Week 48: Exploring a New Program with NTC!

A few weeks ago, I downloaded this app onto my phone and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make it work. Apparently, connecting to Facebook didn’t work so I just signed up for new account and voila, the Nike Training Club app worked.

Earlier this week, I started setting up my Nike+ account and decided to choose which program to use and I chose “Get Toned”. It has been what I’ve been working on for the past while so after consulting with my boyfriend, he agreed it was what I should be doing also. After choosing that one, the app set me up with 4 workouts scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday for 4 weeks!

I figured instead of having to figure out what to do spontaneously, which is what I do and it sometimes kills my motivation, I decided to give it a shot. I jotted down in my notebook each of the workouts since I’m not all fancy and able to do lovely pics (which I should learn to do). I just hope you can read my writing.

First workout up is Tuesday’s 30 minute workout called Kickin’ It!

NTC 30 mins Kickin’ It

Sorry for the mistake there. That 1 min Squat Jumps is supposed to be there. And the scribble in the bottom is “IT Band Stretch with Resistance Band”. Now for the actual workout, Kickin’ It was pretty good. it was a great to really feel my heart rate. Whats awesome about each of this and the following ones (except yoga maybe) is that there are always warm-up and end with some form of stretching. It works the full body so it feels great! 🙂

Wednesday is when I started to get how this program worked a bit more and I realized that this app is pretty cool because you can get a short demo video of how to do the move which is always helpful especially for dynamic yoga and I’m a mega beginner.

NTC Leah Kim’s 15 mins Dynamic Yoga

The world of dynamic yoga is pretty crazy. The ending of this was intense especially with the different forms of side planks. I was pretty much screaming at the app to relieve some pain. It was intense. Still, hating it just means it was targeting my weaknesses and with time, it’ll get better. The one that was really challenging is crow pose. That one will take a lot of practice.

Thursday brought on the 45 minutes workout and this was a mega sweat session called Stinger.

NTC 45 mins Stinger

The sweat session was really in the length and the repeat of the sequence for 3 times. Plus, a lot of it was also that it was a lot of new moves that I’ve never done before so my body had to adapt to that. By the third round, my body was tired but more fluent with the moves.

I was so happy to take Friday off and then last night, I did Saturday’s workout Flex Machine (my boyfriend laughed the name).

NTC 30 mins Flex Machine

THE most intense workout of this week had to be this one. It had to do a lot with the middle part with lunges, lateral hops and froggers. I hate froggers with a passion because I have zero endurance with this. On top of that, with all the energy zapped out of me, I had to do toe touches when I barely could keep my legs upright, much less push through to do toe touches.

I have to say it felt great to get back to some intense workout weeks. I love doing the 4 times a week workout schedules. I do intend to keep up with this for their full program so it should carry on pretty much till Week 51 and then for the last week for this weekly workout sessions, I’ll figure out something to somewhat celebrate the one year mark 🙂

I don’t like to advertise or anything on my site but I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with Nike Training App, especially since its free and it pretty much has a instructor that calls out the time and tells you when to change your workout and it takes into account the getting equipment and getting into place before moving onto the next exercise. Its pretty well thought out and I’ve learned a lot of new moves for warm-up, stretches and the actual exercises. Lets see if it’ll actually tone my body just a little while I adjust back to eating well again.

strive for progress