Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Enjoy your lunch tomorrow!! Awesome you get to meet a fellow exerciser! I'm jealous!! Great job on the workouts as welll.... LOL.. about looking like a dork. I'm sure you looked fine/good! Darcy At 10:22 PM 1/11/2006, you wrote: >hiya! > >today was kickboxing day so this morning i thought i would give meaghan >white another try... she is the instructor on bodywisdom media's >'challenging workouts' dvd. there are two cardio kickboxing routines on >this disc... the menu said that each was 20 mins long. so, i thought i >would do both and there is another menu item that automatically programs >both of the workouts for you, with one warmup and one cooldown for a total >of 40 mins. well, what a surprise when i finished the workout and it ended >up being only 30 mins long! argh! i really hate it when the literature for >the dvd (or heck, the dvd itself) says that a workout is 'x' mins long and >it turns out to be shorter. that is the 2nd time that has happened to me in >2 days! > >anyway, i liked the workout ok... it wasnt as hard as i thought it was going >to be, but that was OK. i didnt have alot of time this morning so the >short workout suited me ok, i guess. the only issues that i had with it >was, first, meaghans screechy voice... i had to turn the volume on the tv >waaaay down since her voice was so high and squeeky and loud. she sure >does look purty though (apparently she used to be a model) and while she did >a good job leading the workout, she just could not cue left and right >properly. this peeved me because i had to change her left into my right >(and her right into my left) and i figured that if i could do it, then as an >instructor she should have been able to do that too. i burned around 200 >cals in this short workout so it was fine... kickboxing always burns a ton >of cals! > >i felt like working out a bit more this evening so i thought that i would >make it 'hokey workout' night and put in a moldy oldie with brenda >dygraff -- a dance workout done to 70's disco music. this one probably >would have been fun but i just cannot seem to do dancey workout videos! im >more of the athletic type i guess. i thought that brenda was cute and kind >of amusing and the music was fun but it wasnt long before i turned this one >off. someone else might like it alot! it just wasnt for me. so i then >put in 'country line dancing aerobics' for a laugh and i didnt last 5 mins!! >LOL. yet another dancey workout that does not suit me at all. i felt >like a complete dork while trying to do both of these workouts! im so glad >that noone was around to see me...LOL > >well, finally, trusty michelle dozois came to my rescue with her '10 minute >solution carb burner' (thanks donna!). i did the first two 10 min >segments -- a steady state floor aerobics routine followed by a kickboxing >segment. these were good and fun little workouts for me, and while not >overly challenging, i managed to knock off another 100 cals in this short >time, so it was all good. i started to do the third segment of the workout >but it contained some leaping and jumps and such and i just didnt have the >energy to do those... so i fast forwarded to the next segment which was a >bootcamp routine and again i thought that i wasnt in the right mind for >that. the last segment was weight training and i didnt want to lift >weights today, or else i would have been fine with doing that segment. that >was ok though, because after the false starts and trying to decide what to >do, i had used up my entire hour. oh well. i was wishing that she had >included a sixth segment containing stretches or yoga on this disc, but she >didnt... so oh well and ::shrug:: again. > >im feeling stiff and a bit sore tonight.... the right side of my neck is all >pinched again! ugh! i swear that i must sleep in some weirdo position >because each morning it feels a bit worse. now it seems to be affecting the >trapezius on my right side and my right shoulder. im having a bit of >trouble with the arm movements in some of my cardio workouts because of >this... i felt the soreness quite a bit while doing the boxing punches >today and repeatedly lifting my arms over my head during other aerobic moves >is a bit painful. so, even though tomorrow is supposed to be a full body >strength workout, i doubt that i will be doing that due to this injury. >will probably end up doing some cardio that doesnt require arms, like leslie >sansone's 4 mile walk, or something similar. maybe petra kolber and george >foreman... i dunno. will have to see how i feel tomorrow night. > >tomorrow im meeting our fellow '' friend, lisa, for lunch! >(yes, i promise to have a salad at McD's (280 cals) instead of my usual >turkey blt sandwich (510 cals) or hamburger happy meal (470 cals) ...LOL) >im so looking forward to meeting you lisa! it is so cool that we live so >close together and have met each other on this list!!! lisa has >expressed an interest in taebo so im going to give her two of billy's older >basic videos (live basic and total basic 4) so she can see if she likes it >or not. > >:*carolyn. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 > LOL.. about looking like a > dork. I'm sure you looked fine/good! one wall of my workout room is mirrored so i know for sure that i looked like a dork!!! LOL :*carolyn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 okay...okay...ya big dork! Darcy At 11:10 PM 1/11/2006, you wrote: > > LOL.. about looking like a > > dork. I'm sure you looked fine/good! > >one wall of my workout room is mirrored so i know for sure that i looked >like a dork!!! LOL >:*carolyn. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 > okay...okay...ya big dork! ROFL! :*c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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