What I picked and why
On Sunday, I decided that today would be the week of Jessica Smith. It wasn't because Leslie Sansone was annoying me. I started reading Thin in 10 and decided that I was going to workout with Jessica all week. There were some unintended consequences though, and I think I need to set better goals for next week. I did exactly what I set out to do. I worked out with Jessica all week long, but I kept picking 10 minute workouts. They were good workouts, but I really shouldn't have gone backwards in terms of the length of my workouts. Her concept for Thin in 10 is to workout in 10 minute increments, but she does suggest doing more than one 10 minute increment in a day. I picked this specific one because it was 10 minutes long and it had some strength training stuff in it. I haven't done anything strength training this week. Well, there were some squats in one of the workouts earlier in the week.
Equipment
She used dumbbells in this workout. I used 5 pound dumbbells and my shoulders are going to hate me tomorrow!
The Workout
This is a timed interval workout. She uses a GymBoss to keep the time. Each exercise lasts one minute. The cardio parts are marching in place. She has some different movement to mix things up a bit. We did the normal marching in place, but we also did some side steps, walking forward and back and then a real interesting one where we walked forward and back then to the right and left and back to the beginning. There's not much to say about walking in place for a minute, so I'll move on to the strength training.
The strength training segments were really good in my uneducated opinion. She mixed moves together so you could work more muscle groups in a short amount of time. For example, we did bicep curls and shoulder presses at the same time. So, we would curl up and then press up, bring the hands back to the shoulders and then back down to start another bicep curl. This was great! It kept things interesting, made it so we got more done in a short amount of time, and made it so we weren't doing just one muscle for 60 seconds straight. She did a similar thing with rows and tricep kickbacks. I loved this aspect of the workout. There were also knee lifts while pressing forward with the opposite hand. I didn't seem to feel these very much, but maybe I didn't hold it long enough since I felt like I was losing my balance. There was only one move that I couldn't do for the entire 60 seconds. I don't remember what she called it, but we leaned our upper body forward just a bit and did what I think are lateral raises, but instead of your hands coming down and landing at your hip, they come down in front of you. While you're doing these, you alternate stepping one leg back at a time. You can go down into a lunge, but we all know I didn't do that. No need to lie and say that I did. My shoulders are about as wimpy as you can get. This move just killed me. Just when I was about to give up on the arms, she suggested alternating the arms to make it easier. Even then, I had to skip a couple reps because I was on fire. It's funny though, last night I was reading in her book about DOMS (delayed onside muscle soreness), and she mentioned that you should never be so sore that you can't brush your hair or walk down a staircase without wincing. I'm not so sure that I'll be able to brush my hair tomorrow. I'm not even sure that I'll be able to put my hair up today since I have Jell-o shoulders right now, but it's all good. After this move, we did two more minutes of marching. The second minute was slowed down and there was some stretching involved in it.
Peanut was in this workout. She just stood there and watched. I love Peanut. I really liked this workout too. It was more fun than the one from yesterday.
BodyMedia Screen Shots
Here are my BodyMedia screen shots. I was surprised that there were less calories burned than yesterday, but I shouldn't have been since the strength training segments always seem to have a lower burn. I was hoping that I would see more spikes in the workout arc since they were one minute intervals, but it's still pretty much just a blob. I liked this workout better than yesterday, but yesterday had more vigorous activity and more calories burned.
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