When you start a workout program it is confusing on how to structure ANYTHING!
Forget the trendy day-to-day workout program that doesn’t structure anything for you besides how to keep yourself busy in the gym Monday through Friday and overwhelm you.
What the heck am I really doing here?
You got started, SO you’re at week one of your on-going program. What you need to do is the following checklist:
- Can I balance myself through a basic movement? IF not, let’s simplify then.
- I should be able to do a fairly good squat.
- I should be able to do a fairly good lunge.
- I should be able get my arms straight and vertical over my head.
- I should be able to do a fairly good push-up.
Once I can say I can do these movements I go to my next checklist:
- Starting light, I am always looking to preform the exercise perfect in the beginning before I load myself with any sort of heavy weights.
- Did my heart rate during my workouts change throughout the week?… Or did I just kind of cruse through my workouts this week?
- Keep correcting yourself on basic lifts daily.
- Warm up like you need to break a sweat before you lift anything.
- Incorporate repetitions that get my heart rate up quickly and for a short period of time as well as exercises that slowly raise my heart rate for a longer period of time.
And Finally!…. You are starting to understand a workout progression and can check off these last few items before you can proudly say you are in a workout progression.
- Does my week have variety?
- Are my workouts structured properly?
- We need one day to include compound and heavy, if we have access to and are preforming the lifts correctly and safely.
- We need to include fast and explosive movements with little to no weight at least one day a week.
- We need a long and slow sweat at least once a week.
- Lastly, it should be fun and simple!
Remember you want to enjoy yourself and appreciate the mental cleanse of a workout and not be thinking too hard!
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