You should see how shocked I am when I hear clients say that their routines are too easy. When I do strengthening and intervals in a session I am exhausted from the workout. I don’t remember ever finishing by session and thinking that I didn’t work hard enough to do any good. So if what you’re not doing isn’t getting the job done, we need to fix it so that it does.
Take a little time and see how I would do the same program and then
you can see for yourself if you are exercising with the intensity you
ought to be using I realize that the weight I’d use might be heavier or
lighter than something you would use, but you need to choose a level
that’s going to push your limits.
What we need to do is make the workout so that it will burn fat. I’m
going to look at the mid-range section from the workout manual and see
what we can do.
Do a good warmup to get ready to exercise. Work till you’re ready to sweat and then move on with the mega-set.
1a: Do eight repetitions of splitting squats with bells of sixty or
seventy pounds. 1b: Inclined pressing with dumbbells. Do eight
iterations of these. I would probably take eighty or ninety lb. bells to
get a good workout.
2a: Fifteen Balance-ball leg-curls. To make this harder, do twenty five or do it with one leg only.
3b: Delt-Rear Raises, qty ten, with fifteen or twenty lb. DBs should
be pretty tough. Once you get this intensified session finished, take a
break for a minute or two and then hop on the tread-mill to do an
interval workout.
Intervals A:
An interval should never be anything but hard to do. I’ll go at about 12 mph with a machine if I wasn’t doing it outdoors.
If you’re new to this, you can always walk for intervals at 3.75 mph.