Morning Part Time Yogis -
I didn't want to get out of bed this morning and face the day. I'm still in shock from what happened yesterday. I forced myself to workout.
I ended up doing Rebecca Small's Step to Success for with my own warm up and cool down. I did it on my higher step and kept repeating the segments to learn them better, as my mind doesn't seem to be functioning properly (too much going on up there). I ended up doing a total of 70" minutes of aerobics and then added Cathe's 10 Minute Stretch for the stretch. Total time with stretch was 1 hour 20 minutes and I burned around 537 calories.
I also did Bryan Kest's Original Power Yoga for Beginners - 30" followed by his Power Ab routine about 10". I added pigeon pose with twist variation, lying pigeon, plough and inversions to the end of this yoga DVD, as it had no hip openers and I felt I needed the hip openers with the amount of stress my body is under right now. Other than that, this was a pretty good short practice. I noticed he doesn't really do hip openers in 2 of the practices and only 1 lying twist. I guess it's good for variety and I seem to like his personality more in these than the first series. He seems warmer in these. He does talk a lot...but it doesn't bother me. He also instructs and does not do the practice with the students.
The 2 Audio practices - 90 min ones look really good. I can't wait to try the Long & Slow one. That looks amazing. 90 min is a bit long ....but hey, I guess I've got time this week!
My legs didn't really feel sore from yesterday except when I started stepping, I could feel them a bit. My abs don't seem to get sore from anything any more either.
I'm really depressed. I don't even want to get in the shower. You know it's pretty bad when you can't even say your prayers without crying.
Sorry to sound so down........but I still can't believe I have to go thru more of this crap. Life is really hard for me anymore. I don't even feel like I can go on.
I didn't want to get out of bed this morning and face the day. I'm still in shock from what happened yesterday. I forced myself to workout.
I ended up doing Rebecca Small's Step to Success for with my own warm up and cool down. I did it on my higher step and kept repeating the segments to learn them better, as my mind doesn't seem to be functioning properly (too much going on up there). I ended up doing a total of 70" minutes of aerobics and then added Cathe's 10 Minute Stretch for the stretch. Total time with stretch was 1 hour 20 minutes and I burned around 537 calories.
I also did Bryan Kest's Original Power Yoga for Beginners - 30" followed by his Power Ab routine about 10". I added pigeon pose with twist variation, lying pigeon, plough and inversions to the end of this yoga DVD, as it had no hip openers and I felt I needed the hip openers with the amount of stress my body is under right now. Other than that, this was a pretty good short practice. I noticed he doesn't really do hip openers in 2 of the practices and only 1 lying twist. I guess it's good for variety and I seem to like his personality more in these than the first series. He seems warmer in these. He does talk a lot...but it doesn't bother me. He also instructs and does not do the practice with the students.
The 2 Audio practices - 90 min ones look really good. I can't wait to try the Long & Slow one. That looks amazing. 90 min is a bit long ....but hey, I guess I've got time this week!
My legs didn't really feel sore from yesterday except when I started stepping, I could feel them a bit. My abs don't seem to get sore from anything any more either.
I'm really depressed. I don't even want to get in the shower. You know it's pretty bad when you can't even say your prayers without crying.
Sorry to sound so down........but I still can't believe I have to go thru more of this crap. Life is really hard for me anymore. I don't even feel like I can go on.
Tonight's WO...SUCKED!!! DH bailed out on me, so I did one I got from Netflix...Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity. The toning section is good but the cardio is bad. It is geared toward "older" adults anyway, but even the least bit of cardio challenges me, so I thought I would really like it. She keeps the moves fairly simple, but they are not well sequenced and her cueing is suboptimal. The workout is beautifully filmed; however, and Tamilee looks really fantastic, whatever her age. I got a taste of what firewalkers must feel like..I liked it...so I better get ready to break in Butts and Guts finally. To catch up, on Friday I did Cindy Crawford's Shape Your Body. Again, sooooo old...I have the VHS version, but I can't seem to get rid of it. I really feel like I worked my butt off for the short time, since Radu the trainer counts like he's on speed the whole workout. Saturday was Supersets with DH and he also worked out with me on Sunday doing an old Kathy Kaehler WO, Target and Tone. Monday's WO was Slow and Heavy Chest and Back. I was all excited because I stopped on the way home to buy a set of 25's and used them for everything in the WO except the chest flys.