Lower Body Sculpt 1

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This was my 2nd time doing this workout with Kay. I can't remember what I thought of it before and don't feel like looking at my notes but I liked it a lot today. Some VF reviews call it Standing Legs 2 and I'd go along with that. It isn't as tough because it is 15 minutes shorter but packs a lot into 30 minutes. The only criticism I have is that there is cardio "breaks" in it that just don't do anything for me. They're not intense enough to do anything for my heart rate so I'd prefer they just weren't there. At the least the choreography is ultra simple. Actually, I have one other criticism, and I'm sure I mentioned it before but will again very briefly this time... too many fanny lifter commercials in this workout. I used 10s for heavy and 8s for medium weight but I think for some of this I could move up to 12s and 10s. (The weights I used today were heavier than what I used when I did Standing Legs a week or two ago too so now I know I can definitely go heavier in that one than I did.) This was still plenty tough but I think I could have withstood even more torture, even on the leg presses only because there aren't as many at a time as there are in Standing Legs. The calf raises (presses, whatever they're called) burned like heck, just like in SL, the squats and lunges seemed to go on forever but were interesting at least (using the blue step of the fanny lifter and other variations) and very effective feeling but there weren't quite enough hover squats (somebody squirt me with a fire hose for saying that because my back side is STILL feeling this workout 5 hours later). I liked better in this workout than I have others. She does a great job cueing for the most part and doesn't seem quite so "intense" as she does in other videos. This is an excellent short, lower body workout to have on hand for when you want a tough workout but don't have a lot of time.

Only one more day with the lower body (2nd month) rotation of the Bikini Bootcamp Rotation, then it is on to upper body. I'm looking forward to that because I like working my upper body more and it feels neglected. So do my abs even though I don't like working them but I'm hoping still there is more abs work in the last month. There was quite a bit in the first month but that was a while ago now. I've enjoyed the variety of workouts in this rotation a lot but I don't see myself using it as written again because (a) lack of abs work and most of the workouts are too long to add on anything, ( I don't like working lower body intensely for an entire month and upper body intensely for an entire month. I'm seeing nice changes and my hips and other lower body parts have survived well for the most part but it gets a bit boring to keep doing the same exercises (including variations on the basics) over and over and I do feel like I'm neglecting, in this case upper body & abs. The first month was total body and I liked that a lot. I could see possibly doing months 2 and 3 by using making the first week the workouts from week 1 of the lower body month, week 2 could be the 1st week of the upper body month and keep rotating them like that for the last 2 months (or do 2 weeks upper then two weeks lower or something like that). Today is 's 12th birthday (I can hardly believe it) and tomorrow is his kid party at the rollerskating rink so that will be my workout tomorrow!