Next Move: Lower Body

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Go me! Two days in a row working out after work and before lunch! I got home, said hi to the kids, changed into workout clothes, made them some mac & cheese and ran to the basement for 20 minutes with Dozois. This was my first time doing the lower body workout off the Weight Watchers DVD "Next Move." I don't think it will be my last but I doubt I'll reach for it often. She emphasized legs, glutes and... shoulders. Why shoulders? I dunno, maybe she didn't think she got them enough in the upper body workout and I'm thinking now that she didn't. Like Upper Body this does a series of exercises for 10 minutes, then she does the entire series again but adds complexity. It is also all compound moves and a lot of balance (one-legged squats and one-legged squats reaching down and across to the opposite shoe with a dumbbell in your hand, for example). I didn't love it because she goes fast and I have a hard enough time keeping my balance for lunges by themselves but add upper body into it too and I'm all over so I need a slower pace to keep my form clean. If I did this a few times, I'd probably do better with it because I could focus more on the movements themselves instead of watching what she's doing with the arms and legs and trying to keep pace too. There are no routines to learn but you do have to learn the compound moves and I was stumbling with some so another time or two through and I'd move more smoothly I think (I hope so anyway). You use one set of light dumbbells because of the upper body movements. I went with 5s and for the shoulders especially those were good though I might have been able to go a little heavier. I didn't want to go too heavy though because I didn't know what she was going to do with them and my chest and to some extent my triceps are completely fried from yesterday's upper body workout (I must have challenged myself well, it hurts but I'm still fully functional). I think I would have liked this better had she put shoulders in the upper body workout, where they belong, and used heavier weights with less upper body work but it was still okay.

Tomorrow will be the Cardio Core workout from this DVD which is another virgin for me. I can workout in the morning, before the rest of my day starts too so that will be good. We have our co-worker's husband's funeral tomorrow morning and then I'm subbing for her later in the day plus more on Thursday and Friday. I might be subbing for her for the next few weeks, plus my own classes and other activities, so I'm going to be relying on short workouts for most of November I think.

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Great job, . Every little bit helps so whatever you can squeeze into your schedule is great!

Donna

To: exercisevideos Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 4:57:10 PMSubject: Next Move: Lower Body

Go me! Two days in a row working out after work and before lunch! I got home, said hi to the kids, changed into workout clothes, made them some mac & cheese and ran to the basement for 20 minutes with Dozois. This was my first time doing the lower body workout off the Weight Watchers DVD "Next Move." I don't think it will be my last but I doubt I'll reach for it often. She emphasized legs, glutes and... shoulders. Why shoulders? I dunno, maybe she didn't think she got them enough in the upper body workout and I'm thinking now that she didn't. Like Upper Body this does a series of exercises for 10 minutes, then she does the entire series again but adds complexity. It is also all compound moves and a lot of balance (one-legged squats and one-legged squats reaching down and across to the opposite shoe with a dumbbell in your hand, for example). I didn't love it because she goes fast and I have a hard enough time keeping my

balance for lunges by themselves but add upper body into it too and I'm all over so I need a slower pace to keep my form clean. If I did this a few times, I'd probably do better with it because I could focus more on the movements themselves instead of watching what she's doing with the arms and legs and trying to keep pace too. There are no routines to learn but you do have to learn the compound moves and I was stumbling with some so another time or two through and I'd move more smoothly I think (I hope so anyway). You use one set of light dumbbells because of the upper body movements. I went with 5s and for the shoulders especially those were good though I might have been able to go a little heavier. I didn't want to go too heavy though because I didn't know what she was going to do with them and my chest and to some extent my triceps are completely fried from yesterday's upper body workout (I must have challenged myself well, it hurts but I'm still

fully functional). I think I would have liked this better had she put shoulders in the upper body workout, where they belong, and used heavier weights with less upper body work but it was still okay.

Tomorrow will be the Cardio Core workout from this DVD which is another virgin for me. I can workout in the morning, before the rest of my day starts too so that will be good. We have our co-worker's husband's funeral tomorrow morning and then I'm subbing for her later in the day plus more on Thursday and Friday. I might be subbing for her for the next few weeks, plus my own classes and other activities, so I'm going to be relying on short workouts for most of November I think.

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Thanks, Donna!

Next Move: Lower Body

Go me! Two days in a row working out after work and before lunch! I got home, said hi to the kids, changed into workout clothes, made them some mac & cheese and ran to the basement for 20 minutes with Dozois. This was my first time doing the lower body workout off the Weight Watchers DVD "Next Move." I don't think it will be my last but I doubt I'll reach for it often. She emphasized legs, glutes and... shoulders. Why shoulders? I dunno, maybe she didn't think she got them enough in the upper body workout and I'm thinking now that she didn't. Like Upper Body this does a series of exercises for 10 minutes, then she does the entire series again but adds complexity. It is also all compound moves and a lot of balance (one-legged squats and one-legged squats reaching down and across to the opposite shoe with a dumbbell in your hand, for example). I didn't love it because she goes fast and I have a hard enough time keeping my balance for lunges by themselves but add upper body into it too and I'm all over so I need a slower pace to keep my form clean. If I did this a few times, I'd probably do better with it because I could focus more on the movements themselves instead of watching what she's doing with the arms and legs and trying to keep pace too. There are no routines to learn but you do have to learn the compound moves and I was stumbling with some so another time or two through and I'd move more smoothly I think (I hope so anyway). You use one set of light dumbbells because of the upper body movements. I went with 5s and for the shoulders especially those were good though I might have been able to go a little heavier. I didn't want to go too heavy though because I didn't know what she was going to do with them and my chest and to some extent my triceps are completely fried from yesterday's upper body workout (I must have challenged myself well, it hurts but I'm still fully functional). I think I would have liked this better had she put shoulders in the upper body workout, where they belong, and used heavier weights with less upper body work but it was still okay.

Tomorrow will be the Cardio Core workout from this DVD which is another virgin for me. I can workout in the morning, before the rest of my day starts too so that will be good. We have our co-worker's husband's funeral tomorrow morning and then I'm subbing for her later in the day plus more on Thursday and Friday. I might be subbing for her for the next few weeks, plus my own classes and other activities, so I'm going to be relying on short workouts for most of November I think.