Workout Monday 6/19

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Okay I have a hard time remembering everything to post a weeks workouts at a time, so I'm going to post them daily. Here is what I did today:

Warm-up

Turbo Jam--Learn (10 minutes)

Weights--Biceps (25 minutes)

Cable Curls--Set 1, 10 reps, 20 pounds; Set 2, 8 reps, 25 pounds; Set 3, 6 reps, 30 pounds

Standing Twisting Bicep Curls--Set 1, 10 reps, 8 pound dumbbells; Set 2, 8 reps, 10 pound dumbbells; Set 3, 6 reps, 15 pound dumbbells

Spider Curls--Set 1, 10 reps, 5 pound dumbbells; Set 2, 8 reps, 8 pound dumbbells; Set 3, 6 reps, 10 pound dumbbells

Concentration Curls--Set 1, 6 reps, 15 pound dumbbells; Set 2, 8 reps, 10 pound dumbbells; Set 3, 10 reps, 8 pound dumbbells

Hercules Curls--1 set, 25 reps, 5 pound dumbbells

Hammer 21's--1 set, 21 reps, 10 pound dumbbells

Cardio

Turbo Jam--Burn (15 minutes)

Pilates

Pilates for Anybody (15 minutes)--Upper Body Focus minus the hover/plank work, and Cool Down

I decided to do the Turbo Jam Learn and Burn segments because I hadn't had a chance to even open my Turbo Jam set with the move and all my classes and thought they would be the easiest on my stomach since I'm suppose to keep it light. Glad I did because the way Chalene teaches the moves, they are a little different then what I've done previously in my kickboxing certifications and Kenpo training. Not bad, just definitely made the movements her own. As an instructor from a different format, it is a bit more difficult to learn because I want to do them with my standard counts and combos and with some of the movements being backwards from what I'm use to, that is hard to get into the rhythm of the workout. Having to modify to take out the ab work (tucks) was difficult too because of not being familiar with her particular movements and wanting to do it right the first time. I will definitely stick with the Burn workout for a while until I get use to the movements.

Pilates for Anybody is a bargain bin find from Wal-Mart. It is lead by Theresa Bergren has an artsy feel to it. She does the movements with a voice over for the cueing. Normally that is annoying, but in these relaxing workouts, I don't mind it too much. The set is basically a white room and her, so there are no distractions. I just did the upper body portion because my focus in my workout tonight was biceps so I wanted to stick with upper body. Her focus on upper body was more back and shoulders, so I will keep that in mind on my shoulder and back days from now on. There were several moves I fast forwarded through because I'm not suppose to do anything that requires core (and my pain meds were wearing off) so I couldn't do the hovers, planks and the flows through them. That is probably why I only felt the back and shoulders. I then went with the cool down segment, which is basically a corpse pose with her talking you through relaxation. All in all a really nice relaxing way to end my workout. I look forward to doing the other segments of this dvd.