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I'll also be following your thread with great interest. I've also just started doing light weights and barre after years of pumping heavier weights so this is a new experience for me as well. (I haven't picked up heavy weights in about 7-8 weeks.) My preliminary results are really...

I didn't set out to have my comments misinterpreted and thank you for explaining why they were. Unfortunately, I'll never appreciate or like that particular image. I still cringe when I view it. (Years ago, I thought the images of Twiggy were horrible too.) It has nothing to do with...

I'll say it again....you don't know me so please keep your inaccurate assumptions and judgments about me to yourself.

I said nothing about the woman being useful or needing to be perfect in this society. I just have no desire to look at her belly rolls in a "glamour magazine." Geeze. Yes, I do have a right to my opinion but you don't have the right to judge my empathy towards others based on my dislike of an...

I also loved "Pillars of the Earth." Hmm....so I guess if you're rereading "World Without End" it is also very good. ;) Maybe I should buy that one. I also enjoy Ken Follet from his "Eye of the Needle" days (oh yes, an oldie but goodie). You know, if I keep reading this thread without fail I...

I just downloaded Shanghai Girls onto my Kindle :) ....I know I'll be doing quite a bit of reading while traveling to Italy this September.

Sparrow, did you like "Shanghai Girls" as much as "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"? I was thinking of picking it up but was a bit hesitant (I didn't want to be disappointed). Oh, by the way, I do highly recommend, "The Vagrants" by Yiyun Li. The character's are memorable and novel is...

Karie, I really don't think you'll be disappointed. :) I also like that the Physique DVDs do include stretching. I just think stretching is something we tend to ignore but is tremendously important to increase overal flexibility. As a matter of fact, my 72 year old father insists it keeps...

Kassia, that's just so true! The image does seem overly exploitive to me as well. I still believe it's a horrible image and if I were the model I wouldn't want it shown. On the other hand, she's getting a lot of positive attention from women for that image. For some odd reason her body makes...

Karie, I haven't been doing any set rotation or much weight work. This is also the first time I'm doing a rotation where I've been working out according to how I feel. When and if I do weights I usually do light weights with Jari Love or Power Hour and it' max only one or two days a...

The model has a very beautiful face. Unfortunately, it's really the only thing nice I can say about the image. Seeing a picture of a young woman with unattractive belly rolls in a glamour magazine just doesn't give me any kind of warm fuzzies. Ick!

Hi Karie, I've only been doing barre workouts for about a month or two but I haven't been exclusively doing the Physique 57 (I've had the DVDs since 7/31 and do them an average of 3-4 times a week...sometimes more) DVDs. I need variety so I do mix them with Pure Barre and Fluidity... and...

All I can say is I'm really enjoying Physique 57. It' a nice change of pace....a really good purchase for me. As for purchasing the barre, I do admit after a few weeks of barre work my butt is certainly a bit higher (yay for that since I never had one to begin with)... so I have to say I'm...

That's what I wanted to see....the so called "average" women portrayed as comfortable in her own skin. I was hoping to see a group of self confident females finally telling the world, "This is me! I'm happy with myself ...let's move on." Geeze, that's not what I saw. I felt like they all were...

I caught one or two of these shows ..... it's really like watching a sad train wreck. I was hoping to see larger, yet confident, secure women going for what they want (weight not being an issue). Geeze, I was so wrong. All I saw was a bunch of overweight totally insecure females throwing...

This weekend I made Kathryn's "Cheezy" Kale Chips (as posted on her blog) and all I can say is "I can't believe I ate the whole thing!" They're absolutely delicious and healthy to boot! (I made my Kale Chips with pine nuts so I didn't have to soak anything before hand.) I can't recommend them...

I bow..... I'ved never played...only listened. For hardcore fans of the guitar... there is an interesting documentary coming out soon that you might be interested in called "It might get Loud." It's only going to be released in an artsy fartsy theatre by me (I still will go to see it ;))...

Abbe, I've always been a die-hard Cathe exerciser....I was so hesitatant to order (I didn't want to be disappointed) but glad I did. I like the barre and really felt I needed the flexibility aspects of the DVDs. Absolutely no disappointment here. Well, my only disappointment is I wish it was...

So far I've done the regular workout and the express workout and that hip shaking was a move that concerned me as well (in the previews I kept thinking to myself "What the heck?"). All I can say is that move is a real shaper and although, in the beginning, you feel silly, it does really work...

That is too funny!! On another note, I can't believe I just received my Physique DVDs. I really wasn't expecting them for another 2 weeks. Go figure! Now, I have to leave for work now so won't get to try them out until tomorrow. Oh well.... As for rotations, I haven't decided what I'm...