10-27-19, 01:38 PM | |
Join Date: May 2011
Location: South Jersey
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November 1. Mixxtreme Mix + 3 mile run I wanted to revisit Mix and do the whole thing. I liked it even better a second time and it could have been my imagination but I felt stronger this time. The core work is challenging without being impossible and I love the little cardio bursts sprinkled in the workout. The speed is totally doable and it makes me feel brave enough to try more of the Dream Body workouts. Playing your own music is a must! I’m really feeling my glutes (in a good way) from yesterday’s Hawaii Tonique. Her mat work really is something! I took off early from work and got a run in. A bit chilly and a little too windy but at least the sun was out for the first time in days. 2. 60 min FiiT yoga class Lots of burpees and frog jumps today. We did a couple sets of 6 EMOMs. The good thing was I felt so much stronger during the stability (core) section. It was still tough but more doable. 3. Rest 4. Tonique Hawaii Power of You + 60 min FiiT yoga class I’m (finally) working my way through these Toniques. I absolutely love the two Hawaii workouts I’ve done. They are easier by Tonique standards but they just have been fun for me. The earlier dvds have some dread factor for me but I haven’t even given them a fair shake. I just like the total body vibe of the downloads and I’m looking forward to trying the rest of the infinity series too. PoY is filmed with Sylwia at the edge of an infinity pool with the ocean in the background. It’s really pretty. Lots of variety and at about 40 minutes it’s a great length for me before yoga. It’s funnier how much easier this is compared to how I remembered it but I had only done it once before at the beginning of my bodyweight journey. The Toniques definitely leave me feeling good. FiiT had a substitute instructor and it was surprisingly hard. We did three 5 min AMRAPs (the last one had to be a couple minutes longer) throughout the series. 100 jumping jacks, 50 high knees, 20 side squat or lunge, 20 bicycles, and 20 swimmers. The first go around the jumping jacks seem kind of easy but it really added up. 5. Rest I had a morning appointment. 6. Barlates Tighten It Inner thighs and Abs I wasn’t feeling 100% but I wanted to do something. This uses a fire walker band but it was a little awkward for some of the inner thigh exercises. Maybe ankle weights would be a better choice. 7. YB Cardio Kickboxing Core Class (15 min) + Ballet Body Upper Body I ended up sleeping almost 10 hours last night I really woke up feeling better. Totally inspired by Char’s description I picked this up off of eBay (for a very reasonable price too). Leah really likes her planks! I thought this was a terrific upper body/core workout! I’m used to a lot of these exercises from doing them in yoga but it sure adds up. The second section is with light hand weights, I used 3 lbs and I thought that was plenty. Leah wraps it up with a thorough upper body stretch. She also does a shorter stretch after the non weighted section so it would be easy to break this workout up. The set was weird, like if there was a barre studio on a space ship- it’s the lighting, and Leah is a little robotic but it’s a solid strength builder. I warmed up with the first 15 minutes of an Yvette kickboxing workout. 8. Barlates HiiT Combinations and HiiT Barre These are the same format as HiiT mat. 25 exercises done for almost a minute. Combinations was more Tonique inspired and Barre was of course barre exercises. Both use 2 pound weights. I could have gone heavier with the barre weights but I got enough upper body yesterday. These are not super tough because the intervals are shorter. I really liked both of these workouts and I could see doing these HiiT series workouts after a 30 min cardio. 9. 60 min FiiT yoga class I felt good in FiiT today, we did tabatas but they didn’t feel like they were going to kill me. Fun retro playlist too. 10. Tonique Budapest Spa I wanted to do something today since I didn’t do anything Tuesday but I didn’t feel like going to the basement so I did this on my iPad. This is a 32 min mat workout with a couple of wall/suspension moves. It’s filmed at some European style tiled pool early in the morning with the occasional swimmer in the background. It almost looks black and white. All of these Tonique mat workouts seem tougher than Barlates mat workouts and they leave me sore. I got surprising sweaty from this little number I took a half day today since the weather was nice and did our leaves. I was out there with the blower for about an hour and a half and I didn’t even mind because it was so nice out. 11. Happy Veterans Day FitSplit Boxing Bootcamp + 7 min workout https://youtu.be/Dwt7bd_KyTQ + 60 min FiiT yoga class I thought about pulling out KPC but I knew I didn’t have time for the whole thing, even without the abs so popped BB in. I wasn’t “feeling it” at first but once I did the first combo and blast I knew it was all downhill. That’s something I like about BB, I think the first combo is the hardest so I like to get it over with. I had a few extra minutes so I did this quick workout from YouTube, super simple, 12 exercises done in 30/10 intervals. Easy to modify up or down too. FiiT was tabatas and I felt awesome today, super strong and like I could do a million jump squats. I need to remember this feeling for when I start slacking off. I’m thankful for all our service men and women and their families for the sacrifices they make. 12. My own Whiteboard w/o (20 min) + Barlates Sculpt it Mat+ 60 hot yoga class + 60 min FiiT yoga class I warmed up with a few Sun As and did a 20 min circuit with a couple kb moves thrown in. I liked Sculpt it may and it was tougher than I had anticipated but except for one move I can barely remember it today. Double yoga! 13. Barlates Functional training Sculpt Fusion This was a little bit of a mish mosh workout. Linda uses an 8 pound weight and 2 pounders. I used a 10 pound kb instead of the eight. It kind of felt like a barre/ metabolic mash up. It was a good fit for me today because I’m a little sore in the hamstrings from yesterday and this wasn’t super tough but I felt like I worked out. 14. YB Big Burn Cardio Kickboxing (37 min) + TA Abcentric 1 I did Yvette’s workout up to the water break. I was still feeling my hamstrings this morning so I thought the kicking would loosen my legs up. This Yvette was fun and it seemed a wee bit easier than some others. There was only one thruster move in the half that I did and she seems like she alternates between high and low impact. I was browsing results threads last night and it got me thinking about trying more Tracey Anderson. I did abcentric off of YouTube but it seemed almost identical to hipcentric which I have. She’s just so unlikable, it’s hard to see committing to doing this several times a week. On the flip side it’s only 30 minutes and I can fit it in with whatever else I’m doing. I would have to do TA my way. 15. YB High Intensity Step Cardio Class (30 min) + Abcentric 1 The part of Yvette’s workout that I did was 30/10 HiiT intervals, most were tough but there’s a few easier ones sprinkled in there. I was feeling really cranky but I still did Abcentric anyway, which is the same workout as glutecentric level 1. My abs were actually a little sore from yesterday so I gave it another go. I will say that I feel super silly doing those “standing abs”. 16. 60 min FiiT yoga class Instead of doing Sun As for the warm up, we did push ups and thrusters. The first round was walk through and then you could do either. Lots of one legged work which I love. 17. Rest 18. Yvette Bachman Cardio ankle weight full body blast (30 mins) + Abcentric level 1 + 60 min FiiT yoga class I thought I’d give this Yvette a try even though I’m leery of jumping with ankle weights. It wasn’t as hard as I expected and I really felt my core on those kicks. I thought I’d have those weights off by the second exercise. This would be great even without the ankle weights. I stopped at the water break. More Tracy. FiiT was fun with 4 sets of 3 45/15 intervals sprinkled throughout the flow. Tough core work using a yoga block too. 19. YB Cardio/Kettlebell Mashup (40 min) + Abcentric 1 + 60 min hot yoga class I did this fun Yvette to the water break then I did the upper and standing abs portion of Abcentric before yoga. I did the rest after yoga. I could do the floorwork on my own since it’s only a few moves. The instructor started yoga with core and we did 100 bicycles. Lots of groans but it was good to get it over in the beginning. 20. YouTube Full Length Barre Centric class https://youtu.be/L8ak1p-dePQ + Barlates Target 15 Full Body Barre Centric was nice and well instructed but it wasn’t challenging. There were moments of challenge but I didn’t have to stop and shake it out. I added ankle weights to the seat section at the barre. I wanted to add on a little something to get an hour in and Target 15 FB was new on YouTube. This was an awesome little workout! Lots of moves in plank and side plank, it was all mat and crouching and there were a few mat cardio moves sprinkled in. I got much sweatier doing this for 15 mins than the the whole barre workout. The intervals are only 60 seconds so it moves pretty quickly through the exercises. I really loved this one!! 21. Barlates Endurance 100 Up and Down + Mix and Match Lower 40/20 Up and Down is 20 intervals, 10 on one side then 10 on the other. There’s a couple of handstand combos on each side but they kind of feel easier than the lunge, squat and kick moves. I probably need more of those lower body combinations. 40/20 was 15 minutes of torture with a loop. I used one of the new fabric loops I bought. It was super painful. When Linda switched to inner thighs I used a regular loop to get the right ROM. 22. Barlates Endurance 120 1+2=3 and Target 15 ankle weights 1+2=3 didn’t seem quite as hard as the last time I did it but it’s very challenging. 3 combinations total on each side and I still think the switch kick one is the hardest, especially doing the interval of all switch kicks but I did it. Another thumbs up for Target 15! Perfect add on length for me and it just seems to fly by. Linda gets a little bit of everything in there, even some upper body. 23. 60 min FiiT yoga class 24. Rest 25. P57 Power Sculpt Chad 6/13 + 60 min FiiT yoga class I signed up for P57 streaming, they had a Black Friday special for $15 a month so I thought I’d try it out. The instructor was really good: funny and relaxed. It started with weighted upper body, I started with 8s and dropped to 5s. There were a lot of pushups. I used the fit tower for the barre work but I’ll have to bring the fluidity barre back down to the basement to use with these workouts since there’s moves where you pull back against the barre and the fit tower is not made for that. This wasn’t a sweaty workout since it didn’t have that cardio factor but it was a burner. I’ll dabble with these for a month and see how it goes. In FiiT we did four intervals of 50 jumping jacks, 40 skaters, 30 flutter kicks, 20 hop overs, 10 pushups, and 5 burpees interspersed throughout the flow. 26-27. Nothing I did Friendsgiving on Tuesday and yesterday I just felt bloated and blah! 28. HAPPY THANKSGIVING P57 Sculpt with Chad 6/19 The Sculpt workouts are definitely easier than the Power Sculpt. I did toe pushups instead of knees and added ankle we to the barre and floorwork sections. There’s less time in plank style exercises overall. I’m still feeling my biceps from Monday’s power sculpt! I probably enjoyed this class because of Chad, he’s very entertaining and natural but in the future I’ll stick to the Power Sculpt classes. 29. Barlates Endurance 100 Cardio Sculpt + Heather Robertson 15 min HiiT I had to do some kind of cardio today, it is Thanksgiving week. Cardio Sculpt had a couple of thruster moves on each side and a couple of handstand moves. I added on a short HR 40/20 HiiT workout after. 3 rounds of 5 exercises so this one repeats but it’s only 15 minutes. The 20 seconds of rest felt good. There were a couple of combination exercises: shoulder tap/plank jack/pushup and a walk out/jump in to bear/jump out that we’re different and fun and of course this had a thruster exercise too. 30. Barlates Endurance 100 Mat + HiiT Arms and Abs Mat was definitely easier than last time I did it. I’m feeling my gluteus from yesterday’s combo too. I love love love all of these workouts from the Barlates HiiT series. They just fly by because of the 50/10 intervals. They are fun and thorough, and really total body, also free on YouTube! Jane |
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