Last week of “Body For Life”
I’m coming to the end of my “Body for Life” journey, and while I’m happy about the 25lbs I’ve lost, I can’t help but feel like maybe I lost some intensity half way through, which has probably curtailed some of the gains I would have seen if I’d been able to stay as focused as I started out.
Is that a personal short coming? That probably has a little to do with it. However, I think maybe 12 weeks is too long to stay on one workout plan. When I felt myself losing some of the intensity, I probably should have changed things up. Also, I probably made a mistake by screwing around and adding the extra two days of HITT. In the last week or two I’ve started seeing my strength gains slide backwards a bit. Nothing too dramatic, but it’s still happening, and I have not skipped a workout. I fear maybe I’ve fallen victim to over training.
I have one week left and I plan to recapture that intensity and discipline I had in the first three weeks of the program to see if I can’t finish this thing off with a 28lb total weight loss. Overall, I’d call the program a success, though, it’s probably premature to do so. I guess it’s more important to see if I’m still being good a year from now.
Though my mom thinks I’m at a great point (yes, she’s pretty much obligated to say that) I still have a good 20lbs or so to cut, so this is by no means the end of the road, just the end of the first phase.
Up next, I’m thinking the inner runner in me is going to win out and I’ll train for a 15K and a half marathon in November, though the obligations of the job and the family me derail that plan as I get further into it, we’ll just have to see. If I decide I don’t want to dedicate the time to training for those events, I plan on trying out some Turbulence Training, or maybe the Navy Seal workout.