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 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, 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