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Consistent is Great

I may not be as consistent with my blogging, but I have been with my workouts. Despite an ill husband, special needs daughter, and a workload

of any college student in a science major, I have been sticking to the plan! Even the days I don't feel like it or running short on time, I have gotten the workout in! Here is my week starting with the first day back at school on Monday.

Monday- Austin Hot Body Yoga-weights

section. The water pipes froze that morning so I went with yoga before sponge bathing in the front bathroom sink that still had hot water flow.

Later that evening, before I finally got a shower, I did Cathe's Turbo Barre.

's workout was pretty good, typical yoga. You are not going to find a lot of flow or sun salutations, but the poses are held for a good enough time to get the benefits. With the weights, it just adds on to the poses. Cathe's barre workout was intense to the lower body, but the upper body segment was great. This blends the idea of pulsing reps of barre with some traditional movements of squats and lunges. I highly recommend this workout!!!

Tuesday-Power Pilates segments in the morning because Tuesday/Thursdays are my early classes. Later in the day I did the first week sculpt from the Firm Express Series. GREAT set, but I do not see myself using it as is, at least right now.

Wednesday-rest

Thursday-Firm Express Week One Cardio to get cardio out of the way for the day. The evening workout was Balash's Kettlebell Bombshell.

There is a lot of rest periods in this workout so I would suggest HEAVY

bells! I only did the total body circuit, but there are two other workout for lower and upper body. I like her style and will try this workout again, but I need to figure out a good way to limit the rests when I use lighter bells.

Friday-Bob Harper's Beginner Transformation Workout-OMGosh,

this workout is feeling like anything BUT beginner. He takes advanced moves like burpees and mountain climbers and slows the tempo down, but it's still intense. The weight work is non stop so it's hard to keep it heavy. I did drop sets with this, just slowly decreasing the weight every time I couldn't finish with the weight I had. I did both the full 46 minute circuit and the 15 minute abs add-on. Both were great, but not

overly innovative withe moves, but I love the combinations he put together. It at least gave some body parts a chance to rest while working the other. I worked the foam roller that night to help with some tightness.

Saturday-Rest day although I hit the foam roller again. I went to the hospital to see how my husband's treatments for this week were going and

it's a 3 hour drive round trip. Lots of sitting so I also threw in some

stretches just to loosen up.

Sunday-Barre day so I went with a fusion type workout with Core Fusion Body Sculpt.

Barre and Pilates moves fused for a unique workout. The abs were always

hard on my back so I used a pillow under my low back as my modification

and just worked the best I can from there. I did great on the legs though, my endurance there is coming along!

Tomorrow starts my 2nd week of classes. My Biology lecture and lab courses have quizzes every time we meet so I have to keep up on the material. History is the same, just picking up where we left off last semester. Lots of reading means lots of sitting so I have to set up something where I get up every 30 minute and do something active for 5 minutes whether it be foam rolling, stretching, or abs/leg mat work. KASSIAwife,mother,student,kettlebellehttp://ldysolana.blogspot.com