However, if you look at the program you'll see, as you get to weeks 7-9 and 10-12, some of the exercises start to get pretty advanced. I found myself having to modify an exercise each of the first two days this week (week 7), so I've decided to start something different next week. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm going to do, but I'll save that for another post. (Yes, I'm going to try to actually post regularly, finally.) Knowing that I am not going to be continuing this program anyway provided the perfect opportunity for me to repeat the workout from day one to see how I have improved during the last two months.
The workout for day one, and for me today, consisted of squats, push ups, lunges, and planks done in that order, as many as you can in 50 seconds with 10 seconds rest in between for 4 rounds and a total of 16 minutes. I recorded my scores for the first round of exercises and here are the results.
EXERCISE DAY 1 DAY 21 (7 weeks later)
Squats 20 35
Push ups 20 27
Lunges 15 20
Plank 26 sec. 35 sec.
Not bad. I do have to say that I would have hoped for a little more improvement in the plank, but after pushing hard on squats and lunges, my legs felt like the weak link there, not my core. Also, considering the most noticeable difference in my body over this time is the definition in my arms, I kind of thought I would have more improvement in the push ups, but that was averaging less than 2 seconds per push up, so that seems pretty good.
I'll probably try to do this same routine in another 6 or 7 weeks and see what kind of additional progress I've made.
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