Kathy - Thursday Workout

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Good going, Kathy! Definately pull out V1 & 3, too. I'm going to do them

all again next week!!

I think the NYC Ballets are around 50 min...so not good for add-on purposes

- though I think the DVD on the second one is chaptered...

I need to do these again...I have them but they haven't made it up to my to

do list yet!

Take care,

Donna

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>Today's workout was the original Firm Volume 2 with Janet -Gretsky. I

>forgot that sucker was 65 minutes! I had intended to test drive NYC Ballet

>Volume 1 today, but I had no idea how long is was or the equipment I needed

>(no preview) so I went with the Firm. I forgot how much I loved that

>workout! I haven't done it in years but I really liked it and I have lots

>of good soreness now so I am happy. I am going to have to dig up my old

>Vol 1 and Vol 3 as well soon.

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>Kathy

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>Hi!

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

>I hate meetings...

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>Anyway, I did:

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>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!)

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>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!)

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>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.....

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

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

>standard Pilates exercises

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>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.

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>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.

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>Anyway, now I must go! Catch up later,

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>Donna

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