[rachinaz]

How long are the workouts? How many days per week do you do a workout? Aren't there some rest weeks? Is it a flexible enough program that you can spread out the workouts? Or do you need to do them back to back (like doing them on alternating days instead of every day)?

I know you've provided all this info before but I'm too lazy to go find those posts and it's easier to just make you type it all out!

[Jess_jugs]

Hey Rach! No prob, I'm happy to answer your questions. Most of the workouts are right at an hour. The ab ripper which you do 3x per week is 16 minutes but very effective. The longest one is YogaX which is 92 minutes. But I found that splitting it up worked best for me. There's a great place to stop at about 50 minutes, and then I'd do the other 40 min another time (or not.. ).

Here's the basic schedule for the classic round

Weeks 1-3
Day 1- Chest & Back + Ab Ripper X (ARX)
Day 2- Plyometrics (cardio, jump training)
Day 3- Shoulders & Arms + ARX
Day 4- Yoga
Day 5- Legs & Back + ARX
Day 6- KenpoX (martial arts, kickboxing, you could easily sub in a run for this workout)
Day 7- rest or XStretch

Then on week 4 is a recovery week which while it's kind of a rest week you're still working hard!
Day 1- YogaX
Day 2- Core Synergistics
Day 3- KenpoX
Day 4- Rest or StretchX
Day 5- Core Synergistics
Day 6- YogaX
Day 7- Rest or XStretch

And then Phase 2 you switch up the workouts a little bit
Weeks 5-7

Day 1- Chest, Shoulders, & Triceps + ARX
Day 2- Plyo
Day 3- Back & Biceps + ARX
Day 4- YogaX
Day 5- Legs & Back + ARX
Day 6- KenpoX
Day 7- Rest or XStretch

And then recovery week, same as the last recovery

And the last phase, weeks 9-12

Day 1- Chest & Back + ARX
Day 2- Plyo
Day 3- Shoulders & Arms + ARX
Day 4- YogaX
Day 5- Legs & Back + ARX
Day 6- KenpoX
Day 7- Rest or XStretch

And then your last recovery week.

I did not do Kenpo after the first couple times (didn't find it was very difficult), I usually subbed in a run or a Cathe kickbox. You can do doubles (which is basically what I did) in adding in extra cardio on days 1, 3, & 5. (or really, whatever works for you). The cardio workouts are nothing spectacular (except Plyo is good!) so adding in a run works out great.

I just looked at my worksheet tallys & found out that I did over 2,000 pushups in those 90 days!!!!!!!!!! (2,167 to be exact). I'm excited about that & can't wait to see what I can do next round!! Let me know if you have any more questions, I'm happy to answer!

Hugs,
Jess

This post has been edited by Jess_jugs: 06 August 2007 - 09:32 PM