Friday workout

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Umm... I bought. Can't wait to try!Darcy

I apologize .. I found the name of it... I'm not even sure if I have this one - must buy if I don't!DarcyOn Dec 14, 2007 4:38 PM, <

fitgrl222@...> wrote:

30's!? You go girl! Must have been for rows?? working your back??

yep, I pushed it, but got out 16 reps with them.

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Ouch! 8 lbs on reverse flys? Dang, the max I can do are 5's, and then I always have to go down to 3'sYou are truly Cathe's acolite!

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great workout, as always michelle.

i am sorry to hear that samantha is not feeling well

i hope that are able to get some quality ZZZZ's this weekend.

:*carolyn.

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329 calories in 30 minutes! That's spectacular! Is the choreography easy to follow?

with the abs it was 45 minutes. The chore is easy for a Cathe workout, if that makes sense. The CTX series is a must have.

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329 calories in 30 minutes! That's spectacular! Is the choreography easy to follow? Yanno I think I have this set in VHS! All virgins, of course..

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michelle,

i love reading your about workouts!! all of the ranges of weights you

have is so cool. i would love to try this workout someday--i think i

may have it somewhere in my collection:)

stacey

>

> Hi,

> This morning I did Super Sets Upper Body Blast. I was reluctant

to even do

> this one because I've never had good luck with any of the upper

body workouts

> in this one or Push Pull. I've just never gotten anything out of

either

> workout. I'm following Bernadette so I wanted to stick with what

she had down. I

> was very happy I did this one. I got a really nice burn and my

entire upper

> body is nice and toasty.

>

> The biceps killed me though for some reason. I kept burning really

bad in

> the forearms.

>

> I didn't use the ball for any of the exercises. I like using my

bench for

> most upper body weight work.

>

> Anyway, here is the run down. Hopefully I won't forget anything.

>

> Each section is repeated a second time. I used pretty much the

same weight

> for both rounds except for on the preacher curls which I did just

the standing

> bar bell curls, but I dropped to 25's for the second round. This is

where my

> forearms were on fire.

>

> Back...barbell deadlifts- 45 lb

> Chest..........barbell bench press- 45 lb

> Shoulders....dumbbell front/side raise- 5 lb

>

> Back...........dumbbell pullovers- 30 lb

> Chest..........dumbbell incline fly- 20 lb

> Shoulders....dumbbell rotator cuff side raises- 7 lb

>

> Shoulders...dumbbell seated overhead press- 15 lb/ 12 lb

> Biceps........barbell curls- 30 lb/ 25 lb

> Triceps.......dumbbell extensions- 12 lb

>

> Shoulders...dumbbell rear and front delt raises- 5 lb

> Biceps........dumbbell concentration curls- 12 lb

> Triceps.......seesaw tricep push ups (no weights)

>

> I'm real happy with this workout, glad I done it. I didn't like

having to

> push " next " on the remote every segment though. The part where it

says " pause

> here if necessary " would come up and it wouldn't go to the next

section on its

> own, I'd have to get the remote and do it myself. It gave me a

chance to

> stretch in-between, but it was a bit annoying.

>

> This rotation is really different for me. This is the first time I

think

> I've ever just did 2 cardios a week and then doing the upper and

lower body

> twice. I'm really getting out of my comfort zone and I'm finding

myself wanting to

> step on the scales more because of that fear of gaining due to the

less

> cardio lol BUT... I think I'm doing something good for my body by

changing it up

> so much like this.

>

> OK, so I'm done until Sunday.

> Have a great weekend.

>

>

>

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Maybe you can set a time frame in which you'll keep up with this schedule and then step on the scale at the end of that time to see where you're at?

Good point !! I usually weigh myself once a week.

Thanks for the positive talk!

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love reading your about workouts!! all of the ranges of weights you have is so cool. i would love to try this workout someday--i think i may have it somewhere in my collection:)

Thanks Stacey!! Super Sets is a great workout for beginner all the way to advanced. You can go as heavy or as light as you need to with this one without feeling intimidated.

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Re: Friday workout

In a message dated 2/15/2008 3:53:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, nancydewolfsbcglobal (DOT) net writes:

Maybe you can set a time frame in which you'll keep up with this schedule and then step on the scale at the end of that time to see where you're at?

Good point !! I usually weigh myself once a week.

Thanks for the positive talk!

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Okay, now I'm feeling guilty. I haven't been able to yet... wait, honesty time, I did have 2 hours at home this afternoon between "shifts" working in each kid's classroom but I ate lunch then watched videos instead of doing any then I was watching another one after I got home and had about an hour before the kids were due home so I could have done one but chose not to. Now I am feeling tired and wanting to blow it off entirely. Gotta make dinner then try to do it. Basement is so cold though. Whine... but if Darcy was able to do a workout then I should be able to also!!

(trying to sound enthusiastic)

Re: Friday workout

Sounds awesome ! So you did one premix and then another? I don't know how to program my dvd player.. wait... it's not programable anyway..LOL..I am thrilled to report I have my workout done for the day too. I did High Step Circuit. I did enjoy it, however didn't feel I worked my arms enough so I threw in one of Tamilees 15 minute ones. Younger boys stayed sleeping JUST long enough for me to get it in. After I pick Sawyer up from school I am taking all 3 of them to get their hair cut. Kaysar is 6 months old and a hippy baby. His hair is so long. I'v been fighting a hair cut for too long, I suppose.... Anyway, my SIL works at a shop nearby. We've always went to her house for haircuts, but today we're going to the shop First time my boys have ever been in a salon Looking forward to going, AND to the outcomes. They all need them desperately!Darcy

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:18 AM, <fitgrl222aol> wrote:

Hi,

This morning Bernadette's rotation called for Gym Styles upper body timesavers (both workouts, timesaver premixes of each) – doing sets of 8 on each exercise (instead of sets of 12) going as HEAVY as possible. I admit to doing a few with 12 reps instead of the 8. I tried to use as heavy of weight as I could, but I don't think I ended up going too much more than I would if I would be doing the workout as is.

I started with GS chest & triceps since I find that one the hardest. I did the warm up, workout, and then skipped the cool down and went straight to GS back, shoulder, biceps (skipping the warm up, but doing the cool down)

Here's the breakdown (hopefully I'll get it all right)

CHEST

Push ups - 16/12/8/4/ ( I think that's how it went)

Dumbbell Bench Press #1 Dumbbell Bench Press #2- 25's

Dumbbell Chest Flys #1 Dumbbell Chest Flys #2 - 20's

Dumbbell Incline Chest Press #1 - 25's

Dumbbell Incline Flys #1 - 20's

Barbell Close Grip Press #1 (transition exercise to triceps) 40's

TRICEPS

Dips

Dumbbell Lying Extensions #1 - 10's

Dumbbell Seated Extensions #1 - 25's

Dumbbell Cross Body Extensions #1 - 12's

Band Bonus Burn..

..Cross Body Extensions Dumbbell Kickbacks #1

Band Bonus Burn....Kickbacks

BACKDumbbell Row Reverse Grip #1- 25'sDumbbell Row Reverse Grip #2- 25'sDumbbell One Arm Row #1- 30'sBand T-Back SqueezeBarbell Pullovers #1- 40'sMODIFIED BACK EXTENSIONS (lower back) I skipped the low back section. SHOULDERSDumbbell Overhead Press #1- 15 'sDumbbell Overhead Press #2- 15'sDumbbell Lateral Raise #1- 10'sBand Lateral RaiseBand Front RaiseDumbbell Rear Fly #1- 10'sBand Rear Delt RaiseBICEPSBarbell Curls #1- 35'sDumbbell Concentration Curls #1- 15'sDumbbell Curl Up Wrist Turn Lower Down- 10'sDumbbell Hammer Curls- 10'sDumbbell Wrist Curls #1- 10's

This was a nice overall upper body workout. After an hour I felt pretty fried.

Have a great weekend!

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Love the "bonus" work thought ! Thanks for your sharing your thinking on the bands too!

RE: Friday workout

I don’t like the band work in the gym style workouts, either, but it’s because my muscles are fried by the time Cathe reaches for the band!

J I do skip it often, unless I’ve gone too low on weight by mistake and do need the ‘bonus’ work (bonus used to be a good word for me…)

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Interesting to hear, thanks !

In a message dated 8/15/2008 4:55:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, nancydewolfsbcglobal (DOT) net writes:

What do you not like about band work?

I don't feel like I get a full range of motion. I like using weights better. Just me.

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Impressive, as always !!!!Darcy

Hi,

This morning was legs. I did S & H legs and L & G calves ( 2 sets) and floor work.

for S & H I did higher reps instead of the slow count. With this workout you can make it any rep count you want. I love the 1 minute rest breaks.

S & H LEGS Pre-Exhaust DB 10 Squat BB 35/35/35 25 repsPre-Ex.-R. Lunge DB 10 Static Lunge BB 30/30 25 reps

Side Lunge DB (replaced this with calve raises- 7 pulses up and 2 down)Plie DB 30/30/30 25 repsCalf DB 20/20 25 reps

L & G calves & floor work

My legs feel nice and worked.

Off to get ready for school.

Have a great weekend.

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This looks like a toughie…kind of glad I don’t have to tackle it for another week…!

Yeah, I don't plan on doing this one again for a while. In fact, I'm bailing out on the Jari rotation. I know its only been a week, but I knew after the workout this morning that I couldn't do any more of her workouts. I did a week rotation using her workouts last month and told myself I was done then. Her workouts are great, don't get me wrong.

I think I'm going to do a couple weeks of heavy upper body.

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Good

job, . This looks like a toughie…kind of glad I don’t

have to tackle it for another week…!

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Happy Friday everyone!!

This morning I did Ripped To The Core. This one really got

me good. I was sweatin' like crazy. I should've wore my HRM because

I'm sure I burned 300+ calories with this one.

Not sure if others have this same one, but the copy of this

workout that I have there isn't a warm up, it just goes right into the first

leg exercise. I use that as my warm up so I don't use any weights.

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fitgrl222@... wrote:

> This morning I did Ripped To The Core. This one really got me good. I

> was sweatin' like crazy. I should've wore my HRM because I'm sure I

> burned 300+ calories with this one.

awesome weights michelle!!! oh yeah, it is RTTC which starts

right out with squats & lunges. im supposed to bike as a warmup

before doing that workout, then start right out with dumbells

when i do that one.

:*carolyn.

..

>

> Not sure if others have this same one, but the copy of this workout that

> I have there isn't a warm up, it just goes right into the first leg

> exercise. I use that as my warm up so I don't use any weights.

>

> Here's the way it went:

>

> All the weight is for two dumb bells combined.

>

>

> reverse lunge/side squat- no weight (warm up)

>

> spider & pushup 30, spider, 10, spider, 10 (I incorporated my push up

> challenge here and for the first round I just did as many as I could and

> then alternated the spiders with a set of push ups. ) I'm happy to say

> that I got in 50 on my toes.

>

> chest press w/ hip raise 24

>

> bent leg dead lift/w bicep curl- 24

>

> wide squat w/upright row-20

>

> stiff leg deadlift/w lat row- 24

>

> squat w/lat raise- 10

>

> narrow squat/w ant raise- 10

>

> step ups w/ overhead press- 6 (these kill my arms for some reason)

>

> tricep pushups/ tricep kickbacks-5

>

> abs (skipped)

>

> I was totally wiped out by the end. I'm not used to those compound

> movements so my body is going " hey this is hard " lol

>

> I'm resting until Sunday

>

> Have a great weekend.

>

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fitgrl222@... wrote:

>In fact, I'm

> bailing out on the Jari rotation. I know its only been a week, but I

> knew after the workout this morning that I couldn't do any more of her

> workouts.

sorry to hear that michelle! we will have to push on without

ya (and, it looks like, without donna as well), but i understand.

thanks for hanging out with the rippers this week! so... ok

fellow rippers, lets rock these workouts and show them how its

done!

:*carolyn.

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LOL, best of luck to you 'rippers'! I could not handle that much of Jari. I may do one here and there this month though. I'll be thinking of you guys!Darcy

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Festival City Concrete/ & Carolyn Visser wrote:

fitgrl222@... wrote:

>In fact, I'm

> bailing out on the Jari rotation. I know its only been a week, but I

> knew after the workout this morning that I couldn't do any more of her

> workouts.

sorry to hear that michelle! we will have to push on without

ya (and, it looks like, without donna as well), but i understand.

thanks for hanging out with the rippers this week! so... ok

fellow rippers, lets rock these workouts and show them how its

done! :)

:*carolyn.

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Darcy Ledman wrote:

> LOL, best of luck to you 'rippers'!

heehee! that is what jari calls her background exercisers

:*carolyn.

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Sounds like it was a great workout for you ! I'm looking forward to doing this one, I remember enjoying it the one time I did it before. I love the idea of your body saying "hey this is hard"! If your body was saying that mine will be screaming "What are you doing to me???!!!" :-)

Friday workout

Happy Friday everyone!!

This morning I did Ripped To The Core. This one really got me good. I was sweatin' like crazy. I should've wore my HRM because I'm sure I burned 300+ calories with this one.

Not sure if others have this same one, but the copy of this workout that I have there isn't a warm up, it just goes right into the first leg exercise. I use that as my warm up so I don't use any weights.

Here's the way it went:

All the weight is for two dumb bells combined.

reverse lunge/side squat- no weight (warm up)

spider & pushup 30, spider, 10, spider, 10 (I incorporated my push up challenge here and for the first round I just did as many as I could and then alternated the spiders with a set of push ups. ) I'm happy to say that I got in 50 on my toes.

chest press w/ hip raise 24

bent leg dead lift/w bicep curl- 24

wide squat w/upright row-20

stiff leg deadlift/w lat row- 24

squat w/lat raise- 10

narrow squat/w ant raise- 10

step ups w/ overhead press- 6 (these kill my arms for some reason)

tricep pushups/ tricep kickbacks-5

abs (skipped)

I was totally wiped out by the end. I'm not used to those compound movements so my body is going "hey this is hard" lol

I'm resting until Sunday

Have a great weekend.

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Awwww! I'm going to miss reading your comments and weights on the workouts but have fun doing what works best for you!

Re: Friday workout

In a message dated 9/5/2008 11:58:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, stuparyksympatico (DOT) ca writes:

This looks like a toughie…kind of glad I don’t have to tackle it for another week…!

Yeah, I don't plan on doing this one again for a while. In fact, I'm bailing out on the Jari rotation. I know its only been a week, but I knew after the workout this morning that I couldn't do any more of her workouts. I did a week rotation using her workouts last month and told myself I was done then. Her workouts are great, don't get me wrong.

I think I'm going to do a couple weeks of heavy upper body.

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best of luck to you 'rippers'! I could not handle that much of Jari.

Same here Darcy. I hate to only do it a week, but I knew I was done after RTTC.

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I did Jari's Get Ripped & Chiseled yesterday, but I skipped the leg

tracks because I've been nursing a sore knee. My knee was good enough

today that I could do some kickboxing on a bag without any trouble, so

hopefully after a restful weekend I'll be able to go full strength

with Jari again.

> > >In fact, I'm

> > > bailing out on the Jari rotation. I know its only been a week, but I

> > > knew after the workout this morning that I couldn't do any more

of her

> > > workouts.

> >

> > sorry to hear that michelle! we will have to push on without

> > ya (and, it looks like, without donna as well), but i understand.

> > thanks for hanging out with the rippers this week! so... ok

> > fellow rippers, lets rock these workouts and show them how its

> > done! :)

> > :*carolyn.

> >

> >

>

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Good job, . No way I could spend this much time on

my tris. S & L fried them again today.

We have rain forecast too. Blah. At least it’s

not a hurricane!

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Subject: Friday workout

Happy Friday!

This morning I did my final body part which was

triceps. I had only did the one workout this week with just a little bit

of leg work so I wanted to add on another leg day. I knew I wouldn't feel like

doing a bunch of lunges and squats after frying out my triceps so I went with

floor work from B & G.

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Weights, finally. Been fighting off a

cold, and just low on energy, but I wanted to get in one good workout this

week. I chose my easy-day default – Cathe’s Total Body

Sculpting. Even did the lower body, because there’s not much to

it. Although, I felt it because SOMEONE sent me a stairs challenge,

and my legs are rubbery today, thankyouverymuch! J Actually, I

do want to thank you, . I knew that the stairs were a wakeup call,

but it was unlikely that I would have done anything about it without some kind

of plan and external motivation. I’m not doing stairs today, but I

do promise to use the second floor bathroom all day. Back to serious stairs

tomorrow.

I’ll be taking my girl around for

candy tonight, so I’m not going to hit the tmill this afternoon. I

know trick or treating isn’t aerobic, but it’s still movement, and

for a good length of time, and it’s just so darn much fun. Boo!

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Great! I need to plan my workouts for next week so I will slot this in, I'm intrigued about the preacher curls and the rest of it now! Thanks!

RE: Friday workout

, I’m not sure about the cardio and weights premix...I seem to remember it being a mix of the two workouts, but don’t quote me!

Oh, another different thing about this workout are the preacher curls (using the ball to rest your upper arms). Don’t see that often in a home workout (at least I don’t). They wipe me out – must be some reason I find them so much harder than regular bicep curls.

From: exercisevideos [mailto:exercisevideos ] On Behalf Of nancydewolf

Thanks for your comments on this ! I saw the 3 lb. weights and wasn't sure if they'd be too light. It did look like a really interesting workout. I think I'll try to fit it in this week, the length will be great probably. With the Cardio and Weights Premix, does it go through all of LIS and then TBS or is it really a mixture of the two? I didn't have the time to watch it all the way through and all I saw was LIS. I'll look forward to the pushups on the ball too! ;-)

Thanks again!