I kicked off week one of the F45 8-Week Challenge with a mixture of apprehension and smugness. Apprehension because starting new things is always a bit scary, and smugness because I'd meal prepped an entire week's worth of breakfast and lunch meals before the challenge had even begun. Which brings me to my first tip: the easiest way to survive week one of the F45 Challenge (in my opinion) is to get organized on the Sunday before the challenge kicks off by meal prepping. For me (a vegetarian), my meals were a huge frittata filled with loads of vegetables that gave me a week's worth of lunches and little pots of overnight oats to take for breakfast. I also kept a bag of almonds in my desk drawer at work, which were great, if not boring, for 3 p.m. snack time.
As for the workouts, I focused on resistance sessions for the first week, as recommended by the trainers at F45 Brixton, which meant my muscles were sore for much of the week but in a good, it-feels-like-I-actually-exercised way, rather than an oh-god-what-muscle-have-I-pulled way. By the end of the week, I'd clocked up four workouts, which was a huge win for me; I did two resistance classes and two combination cardio and weights classes.
