I kicked off week one of the F45 8-Week Challenge with a mixture of apprehension and smugness. Apprehension, because starting new things is always a bit scary, and smugness, because I'd meal prepped an entire week's worth of breakfast and lunch meals before the challenge had even begun. Which brings me to my first tip: the easiest way to survive week one of the F45 Challenge — in my opinion — is to get organised on the Sunday before the challenge kicks off by meal prepping. For me (a vegetarian), my meals were a huge frittata filled with loads of vegetables that gave me a week's worth of lunches and little pots of overnight oats to take for breakfast. I also kept a bag of almonds in my desk drawer at work, which were great — if not boring — for 3 p.m. snack time.
As for the workouts, I focussed on resistance sessions for the first week, as recommended by the trainers at F45 Brixton, which meant my muscles were sore for much of the week but in a good, it-feels-like-I-actually-exercised way, rather than an oh-god-what-muscle-have-I-pulled way. By the end of the week, I'd clocked up four workouts, which was a huge win for me — I did two resistance classes and two combination cardio and weights classes.
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