Beginner/Intermediate Check-In 4/2-4/8

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Hi everyone,

Yesterday was a rest day for me. This morning I did Karen Voight "Sweat Effect". I am getting better at this one now and this really makes me sweat. It's really tough trying to lift my own body weight when doing the kickboxing routines. I didn't know I was that heavy :eek:

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
Hi everyone! I'm off to Hawaii tomorrow morning and will be back next Monday! I'll be doing alot of hiking and wild caving in lava tubes, so that will be my primary excercise! The hotel we are staying at has a gym, so I can get a few hours of weight training in there too!
Hope you all have a great week!
Janet
 
Have a good trip to Hawaii Janet! You have to tell us all about it when you get back. Don't forget about us!

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
Kimberly, how do you compare Sweat Effect to Kick Punch Crunch? Right now I am not able to do any cardio because my knee flared up again.Well, I can swim and walk, that's it. I also don't think I can do standing legs for a while till this calms down. So today I did gym style floor legs, still impressed by how much better I do that fresh instead of after all those squats and lunges! Then stability ball abs and a walk. This afternoon I swam for 15 minutes. I will try to swim longer to get more cardio. Walking is more relaxation for me since I don't like to walk fast. Leslie is out of the question becuase that is what flared my knee. I overdid it with the 5 miles. This week I have planned to do various floor legs (PLB, legs and glutes, karen voight, pure strength to choose from.) And alternate with gym styles upper body workouts. Abs every day. Walk every day. And swim when its warm enough. So I can keep doing some type of exercise at least.
Beth
 
Beth,

I would say that Sweat Effect is more medium intensity kickboxing workout but Karen states that this workout has kickboxing moves. Where Cathe is straight kickboxing. Karens form is great and not like the Turbo Jam workouts if you have ever tried them. Let me try to break it down a little bit for you when I get home from work because it's hard to put it into words.

This morning I did entire workout of Cathe GS Chest and Triceps. I am trying to figure out what is missing when you do the Timesaver Superset and Timesaver. Is it all those pushups at the beginning of the workout? I don't remember doing all of those in the shorter version though.

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
The Timesavers on chest and triceps cut out some pushups and shave the last set off of most of the exercises. I'm going to do the full workout tomorrow too. Except I have to skip every other pushup set for recovery time. I'm also terrible at pushups-sometimes they hurt my shoulders. After that I will do my Denise Austen Pilates DVD. I need to rent her Hit the Spot Pilates from Netflix. It has 7 different 10 minute segments you can mix and match.
I cleaned house today and so just did some yoga stretches. I am also doing straight leg lifts with ankle weights to strengthen my quads without putting any stress on the inflamed kneecaps. I hope that helps. I got on my bike today just to test it out and my knees do not hurt peddling, so that is good news. I hope to really ramp up my swimming and biking with this warmer weather, and stay away from stepping and lunging.
Beth
 
Beth,

I didn't like all the pushups either. I think I will just stick with the shorter version. I live in St. Louis I will be able to bike ride in a few weeks. I haven't rode my bike for 2 years. I am going to buy my fiance a bike for his birthday this month so we can ride together.

As far as Sweat Effect this is a Low Impact workout combined with cardio moves and kickboxing moves. Karen likes to go easy on the knees joints. Nothing in this workout is high intensity like Kick, Punch & Crunch but you get a good workout. This doesn't require a lot of space to the workout. She does jumping jack and hops but all low impact. I just did Sweat Effect two days last week and my thighs were so sore. So I would consider this a Low Impact Cardio/kickbox workout for a high beginner to high intermediate exerciser. If someone loves Kickmax probably wouldn't like this workout because the intensity would not be high enough. If I had to mix this in Cathes rankings with her Kickboxing workouts it would go right before or even with Cardio Kicks.

I hope this helps but to me this is a good workout.

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
I took today as a rest day. No matter how much I try to workout 6 days a week my body won't let me. I know I have to listen to my body. Today I am going to sign up at the YMCA for the bellydancing classes which will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings 7:40pm-8:40pm for 7 weeks. I was told by someone who works at the Y that the instructor really works your abs. I can't wait for this one. I haven't exercised out of my house for years.

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
Maybe your class will dance to Shakira's music! Did you catch her "Hips Don't Lie" on American Idol? That would be fun.
I think Sweat Effect sounds exactly like what I need as it is knee friendly. I can't wait for it to come out.
Today I did all of Gym Style chest and triceps except for doing every other set of pushups. I think I like doing all the chest work but then just doing the timesaver sets for the tricepts. My tris are just so sore after the chest work that I don't do well-go down to 3's for a lot of it. AFter that I did Denise Pilates but any move involving my arms I just couldn't do! I need to remember to do Pilates before the arms workout next time.
Tomorrow is Pure Strength deadlifts, calves and floor legs and abs. It runs about 30 min and then I will stretch out using the band. My knee is better today-it didn't hurt at all but I am still not going to stress it for at least a week.
Beth
 
Maybe your class will dance to Shakira's music! Did you catch her "Hips Don't Lie" on American Idol? That would be fun.
I think Sweat Effect sounds exactly like what I need as it is knee friendly. I can't wait for it to come out.
Today I did all of Gym Style chest and triceps except for doing every other set of pushups. I think I like doing all the chest work but then just doing the timesaver sets for the tricepts. My tris are just so sore after the chest work that I don't do well-go down to 3's for a lot of it. AFter that I did Denise Pilates but any move involving my arms I just couldn't do! I need to remember to do Pilates before the arms workout next time.
Tomorrow is Pure Strength deadlifts, calves and floor legs and abs. It runs about 30 min and then I will stretch out using the band. My knee is better today-it didn't hurt at all but I am still not going to stress it for at least a week.
Beth
 
I didn't get a chance to watch American Idol yet even though I recorded it. I signed up today for the next session of Belly Dancing. Me and a co-worker got a preview of the class tonite since it was the last class of session I. Actually you are moving every part of your body (arms, legs, hips including abs) but gentle movements. This would be good after doing weights, kickboxing and step. Since the Y is directly next door to a Community College, one hour before the class starts I am going to walk around the entire campus of the college which has a lot of hills. It is 3 miles to walk the entire campus then which is about 45 minutes then I will go to the belly dancing class. I'm sure I will burn a lot of calories and tone my hips and thighs. So now I will be doing cardio 5 days a week, upper body 2-3 days per week, abs 2 days a week and hopefully 1 all leg workout (GS Legs or Legs & Glutes).

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
I didn't get a chance to watch American Idol yet even though I recorded it. I signed up today for the next session of Belly Dancing. Me and a co-worker got a preview of the class tonite since it was the last class of session I. Actually you are moving every part of your body (arms, legs, hips including abs) but gentle movements. This would be good after doing weights, kickboxing and step. Since the Y is directly next door to a Community College, one hour before the class starts I am going to walk around the entire campus of the college which has a lot of hills. It is 3 miles to walk the entire campus then which is about 45 minutes then I will go to the belly dancing class. I'm sure I will burn a lot of calories and tone my hips and thighs. So now I will be doing cardio 5 days a week, upper body 2-3 days per week, abs 2 days a week and hopefully 1 all leg workout (GS Legs or Legs & Glutes).

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
I didn't exercise this morning. I woke up past my exercise time. I was very tired. I will try again tomorrow morning.

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
I didn't exercise this morning. I woke up past my exercise time. I was very tired. I will try again tomorrow morning.

--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
Did you see the post by Heather today on Cathe's page? She was overtraining and has lost weight by cutting back a bit. I wonder if you are trying too hard. Here is the link to the original post where Cathe gave her a more modified workout:
http://69.0.137.118/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=2&topic_id=60152&mesg_id=60152&page=2
And here is today's post by Heather:
http://69.0.137.118/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=2&topic_id=60751&mesg_id=60751&page=1
I think that is really a good intermediate rotation Cathe posted.
I am cutting back a bit to let my knee heal and I am less tired in the process. Today I just went for a walk to let my body heal from chest and triceps. Tomorrow I will do floor legs and abs, and maybe walk or a bike ride in the afternoon. Saturday I will only swim.Then Sunday will be back-shoulders-biceps and abs. Honestly I don't think my body is going to change much anyway so I want to be in decent shape but still have a life and have some energy!!!
Beth
 
I so miss doing intense cardio!!!!!
Today I did some biking but had to keep my resistance low becuase my knee was twinging as I pedalled. I did the Pure Strength deadlifts, calves and floor work/abs. I also took a walk. But everything is such darn low intensity compared to cardio and Cathe's dynamic standing leg work I am going crazy.
Tomorrow I am going to try A-Jock's pool jogging workout combined with lap swimming. If my knee isn't better soon I will get it injected.
Beth
 
Hi Beth,

Thanks for posting the link. That is very helpful. I did come to that conclusion earlier this week that I might have high expectations for myself but I don't think they are doable for me. I think the problem is that I have so many good workouts (only 43) and I just want to do them all so I try to put as much of the workouts in my rotation. I really don't have any workouts that I just don't like. The majority of my workouts are Cathe. I just want to do them all. That is probably why I don't need anymore workouts. I actually have written a rotation and after reading the link I wrote another rotation. Since I am staring the bellydancing class on Mon & Wed I just thought I would walk around the college campus before the class starts which is 3 miles. This is the rotation I had planned:
Mon - GS Chest/Triceps (a.m. 32 min); walk 3 miles and belly dancing (p.m.)
Tue - Sweat Effect (45 min. a.m.)
Wed - GS Back/Biceps (36 min. a.m.) + Walk 3 miles and belly dancing (p.m.)
Thur - Low Impact Step (40 min. a.m.)
Fri - Sweat Effect (45 min. a.m.)
Sat - Strength Effect or GS Legs
Sun - Rest

After reading the link I thought about this one:
Mon - Supersets legs only (33 min. a.m.); Walk 3 miles and Belly Dancing (p.m.)
Tue - Body Fusion (50 min)
Wed - Muscle Max Legs only (23 min. a.m.); Walk 3 miles and Belly Dancing (p.m.)
Thur - High Step Circuit (48 min)
Fri - Sweat Effect (45 min)
Sat - Low Impact Step Cardio & Weights (1 hr 9 min)
Sun - Rest

What do you think about one of these?


--Kimberly C


"Here's to your health, to every moment, every week and month that you wake up to the privilege of another breath - another chance to get it right!" Oprah
 
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