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| Thu, 09-04-2003 - 4:36pm |
* Curves is strength training and your muscles are basically getting "torn" while you are at Curves. It takes an average of 48 hours for your muscles to repair themselves and this is when the new muscles are built. That is expressly why Curves suggests 3 times a week with every other day off. Obviously this is not always possible, so going 2 days in a row occasionally is acceptable, 3 days is discouraged at most clubs. You just don't give your muscles time enough to get ready to go again and you probably won't see the kind of results that women working out M-W-F are seeing if you go Mon thru Sat. As for working out longer, most members don't see a lot more benefit from going longer. It's recommended that you get 20 minutes of sustained heart rate in the target fat-burning zone and that's what the "30 minute workout" is designed around at Curves. 4 minutes of warmup on the machines, 20 minutes of target range heart rate and 4 minutes of cooldown on the machine followed by 3-6 minutes of stretching to rid the muscles of the lactic acid that builds up while you are working out and causes soreness if it stays there. so 24 machines total, no matter how many different machines are in the circuit. you CAN go longer, but if you are doing the workout right, going ALL OUT on the machines and just sustaining your heart rate on the recovery stations (read: not jogging at a super fast rate to GET your heart rate up) you shouldn't feel the need to do more. It's recommended that you get some other sort of cardio exercise on the days off from Curves tho, like walking or swimming or biking...

Stop exhausting yourself - it's not going to benefit your muscle building any, and it might even kill your enthusiasm for the whole effort. I've never worked the same muscles two days in a row since I've started; I may do UB one day and LB the next, or UB and LB in the same day, but I just don't do the same routine 2 consecutive days.
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BTW, I don't use machine weights like you'd find at gyms, or resistance equipment which Curves uses. I use free weights - I'm still using relatively light ones and am increasing only gradually. Too much increase is demotivating for me.
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