to. Surprisingly I didn't find it too hard! Different things hurt at different times (if that makes sense?) So for example, the 'plank rotations' didn't hurt the first time round, but did the second time round.
"THREE TIMES!"
I'm not going to lie, due to my work schedule being pretty weird, I only done this 2 times instead of 3 because I had only got home from work, still needed food and a bath and needed to be up for work in 6 hours.Friday
The day before (Thursday) was a cardio day and I had literally NO TIME to do this. Today, however, is a full body hit session. My fabourite so far is definitely the Friday sessions because you get 4 things to do and you just have to keep repeating it until you reach 6 minutes. For this Friday's full body, you have to repeat it twice and it actually felt soooooo good!
2 week review
Ok, so it's been two weeks now. I haven't really noticed a massive difference, but I have noticed a little difference (lines are becoming a bit deeper around the sides). To be honest, I didn't think there would be huge effects anyway because I already have a pretty slim frame with a mild definition anyway.
The one thing I don't like about this so far is the warm up and cool downs. As much as they are pretty necessary... THEY'RE SO GOD DAMN, MIND NUMBINGLY BORING.
Ok, so it's been two weeks now. I haven't really noticed a massive difference, but I have noticed a little difference (lines are becoming a bit deeper around the sides). To be honest, I didn't think there would be huge effects anyway because I already have a pretty slim frame with a mild definition anyway.
The one thing I don't like about this so far is the warm up and cool downs. As much as they are pretty necessary... THEY'RE SO GOD DAMN, MIND NUMBINGLY BORING.
I would like to add that I would highly recommend getting the book! Whilst waiting for the book to arrive, I did use the online book and it just wasn't all that great in comparison to having a hard copy right in front of you with your timer to the side of it.
At the back of the book, it has pages and pages describing what to do if you're ever unsure. For example, if you don't know how to squat (I'd like to think you all do) then at the back of the book it will give you pictures and a description telling you what to do.
So to end off, here is a before and after picture of the first two weeks. I don't know if you can tell much of a difference? I think the lines around the side are a little more obvious than in the first picture maybe? Either way, I will recap after another two weeks and see if anything else happens/improves!
At the back of the book, it has pages and pages describing what to do if you're ever unsure. For example, if you don't know how to squat (I'd like to think you all do) then at the back of the book it will give you pictures and a description telling you what to do.
So to end off, here is a before and after picture of the first two weeks. I don't know if you can tell much of a difference? I think the lines around the side are a little more obvious than in the first picture maybe? Either way, I will recap after another two weeks and see if anything else happens/improves!
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| Before and after 2 weeks |
Well described everything your week plan, yes i have also doing the same with my bodyboss training here
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