Why Live Fit?? and Day 1

Hello!!..and welcome! My name is Jennifer and I'm 25 years old parent of one son. Recently I noticed that I was kinda flabby and in general just NOT happy with my body and appearance. I've worked out and quit and dieted and quit more times than i can count. I can honestly say that I just lack the level of commitment that it takes in order to stick around and see results.When I want to lose weight I want to lose it NOW! Not 2 weeks from now or a month from now...NOW! I guess I'm just an impatient brat that way. Anywho, one of the girls I follow on Twitter began using a new workout plan and I decided to check it out for myself after she showed some pretty encouraging progress. She had been using Jamie Eason's Live Fit Trainer on BodyBuilding.com. (Live Fit Info) I checked it out on the web, watched videos, studied the workout and meal plans and looked at testimonials before deciding to embark on this journey. 

I must admit that I was feeling a little intimidated since, I've never lifted weight before in my life. I mean I’ve used the occasional machine here and there but, I’ve usually just walking in and gone straight to the treadmill or elliptical. Cardio, Cardio, Cardio is the only thing that’s been drilled into my brain as far as weight loss and gym attendance is concerned. My main issue with that is that…..I HATE RUNNING. Lol. I absolutely detest the idea of having to run, so I don’t. With Live Fit there’s absolutely NO CARDIO for the first 4 weeks. Weeks 1-4 are solely focused on weight lifting and muscle building. In week 5 cardio is added to the weight lifting routine. Let’s just say that I was super excited to start this program.

Day 1 consisted of the following Chest and Tricep exercises: 36 wide pushups, 36 dumbell bench presses, 36 flat bench cable flyes, 36 narrow pushups, 36 standing dumbbell tricep extensions and 36 tricep push downs.

 Completing the flat bench cable flyes wasn’t possible with the equipment at my gym..I would have had to move the entire bench in order to make these happen and that wasn’t an option. Lol. I used a chest flye machine instead. I'm assuming that it’s probably the same thing or close to it.

I completed the entire workout in about 45 minutes and I really only had trouble at the end when I got to the push downs. I'm assuming that my arms were just tired from all of the previous activity. I don’t think that I struggled at all with the workout but I felt challenged. I'm looking forward to getting back in the gym tomorrow so I can get this show on the road and see some results!! What I'm not looking forward to is being sore tomorrow when I wake up. I'm totally dreading that. As far as the diet goes I feel like I eat pretty healthy (when I choose to) so as of now I don’t really have any plans to follow the diet plan to the letter. Today I had some turkey for lunch, for dinner I had a baked salmon filet with oven roasted broccoli, squash, and bell peppers. That’s pretty much the diet plan anyway so I think I did pretty well for today. Tomorrow, however, is a completely different story. At some point I think I may begin taking my diet supplements again in order to help me drop the weight that I want. I'm considering starting them at the beginning of week 2, if not at the start of week 3 for sure. I only plan on taking them on the days that I'm going to the gym.

Well, I guess that’s all I’ve got for day 1. Can’t wait for day 2!!!