- As you can see from the sweat on my face,
doing it an a onesie was a terrible idea.
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- For 12 weeks, we are gonna be doing Gracefit's--
- Shreddy. - Shreddy.
Gracefit is an Instragram-- - Business woman.
- She released a fitness plan.
We thought, why don't we try it out?
- It's the start of the year. - Yeah.
- We're feeling that Christmas--
- I'm feeling heavy. - Yeah, extra heavy.
- So we got three months, 12 weeks.
We're doing it from the house. - Yeah.
- So I kinda wanna get myself more motivated
to do things at home
and not necessarily have to go to a gym.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- And I'm doing it in the gym,
but it's just changing up my routine a little bit,
so it's shocking my body
and getting my body used to a new way of working out,
so we shall see.
- What changes do you hope for?
- Well, I'm gonna be in Carnival this year
and when I say in Carnival,
I'm gonna be wearing my Carnival outfit,
which means it's gonna be--
- Body! - Yeah.
(laughing)
So I have some goals.
(laughing)
- Body!
There is a community, realtime workouts and food.
- Grace is vegan, so she's given us vegan meal plans to do.
One of my resolutions for the year
was to cut down my meat consumption anyway,
so this is something that can help me, I guess,
kind of, navigate that and give me some ideas of food
and different meals and snacks to do,
so I guess I'll use it as a basis, but not a bible.
- So we're gonna vlog, for 12 weeks, our whole experience
and show you some workouts, maybe show you some food
and just, basically, go through if it's making us
feel any better. - Yeah.
Look forward to some sweaty vlogs.
- Very sweaty.
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- Welcome to the first day to the rest of my life,
or until March.
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I did all the sets and I thought I was finished,
but now it's talking about another (beep) set
of something else, man.
What the (beep) is a crab walk?
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- I actually, for once, put my Apple watch on
and I think it's 156 calories that I just burnt,
which is quite good and it's almost pushed me
over my daily, kind of, limit.
What was also quite good
was that I actually used the heaviest band that I have,
the extra heavy band and unsurprisingly, it was extra heavy.
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- We've just finished a session at Gymbox.
It was upper body.
How did you find it?
- It was good.
Do you know what?
It's a really good program,
but if you belong to a really busy gym, like we do,
central London, Monday after work, everyone's here,
it's not really conducive to a quick, super setty
sort of workout, so you have to play the game a little bit
and just take your losses where you can.
- Yeah and make it work for you,
so we did the best we could and yeah, quite happy.
- All good!
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- It's week four.
I don't even know if I'm changing, to be honest.
I am tired, but tonight I am gonna
do the full body workout and make one of the meals.
I've got some wholewheat pitta, some coconut cream,
a butternut squash thing that I've never cooked before,
an onion and some garlic.
I don't even know hot to get into this,
so we'll all learn together.
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(groaning)
(upbeat music)
(sizzling)
Oh, wait!
It's one of those things, like,
you know when they're a dead ting on the outside,
but they've got all this personality, 'cause look how,
oh my God, look how orange that is!
Put that in with all the rest.
Oops, I've dropped some on the floor!
I've dropped some on the floor!
(blender whirring)
You know what?
It doesn't look too bad.
I put a random parsley leaf on, 'cause, you know,
I thought it'd look fancy.
(upbeat music)
It's actually great.
(upbeat music)
- I'm about to do my second workout of week five.
Today I'm doing legs and bum,
which is, probably, my least favorite workout
of the three types that we have, so yeah.
I'm trying to workout, but someone has just joined me.
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- I haven't been gym all week, but, to be honest,
there must be something in the rule books that states
if you pack up a flat, house, wherever you're living,
it's equivalent to a workout,
because every muscle in my body
is aching right now.
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- It's the morning and I'm gonna get into this workout.
I look so rough, oh my God.
I think I've been a little bit, just too focused on,
maybe, the weight loss, but I am starting to realize that
I am feeling a lot better, generally.
I guess I'm halfway there.
If I lose some weight, I lose some weight,
but I'm honestly not that bothered anymore,
I'm just trying to do me.
(laughing)
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(music slowing)
(beep)
(tense music)
- Today is day one of the self-isolating
that we have to do now, at Buzzfeed,
for the Covid-19 virus, but the good thing about this
is that the Gracefit workout that we do at home
is the perfect kind of thing to break up your day.
Having a workout like this is the perfect way to kinda get
some time in for yourself, dispel a bit of anxiety
and also get some exercise in, so I'll get cracking.
(serene music)
Today's workout was really hard.
There was a lot of new moves on there,
like the spider push up, which I completely failed at,
but it'll do me good in the end, so back to work from now.
It's given my a nice little break and yeah, that was good.
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- Okay, so it's official,
I have finally switched from gym workout to home workout
and what I found quite difficult is that the exercise starts
without giving you any example, whereas with the gym one,
you can press play, see how it's done
and then you repeat it by yourself.
This one, the clock starts going down
as soon as the instructor starts the exercise,
but as it's a circuit, by the second round
you're good to go.
(electronic music)
(gentle music)
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- It's now essential to walk everyday,
'cause you know what's super hard?
I think I'm finding the Gracefit Shreddy workouts harder
than usual because you just go from doing
absolutely nothing all day to into a workout
and your joints and your muscles are just dead,
so now I have to do my one hour, or whatever,
one exercise sanctioned by Boris
and then go into the workout
'cause your legs are just hella stiff.
I've decided to do the whole full dress outfit
because yeah, I just need to make myself feel a bit better
right now, being locked in this house.
♪ Oompa loompa dippity doo ♪
What's her name?
That blueberry chick (laughing).
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- I'm even wearing my tennis shorts
and I've got all my bands and everything.
I'm just kind of bored at home.
I think it's the second or third full weekend,
at least in self quarantine, quarantine, isolation
and the first weekend fully in lockdown,
so we've been very much scaled back
with what we've been doing,
all just very house based activities,
which is perfect for the Shreddy app workouts, as well.
Yeah, I guess it's good that I've got this video,
at least, to motivate me to keep going.
So this is a dumbbell snatch, alternating dumbbell snatch
and it is my favorite exercise of some of the videos
'cause, I dunno, it's just quite fun.
(Lord of the Rings Main Theme)
- It was actually my birthday yesterday,
so I'm feeling a bit down because, yeah,
I spent my birthday in isolation, which is great.
I'm just deciding not to change out of my onesie
for this one, so I guess maybe I'll sweat a bit more
and I don't know, lose more weight?
We'll see.
(Lord of the Rings Main Theme)
Jesus.
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- Okay, so, I don't know what week it is.
None of us know what week it is right now,
but we have reached the end of our Gracefit journey
and do I feel fitter?
I do.
- It was a really positive experience.
It was, obviously, because of the whole lockdown situation,
from the start to the end, the, kind of,
journey of what we were doing, at least in my mind, changed.
It started me getting used to working out at home
so that the transition during the lockdown was super smooth
and wasn't anything different than what we'd been
doing before, for the last nine or so weeks.
- I learnt that I can do more than I thought I could,
which is good.
I did learn that I get sick of my apartment very quickly,
so I think I learnt a few things.
- What was really good about this was the fact that
it gave you routine, number one, but number two,
most importantly, was form.
I mean, a lot of the time, you're going to the gym
and you see people doing stuff
that's gonna break their body, you know?
It's gonna break their body.
What's really good about the app is that
you can see someone do it before and you're like,
"Okay, cool, that's how I should position my body,"
and if you're unsure while doing exercise,
you can stop and play it again.
- But yeah, I've just, kind of, learnt to love
that kind of exercise again and I think that's more valuable
than anything else that could've happened, I guess.
- I said I was going into this to, kind of,
improve my mental health,
you know, just get into exercise more,
so if that was my aim, then yes,
I do think I achieved what I expected.
I don't even think I lost any weight, to be honest,
which is nothing to say about the app or the workout,
I just didn't put 100% into it.
I'm not gonna give loads of excuses,
but Corona Virus just, yeah.
- I mean, everyone thinks they're gonna look like Beyonce
when they finish working out.
I don't look like Beyonce, I mean, it's no surprises there,
but I saw some changes.
Like, I'm now seeing lines in my stomach
where I didn't even know they had any definition
behind all that stuff there, so I see some changes there.
My clothes are fitting differently
and I do see the rewards of all of my hard work,
so yes, I do see some changes, but yeah,
I'm not Beyonce ready just yet.
I may continue on this journey.
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