GS- Is once per week enough?

[nancy324]

I haven't started the Gym Style workouts yet, but will start this weekend. Does Cathe say that once per week is enough for the 3 workouts? Thanks.
-Nancy

 

[kathryn]

That's what I'm doing. I'm following a rotation modeled on P90X (which gave me great results), and that has us doing the three-day split with each workout once per week. Remember that if you are also doing Low Max, Kickmax and IMAX3, there's a lot of workk for the lower body in those. And the upper body gets worked in KickMax (especially if you put on weighted gloves--1#--for the first part of it).

P90X taught me that more rest is crucial for muscular development.

 

[Rhonda]

Kathryn

How is the P90X modeled rotation going? I started a P90X rotation but only finished 6 weeks of it but did see some improvement. I may have to look at that P90X modeled rotation again and see what I can do. I am doing a rotation for March but will need something come April : )

Rhonda

 

[kathryn]

>Kathryn
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>How is the P90X modeled rotation going?

So far, so good. I just started the second week. For the "recovery" week, I think I'll stray from what I posted and use other instructors for some functional and core workouts (TLP's most likey), which I find to be a good idea to work on the stabilzing muscles.

 

[macska]

I actually use them twice a week. I do both of them in one day. I did them yesterday and probably will do them tomorrow. On Saturday I'll do my new MM. I upped my weights in the past few weeks, and I like the result! Mari

 

[nancy324]

"I do both of them in one day"

Mari-
You mean you do 2 of them in one day? Or all 3 of them in one day?

 

[macska]

Sorry. GSCT and GSBBS. At first I did it because of time crunch, but now I actually like to do them on one day. It takes up a lot of time, specially with the longer breaks, but it just feels so good. Lately I do the push ups at the end, aiming for total "failure" -- falling right on my face with the last one... By doing push ups at the very end I have strenght to use heavy weights during lifting. Cathe had probably a different purpuse with the push ups at the beginning (pre-exhausting?) but this different order works just better for me. Mari

 

[Soosan]

My "week" is nine days (in order to fit it all in), and I've been doing the three GS workouts along with MM during that nine-day period. I might sub HSC or one of the HC Extremes for MM every other "week."

What great workouts!