You Are All a BAD Influence!

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I went to Costco today because we needed a ton of scotch tape, since my tapeaholic kids use so much of it. While I was there I wandered over to where I'd seen the ball and band workout I'd asked you all about and of course, it was gone. However, there were 2 ball workouts, including The Complete Gym Ball Weight Loss Workout with Book & DVD. This one stressed how it focused on core stability, muscle toning and cardiovascular aerobics plus recipes and an eating plan. I don't need to lose weight but I liked the rest of it and I definitely want to maintain my weight loss so... I bought it!!!

I just inflated the burst resistant ball (thank you to the people who told me to look for that, I'm sorry I can't remember who right now) and turned on the DVD and still in my jeans and sweater I started doing the warm-up just to see what it was like. It was so easy to follow but even after just a few minutes of it (I had to stop because DS was coming in from school and I needed to take care of him first) I'm actually a little sore, like I was really doing something! I didn't feel like I was because I was laughing as I tried to stay on the ball and do the moves and because it was FUN! The person who leads it is Lucy Knight, a Brit so after our notes earlier about how I don't speak with an accent even after spending significant amounts of time in the UK I'm going to be hearing Brit English in my head again and the book is all British English! :-) It is a 31 minute workout and I only did about 5 minutes of it. I'm looking forward to getting into exercise clothes and giving it more of a shot later! I put that subject line up there because I already got the Kathy step workout you all told me would be great but that I haven't used and I felt like I shouldn't get another one to just sit but... for $14.99 and with all your wonderful encouragement, I HAD to!!! The good thing is, I'm really excited about it and I think it is going to be a lot of fun. I'll write a review after I work with it more. (The reason I hadn't used the Kathy workout or done any workouts for a few weeks now is mostly because the DVD player on my computer is down and I forgot, until Thanksgiving Day that we had another semi-working DVD player in a room with a door, away from the family, that should be fine until I get my computer fixed. So, I have no more excuses it looks like and I'm going to get "on the ball" later!)