4.30.10: Tomorrow's the Day!

Today's Workout:
-Firm Total Sculpt + Abs
*total w/o time 50 minutes + stretch

Today's Tip: Staying Fit while Travelling
A low-tech hotel room workout: Jennifer Galardi, a dance and fitness trainer for Exercise TV, believes you can get a good workout anywhere, even without a gym. She regularly stretches and lifts weight with furniture to fit exercise into her hectic travel schedule. Exercise TV content is available in 1.1 million rooms at hotels including DoubleTree, Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton, Omni, and Radisson, but none of those chains have it in every single room. Ask before you book. Exercise TV also offers online workouts and has an iPhone application. Check out more great ideas here on AJC.com.


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Today's Bargains:
-To get a bonus entry for Jennifer Galardi's Ballet Body dvd check out her blog here, come back here and tell me something you learned.
-Enter to win a $25 gift certificate to Deisgns by Jessie on Women Who Do It All here.
-Enter to win a Bring It Up gift pack on Review Retreat here.

Today's Review: Firm Total Sculpt + Abs
Jennifer Carman, 2003 ***** (5 of 5 stars)

This is a 60 min mostly strength workout led by Jen Carman. There are 4 background exercisers with Suzan showing the beginner modifications. This is the BSS2 set-white with blue accents on the walls. You will need a variety of dumbbells, the Firm sculpting stick (optional), and a Fanny Lifter or other step for this w/o.

The warmup is kind of long but I actually really enjoyed it this AM. You use the sculpting stick to warm up your upper body and do squats and such to warmup the lower body. After the warmup Jen moves right into a heavy squat set, back work, pliets, and lat pull down with the stick-I just used dumbbells since the stick is only 8 #'s. She uses the stick in other areas of the workout too and again, I just use dumbbells because the stick is just too light to do anything with.

The majority of this workout is strength and includes moves such as: leg press (just use 2 dumbbells, not 1 and the stick), bicep curls, 4 limb work that is similar to her 4 limb section in Firm Super Cardio-(which I love), french press, pushups, tricep pushups, and more. She varies the tempo alot and uses a pretty slow tempo for a lot of it to really allow heavy poundage.

There are a few cardio segments-one on the floor and one on the step. She finishes with chest and ab work on the floor before the cooldown. The ab section uses teh 6# portion of the sculpting stick and I found it fun and effective. Not so boring & repetitive like the other ab sections in BSS2.

I would rate this an intermediate w/o done as is. If you skip the sculpting stick, use heavy dumbbells, use the 8" section of the FL, add a few more plyos (she does include some though!), and put a little pep in your step you can get a great sculpting workout with the usual Firm cardio benefit.

Today's Recipe: Protien Pumpkin Smoothie (this is for Sarah)
-1 scoop BSN Lean Dessert Fresh Cinnamon Roll
-2ish TBS pumpkin puree (canned)
-iced espresso or iced coffee
-ice cubes
-water (or non fat milk-but water is fine for me)
-2 packets Truvia or splenda
-cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice to taste

Put all ingredients in the magic bullet and blend-YUM! I think this recipe would still be good w/ vanilla protien powder if you don't have the BSN Cinnamon Roll...The cinnamon roll is also good in oatmeal.
 
I have also tried BSN Lean Dessert in chocolate fudge, chocolate coconut candy bar, vanilla, and banana cream- ALL are SO yummy! The nutritionals are great check them out here- you will be impressed.
 
Today's LOLz: Courtesy of PeopleofWalmart.com (and you ask why I dont shop at WalMart...)

 
 
Hookers love cupcakes. I have nothing else to add to that. Can’t argue with facts.
Texas

 
 
 
 
 

Hey! Hey! Hey man, hold up. There’s a f***in’ Jellyfish on your head! Stay still, I’ll pee on it.


Ohio

 
 
 
 
 

Unfortunately there isn’t a pool of water anywhere near here, so I’ll have to do something other than drown myself to escape this hell.



Texas
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