Monday Workout - Gin 's Danskin Weighted Ball Workout

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Hi Everyone,

I was a slug-exercise wise on the weekend. Saturday I

did do Housework Max b/c we were having company for

dinner - and I mopped floors, cleaned bathrooms,

walls, dusted, kitchen cleaning, plus took my DD out

for craft time and story time at the local bookstore

chain. Sunday I was mentally and physically tired so

I didn't do anytyhing although I had planned to do the

workout I did today yesterday (if that makes sense!)

Anyway, my workout today was Gin 's Weighted

Ball workout by Danskin (I think these were or are

still available at Wal Mart as well). I picked it up

for $3.99 and Ross and it is an excellent value for

the price.

The workout on this DVD is one of the workouts that is

on her Build Your Muscles DVD (That workout has 4

segments of strength training, one using dumbells, one

using weighted balls, one using wrist/ankle weights,

and one using tubing). This isn't a burn your muscles

to exhaustion type of Cathe workout, but it is a very

good " functional " style workout. I used my

Voight " green genie " balls - they are 3 lbs and that

was about right for this workout. I also think that

dumbells (3 to 5 lbs) could be substituted for the

weighted balls if you don't have any handy.

Gin's instruction is typical Gin - straightforward but

with a touch of humor ( " if you're gonna have a big

butt, have a great big butt " !). At one point she

mentions that she is 50 and makes a reference to her

pig tails ( " everyone over the age of 50 should wear

their hair like this " ). The exercises are a blend of

traditional but with some balance, functional and

isometric type of twists to them. I may end up a

little sore from this one just because it worked me

differently than usual - plus sometimes the leg that

you are balancing on gets quite a workout from holding

your body weight for what seemed to be a pretty long

time sometimes.

Gin teaches solo - no backgrounders. She uses a chair

as a prop and one set of weighted balls. The main

workout is 45 minutes and there is a 20 min bonus

cardio routine on the DVD. I did the cardio as a

warm-up - very straightforward basic choreograpny - I

didn't feel it to be very intense - just something to

get the blood flowing.

Anyway, next chance I get I think I'm going to stop by

Ross and pick up some more of these. The ones I saw

at my Ross are the dumbell one and another one with a

stability ball (which is not from her Build Your

Muscles DVD). Well worth the $3.99 price for an

effective no-dread workout!

Speaking of dread, tomorrow is intervals. I don't

know what I'm doing yet. Unfortunately, I have many

options available to torture myself - I was almost

thinking of one of the IMAXes but I'm not sure I can

face that or not. Guess I'll play it by ear. I may

do the cardio workout on the Women's Health DVD - that

one is interval style and is only 22 minutes - I'd

probably want to do an add-on then. Or, I was

thinking of pulling Mindy's Cardio Toolbox out again

and doing her interval routine along with something

else on that DVD.

Take care!

Donna

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