Advice on Next Rotation

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JenniferAnn

Cathlete
This is the my 5th week of doing PS and I'm ready for a change. I'm getting a little bored and maybe a little too familiar with PS so I'm slacking off. My primary goal is weight loss. I'm thinking that I'll try an endurance rotation next. This is what I was thinking.

Sunday: Intense Moves
Monday: PowerHour
Tuesday: 1 Hour Low Impact Cardio
Wednesday: Circuit Max
Thursday: Powerstrike
Friday: 30 Minute Step Cardio + PowerCircuit
Saturday: Rest

What do you think? There's more cardio here than I've been doing and less strength. Is there enough strength here to maintain what I gained during PS? Would Leaner Legs be a better choice than PowerCircuit? I choose PowerCircuit because I wanted to do about 5 hours of cardio a week during this rotation.
 
For the purpose of weight loss, I like your rotation. I just started a similar rotation after my 6 weeks of heavier lifting.

I'm using Powerhour, BodyPump and CircuitMax as my weight workouts for week 1
and PowerHour, BodyPump and Reebok Step Circuit Challenge for week 2, and I'll alternate the weeks for 6 weeks.
It's usually the endurance style workouts that will give my body a little "heave ho" on losing or letting go of a # or 2.
I also alternate interval workouts, 1 interval workout week 1 and 2 on week 2. I mostly use Imax (weekly) and Intense Moves, but I've recently added Mindy M.'s Extreme Intervals to the mix (it's okay, takes some getting use to her style), but I was getting tired of the same 2 interval videos, soooooo........

But try your rotation on for size and if it's too much cardio for you, tweek it, and maybe take Friday's cardio off and replace it with Leaner Legs. Or rotate it, 1 week w/Powercircuit and a 30min cardio and the next week with no cardio and Leaner Legs. Variety helps me to prevent boredom, and by the time I get back to a particular workout, I'm loving it because I haven't done it to death. :)

Let me know how your rotation works for you. :)

Donna
 
Do you have BodyMax? If that's the case, I'd suggest you do that on Friday, and not do Circuit Max on Wednesday. On Wednesday you could do something more low impact. So that gives you two days of upper body weights (Monday & Friday) and two lower body workouts (Monday & Friday) and 5 days of cardio, 2 being low impact and 3 higher impact.

I made this suggestion because I like the upper body work on Bodymax better than that featured on Circuit Max. You could do Bodymax on Saturday (since it's 90 minutes long) and rest on Friday if time is an issue (it's ALWAYS an issue for me!)
 
Unfortunately I don't have BodyMax although I've been seriously considering buying it. Money's a little tight right now (I'm a law student living on financial aid) so I'm putting off buying it just yet. I'm a little concerned about the upper body work in Circuit Max. I've only done CM one time and was not able to use weights above 3# because I was fatigued from the cardio. I was thinking of adding in the upper body work from Karen Voight's Great Weighted Workout on friday. BTW, I have more time to work out on friday than any other day because that's my study day (no classes) and I need some long breaks in there away from antitrust and my other boring law school subjects or I'll go crazy.

Thanks for the advice!
 
Plan B IS to add some upperbody work to Circuit Max. Maybe you could do it later in the day, after you've rested a little from CM....it's a grueling tape, Cathe's hardest, IMO.

I would move that one to Friday to give you more time to do it all.
 
Hey, JenniferAnn,

I started working out to video tapes when I was in law school too, which was, ummm........ about 15 years ago. I was addicted to Vol. 1 of the Firm back then. One little tip that I wish someone had told me, although it will sound silly to you: wear your backpack on both shoulders! It's so easy to sling it over one shoulder and let it hang off the other, and those books are so heavy (if they're still using books! :) ) I have back problems that originated at that time. I foolishly gave up the Firm, thinking it was causing the pain, but I didn't realize until after graduation that it was more likely the heavy books that caused my problems. I believe that if I had taken the time to wear the backpack properly that I would feel better today. As Cathe says, just a suggestion! Good luck with law school!
-Nancy
 
Thanks for the advice, Nancy, but I use a rolling backpack. After about a week of class last year (I'm a 2L), I broke down and bought the rolling backpack which is the probably best thing I ever bought. My backpack now weighs about 30 pounds. BTW, back when I was in undergrad (back when you were in law school - I'm 'old'), we always wore our backpacks over one shoulder. It was so 'uncool' to wear them over both shoulders. But now everybody (except us old folks with the rolling bags) wear them over both shoulders. Fashions change...
 
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Oct-04-02 AT 07:55AM (Est)[/font][p]Sounds like I'm way behind the times. What's a "rolling" backpack? (I don't think I've worn a backpack since my law school days.) I was an "old" law student too! I graduated at the age of 34. My law school had MANY students who were older than me as well. I went to law school in my home state of New Jersey. Which state are you in?
-Nancy
 
I'm in Missouri. A rolling backpack is a normal backpack in all other respects but it has wheels and a retractable handle. I love mine. It has *saved* my back.
 
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