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BUILD Phase
Hey, y'all! I'm excited to get back into a routine with this program. Here's a question: Based on my weekly schedule, it would work better for me to do the main priority workouts on Mondays, Thursday, and Saturdays. Will that work to have Tuesdays AND Wednesdays as non-priority days? That will only last until early February, when I'll get my Tuesday mornings back. I really want to do all my workouts very early in the morning as often as possible, but I have to be at work earlier than usual on Tuesdays for the next several weeks, and on Wednesdays the rest of the school year. Thoughts?
Heather, this is a GREAT question. So it looks like you’ll have 3 days to devote to BBH workouts. So I would prioritize the three priority workouts (Monday/Wednesday/Friday)! It doesn’t matter that you don’t complete those workouts on the days, just that you complete the priority workouts FIRST. Does that make sense/help!?
Once you have more time, you can add mid priority workouts that fall on Tuesdays and Saturdays!
This morning I did the Monday workout (because I didn't do it yesterday). It was my first workout in a few months, and IT SHOWED. I had to pause the video several times to either keep up or take a break, because I was literally feeling queasy. Even though it's a very familiar workout (because I've done the HIIT+Strength series), it felt like my body was doing things it's never done before. Kind of a weird contrast in thoughts. So, mentally l was going back and forth between thinking "Yay, me!" and "How did you let yourself get ALL THE WAY BACK TO SQUARE ONE?!" I gotta be honest, I'm having to work really hard right now to silence that discouraging inner voice. Trying to listen to the voice that's saying, "Don't worry about all that. You did it TODAY. That's a start. Keep going. This time can be different." So the workout is done, and that's kinda where I am in my head.
Oh gosh, Heather. I DO understand that feeling! If there's one truth I can encourage you with is that while our conditioning level to training CAN drop quite quickly- honestly even with two weeks off it can feel like you're starting over- you typically gain conditioning and strength much more quickly than if you were truly starting from square one!
PS- I also paused the video ALOT while I did it myself this week! LOL. So that's OK. Just keep it going one day at a time Heather! You got this! Keep talking through this with us!