Thursday Workout

January 13, 2005

Hi!

I'm in a rush (as usual) since i have an early meeting this morning. UGH!

I hate meetings...

Anyway, I did:

Firm Parts - Upper Body -- this is a compilation of the upper body work in

the FIRM Classics. I haven't done it in awhile, but as I recall this one

always made me sore -- you move from one thing to the next with very little

rest. My one complaint is it short changes the biceps, so I fix that by

doing bicep curls in place of some of the one arrm rows (the ones Janet

Gretsky does). the upper body work runs about 30 min and includes a

warm-up and cool down. I skipped the cool down b/c I still hard cardio to

do. (and , makes an appearance in this one as well and I

believe he talks about testosterone!)

For cardio I did Stage 1 of Christi 's Step Heaven. I've had this tape

for years, and still can't do Stage 2 - but it is worth keeping for Stage 1

alone. Fun, but not too dificult choreography and good music (popular, with

vocals!)

I thought it would be an interesting change up to do my cardio after my

weights, since i usually do it the other way around. It seems to work okay

for upper body, but I don't think I'd do it this way for a lower body

workout since my lb might be so fatigued I couldn't keep up with the

cardio.....

After step I did 10 min of Pilates from Progressive Pilates w/Liz Gillies --

good short Pialtes workout, moves quickly with some different twists on

standard Pilates exercises

Then I did the warm-up section of Ana Forrest's Strength & Spirit CD - this

is forward bends, twists, neck releases, etc. I've been sort of tense

lately so this one was a nice addition to round out my morning. I think

this ran about 10 min or so.

Believe it or not, I'm feeling LESS toned these days, I felt much more toned

when I was doing Tae Bo all the time. Strange, huh? Of course my eating

hasn't been quite as clean as it should be this week. But I'm working on it

- had two decent days in a row so that is something.

Anyway, now I must go! Catch up later,

Donna

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