This week's workout-Planning...

So I heard the expression from Bill Phillips in his "Body For Life" book...."If you fail to plan....you plan to fail"

That really struck a chord with me and when I have gotten myself into my truly focusing times that is what has helped me in a really big way.

So, with me beginning this new calorie cycling and HIT strength training I am trying to plan my week of gym time today on my rest day.

Typically I would have one week that I would do double upper with lower in the middle (MWF) and the following week I would do double lower with upper on Wednesday in the middle. This has worked for me but there was one thing that worked even better for me, and it was when I was doing HIT 12 years ago and wasn't even aware that that's what it was.

"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got"-Bill Phillips-"BFL"

I know that that statement isn't intended to go for what I tend to think of when I hear it, but in this case that is the exact statement I ALWAYS think of.

The statement is meant to imply that if you are stuck in your old ways, and your old habits and you say "But, I don't do things that way...or....But, I always do XYZ" Then you won't break out of your rutt if you always do what you always did.

For me though, there was the time when I was doing the HIT style training, when I was completely green to the gym and weights. It was something that was being pimped in "Muscle Media 2000", a product for chicks called "Neo-lean" They were what would ultimately become EAS Myoplex-Lite shakes (I know this cause the taste and nutrition info was almost exact to a "t") The program wasn't too dissimilar to what would become BFL....The main difference was the workout.

The workout called for you to train each body part every other day, in the HIT style. So I would begin with bi-cep curls and do a set of 10 and then up the weight by like 2 lbs and go to failure. If I could do up to 15 before hitting failure then I knew it was time to up my weight in my next session. I would do all of my stuff and end with squats, everything in the same fashion.

Curls, triceps, shoulder press,flyes, bent over rows, one armed rows, calve raises, lunges, squats and abs. All in one great little workout that didn't take a huge chunk out of my day and OMG the results were ASTOUNDING!

Soooo if I go by his quote and DO WHAT I ALWAYS DID....I HOPE to GET WHAT I ALWAYS GOT!

So that is what I am considering. I was thinking of doing one upper body day (tomorrow) and then to do the other beginning on Wednesday to give my lower body a bit of time to recover......But, if I go and do it all tomorrow my legs and glutes will have had since Friday, 48 hours, to recover. That is sufficient.

Soooo that will be my new program within the new program.

M-W-F Full body HIT (ala Neo-Lean '96)
T-Th-S- HIIT cardio or Turbo Jam
M-Sat- ABS (God, and back willing)
S- rest