Planning workouts

[daylily]

How does one plan their workouts in advance? I have the BWO+ starter system and I will soon receive instructional 2 and the SATI workout? But I don't know how and when to alternate? Any suggestions?

Thank you.

[wahmof9]

I don't know how much help I would be...but they are many that can help you! And you will find lots of support here!

[BlessedMama]

Florence, don't be in a rush!

BWO+ and SATI are okay to do daily if you have no health/adrenal/fatigue issues. Total workout (which is BWO+ plus the moves on Instructional 2) is sometimes more than some of us can do at once. I personally split TWO into thirds:

Day 1: BWO+
Day 2: PBS first then Lunges through Airplanes
Day 3: PBS then Arms to the end.

But you will need to spend some time with Instructional 2 to learn those moves. You can split the Instructional up as well!

Some people do BWO+ and add one or two moves from Instructional 2 as they are learning them.

Maybe you could do something like this:

M-BWO+
T-SATI
W-light day--PBS, TTT stretch only, 1 Hoedown
Th-BWO+
F-SATI
S-light day
S-PBS only

Week 2:

M-PBS then Instructional 2, Lunges, Balance, Lat Presses
T-light day (PBS, TTT stretch, 1 Hoedown)
W-PBS, then Instr. 2, Puppet Pulls, Thread the Needle, Runner's Stretch
Th-light day
F-PBS, Instr. 2 Arms section
S-PBS, Instr. 2 Torso Twist, Step Lifts, Lawnmowers
S-PBS only

That way you can see what you can handle. You might be able to combine 2 segments of Instructional 2 the next week, or even do the whole thing, but if you do, I'd take a day off (or light day) in between doing all of Instructional 2.

I hope that is helpful!

[daylily]

Hi Trisch,

You are so incredibly helpful. Thank you.

What I'm really trying to understand is down the road when I'm ready to start pulling different things together - what is the formula? How do you know how to plan the workouts? For example, in my old workout plan I followed this formula: upper body - Monday, Wednesday, Friday; lower body - Tuesday, Thursday; walks every day with one day off. With T-tapp it's so different that I can't really understand the formula and how to plug work-outs into it. Make sense? I'm just trying to understand how to plan, so I can feel more knowledgeable about how all of this works.

[upupandaway]

Florence, there is an element of experimenting and finding out what works for you, which isn't helpful when you're new and feeling a bit lost by all the options, but the forum is always here to help. If you think of it as a life-long journey, where you can try longer and shorter workouts, floor and standing work, you'll find the sweet spot for your health and your life!

One thing I like is to record what I did each week and what my inchloss was and any other benefits, then I can look back and see what worked and plan accordingly.

[BlessedMama]

Florence, for awhile I did one full workout, one short, one floor, one stepping per week, with days off sprinkled in.

Sometimes I'm on a floor kick for awhile, sometimes a stepping, and MORE was my go-to when I couldn't decide!

So it really depends. BWO+/TWO are all you really ever need, but of course we like variety. You may find you enjoy stepping over floorwork or vice versa, and that's okay!

Just keep in mind full workouts are EOD with just a few moves on off days, shorter workouts can be daily, but I like to see one day completely off and another day "light".

HTH!

[daylily]

Florence, for awhile I did one full workout, one short, one floor, one stepping per week, with days off sprinkled in.

Sometimes I'm on a floor kick for awhile, sometimes a stepping, and MORE was my go-to when I couldn't decide!

So it really depends. BWO+/TWO are all you really ever need, but of course we like variety. You may find you enjoy stepping over floorwork or vice versa, and that's okay!

Just keep in mind full workouts are EOD with just a few moves on off days, shorter workouts can be daily, but I like to see one day completely off and another day "light".

HTH!

I know this is an "old" question, but remind me what constitutes a full workout?

[BlessedMama]

Best way is to go by the Habit Formers list--Track 1 workouts are basically shorter ones, Track 2 are full ones:

http://forum.t-tapp.com/showthread.p...nd-Information

[daylily]

Super! Thank you everyone. It's all starting to have a bit of logic to me. This is soooo helpful. Lots of good notes for me to keep from this thread.

[thekarpster]

Another way to remember short workouts vs full workouts is that is it's 30 minutes or more it's a full workout. Anything less then that is a short workout and can be done daily if you want. Though I would recommend having some light or off days each week.