PowerFit Harmony 5 Cardio - Move It

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Got my 20 minutes in with today. I lost count of how many times she said "Listen up" in this one but for some reason it didn't bug me too much. The workout was a virgin and it was okay. Kind of boring. The music was almost inaudible, as it is in most of these PowerFits. I have to find good workout music to play on my own. It was hard to keep going sometimes because there's a lot of repetition and with no music my mind kept drifting, then I'd miss cues and really, it was not a difficult workout to follow, just difficult to keep paying attention to! :-) It was not at all foot-friendly for me either. It was all low-impact but lots of lateral movements. I did okay, I think I'm still okay, last night was good, but I will know better later and will try to take it a bit easy after work this afternoon (this is my easy day too). This one was also straight cardio, no strength intervals which is unusual for these workouts. She incorporates the band just because she thought she had to by laying it on the floor and having you step over it doing basic step, v-step, pivot step, etc. Dumb. Really dumb. Trying not to step on it and paying attention the cues when my mind was drifitng and trying to watch out how I put my weight down for some of the moves (using whole foot instead of toes as much as possible) often made it difficult not to step on the darn thing and when I did, then I felt like I "messed up." Stupid. I doubt I'll use the band next time, it was just an annoyance, not a help. I put a lot of effort into especially arm movements today but some legs too (you power up on this one by raising your arms over your head... something tells me we're not doing The FIRM anymore, Toto) and actually felt like I'd sort of worked out. That's two days in a row of actually feeling like I worked out! ;-) I do have a little bit of DOMS from my adventures with yesterday too. Very cool. Insane day tomorrow, have to figure out how I'll get 20 minutes in (might be two 10 minute workouts) but I will.