Now lets break this down: I received a $100 giftcard. With that I purchased FOUR swimsuits! Is that unbelievable???? I went through their website and put every suit I LOVED into my shopping cart. Then I went through and weeded it down to these four, checked the total and it was $96.00! I was shocked!!! I expected to get ONE suit, not four!!!! I wore the yellow one on Saturday and it was really flattering. It has a built in tummy control panel (that helps!) and it is slightly gathered on one side (helps!). It does have a strap that I can put on it but it stayed up really really well w/out the strap and I even went down a slide into the pool w/ no issues!
Today's Workout:
-The Firm Power Sculpt
(green stick w/o)-Exercise TV, Slim Down Fast (2 segments)
*total w/o time 60 min + stretch
Today's Tip: Artificial Colors in Food-Unhealthy?
If they're in your food, they've been approved by the FDA (but how much do we trust the FDA lol). Fitness mag says "...it's a good idea to limit most artificial colors and preservatives -- not because they're unsafe, but because they're often found in products that have a low nutritional value to begin with, preservatives make foods more shelf-stable, but who needs a snack cake that stays fresh for six weeks"
Today's Review: Firm Power SculptAllie Del Rio, 2006 **** (4 of 5 stars)
This 20 min dvd is led by Allie in an open room with white brick walls, foggy windows, and hardwood floors. There are 2 Firm instructors as background exercisers. No beginner modifications are shown. It is all sculpting, no cardio, but some of the moves can provide a cardio effect. It moves right along and the 20 minutes really fly by.
This dvd comes packaged with a 9 lb bright green weighted body bar that can be screwed apart to make 3 smaller 3 lb bars. I bought the dvd used without the bar and just used my old 8 lb Firm sculpting stick. Because the 8 or 9 lbs is really not enough weight to do much I did the following things to up the intensity of this one: I wore my 20 lb weighted vest, 1 lb weighted gloves, and attached my 2 lb pink Firm weighted balls to my stick. At the end I even put on my 2.5 lb ankle weights (yes Im sure I looked hilarious!). With all these additions I could actually feel my muscles being worked very well and my heartrate did get up.
Allie goes through a series of lunges, squats, bicep curls, shoulder work, tricep work, and some lying inner and outer thigh work before she finished with some ab work and a stretch. Keep in mind this is only 20 minutes and you are supposed to be using a 9 lb bar so dont expect to be feeling a whole lot by the end if done as is. But you can easily just use dumbbells instead of the stick, a heavier stick, or do what I did and add all sorts of crazy equipment.
Allie cues well and does a great job leading this workout. I would rate it as beginner or low intemediate because of the weight of the stick. I actually really enjoyed this workout. If I had a 20# or heavier bar, this would really be a great 20 minutes spent.
Today's Bargains:
-For an additional entry to win Taylor's Nutrition Vanilla Platinum Hydro Whey Protein Powder (after completing mandatory entry here)- write a FB post about this giveaway including @Taylor's Nutrition.
-Saturday June 12 at Old Navy their (wife beater) tank tops are only $2 each!!! I am def hitting O.N. on Sat.
----Enter to win a Sodastream starter kit on Midwestern Gone Idahoan here.
----Enter to win a dozen Smiley Cookies on Mommy2TwoGirls here.
----Enter to win a fitness dvd from TotalFitnessDVDs (yay Mary!) on Little Yayas here.
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