Today's Tip: Spritzer Your Juice to Save Calories
Combine your favorite juice (half of your usual amount) with plain or sparkling water. You can cut up to 85 calories per glass--and lose 5 pounds or more a year. From Prevention here.
Today's Workout:
-Denise Austin Daily Dozen (yoga stretch segment)
-The Firm Skills, Drills, & Thrills
(balance disc w/o)-Denise Austin 10 Five Minute Target Toners
(arms)*total w/o time 60 min + stretch
Today's Bargains:
-For a bonus entry to win The Firm 500 Calorie Workout, head on over to the Firm and tell me which dvd is on your wishlist?
-Enter to win an Eart Divas Handbag $20 giftcard on Little Yayas here.
-Enter to win a $40 CSN Stores giveaway at Carol’s Crochet Place here.
-Win a $5 subway giftcard (TWO winners!) on Lauras Win, Lose, or Blog page here.
-Win a Slimpressions body shaper on Review Retreat here.
Today's Review: Firm - Skills, Drills & Thrills
Tina Smalley, 2007
This set comes with a green balance disc and a dvd. The dvd is a (light) AWT workout that has a lot of core & balance work in there as well. The set is the wood floors/ white walls/ fake city view windows set. There are two background exercisers-Emily shows the beginner modifications. The dvd has a 25 minute express version of the workout on it as well. All you will need for this w/o is the disc that comes with the dvd.
I really like this workout. There is one challenging cardio segment and some of the balance moves are actually quite challenging. Balance is my weakpoint so take that w/ a grain of sea-salt. The rest of the cardio and the strength moves are not that difficult. All the cardio is straightforward and easy to pick on. You can easily add in more plyos though and work up quite a sweat-I did!
Tina has you doing squats on the disc, lunges onto the disc, reaching front-back-and side off the disc, side lunges onto the disc, pushups w/ 1 hand on the disc, and plyos on/off the disc. For some of the segments you use the disc as a step and do an L-step, knee raise, etc onto the disc.
The ab work in this one is good! Like I said-you are working your core in a lot of the balance moves too. You do some standing ab work (lunge onto the disc and twist), then you move onto floor ab work -V sits on the disc, crunch variations w/ the disc under your low back and then you move the disc and sit on the very end of it to work the core in a slightly different way. I was really feeling it by the end!
You can make the workout easier by inflating the disc less, more challenging by inflating the disc more. I would rate this workout as a high intermediate because of the balance challenge and the fact that its different and has a learning curve. It does have its place in my collection and Im glad I bought it. I like Tina (though she tends to "whoo" alot, doesnt she)-she cues ok in this one and has a nice demeanor. This is worth having for variety and fun factor IMO.
-1/2 cup 1 or 2% cottage cheese
-1/2 cup shredded carrots
-1 TBS sunflower seeds
-1 TBS raisins
Mix and enjoy! I stole this idea from fellow blogger-Jo (thank you Jo!) and changed it up a tinnnny bit.
Today's LOL:
No comments:
Post a Comment