Fitness: Caroline Girvan’s Beginner Epic – Round 1

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*GASP* what’s this? Could it be? A non-Chloe workout?

Now before we all freak out, let it be known that I am still a massive Chloe fan. BUT after reviewing all of her programs, I just can’t see a suitable new one to do in these two short weeks before her new program launches.

I was debating between the 2021 WLC or the 2021 2WS (or any of the 2 Week Shreds) but honestly both looked a bit too long/intense for me. An average of 35-45min/day is just a taaad too much, and the older 2 Week Shreds sometimes go up to 60min in one day excluding warm up/cooldown and have 6 days’ of workout in the final week.

Not to mention I’ll never finish the 2021 WLC in time, and the website doesn’t exactly allow you to pause, do another challenge in between, then return to where you started. So I decided to try something different during these two weeks.

I’ve had my eye on Caroline’s Beginner EPIC series for a while and they never seemed to be a good fit for me. I wanted a longer program than 5 days, and they also seemed too difficult for me. But now that I’ve been back into fitness for a bit I figured I could give it a try. Plus, being only 5 days is perfect for what I’m looking for right now.

My schedule is 5 days on, 2 days off – working out daily during the week and resting at the weekends. I can do two rounds of this before the new challenge starts, and it should help to prepare me for the new weighted program. So, this post will be my first round attempt at Caroline Girvan’s Beginner EPIC. Let’s go!

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Fitness: Chloe Ting’s 2022 Weight Loss Challenge – Week 4

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This post will be updated for days 22 – 28 of this challenge.
Click here for week three’s updates of this challenge.

We are finally in Week 4! I started this challenge on 3rd January and, a month and a half later, I’m finally starting Day 22 haha. I really did take almost a full month’s break from working out, but now that I’m back into it, I’m feeling great.

As with last week, it’s still early days yet with my workout routine, but it’s working for me and that’s the important thing. It’s a routine, and I love that I (kind of) have one. Now if only this routine carried through to being productive the rest of the day heh heh.

I haven’t figured out what I’ll do after this challenge, but there are at least a few challenges I’m interested in trying out. I’m also considering doing a thing where I subscribe to a few fitness YouTubers, and on any given day I’ll just do whatever new workout is uploaded for the day.

That might really backfire on me though because I don’t really want to do intense full body workouts plus intense workouts targeting every body part on the same day sooo we will see. I haven’t really thought it through properly yet, can you tell?

Anyways, I’ll decide that next weekend! With that, let’s get into the final week.

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Fitness: Chloe Ting’s 2022 Weight Loss Challenge – Week 3

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This post will be updated for days 15 – 21 of this challenge.
Click here for week two’s updates of this challenge.

I’m very much going at my own pace for this challenge so my dates and days are not always going to align with the schedule. The current plan is to exercise every weekday and form a routine based off it. I’ve noticed increased motivation and improved productivity since I’ve started doing this this week (check out my week two’s updates for full details) so we’ll see how long I can continue with it.

Feel free to check this post for updates during the week! I was considering adding a new post per day because I had previously been updating so infrequently, but since I already have this format in place for the previous two weeks of the challenge I’ll just continue it for now.

It’s Friday but I’m starting Week 3 of the challenge. Let’s just say… it was not the best idea I’ve ever had in my life.

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Fitness: Chloe Ting’s 2022 Weight Loss Challenge – Week 2

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The start of this week’s workouts comes a little late. I was planning to start it on Weds, but life happened and I got hella busy. However, we’re here now! I’m still excited to continue this challenge. I’m thankful that it’s helping me get active again.

Also, having an active kitten is helping me get little bursts of exercise throughout the day as well. We originally thought we wouldn’t need to play with her much – almost all sources online say 2 sessions per day of 10-15mins each – but our kitten will go for an hour each time. I will probably play with her for about 30mins each time before I’m pooped or just don’t have time to continue.

She’s worth it though. We’re now harness training her, and she went outside the front door (albeit briefly) for the first time ever today! I’m looking forward to the day we’ll be able to walk her to help her burn off some energy so I don’t have to be running around the house.

Anyway, all that is to say, I’ve been doing a little bit of exercise every day because of her, and thanks to Chloe I’m getting some good workouts in as well. I wonder how long it’ll take me to finish up this challenge haha. Right now I’m progressing at half the speed, so I anticipate I’ll be done with it in Feb.

Already I have noticed some changes in my body despite my super poor diet so that’s quite exciting. I sort of wish I took a before photo, but since we already established that that’s not what doing this challenge is about for me, I don’t wish to perpetuate the goal of doing it for looks.

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Fitness: Chloe Ting’s 2022 Weight Loss Challenge – Week 1

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It’s a new year! New Chloe Ting website, new challenge, I’m excited. I have been meaning to blog a lot over the past few months, but unfortunately work and life got incredibly busy. I’ve also started streaming lately, which has been taking hours of my free time.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas with Jacky’s relatives. Our house is finally feeling like a home with the majority of furniture items purchased. We hosted dinner for 10 for the first time, as well as hosting multiple groups of friends overnight. It’s been a blessed time of friends and good food.

And little to no exercise. Lol.

Needless to say, working out again has been very much necessary, and this new logged in experience feels like exactly what I needed to get myself back on track. My screenshot above is from a guest user’s experience, but once you log in, you’ll be able to see your daily workout and mark it as complete in your own account, after which you are greeted with the cutest Chloe cheering animation:

I dunno, I kinda love it. There are a lot more features to come but I’m just glad to be getting back on track. There’s supposed to be a Fitness Journal feature launching soon, but even after it launches I still kind of like the idea of writing about my progress here, so let’s see how I get on. If it gets too much, then I’ll stop blogging and just log there.

It’s honestly been so long. Let’s see if I still remember how to do this haha.

Kuri