Thursday, 29 Jun 2006
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BUDGET
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- Spend no more than $40/week averaged over a 12 week period for food, supplements, equipment, and gym fees associated with completing a 12-week Body-For-Life challenge. ($480 total)
- Cost of weekly cheat meal does not count against the $480 I have to spend on my challenge.
- The ingredient/material cost of any meals provided to me free by my company during weekends or late night work sessions will be estimated and counted in my budget.
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NUTRITION
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- Cycle calories between 1200-1600 calories per day as needed to produce desired results
- Total daily macros between 50/30/20 and 40/40/20 carb/pro/fat (Not per meal)
- Six meals per day with carbs reduced in meals 5 and 6
- Daily multivitamin and calcium 600 + D plus EAS and Instone supps
- 16 cups of water minimum per day (1 cup with morning workout, 2 cups with each snack meal, 3 cups with each main meal)
- Each week’s menu will be planned out and cooked ahead of time.
- One optional cheat meal per week may be taken for the duration of the challenge. - No foods from the banned list may be consumed at any time, including cheat meals.
- Banned Foods: Baked pastries/desserts (brownies, cakes, pies, cookies, etc.), trail mix, nuts and dried fruit not in recipe, cheese and other dairy, ice cream, anything deep-fried (chips included), candy.
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TRAINING
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- Get to gym by 7:00 AM on weekdays, 9 AM on weekends
Resistance training schedule:
* Weeks 1 & 3: FGX (M, W, F)
* Weeks 2 & 4: Full Body Blitz (M, W, F)
* Weeks 5-8: Body By O (Sa, Su, T, W)
* Weeks 9-12: SGX (Sa, Su, T, W)
* Weeks 13-16: BFL (M, W, F)
Cardio training schedule:
* Weeks 1-4: 30 minutes (M, W, F), 45 minutes (T, Th, Sa)
* Weeks 5-8: 30 minutes (Sa, T, W), 45 minutes (M, Th, F)
* Weeks 9-12: 45 minutes (Sa, T, W), 60 minutes (M, Th, F)
* Weeks 13-16: 30 minutes (M, W, F), 60 minutes (T, Th, Sa)
* No cardio on Sundays
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MISCELLANEOUS
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- Bedtime is 11:30 PM during the work week.
- If a workout is missed due to work or social commitments, it must be made up within 7 days.
- Workouts missed due to injury or dire, disabilitating illness do not have to be made up. 
- Weight, exercise, and meals will be tracked in Diet and Exercise Assistant daily
August 4th, 2006 at 2:26 am
Thanks for putting everything I’ve been thinking about doing for the past few weeks in an organized fashion right before my eyes. Good work so far. Been living off of $103 a month for the past two months though, and last month had $5 dollars left over.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:57 am
Hi Maggie,
I came across your website and checked out your photos. You’ve accomplished amazing results! Congratulation!
I was reading your current program and you are doing 6days/week of cardio. Isn’t that too much cardio? Many tips I’ve, they said to do 30min/day 3 day/week. Body For Life also recomended that too.
I am 30years old, 5′2 and my goal is to loose body fat and seeing lean mucsles, I would like to look like you!
I’ve been using beach body products for two years now. I’ve completed slim series and p90X. I just started p90X, 2nd round, doing Double version. If you have anymore tips, please let me know. Oh, I eat 5 meals/day and whey protein.
Thanks
Lilian
January 31st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I’ll be doing a very modified version of the Cheapass Challenge for February and posting updates on my blog. Thanks for showing it can be done.