? for fitnut and other BFLr's

Beccat

Cathlete
Hi BFLr's,
I started my first BFL challenge today. I have a few questions I am hoping you can answer.
1. Being a regular Cathe exerciser, I find it hard to believe that working abs only once or twice per week will get results like those shown in the book. Do you all really only do abs when its a lower body day? Also, do you just do the crunches 12 times, 10,8,6,12,12? How does this work for abs since we aren't using weight?
2. Could some of you give me your own poundage that you are using to do the upper and lower body exercises? I did the UB workout this morning and had a hard time knowing if I was hitting an 8.9 or 10 in my intensity level. I am just curious what other regular Cathe gals are doing, to use as a guide.
3. On cardio days, when you incorporate Cathe's interval workouts, are you timing the intensity each minute like Bill says to do, or are the intervals set up by Cathe already so that we are automatically hitting these intensity levels without having to count each minute etc..
4. I am 31, 5'2" and 121 lbs. My goal is to lose body fat AND weight. I would like to get to @108 lbs or so. I am going to be doing his nutrition plan while staying within my weight watchers point range for my weight. Anyone else doing this? Should I be adding in more that three days of cardio for this challenge? What do you all so? I notice some have more cardio and incorporate Cathe cardio that isn't necessarily interval based.

I know these are a lot of questions. Thanks you in advance. I am so confused, but really want to make this work for me. I hope to hear from some of you soon.
Thanks,
Becca:)
 
Hi Becca,

I do abs after each cardio session. So I get at least 3 times a week in.
As for poundage everyone is different and I go by how it feels and how fatigue my muscles are. There are times where I can barely do that 6th one and I believe this would be hitting a 10. I could be wrong but this is how I judge myself. Lower body I seem to be able to handle so much more weight that I have to really concentrate on the muscles working and then I have been adding in Cathe's stability ball workout from PLB.
I do the treadmill or bike for cardio so cannot answer that one.
Hope this helps a little
Rhonda
 
Rhonda,
Thanks for your input. I appreciate it. Anyone else who may have answers, please chime in!

Becca
 
Hi Becca!

Abs- I work them whenever they appear in a workout but if you've been to the BFL thread you'll see that I am having problems with the old abba dabbas, so I'm working a little extra this week once again! :) But the last time I did BFL, I'm pretty sure I did abs only when scheduled and with lifting heavy and eating as clean as possible (mostly for me that means cutting back on pasta, I could eat it at every meal, no kidding, giving up sodas and chips. I saved those for my free day). I definitely started seeing definition in the abs during weeks 3 and 4. AND I'm pretty sure I just did whatever the chosen ab exercises where until I felt the burn, then I went several reps beyond the burn and moved on to the next one. That threw me too about abs - whether or not to follow the pyramid format or do my own thing. :D

Poundages - For upper body I use (with the pyramid set):
Chest- 10, 12, 15 lb. dumbbells for the bench flye/press combos
Back - 12,15 and 20's for the pullovers and double arm rows
Shoulders - 3, 5, and 8's for the combo there
Tri's – for some reason I can’t recall the exercises
Bi’s – 10, 12, 15 (and 8’s sometimes at the end of the sets) for hammer and biceps curls

Legs (same video set)
Barbell ranges 30-40pounds for lunges and squats; 35-45 for deadlifts

I consider myself hitting my 10’s when I am fried and can barely push out the last 3-4 reps.

Cardio- I just do Cathe’s CTX cardios or I get on the stairstepper and step at a semi fast pace while watching TV, during commercial break I really up the pace. So I’m not exactly doing the BFL cardio so I just stick with the workouts that I know will bring about a good sweat.

Nutrition/WW – I can’t say much about that, seeing how I know very little about the Weight Watchers point system

Good luck! Hope you get a better variety of answers here to help you get the results you’re looking for. Why don’t you just join us in our weekly check-in? We’d be happy to have you!


Angie
 

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