Saturday's workout

[Guest guest]

I have been mainly doing walking at work and short workouts on Exercise TV for the past week or so which is fine but hard enough for my liking. Today I received goodies in the mail and from the library.

In the mail I received the following from Powter:

Motivation 1 & 2 which are not really workouts, but tools for getting into shape, improved eating etc

Burn Fat Volume 1

Lean Muscle Mass Vol 2

Yoga Step

Fitness Stretch

Yoga

She is having a sale for the month of February so I got the workouts from her I really wanted. The best part is that she is evidently running her own show now and she mailed these to me directly from her home in Washington. Kind of neat.

From the library I borrowed:

Results Fitness 10 Days to a Better Body with Whitmarsh

10 Minute Solutions Tone Trouble Zones with Amy Bento

Kathy 's Total Body Lift

Strong Body, Ageless Body with O'Brien

Today I decided to try out Strong Body, Ageless Body with O'Brien who turns out to be married to the actor Denton from Desperate Housewives. It's a nice 45 minute workout that works both upper and lower body with some core work thrown in. I like this instructor. She cues well and is very encouraging. The first half of the workout alternated working the upper body for 16 reps (shoulders) followed by a lower body exercise (squats). She alternates the same upper and lower body exercises three times each. Each cycle of the exercise moves faster and has harder variations shown in a box in the upper portion of the screen. She does four cycles of these three upper body/lower body combos (which gets your heart rate up I might add) and then takes it to the mat for the rest of the workout.

I definitely liked this workout and if I can get a good deal on it, I would definitely be tempted to buy. I love my library workout test drives!

Kathy

Kathy