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Gymmage

Mar 03, 2011 13:12

I completed The New Rules workout. This means I’m boldly going where I’ve only slightly ventured before, into the land of creating my own workouts. Last weekend, however, one of the trainers ran me through a circuit training exercise (intense, especially since it was my first foray ( Read more... )

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blue_shadows9 March 3 2011, 21:14:16 UTC

Woohoo! Did it take you six months, like the book said?

That Spartacus workout looks a bit torturous, as well as melodramatic.

asterlyte March 3 2011, 22:30:44 UTC

It took me a little under a year. I started in March 2010 and ended at the beginning of February 2011. It probably would last closer to 6 months if you optimized the program and did it 3 times/week, but I did it twice.

Torturous is the right word! I essentially did a version of 300 (although with completely different exercises/reps), and it was HARD. So hard my inner ear was going wonky and everything sounded like it was in a tunnel. You do feel rather victorious afterward, although I don't know if it quite reaches "I just freed the slaves of Rome!"-level.