wed: mish mosh of workouts

[Guest guest]

hi everyone -

lots of variety today...

- first i did a 70 minute walk with chinook this morning. it

was sunny with cold air coming in from the south... i had to wear

my face mask for a while. that was ok... cold air from the

north is much worse!

one of the farmers down the road stopped me to have a discussion

about wind farms and how some of our neighbours have apparently

signed up to put wind turbines on their lands. oh-oh... not

sure what to think about that, there seems to be a big

controversy about it.

- this evening i did a workout with mel b (from the spice girls).

she has a set of workouts called 'totally fit'... this one was

a 15 minute cardio with no warmup or cooldown (those are separate

entries in the dvd menu). mel led the workout which consisted

of various exercises repeated for one minute each. alot of

these were sculpting type exercises, like squats and pushups,

punches, various standing abs, etc. the cardio effect comes

from the high number of reps and no resting between the

exercises. overall, i found the workout challenging and had to

modify it in places.

i admire mel's physique, her ability to do all of the exercises

with good form, her tough attitude and her attempts at

encouragement. all of her backgrounders are attractive young

people who also performed the workout perfectly. but i did not

appreciate all of the yelling/screaming that mel did... ugh!!

by the end she seemed pretty obnoxious to me and i was glad that

the workout wasnt longer.

- after that i did hip hop abs rockin body disco groove. well,

actually i did about half of it (15 mins). i thought that i had

put in one of the original HHA workouts and not one of the

'rockin body' set which is more advanced. obviously most of the

backgrounders are pro dancers. oh well, i did what i could and

had alot of fun. HHA has to be some of the most fun workouts in

the world!!

it still kills me that in all of the HHA workouts, there is an

seated audience watching shaun t and friends perform the workout

up on a stage. these people clap and cheer and do the arm

portions of the workout while seated. also shaun lifted up his

shirt (briefly) and the women in the audience screamed and took

photos... LOLOL. too weird ! !

- after that, i did episode one of season six of classical

stretch. ive done this episode before but had forgotten how

fast miranda moves through the flowing part of the workout....

wheew! it was hard to keep up to her and parts of it felt like

torture!! LOL. oh well, it is a good kind of torture

some of her sessions are more of a workout while others are more

of a stretch. it just depends on what she feels like that day,

i guess...

- number of steps today: 13,421

:*carolyn.