Athletic Step / Jackie's Crunchless Extreme Abs

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Okay.  Officially, the kettlebell rotation is OVER.  This is the first time in my life that I've quite a rotation!  Oh well.   I decided I need fun.  While I have been enjoying my kettlebell workouts, I don't call them fun...at all..and I'm missing my others!  I was originally thinking they are shorter and I can modify them easily enough with using a lighter bell for these few weeks of pregnancy.  Well, I can modify nearly any workout, and I have a lot of short ones.  So goodbye kettlebell workouts for now

With that said, I chose Cathe's Athletic Step today..  I got my booty kicked and modified a lot.  I still enjoyed it, even though it was very difficult for me.  My heart rate was like in the 150's, and it felt like I was in the 170's at times!  Oh well.  I haven't done a steady state cardio workout in awhile either.  I imagine that, combined with pregnancy and cold... not a great mixture.  In the end I burned 459 calories with my average  at 134.  I missed Cathe and it felt good to " meet " with her again today!

Afterwards, I decided I would try one of my recent buys - Jackie Warner's Extreme Crunchless Abs.  I did the standing ab portion.  I liked it.  I like Jackie a lot.  Just don't care for her show much.  Anyway, the workout had a good beat to it, and the time went by fast.  One of the backgrounder's was built!  She looked fab!  Jackie joked a bit here and there, which also made the workout better (I thought).  Not sure if I'll be feeling it tomorrow or not.  If so, I would think it would be in my obliques.  Standing ab-work doesn't usually do much for me otherwise.  This one also had my heart rate up.  But, it was probably more me than the actual workout?  I burned 161 calories with my average at 131 in the 15 minutes.

Enjoy your day everyone!  I need to put some laundry away, and maybe do some cut-out cookies today (last think I feel like doing!)Darcy