Hi,
So I was in snapchat and opens the explorer of Cosmopolitan. Then I noticed an article that was talking about a personal trainer who created a bikini body guide for girls with complex about their body.
I thought it was interesting and looked PDF BBG on the internet. Found and start doing it.
Hence, people want at-home workouts, preferably ones that can be done with little-to-no equipment. Enter: Kayla Itsines' new BBG Zero Equipment programming. Kayla is already a royal in the realm. She's the queen of the famous BBG workout programs, and has over 7 million followers on Instagram. With that, over 10 million woman are using her programs. Now that I've finished the first round of BBG, I wanted to give my honest opinion. Mar 20, 2017 - Bikini Body Training Guide by; the full 12 week program on one page. #bbg #workout # - Let's Bikini Burn. BBG is a workout program that ranges in length, from eight weeks to 92 weeks. All the BBG workouts are 28-minutes-long and accessible via the SWEAT app (available for iOS or Android). Although you can also check out some exclusive sweat sessions from Itsines on Shape, like this post-pregnancy Kayla Itsines workout.
Its 12 weeks of difference workouts (arms, legs, and abs).
It has to be combined with and healthy eating, but sometimes you can eat what you want.
I’m already at the beginning of the second week, and I’m loving this guide, but sometimes I skip some workouts because I don’t have time, but its things like walk 35- 40 min, nothing too worrying.
It’s hard at first, but when you see the results of the other girls, you just want to push to the maximum, and never give up.
So I’m challenging you to begin this guide to be more healthy, fit and ready for next summer, and not hide at home or wrap the towel.
I’m posting progress in the blog Instagram (make sure you go and take a look).
I want you to comment if you have made it, if you’re thinking of doing or if you have any questions about it.
I will leave here the link of the BBG, the site of Kayla Itsines and some results.
BBG PDF- http://www.noholita.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/KI-Bikini-Body-Training-Guide.pdf
Kayla Itsines site- http://www.kaylaitsines.com/
XOXO
Daisy
A lot of people have asked me about the Kayla Itsines Bikini Body Guide. I didn’t want to review a product I hadn’t tried so after I had a bunch of friends this summer ask me my opinion, I decided to give it a go.
A year ago, someone sent me a copy of the PDF and that was what I used for my BBG review. What appealed to me was the simple format and short time commitment. The workouts are about 35 minutes with a warm up.
*As a disclaimer, I didn’t look at the nutrition or BBG community at all. I also didn’t follow the workout calendar strictly. I basically did 1 to 3 workouts a week starting in July. The program suggests starting with 2 workouts and eventually adding in a third Kayla workout each week plus 2 days of steady state cardio and 1 day of HIIT. Itsines recommends walking for the steady state and a HIIT workout made up of 15 30-second sprints with 30-seconds of rest in between. I did do the “HIIT workout” sometimes in the middle of a 3 mile run.
So for a review of the workouts…
I liked the use of time.
With Tommy, I don’t have a ton of time to workout. I would often be plenty sore after just 28 minutes of hard work.
Most* moves felt effective.
There is nothing worse than a silly move you can’t figure out or one that is just too easy. Some were overwhelmingly harder than others and I didn’t agree with all of them (see below). Four sets of 50 jump lunges in 24 minutes felt like torture by the last couple of weeks. Where as the 40 bicycle crunches felt more than doable.
Despite thinking it was quad heaving, my glutes were surprisingly sore!
At first glance, I thought the legs would be hitting my quads more than my glutes. I prefer a good glute workout because I am already a quad dominate runner so when my booty was sore, I was pleasantly surprised.
I liked the format.
The 4 move 7 minute AMRAP was a fun and simple. It was over before you were bored. For more details on the workouts, watch the video above.
The HIIT style nature made me a faster runner.
Despite not running much for a month, these workouts helped my get back my pre-Tommy speed thanks to the many jumps.
The abs were not my favorite.
There were way too many sit ups. I just stopped doing them. I didn’t want to at first since I was still modifying abs for a postpartum body when I started. But I wanted to actually review the program by doing it so I did what she suggested and they were ineffective, took too much time and left me with a mediocre workout that had my back throbbing. I did enjoy some of the other movements and grew to like the harder ones once my core strength came back. I did see definition that I hadn’t since pre Tommy but this wasn’t without back pain… See the video above for examples.
Heavy on chest and very little back exercises.
Pre trainer days, I rarely paid attention to back exercises but as a personal trainer, you quickly learn how important it is to train muscles that work together. If you only train your chest and neglect stretching it, AND sit at a desk all day, you are setting yourself up for serious back pain. Think about it… If you chest is tight from all the training and your back is weak, you’ll develop rounded forward shoulders and bad posture which will lead to lower back pain. With a large baby, I already have that so these workouts were not the best for me.
Overall, I did like the workouts with the proper modifications. I saw results not only in my muscle definition but also while running. I was faster from doing just 2 HIIT workouts a week.
Free Bbg Workout Pdf
For my complete review, check out my YouTube video above.