walking + core complete

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hiya! this morning i walked the dog for 65 mins - 320 cals

it was cold (-10 cel.) but sunny and not windy. so it was a

nice walk.

this evening i did denise austin 'core complete' which consists

of 5 segments using the stability ball. the warmup is 5 mins,

core+upper body is 15 mins, core+legs is 15 mins, core+buns is 15

mins, finally a medley of clips from the previous workouts is put

together for 18 mins.

i liked the workout, it had a good variety of exercises and

difficulty of moves. denise demonstrated three variations for

some of them. there was some repetition though between the

segments... i think that crunches are in each one, for example.

and i couldnt bear to finish the last segment that repeated a

bunch of stuff.

the workout was not hard -- i rate it intermediate if you do the

whole thing for a 70 min workout. and while i enjoyed the

variety, denise didnt do many reps of anything. her cueing was

bad and while ive done quite a few ball workouts, i found that,

for a few things, i was just figuring out/getting into the

exercise and the set would be almost done. also i would miss

reps getting positioned at times because denise moves along

quickly... you need to sit on the ball, then move to laying for a

different exercise, then back up to standing for something else.

grrrr. so there were times when the workout didnt flow quite

well. also, i was surprised that denise did not include a

stretch segment... she is usually pretty good at that. she did

do some quick stretches throughout the workout, but not enough

for me.

as for denise... well, i find her easier to take in her sculpting

workouts than her cardio. she was still kind of annoying but i

didnt feel like strangling her at the end. however, my dvd

player had the subtitles turned on and i couldnt get it turned

off, so i was stuck with double the denise! eek! my player did

that on another denise dvd too...hmmm.

so this workout was 58 mins for me and 238 cals i surpassed

my goal of a daily 500

cal burn

:*carolyn.