12-Step gym: Simple workout circuits to help you get started at the gym.
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 prevent injuries. The program is made up of four circuits of six excersizes: Lats & arms, shoulders, core, and legs. Each circuit is made up of six exercises.
You can do one circuit per trip to the gym - it should take less than an hour. The full-body workout is made up of twelve total exercises. It should take you and a buddy just over an hour to complete it together alternating tine in the machines.
12-StepGym workouts utilize ‘counting approximate pounds’ as a method of measurement, progress and goal setting
12-StepGym can be used individually – but works great when ‘buddies’ get together regularly and work out together. Like other disciplines in recovery, our first thought can be wrong (it usually is), and it’s better have a buddy so we can help another person get to gym and keep improving our health.
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 here
