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07-18-15, 05:27 PM | ||
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About once a year, I have a ToniqueFest where I do Tonique all week for one week, but usually I only do Tonique once a week. Sylwia created some rotations a couple of years ago, so they wouldn't include her latest ones, Hawaii and Costa Rico. She created them after she put out BTM. I'll try to find it and post it here. ETA: Here's the link to Sylwia's old rotations. I'm sure it would be easy to sub in some of her newer ones. Just to be clear the "1,2,3" correspond to weeks. In other words, she's not expecting you to do 3 workouts in a day. http://forum.videofitness.com/showth...hlight=tonique |
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07-20-15, 02:00 PM | |
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Ugh. Every time she puts out something I try to resist.
"Get Dirty" sounds great. Did anyone see this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w...b_7699190.html The title is cringe-y but Sylwia is featured and looks like her usual beautiful self! |
07-20-15, 02:17 PM | ||
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I know that there are some women on the Tonique FB page that do Tonique everyday. They also do the really long ones like FF, Heat, Royale, and Get Lifted. I know that they built up to doing that. I don't because I like too many other workouts. I also prefer to do Tonique in 45 minute chunks.
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07-23-15, 05:49 PM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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I did Heat this week. As others have mentioned, it has more standing lower body work. That means for me, it's easier than Royale and Get Lifted since it has less upper body exercises, e.g. push-ups. But there is still enough upper body work in it.
Previously, I mentioned that I use my round yoga mat since Sylwia has been using the floor more. There is one set of moves where I needed more space than my mat. This is o.k. for me since I went outside the mat for standing portion. However, I wanted to describe the sequence so that VFers that haven't done Tonique can see how she combines exercises. 1) Do a side lunge. 2) Chasse over so that you do a side lunge to the other side. 3) Go to a downward dog position and lift the outside leg. 4) Place that leg down so that your foot ends below the calf of the other leg. Do a one-legged push-up. 5) Go to downward dog position and lift that leg up again and then place your foot by your hand and end up in a low lunge. 6) Lift your upper body up so that you end up in a side lunge. 7) Chasse over so that you end up in a side lunge to the other side. This is your starting position (Step 1). Keep repeating these steps for a lot of reps.
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07-30-15, 04:54 AM | |||
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Heat felt a lot like Royale to me, with more standing moves. It seemed to me, though, that Heat was about half standing and half bent over. It was hard to use weights (Sylwia doesn’t use them) after the first series of standing moves because the moves are up and down. I gave up on the weights and did most of the workout without them. I really enjoyed the wall workout—the last few moves are very much like Sway; your legs are braced against the wall at an angle and you move one leg up and down in a few different positions. The final move was killer for me — especially since my legs were fatigued. I agree that Heat is not as hard as Femme Fatale or Royale. There are some really hard spots, but your arms get a lot of breaks. I didn't have any trouble making it through the whole workout. I did notice on my download that Sylwia is a little out of focus — is this the case on everyone else’s? The trees are in perfect focus, but Sylwia’s body is a little blurred at times. She is also dressed in camo colors, so she really blends in with the scenery! That wasn’t a huge problem, but there were some side or back kicks where I wasn’t quite sure where she was placing the kicking leg. Thank you to everyone who posted reviews of this; I am glad I got it and I will really enjoy adding this in on my Tonique days! |
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08-02-15, 01:21 PM | ||
Join Date: Apr 2002
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I have been doing Tonique for a very long time and I thought Paradise was very arm and shoulder challenging. However, I think after a few times, it will get easier for me. That's what happened to me with Energy Glow and Everybody Rocks. They are shorter though. The Tonique that took me months to get comfortable with is Royale. It just had moves that were very challenging for my body. That was the Tonique workout that got me to do crossed over legs push-ups. I finally figured out that only one foot tip is touching the floor during the pushup, so it's a more natural rocking forward motion for me now. Paradise was hard for me also because Sylwia is limited in her body position by the area she has on that wood strip on the boat to work out. I like to mirror image her movements but the angle she is turned on made me have to think carefully about my own movements. Sometimes she is sideways and other times facing away. Toward the end she moves from the wood strip to the more open boat area and it's easier to follow her movements. I looked at Get Dirty and I think I will really enjoy it. Right now Heat is my favorite one, though. Acescholar I did notice that Heat has alittle fuzziness plus I can't fast forward my download if I want to skip to the Wall workout. I'm not sure if it's how I downloaded it or something on my end of things. I don't have that problem with any of her other downloads. Have a nice Sunday, Casey |
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