12-Step gym: Simple workout circuits to help you get started.

12-StepGym is a series of simple workout circuits to help you get started restoring physical health and capabilities.

12-StepGym workouts are built primarily around weight and exercise machines to facilitate discipline, develop good technique and help prevent injuries. The basic program is made up of four circuits of six exercises: Lats & arms, shoulders, core, and legs. Each basic circuit is made up of six exercises.

You can do one circuit per trip to the gym - it should take less than an hour. There is also a 12-exercise full-body workout. You and a buddy should be able to get it done in just over an hour.

Check in with your doctor and make sure your okay to lift!

12-StepGym workouts utilize ‘counting approximate pounds’ as a method of measurement, progress and goal setting

You can do 12-StepGym circuits by yourself, but working out can be more fun and better when you get with a workout buddy and regularly and hit the gym together. Working out with another person in recovery helps with accountability;

12-StepGym gives recovering people a consistent, measurable program. Tracking progress and goal setting is important in helping ourselves get better. 12-StepGym utilizes ‘counting approximate pounds’ - hopefully without getting manic about it! Read the blog post about that here.

Again, we are pretty hard on our bodies before recovery, so make sure you have your physicians okay to lift weights - then get started.