There are a million and one ways to skin a cat and it is the same for working out. There are a lot of different products that all give out good results so they say. There is good ways to working out and there is optimal ways to working. Now this really depends on your goals, on how to optimally train to reach them. If you’re training to lose weight, it’s going to be different then if you’re training to get stronger. If you’re training to add mass and size, it’s different then if you’re training for a marathon.
The main thing you have to take into consideration when it comes to training is your ability to recover from a workout. I know everybody loves to have that feeling of being sore and you judge your previous workout based on that. That is not necessarily a good thing now when you introduce a new training stimulus into your regimen than it’s a given that you will be sore, like if you took a month off from the gym then you will be sore probably the whole first week because it is new to your body. Once your body adapts to the training then the fact that you are still sore all the time then you need to either work on your recovery or quit working out so much because more than likely you will get hurt eventually.
You have to allow ample amount of time to recover so that your body is ready to go for every training session, that’s why I recommend doing 2 group training sessions a week, plus 3 boot camps, and for recovery I would do 2 days of a jog/walk for 30 minutes this will ensure that you are doing something every day and your body will be able to recover.
Why I recommend this split is because you have 2 days of group training were you are working on getting stronger and hitting all your problem areas, this one is more specific to your needs and is way more intense on your body than the boot camps. Remember that cardiovascular training like running and boot camps don’t strain the body nearly as bad as intense weight training. So I would do those 2 sessions on Tuesday and Thursday.
The boot camps are were you burn off those extra calories and increase your cardio. One boot camp alone you can burn up to 600-1000 calories, but do to the fact that it is lighter weight and circuit training it’s not as taxing on your nervous system so you are able to do it more often. So I recommend doing these on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
The last two days left on your week are your recovery days and these days are probably the most important days of the week. Now they are recovery days not sit in front of the TV and eat like and do nothing days. These days you want to do a lot of stretching and make sure you go for a 30 minute jog/walk nothing crazy just enough to get the blood flowing and muscles recovering.
So for those of you looking to lose weight and tone up this is the plan for you:
Sunday- 30min Jog/Walk
Monday- Boot Camp
Tuesday- Group Training
Wednesday- Boot Camp
Thursday- Group training
Friday- 30min Jog/Walk
Saturday- Boot Camp
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