Maybe this will help with consistency

oncekitty

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Heya everyone, this is my first time trying something like journaling for self-motivation and I figured why not do it publicly in the same place as where I get my workouts. This will just me writing down my thoughts and progress on the Foundation program mostly for myself in the hope that it'll help me keep consistent with working out.
That being said, I started Foundation today.


Date of start: 02/07/25
Workout: Foundation Day 1
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: All those jacks were not nice on the arms after set 4
 
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oncekitty

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Thanks all for the lovely welcome, here goes day 2.

Workout: Foundation Day 2
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Guess I may have gotten in a bit over my head. Looked to be simple enough on day 1 so I thought why not go with level 3 and now I feel like I've challenged myself not to back out of it. Day 2 is definitely much harder than day 1. Not sure if I'm supposed to take a shorter break based on the difficulty level I chose like I read on one of the guides. Once again went with level 3 and 30s rest between sets. Legs really started feeling this one on the reverse lunges around set 3. Set 4 and onwards felt like I was on the verge of getting leg cramps until I finished the workout. Arms were definitely tougher than day 1 though not by much and definitely far easier than the legs today. At the very least, this sure felt like a "proper" workout compared to yesterday. Stay tuned for day 3.
 

oncekitty

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Day 3:
Workout: Foundation Day 3
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: It was only at the 5th set that I realised I was supposed to be doing these like normal high knees and butt kicks (there were just so few of them that it didn't feel right to only do 10 high knees and 4 butt kicks at a time). Until set 5 my high knees looked more like knee-to-elbows. Set 5 and onwards was done at high speed and really got my heart rate up. Hardest part of today (although maybe that's cause I did most of it wrong) was the muscle pains in my legs from yesterday.
 

oncekitty

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Day 4:
Workout: Foundation Day 4
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Not much to say on this one. Legs are still aching from the last two days of workouts but today's was pretty relaxing. I think tendons means it's supposed to be some stretching so nothing too surprising there.
 

oncekitty

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Day 5:
Workout: Foundation Day 5
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Muscle pains from previous days are pretty much entirely gone. All those jacks once again did a number on my arms and worked up a bit of a sweat. The fact that I hadn't done the workout and the daily post today really pushed me to do it today even though I normally would have said it's too late and not done it so looks like that's going well at least.
 
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oncekitty said:
The fact that I hadn't done the workout and the daily post today really pushed me to do it today even though I normally would have said it's too late and not done it so looks like that's going well at least.
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I feel like that's so often a challenge. Great job defeating that monster!
 

oncekitty

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Day 6:
Workout: Foundation Day 6
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Doesn't feel like the 5 sets at level 3 today wasn't enough. Only 6 flutter kicks and sitting twists felt way too low especially compared to the crunches. Felt so much easier than all previous days.
 

oncekitty

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NightWolf714 said:
I feel like that's so often a challenge. Great job defeating that monster!
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Yeah, I feel like that's always been a problem for me. Trying to build a habit and it gets to the early hours of the morning and several days I do it but at some point it keeps getting later and later and then I say fuck it. That's when it all breaks down. We'll see how it goes from here but the fact that I hadn't posted and that it was such a strong motivator kinda surprises me. Especially since when I started these posts I was thinking that it was pretty much entirely for myself and it's not like anyone was holding me accountable. Glad to see it actually had an effect.
 

oncekitty

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Never expected to have this problem; I did the workout on Tuesday and forgot to post about it. I didn't do the workout yesterday so I did it today and will post as such.

Day 7:
Workout: Foundation Day 7
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Reverse lunges were surprisingly fine this time around. All those exercises that essentially include arm raises as part of them were hard though. From the very beginning I expected arm exercises to be the hardest so it's nothing unexpected.

Day 8:
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Day 9:
Workout: Foundation Day 8
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Hardest part of this was probably keeping my balance whilst doing the leg raises, at least when not doing it at the speed of a hedgehog. Honestly the leg raises had more of an effect on my back than it did my legs. Arm raises were like always, tiring but alright.
 

oncekitty

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Never expected to remember and be motivated enough to work out but forget to post... I will post today's after I work out but here's yesterday's.

Day 11:
Workout: Foundation Day 10
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: It was alright, not sure whether I'm supposed to keep my heel flat to the ground when doing squats, I decided to do it since that's what the picture shows but my ankle certainly wasn't happy with me.
 
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oncekitty said:
Thoughts: It was alright, not sure whether I'm supposed to keep my heel flat to the ground when doing squats, I decided to do it since that's what the picture shows but my ankle certainly wasn't happy with me.
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My understanding is that heels flat on the ground is the goal, but it's okay if you can't. I say that because I can't yet (hoping I gain more ankle flexibility with time).
 

oncekitty

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Day 17:
Workout: Foundation Day 15
Difficulty: Level 3 + 30s rests
Thoughts: Starting to feel like most of the workouts are "just fine." No longer feeling like some of these workouts are absolute hell whilst others are doing nothing. Arms still more difficult than legs but not too bad anymore. Starting to look forward to picking a more difficult workout once I finish this program.
 
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