12-13-11, 03:36 PM | |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Hey Breezy!
I actually have only a small list of favorites since my Leslie collection is not super huge: 3 Mile Slim and Sleek Walk Walk Your Belly Flat 3 Miles 4 Fast Miles! 3 Mile Weight Loss Walk These are the ones I use the most. I also just discovered her 1 Mile Advanced Jog, which was an extra with the 4 Fast Miles, and have just started adding that, which I also really love. It's funny because I always dreaded Leslie, until I actually started using her a lot. Now I love her! And of course once I realized I wasn't imagining my results, I started loving her even more. Once you get into her, her workouts really are all different, so I feel like I'm not using the same muscles all the time. Yes, they're the same steps, but like with dancing, they're choreographed differently so it's always somewhat mixed up. |
12-13-11, 03:37 PM | |
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Texas
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I don't know why but when I did a strictly Leslie rotation for a month I did not lose a single pound and my legs got bigger! Walking does work for me to trim the fat, but I just respond better to other types of walking workouts or walking outside. I think all her kicks and leg lifts might have done me in.
Margaret Richard makes a comment in Beauty to the Bone about doing the toning work and just adding on some kind of cardio to basically get the fat off your body so you can see the muscle definition. I have been stuck on a plateau for several months now and finally figured out that I need an exact combination of certain types of exercises to lose weight. I went back at my fitness calendar and looked to see what was I doing when I lost the most weight and it was TA stuff from either her book or meta (only did it 2 to 3 times a week though), walking, and a few toning/weight training workouts like KCM, Cathe, etc. Mostly I was doing a lot of variety, changing it up every single day. I think what is important for me is to do lots of floor work for my lower body (3-4 days a week minimum), heavier weights for upper body (at least 2 days a week), walking consistently at a steady state every day for at least 30 minutes, a few dance workouts sprinkled in for fun, and some barre and pilates workouts that have larger range of movements such as Ellen Barrett, Jennifer Galardi, or Tracey Mallett (at least 2 days a week). Nothing else works for me than this combination. If I focus on heavy weights too much I plateau, if I only do cardio I plateau, if I only do pilates I plateau. It is the combo of all of these together and the mixing and matching of workouts every day that does it for me. That is my magic for losing weight and I am sticking to it this year, not getting off track with all of the new stuff coming out! |
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