My family was laughing at my very affected gate. I was SO VERY SORE for the next two days! Like as sore as I can ever remember being.
So I took a rest day, as much as my type-A overachiever personality hated to do that! Lower Fix was one of the workouts which I had "previewed" during the week prior to officially beginning Fix Extreme. I was just not up for pushing through my workout AND being on-point for a big cardio day on Friday and Dirty 30 on Saturday. I did have my Shakeology an extra time and that helped. I munched 2 veggie servings rather than my usual four. Proteins and fruits just did not appeal to me. No junk food, of course! But I had plain Ezekiel toast a few times and an extra serving of raw almonds. My nutrition was really not my usual on Wednesday PM into Thursday. I had debated on trying my Lower Fix workout later in the day on Thursday but decided to really listen to my body and skip it. Guess what? I was soooooo bummed that my household was feeling under the weather mid-week this past week. You do need to have a base level of fitness before starting this program! :) Throughout each workout, you are using multiple muscle groups for pretty much every move. It was pretty neat to do a live workout with her while in Pittsburgh for a January Team Beachbody event! Autumn has said that Fix Extreme is about 3x the intensity of the original.
Autumn Calabrese is the trainer who created these programs. The original 21 Day Fix was released in Februay 2014 and certainly made a gigantic impression on the home fitness world! I did that program personally for 4.5 months last winter/spring. I spent that week in between "trying out" a few of the Fix Extreme workouts while also adding in a couple of other things. I completed Insanity Max 30 just two weeks ago.
#21 DAY FIX EXTREME RESISTANCE BAND PLUS#
There is also a bonus 30 minute high intensity routine plus 10 minute Hardcore Abs which can be added in at any time along the way. This is a program where you have 7 different daily workouts that are each 30 minutes in length. Hello! Here we are at the end of my first week of the 21 Day Fix Extreme! Let me just say that I can FEEL my body changing.