Question Re: Workouts

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If you are new to BFL and new to working out the best advise we can

give you is to follow the work out plan as written in the book. That

would mean three days a week of the " 20 Minute Solution " aerobic and

three days a week of weights.

The reason we always concil people to stick to the book, especially at

first, is that it DOES work with out alteration. Plus, it gives

people who are new to working out a good firm plan to follow, so you

don't feel like you are a bit lost.

That being said, a light cardio work out before doing the weights

won't hurt, but I dont think it really does much to help either. The

way the weight program is built there is warm up built in (the first

12 should be easy..just warming up and getting the muscles ready for

the higher weights.)

As for what people in the gym are thinking...mostly they are thinking

" what's my next exersise? " or " can I push myself harder? " ...no realy

thinking about you at all. If you do happen to capture their

attention, enough that they have a concious thought about you it would

most likely be " is she through with those weights? " ...lol. We all

start from different places, and the people at the gym all know that.

Don't worry about them.

Barbara

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> Hey gang.. I am a little new to the body for life way of working

out, and although I have the BFL book, and the EFL book... I think I

am still lacking when it comes to working out. I know the books have

the " intensity " levels... but how do you gauge those levels?

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> Another question on working out... I have been doing cardio (20

minutes) before hitting the weights, just to get my blood flowing and

my heart rate up. Should I not do this? I still only do 3 days of

weights a week, but I do 20 minutes before weights MWF and then I do

30 minutes cardio TThS. Should I not be doing this? On days that I

do cardio/weights - do I eat when I get home or wait an hour? I ate

about 30 minutes after I finished working out - I ate chocolate

oatmeal - is that a good enough post-workout meal?

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> Also, any tips on how I can ignore my thoughts when I work out? I

am constantly thinking what is everyone thinking of this chubby girl

trying to work out. Any tips on how I can change this method of

thinking? I know the way to get thin IS to work out, so there really

isn't any other option that just facing it. It just makes me not want

to stay at the gym long.

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> I did a really good workout today... I did 20 minutes on the

elliptical, and then did my lower body workout. But I got flustered

with the seated calf raise machine, I honestly think it was broken,

but I couldn't quite grasp it, and felt stupid for wasting so much

time trying to figure it out that I Just left. lol At least it was

at the end of my workout though - I hit quads, hams, abs hard...

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> HOpe you all have a nice day,

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