3 Mile Weight Loss Walk - Sansone

[Guest guest]

So today I did this video, with the intention to try doing at least 2

miles of the workout on the rebounder. The rebounder part went well,

but overall I'm pretty disappointed with today's workout.

This is a newer , from 2007 I think. It's from her Walk At

Home series, and is about 48 minutes. Because it's newer, I was

hoping for some boosted walking parts, or some of the variety in the

moves she shows in the Walk Slim series. But that wasn't the case.

Apparently I haven't done this one before, as I didn't recognize the

overall group with her, or the set. It did feature 3 people who have

lost 70-100 lbs each, so that's always nice to see. It's a typical

, with the warm up and basic four moves. She uses weights

during miles 1 & 3, which I used as well. Mile 2 is a power walk led

my Kay, which I didn't particularly like. The power walk part

was fine, but I didn't like the instructor change. I don't dislike

Kay, but I was in the mood for peppy , and while Kay

is fine as an instructor, she's not . Plus, you can imagine

that wasn't going to be able to stay quiet for long, so toward

the end of MK's mile she starts goofing around. I would have rather

just had lead, I think. But, maybe on a day I wanted less

, I would have liked the break from her, lol.

So, I started on the rebounder, and easily did the first two miles on

it, using weights when did. I was happy with my rebounder

progress, but I had SUCH a hard time getting my HR up! I probably

could have stayed on the rebounder for the entire workout, but I

hopped off for mile 3 to see if I would have better luck getting my

HR up on the ground. No dice. At the beginning of the workout it

took nearly 12 minutes to get my HR over 130 bpm, and I struggled to

keep it above that the whole time. It was getting frustrating, but

while I was on the rebounder I tried to focus on rebounder form and

getting a feel for the bouncing. I did well with that, and really

felt like I was getting my " rebounder feet " so that was something.

I'll have to try some of my Urban Rebounder workouts again soon.

I know that since I was having a hard time getting my HR up that it's

an indication of my fitness level improving, but I'm bummed that I

got such a poor workout from this video. I wasn't expecting a super

awesome/hard workout because it IS , but sheesh!

I like , and don't want to have to only use her for a light

workout here and there. I'm going to have to try using some weighted

gloves for an entire workout and see how it goes. I think I have a

couple " advanced " s to try, and it looks like I'm ready. I

believe they have a lot of boosted walking and jogging, so hopefully

those will be more challenging. I guess after doing those Treadmoves

workouts and even those Tony Little intervals on the elliptical, now

it's going to take more than some marching and side steps to get my

HR up there. *sigh*

I followed this with days 3 & 4 from FIRMs 5 day abs. I said

yesterday that I liked simple abs moves, but boy – this workout gets

boring! It seemed like days 3 & 4 were pretty much the same as 1 &

2. I'll do day 5 on Thurs or Fri, but will be interested to see if

More 5 day abs gives more variety when I do my next FIRM classic

rotation. Next week starts my rotation of some of the FIRM Body

Sculpting Systems.

So tomorrow is FIRM Strength and I'm hoping for a good challenge. I

need it after today, lol. My DOMs in my upper body isn't nearly as

bad I thought it would be from Monday, so I should be at 100%

tomorrow and be able to give my all for FIRM Strength.

Sara

[Guest guest]

So what is 130bpm, 70-80% of max? You must be in pretty good cardio

shape for it to take so long to get up to 130.

If you haven't, you should try cardiocoach. I've only used vol 1 so

far but doing the intervals gets me up to 90% which is probably a bit

too high, but I need to work developing cardio/aerobic strength, I

just don't like doing it.

>

> So today I did this video, with the intention to try doing at least

2

> miles of the workout on the rebounder. The rebounder part went

well,

> but overall I'm pretty disappointed with today's workout.

>

> This is a newer , from 2007 I think. It's from her Walk At

> Home series, and is about 48 minutes. Because it's newer, I was

> hoping for some boosted walking parts, or some of the variety in

the

> moves she shows in the Walk Slim series. But that wasn't the

case.

> Apparently I haven't done this one before, as I didn't recognize

the

> overall group with her, or the set. It did feature 3 people who

have

> lost 70-100 lbs each, so that's always nice to see. It's a typical

> , with the warm up and basic four moves. She uses weights

> during miles 1 & 3, which I used as well. Mile 2 is a power walk

led

> my Kay, which I didn't particularly like. The power walk part

> was fine, but I didn't like the instructor change. I don't dislike

> Kay, but I was in the mood for peppy , and while

Kay

> is fine as an instructor, she's not . Plus, you can imagine

> that wasn't going to be able to stay quiet for long, so

toward

> the end of MK's mile she starts goofing around. I would have

rather

> just had lead, I think. But, maybe on a day I wanted less

> , I would have liked the break from her, lol.

>

> So, I started on the rebounder, and easily did the first two miles

on

> it, using weights when did. I was happy with my rebounder

> progress, but I had SUCH a hard time getting my HR up! I probably

> could have stayed on the rebounder for the entire workout, but I

> hopped off for mile 3 to see if I would have better luck getting my

> HR up on the ground. No dice. At the beginning of the workout it

> took nearly 12 minutes to get my HR over 130 bpm, and I struggled

to

> keep it above that the whole time. It was getting frustrating, but

> while I was on the rebounder I tried to focus on rebounder form and

> getting a feel for the bouncing. I did well with that, and really

> felt like I was getting my " rebounder feet " so that was something.

> I'll have to try some of my Urban Rebounder workouts again soon.

>

> I know that since I was having a hard time getting my HR up that

it's

> an indication of my fitness level improving, but I'm bummed that I

> got such a poor workout from this video. I wasn't expecting a

super

> awesome/hard workout because it IS , but sheesh!

>

> I like , and don't want to have to only use her for a light

> workout here and there. I'm going to have to try using some

weighted

> gloves for an entire workout and see how it goes. I think I have a

> couple " advanced " s to try, and it looks like I'm ready. I

> believe they have a lot of boosted walking and jogging, so

hopefully

> those will be more challenging. I guess after doing those

Treadmoves

> workouts and even those Tony Little intervals on the elliptical,

now

> it's going to take more than some marching and side steps to get my

> HR up there. *sigh*

>

> I followed this with days 3 & 4 from FIRMs 5 day abs. I said

> yesterday that I liked simple abs moves, but boy – this workout

gets

> boring! It seemed like days 3 & 4 were pretty much the same as 1 &

> 2. I'll do day 5 on Thurs or Fri, but will be interested to see if

> More 5 day abs gives more variety when I do my next FIRM classic

> rotation. Next week starts my rotation of some of the FIRM Body

> Sculpting Systems.

>

> So tomorrow is FIRM Strength and I'm hoping for a good challenge.

I

> need it after today, lol. My DOMs in my upper body isn't nearly as

> bad I thought it would be from Monday, so I should be at 100%

> tomorrow and be able to give my all for FIRM Strength.

>

> Sara

>

[Guest guest]

Sara wrote:

>overall I'm pretty disappointed with today's workout.

bummer! im sorry to hear that you had a lousy workout today.

BUT, you did more than i did !! so dont feel badly.

i know what a workout the elliptical is... and yes the treadmill

workouts sounded vigorous as well... so yes it sounds like your

cardio capacity is right up there! good going!

:*carolyn.

[Guest guest]

Well, the chart on my tmill says that 60% - 85% of max HR for a 30 year

old (I'm 31) is 114-162 bpm. The chart on my wall says that 70% - 85%

is 133 bpm - 161 bpm. And the (changeable) default for the " cardio

workout " setting on my elliptical adjusts to keep my HR at 151 bpm when

I input my age.

Trouble was that I didn't get much higher than about 130 bpm, and even

then it wasn't for the majority of the workout. And even when I got

to/just over 130 bpm it didn't feel like I was working very hard.

Also, I haven't used a stand alone HR monitor in the past - just used

the HR strap on my tmill and elliptical. I would go by my perceived

rate of exertion for other cardio. So there could be a lot of factors,

I guess.

I have one of the cardio coach workouts, but I've only used it outside

on my bike. I have some really fun videos for the tmill that really

get my HR up, so maybe I need to do them more often.

Thanks!

Sara

> >

[Guest guest]

Thanks Carolyn! I was glad I got to put my star sticker on my

calendar today, but I DID fold over one of the arms of the star -

since it wasn't as much as a workout as I had expected, heh. But, I

have high hopes for Thursday's workout.

Besides, now I have a good reason to spend way too much time shopping

for some weighted gloves/more comfortable wrist/ankle weights, LOL.

Sara

> >overall I'm pretty disappointed with today's workout.

>

> bummer! im sorry to hear that you had a lousy workout today.

> BUT, you did more than i did !! so dont feel badly.

> i know what a workout the elliptical is... and yes the treadmill

> workouts sounded vigorous as well... so yes it sounds like your

> cardio capacity is right up there! good going!

> :*carolyn.

>