I have decided to try and do Turbo Fire with a healthy diet in order to drop some initial weight because I honestly think I am too heavy to do either Tracy Anderson or Addicted to Sweat. Lately my wrists are also bothering me and I think being on all fours doing Meta at my weight would just make it worse.
So, I decided that I would like to try the prep schedule of Turbo Fire. I did try it before and it quickly became too much when I was doing the "regular" classes with more and more HIIT. The prep schedule is 9 weeks of preparation for the real deal.
It involves a lot of strengthening and a lot of cardio, no HIIT workouts (aside from the fire drills) until the last 2 weeks of the prep program.
I am not looking to be a full-on Turbo fanatic, I figure they burn a LOT of calories (and at my weight bulking isn't really anything I need to worry about and if I do bulk it can be fixed later) and I am looking to knock off about 80-90 pounds before going on to Meta or Addicted to Sweat. To be completely honest with you, I would rather look like Chalene than how I look now, any day. If I look bulky when I am lighter, I can approach that if I have to.
As for eating, I am going to suck it up and eat enough calories. I have it programmed into my head that more calories = bad. To be completely honest, eating a lot of calories with the goal of losing weight really scares the crap out of me. I have this nagging voice in the back of my head telling me that it's going to not work if I eat more. Ugh.
Actually, Turbo Fire has a little calculator that helps you decide how much a day to eat.
It says that at my weight (approx 290 pounds) to lose 2 lb of fat a week (not 2 lb of scale weight, there IS a difference) I need to be eating 2840 calories a day. Seems EXCESSIVE. I will do more research on this.
I think what I will do is just use MyFitnessPal and have that sort out the calories for me. It allows more on days that I am active, less on days that I am not. Less thinking for me, haha.
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