7-Day Guide: 12-Week Challenge

So we're now entering the 12th week of 2007. If you started TT on New Year's Day and stuck to consistent eating and exercising, you will have made some incredible changes.

If you joined us a little later, no worries. You can still make impressive changes in the 10+ weeks we have till the first long weekend of the summer.

Get serious for the next 10 weeks. What's 10 weeks over the course of a lifetime? Not much. Get committed, say "no" to foods you don't need, drinks you shouldn't have, and lose the fat you've always wanted.

In the next 10 weeks, not only can you change your body, but you can also pick up life-long healthy habits.

Let's get started with this week's 7-day guideline to maximum fat loss.

Monday
Do your TT Workout. Not sure which one to use? If you are advanced, most people simply love the TT2K3 and TT2K4 programs. If you are really advanced, you can even train 4 days per week with those programs.

Get them in the Turbulence Training for Fat Loss manual

Tuesday
30 minutes activity. Compare how far you have come against your fitness levels from the beginning of the year. And if you haven't already, start a training log to track your progress.

Wednesday
Do another TT workout. Follow up with the trainer you consulted at the start of the year. If you didn't use a trainer then, consider scheduling a visit to have your exercise form checked out, and then add the trainer to your social support group - another expert to be accountable to will help you improve your consistency and commitment.

Thursday
30 minutes activity. Review your new healthy habits - highlighting what has helped over the 12 weeks. Keep up those healthy habits, but at the same time identify the remaining obstacles to your success, and then figure out two ways you can overcome each obstacle.

Friday
TT Workout. The last workout in the first 12-weeks of TT 2007! Congrats. Treat yourself to something nice - perhaps something new to wear to show off your new and improved physique.

Saturday
30 minutes of activity. Meet up with your social support group and thank them all for their help. Grab a good fitness magazine, such as Men's Health or Women's Health. Also, keep an eye out for the June '07 issue of Shape magazine. I was interviewed for it and talk about TT.

Sunday
30 minutes of activity. Hopefully by now you have the "plan, shop, and prepare" routine down by now. Get a nice piece of salmon, some asparagus, and sweet potatoes and treat yourself to an amazing healthy, rewarding dinner.

It's a lifestyle now,

CB

PS. Can you use kettlebells for fat loss?

I asked kettlebell expert David Whitley...

CB: How do you use Kettlebells and bodyweight training in your bootcamps?
I get people of differing fitness levels all showing up in the same class, so it is important for me to be able to do a workout that works for everyone.

DW:

There are lots of ways to do that. The most obvious is using kettlebells of different weights, but even that presents problems, so what I do is we go for time instead of reps.

For example, I might name an exercise and have them do as many as they can in 1:00. That way if I have a very fit person and a new person in the same group doing the same exercise, the veteran might do 40 reps of an exercise and the newbie might do 8, but they are each working as hard as they can on that exercise.

Click HERE for the rest of David's interview & his fat loss kettlebell workouts

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