It's been a while since I wrote one of these updates, and even longer since I last worked out. I stopped the updates at the end of May, but I continued working out for a few more weeks; then life went crazy. My mom was in and out of the hospital, then in hospice care, and then passed away all within a month and a half. During all that, I also moved into a new place. So, needless to say, working out was not high on the list of priorities.
Now that life has started getting back to normal, I've decided to try the 25-minute Speed Train program for my next workout. It is one of the newest workouts by BODI. Joel Freeman is the trainer for this one. The workout was filmed in his very nice home gym. Like Lift 4, this has blocks of exercises, but you are not focused on reps. Instead, you focus on tempo. You do two exercises in a block for sixty seconds, with only fifteen seconds of rest between them. You do each exercise twice, then move on to the next block.
Today I tried the sample workout, which is a full-body workout. The workout is an eight-week program, with workouts each day. The structure is upper body, lower body, core cardio, upper body, full body, and then a flexibility and mobility/recovery workout on day 7. For equipment, you will need dumbbells and rubber resistance loops. Since you will be doing each exercise for sixty seconds, on those that you are using weight (as opposed to bodyweight exercises), you will probably use lighter weight than you would in a program like Lift 4, Chalean Extreme, or P90x. However, you will still want light, medium, and heavy dumbbells. This is not, however, a program where you can substitute resistance bands for the dumbbells. That said, Joel does show you how to modify moves if the regular versions are too difficult when you are starting out.
Thankfully, despite not working out in a long time, I haven't gained a lot of weight; in fact, I am finally below 200 lbs. I am hoping to drop about 10 lbs in the next eight weeks doing this program. After that, I plan to do Lift 4 again, followed by Lift More, and then try another round of the OG, P090x. I will probably not, however, do doubles workouts. For now, I plan to do just one workout per day.
