Thursday and Friday

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I never got in a workout in on Thursday. It was

supposed to be yoga, but I had work to do for my job

so I used my exercise time in the morning for that. I

had planned on yoga for the evening, but I had a

screaming headache (weird b/c i never get headaches,

but yesterday my eyes and head were killing me all day

- I think it may have been the glare from our snow

dusting the day before and the incredibly dry air from

the cold. I'm so sick of winter!!)

Maybe I can get myself up and out of bed early

tomorrow to do yoga. that would be a good thing!

Today I did Women's Health Perfect Body workout. I'll

definately need to do it again to get a better feel

for it though b/c it was one of those mornings with

one interruption after another. One would think

getting up at 4 a.m. would eliminate interruptions -

but DD got up at 5:15 and DH was milling around as

well (he gets up at 5 lately and leaves by 6:15ish for

work) I also had pet-related interruptions. Geez, if

I thought I had the discipline I'd workout at 9pm (but

I know I'd only not get it done, as evidenced by

yesterday!) Anyway, I did make it through the cardio

part of this workout with relatively few interruptions

(only a pet related one during the warm-up).

The cardio is athletic in style, in fact the first

half is based on moves from skating, tennis and

swimming (well, as best as you can in an aerobics

format). The second half of the workout is kickboxing

inspired. I didn't find the cario to be particularly

challenging, but it wasn't bad, especially if you like

athletic cardio. This section actually reminded me of

an old Reebok workout (Power Blast w/ Gaylord

which is all athletic/sports inspired cardio -- I

think it is out of print now but I may see if I still

have a vHS copy of it and pull it out one of these

days).

The second half of the workout is strength training.

At first I was disappointed to see only one set of 5lb

handweights being used for all the exercises, but as

the workout went on I began to see why light weights

were being used. Most of the workout is " functional "

with rotation, balance challenges, compound moves,

etc. so in many cases, (for me anyway) the 5's were

pretty appropriate. For some exercises I did bump it

up to 8's or 10's and then just did a quick change to

the 5's when the various " twists " were added to the

moves. I was heavily interrupted during this section,

so I will definately want to do it again to get a

better feel for it.

The third part of the workout is core - pretty good

stuff - all done on the floor.

And, the bonus is an athletic stretch using a towel as

a prop. Pretty good stuff there, although it could

have been longer (I alway say that)

Anyway, I think this is good workout for a " functional

fitness " day. I'm still not sure what to do next

week. Maybe more theme weeks

Oh, I forgot to add that Amy Dixon leads this workout

and I really like her - she reminds me a little bit of

Gin - she makes jokes, but is not quite as

goofy as Gin can be sometimes.

Take care!

Donna

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