I took on the T25 Workout Focus challenge. Here I share my experience with you and am open and honest about how it went for me.
I am always looking for new exercises to do at home. By chance, I stumbled across the T25 Workout. You can take the word "stumbled" literally. That's what really happened to me during the workout. :D You can read about it below. :)
Quite frankly, T25 is not for beginners. You need to have some basic fitness for this workout. And you'll suffer there too. Correctly even. But it pays off.
Table of contents
What do I need for the T25 Workout?
First of all, the DVD. Otherwise, you also need a TV/laptop, a training mat, training shoes, sportswear and water. Much water. Oh, and a little space in the living room. But really only a little - the whole training plays on few square meters off. For this, I gave a big plus point right at the beginning.
For this program you need no training equipment - no dumbbells, no weights - just nothing. You work with a body weight. And that is more than enough :D
What is special about T25?
5 times a week for 25 minutes. But in these 25 minutes you give everything you have. You will neat to Sweating I can promise you that. There are no breaks. Not at any time.
For me, it takes a long time until I start to sweat, but there I also got quite hot.
During the whole training you work only with your own body weight. Every day you have a different focus. While Shaun T sometimes goes for strength training, the next time it's all about endurance.
How does the T25 Workout work?
You start immediately and with Full throttle into the program. Shaun T. has no mercy. While he explains and demonstrates the exercises in English, around him are 6 other fit men and women participating in the workout. Every few seconds changes the exercise. You can recognize this by a small timer at the bottom left of the image. Here you can also see the name of the next exercise.
In between, it gets really creepy. Shaun T gets really close to the camera and talks to you - at least that's how it seems. He says things like "Don't give up" or "Do the best you can" or very often - really often "Push, push". So a full load of motivation. And a little fear of his gaze spurs on additionally :D
25 minutes without a break. Continuous
Half of the workout are Squats. Squats to the right, to the left, with legs open, with legs closed - all kinds of variations. If we have not recently had our Blogpost on the many different squats exercises published, I wouldn't even know how many of them there are.
Sometimes there are also exercises that I have never seen before. That is rather rare, but these exercises are then particularly difficult and strenuous.
In between, you really have to be a gifted Zumba dancer. Feet, hands, right, left, front, back - I absolutely can't do that. That's also where the stumbling happened to me. But fortunately no one has seen anyway :D
2 minutes after the start, the pulse is already very elevated, the first drops of sweat form and the legs hurt from all the knee bends.
Little Tip: If you need a rest then orient yourself to the Asian. She always stands to the right of Shaun T and does the program in a slimmed down form - so T25 Workout for beginners :)
After the 25 minutes there are still a few Cool down exercises. At the beginning, however, I didn't manage it at all. I was already so knocked out from the workout that I was happy to do without the cool down. And I just concentrated on normal breathing.
But that was only the case in the first week. In the second workout week I also did the cool down :)
My conclusion about T25
I was huffing, sweating, and at the end of my rope every time. The T25 Workout is not for beginners or sissies.
But it's amazing how fast you can progress with such a program. While my thighs were full of sore muscles after the first 3 times, the 2nd week went much easier.
Finding motivation every day during the first week was anything but easy. After the workout, you're knocked out. Really knocked out. At the beginning I did the T25 Workout in the evening. But since I come home very irregularly, I moved it to the morning.
The best part of the workout is the cool shower afterwards. If you do it from start to finish, you can be sure you'll be all sweaty. But after the cool down, you feel like you've been reborn. So I can start the day top motivated.
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