Although it's unlikely that I will be going down any red carpets this season or ever, I did the Red Carpet Workout of Holly Perkins today. It was only 20 minutes long and of course when I first chose it, I figured I'd do a few others and try and get to 60 minutes but it has been a horrible, HORRIBLE day around here. We are all iced/snowed in and it's a misery to try and deal with these children, whose school is going to be closed forever.
It's a good workout, she does a light warmup and then ... I think three circuits, although it might be two. It was complete chaos while I was doing it and now I can't remember. In fact, this is a terrible review, I might have to do it again later or tomorrow to get a little more complete. I just want to verify that I did this workout and I will come back and fill in the blanks, assuming these children don't kill me first.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
360 Workout
I think maybe the Exercise TV options have changed for me, but I'm pressing on. I think I just started something, right? And I thought there would be more? Now it goes from the Crunch workouts to the 360 workouts. Oh well, this was fine. Although, (she bragged), today I did TWO workouts. I was going to do three but come on, who am I? Bruce Jenner? Plus I'm hungry.
So, the first workout is the cardio portion. Holly Perkins is the trainer and she is excellent. She's by herself, which I always appreciate. She uses the term 'activate' a lot, meaning when you are lifting a weight, or making a movement, you can activate another muscle and sort of change what gets worked out. A lot of movements can be made better and more efficient, for example, if you activate your abs. Sometimes my abs are activated in the form of flopping around as I jump up and down, but that's my own problem. Or special gift. Ha!
The cardio is good, but you do some squats and lunges that I appreciate too. I still haven't found my 5 lb. weights, I'm starting to think I don't want to! She also talks about 'plyometrics', which is, I guess, the newest thing in jumping around. It's just jumping from one move to another, right? Maybe I am missing something. I appreciate doing it, but boy do you have to be careful with your form. Like if you are doing a lunge and JUMPING to the opposite leg, you really have to think about your knees.
The second part, speaking of my knees, is Total Tone and it has some cardio, but mostly it's sculpting, with weights. There was one move that I stopped doing - It was like a jumping curtsy lunge and I felt something hurt in my one knee so I just did regular squats. And I also slacked off on some of the ab work and just did a bridge, because I'm doing that 200 situp project and today is my day off.
The third part is a yoga part and I should have done it but I was hungry, so I made lunch. As it is, I didn't get to eat it, since Veronica woke up from her short nap. I can either work out or eat while they nap, and obviously it's better to work out.
So I'll try to add the yoga in to my next workout, and then I'll be finished with the 360. This would be an excellent workout if you added up all three, I'm sure.
So, the first workout is the cardio portion. Holly Perkins is the trainer and she is excellent. She's by herself, which I always appreciate. She uses the term 'activate' a lot, meaning when you are lifting a weight, or making a movement, you can activate another muscle and sort of change what gets worked out. A lot of movements can be made better and more efficient, for example, if you activate your abs. Sometimes my abs are activated in the form of flopping around as I jump up and down, but that's my own problem. Or special gift. Ha!
The cardio is good, but you do some squats and lunges that I appreciate too. I still haven't found my 5 lb. weights, I'm starting to think I don't want to! She also talks about 'plyometrics', which is, I guess, the newest thing in jumping around. It's just jumping from one move to another, right? Maybe I am missing something. I appreciate doing it, but boy do you have to be careful with your form. Like if you are doing a lunge and JUMPING to the opposite leg, you really have to think about your knees.
The second part, speaking of my knees, is Total Tone and it has some cardio, but mostly it's sculpting, with weights. There was one move that I stopped doing - It was like a jumping curtsy lunge and I felt something hurt in my one knee so I just did regular squats. And I also slacked off on some of the ab work and just did a bridge, because I'm doing that 200 situp project and today is my day off.
The third part is a yoga part and I should have done it but I was hungry, so I made lunch. As it is, I didn't get to eat it, since Veronica woke up from her short nap. I can either work out or eat while they nap, and obviously it's better to work out.
So I'll try to add the yoga in to my next workout, and then I'll be finished with the 360. This would be an excellent workout if you added up all three, I'm sure.
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