01-09-21, 01:25 PM | |
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
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Gams is right. The aerobics are really easy to follow (as with any, it'll take a few times through to get it perfect, of course). It's ALL low-impact, and you can use a step or not. I stayed on the floor for the first song and then felt like it was easy enough that I could bring my step out for the rest of it. I would barely even call it step aerobics at all. It's mostly just low-impact that, if you feel like it, you can use a low step for a few of the moves, mostly just up-downs and a few step up and kick off to the side. I love that there is nothing in the way of true plyometrics here, just a little bit of hopping and some jumping jacks that you could also easily modify down (and one guy demos it that way, too). Even with its low-impact nature, I was still sweating and got my heart rate up!
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01-15-21, 09:56 AM | |
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Ohio
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Today I finished the second workout in Personal Trainer Series: Total Body Sculpting, having done the first one a few days ago. This tape (because I did have to buy a used copy on VHS!) is divided up into two, 25-minute routines that you're supposed to alternate, but after doing both of them, I think next time I will combine them. Each workout starts with 2 minutes of light aerobics and stretches to warm up, and then the first workout goes into largely seated upper-body work, with a little bit of static lunges (all assisted by a chair). The second workout is hamstring work, some seated shoulder work, and abs. Both workouts end with a nice stretch. Not a big calorie burn on either one, and they both felt very easy to me, but then I was using extremely light weights while I learned the moves. I think using heavier weights would be pretty easy to do here, as both workouts are low rep. I think, too, that combining them into one 50-minute workout feels more like what I'm used to when doing strength-focused routines such as the FIRM and Jari Love (although here, again, there is very little in the way of cardio and nothing is high rep).
I do like this a lot and appreciate that having two separate routines allows for some flexibility in terms of how you want to use the tape. This is one of Jane's later releases, from 1995, and she leads the entire thing alone in a nice, bright room. Her leotard doesn't even look that dated!
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