I wanted to say thank you for all the nice comments about my beach bear cake the other day! And all the comments in general! The comments are very motivating to keep me blogging, working out, and reveiwing!
-Firm Bootcamp Maximum Calorie Burn (wore my weighted gloves again, Im using the hell out of these things!)
-Denise Austin Blast Away the Pounds Indoor Walk (1 mile)
*total w/o time 60 min
I know I was supposed to do the ab section from Jeanette Jenkins Bikini Bootcamp today, but ran out of time. I will definately do it this sometime week and report back!
Today's Tip: Whole Grains
Whole grain cereal keeps the blues away and gets your metabolism going. Have a bowl this morning for breakfast (I did!). Cant remember where I found this...
Today's Review: Firm Bootcamp Maximum Calorie Burn
Alison Davis, 2007 ***** (5 of 5 stars)
I really like the Firm and I like Allison as a lead. This is a good little workout. It clocks in around 50 minutes. I would consider this an intermediate level intensity workout though it can easily be modified up or down. I really give it my all and I can easily get an advanced workout. Ali and Sue Mi are background exercisers; with Sue Mi providing the beginner modifications. Alison is a great lead and cues well.
The workout is seperated into plyo/strength segments and cardio segments. She starts with a grounded move such as lunge and moves it into a flying lunge for example. If you just do the flying lunge the whole time you will definately get an advanced workout!
There are some tough moves in this workout: squat thrusts come to mind! She gives too many breaks (going down in intensity) IMO but thats an easy fix-just continue on w/ the high intensity move. There is a bit of bad camera work when she introduces this move, but once youve done the w/o once you wont even notice.
The last cardio segment is the most fun! She does a tire run, double step touch, shooting a basketball combo that got my HR up and I really enjoyed it. She also has a fun kickboxing segment as well. She does a bit of standing ab work and then more ab work on the floor at the end. Good ab work. Lots of variety in this one so I am never bored!
I use the strength portions as cardio breaks because I use this as a cardio w/o. So I use my lighter dumbbells (5#s). You could easily heavy up but the strength minutes are limited so I would rather capitalize on the cardio and use my light dumbbells for this one.
Today's Recipe: Ricotta & Berries Breakfast
-2/3 cup part skim ricotta
-1/2 cup berries (fresh or frozen)
-2 TBS chopped nuts
Top with cinnamon and splenda if desired. I stole this (again) from the Firm 14 Day Diet.
Today's Bargains:
-You can join the Firm webclub for a free 30 day trial and access the diet, fitness forums, live chats with instructors, nutrionalist advice, and other w/o tips & pointers here.
-Enter to win Jackie Warner's new book: This is Why Youre Fat from little yaya's here (3 winners)
-Enter to win Ecozip bags from Mommy2TwoGirls here.
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