![]() There is no way, I thought, I’m going to let anyone see that picture. My six-month illness had left me bloated and unhealthy. I stared at my day one picture and cried. At the start, it’s the worst thing you can imagine. Instead, you take weekly pictures of yourself – you have to show your belly. There is no weighing on the Six Pack Revolution. I showed them to a cab driver and he then tweeted to tell me he had signed up.’ Photograph: Courtesy of Emma Kennedy ‘I show my day one and day 75 pictures to everyone. You can easily do everything in your own home: I conducted the programme in my sitting room. Turns out the only thing you need to tone up is you. Most of the exercises are done with the battle rope: there’s a lot of squatting and using your own body for weight training. The challenges are circuit-based high-intensity interval training (Hiit) and each lasts about 20 minutes. In addition, you’re given physical challenges every Wednesday and Saturday, which you have to do only once but you can choose to do as many times as you like. Exercises you struggle with on a Monday will feel easy by Sunday, and each week brings new exercises. The great and motivating aspect of the programme is how you can see and feel immediate improvement. For me, getting my dailies done before breakfast worked best. ![]() ![]() These daily exercises aren’t remotely time-consuming – at the beginning you can have them done in 10 minutes (towards the end, allow 20). This pattern repeats for 11 weeks until, in your final seven days, you’re doing 110. At the beginning of week two you can’t do 20 push-ups by the end of the week you can. On day one, you can’t do 10 push-ups by the end of the week you can. You will need a battle rope – buy one from Six Pack for £89.99 (or find them cheaper elsewhere – try .uk). I chose the Signature programme (£139), but it has harder courses for people who have a good level of fitness. These are called dailies and you have to do them six days a week. ![]() In week two, that goes up to 20, and so on. First, you know there’s a finish line to cross second, the exercise was going to step up in manageable gradients: in week one you’re asked to do 10 push-ups, 10 glute exercises and a range of ab exercises. Fans include Rylan Clark and Sara Cox.įor me, starting at a point of absolute zero, it was perfect. You’re assigned a group on Facebook, then helped by coaches who will support you when you wobble. It was established by Scott Harrison, a former double-glazing businessman who one day decided to do something about his softening “Dad Bod”. The Six Pack Revolution is a 75-day food and exercise programme that gradually increases your fitness. Sometimes, things land in your lap right when you need them and, without thinking further, I signed up for the January wave. They were transformation pictures from an exercise programme called the Six Pack Revolution. “Look at this,” she said, holding her phone up. Last Christmas came and went, and I found myself in a barn in Cornwall with my wife: she was scrolling through her phone, I was staring at the wind blowing through a field of grass. It was going to need to be full-on, she told me, and I was going to have to commit to it properly. My physio told me to start an exercise programme. I had learned to control my air hunger – the sensation of breathlessness experienced by asthmatics – and now, perhaps, with some encouragement, I might be able to put myself on a path back to wellness. But at the end of 2021 I allowed myself to believe that, maybe, there was light at the end of the tunnel. I was overweight, listless and broken, all vibrancy gone. My day-to-day existence ground to dust, I found myself interested in nothing. It was to affect me for six months and leave me with asthma so severe, I had to learn how to breathe again with a pulmonary physio. I have always been an active person, interested in life, people, news, but after reacting badly to my second Covid vaccine, I developed ophthalmic nerve shingles.
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