Review of Daily Burn Day 50: Cardio Sculpt Upper Body Roller Coaster

Day 50: Cardio Sculpt Upper Body Roller Coaster

Today was probably my last Daily Burn workout for some time. I think my free trial is up today. I was hoping to get more done during my trial, but it just didn't workout. I picked this one for my last workout because I was just in the mood for some weight lifting! I got that, that's for sure! This is the same instructor who did the Let's Move workout that I did in the DB15 series. I liked her in that, but I wasn't a huge fan in this. The workout was just a bit chaotic for me. It didn't have a good structure like the ones with Anja. For this workout, we used a step (optional) a pull up bar (optional and I didn't use it since I don't have one and can't do pull ups), dumbbells (you could get away without them if you're just starting out.) 

The workout was about 45 minutes. It started off with a warm up which included shoulder rolls, tricep stretches, chest stretches, back stretches and Figure 8s, 

The challenge was for Pull Ups. I almost didn't do this workout because it said I needed a pull up bar and I didn't have one. I figured that I would just make something up. She did have an alternative though. I did rows! I love rows! I love back and bicep work in general! 

Circuit 1 was One Sided Push Ups and Back Rows. The Push Ups were done with one hand on a step. This made it pretty hard! My triceps were killing me by the end. We did a round of push ups and then a round of rows and then another round of push ups on the other side. I think we did another round of rows too. For the last few seconds of the push ups, we held it in the down position. 

Circuit 2 was Decline Push Ups and Alternating Rows. The decline push ups had our feet (or knees in my case) on the step and our hands on the floor. OMG these were hard. I remember the first time I did decline push ups. I was at the gym and my trainer had me do them with my knees on a weight bench. That was way worse than this. I wasn't strong enough to do them and I felt like I was going to fall on my face. This went much better than that experience, but it was still pretty rough. My triceps and shoulders are just too weak for this stuff. 

Circuit 3 was Chest Flies and Back Extensions. We did these on the step. For the chest flies we had our shoulders and head up on the step. For the back extensions, we had our belly on the step. The back extensions were awkward, but the chest flies were great. 

Circuit 4 was Plank Bicep Curls and Overhead Triceps. Okay so this is where the madness started. We held a Plank with our feet pretty wide. We then did bicep curls with one arm. That was just craziness. I survived the first round. I felt good! However, then we did overhead triceps with the same hand that was doing the curls which meant it it was about to be the plant arm for the second round of Plank Bicep Curls. I tried, but it didn't work well. I ended up standing up and doing the modified version. My triceps were pretty fried by then so the Overhead Triceps were just torture for me! 

Circuit 5 was Squatting Bicep Curls and Side Lunge Tricep Kickbacks. These are pretty self explanatory so I won't give an step by step on the move. The squatting bicep curls went pretty well, but the Side Lunge Tricep Kickbacks were a bit awkward and not fun. For the last few seconds of the squatting curls, we held the squat. 

Circuit 6 was Side Planks with a lateral shoulder raise, Bottle Pours and Cry Babies. Is it really a lateral shoulder raise if you're in side plank position? I'm not really sure, but that's the closest name I can come up with. These were HARD. I did the side plank on my knees, and it was still rough. Bottle Pours were uber hard! We held the weights down by our sides and then raised them up straight in front of us still with the weight facing up and down. Then we twisted our hands in as if we were pouring a bottle. Then we straightened them back up and lowered them back down. For the last few seconds were just kept with the pouring motion. Cry Babies were interesting. We held the weights right up by our chests and our elbows were out to the side. We then moved our elbows up and down. i think we were supposed to look like a baby crying and rubbing their eyes. It was torture and I felt like a dork. My shoulders were on fire! I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to wash my hair in the shower! 

Round 7 was Shoulder Presses and Hulks. Shoulder Presses are self explanatory. Hulks not so much. We had weights in our hands down in front of our thighs. We had our elbows bent slightly and we raised our hands up. This sounds easy. This looks easy. This were NOT easy! Then we did a stretch to finish things up.

Overall, I like the instructor and I liked the exercises, but I wasn't a fan of the lack of structure this workout had. Anja's workouts have a set plan. She says how many circuits we'll have, how many moves per circuit, how long each move lasts and when we get rest breaks. This didn't have that. I felt like it was a really long workout because of the lack of knowledge about the system. 

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I wasn't expecting much for the calorie burn and activity minutes. Weight training never shows much on here. 

Review of Daily Burn Day 38: Intelliburn Total Kettlebell Circuit

Day 38: Intelliburn Total Kettlebell Circuit

I love Kettlebells and I really like Daily Burn, but I'm not a huge fan of the Kettlebell program because they are 51 minute workouts with 20 minutes of kettlebells. I've been wanting a 30ish minute program. I'm okay with longer as long as it's mainly kettlebells. I found what I was looking for in Intelliburn Total Kettlebell Circuit! This has the same instructor as the kettlebell program. I really like his style. He's pretty laid back and focuses on form. He doesn't get in your face and push you to move super fast while throwing around a kettlebell. The format is like all the other Daily Burn workouts. There was a timer in the lower right that ticked down the time left in the workout and a bar on the bottom that filled up as we did each move. When the bar was full, we moved on. 

We had a short warm up that included the Rocky Bounce, neck stretches, shoulder rolls, squats, goblet squats using the kettlebell, and halos using the kettlebells. I like this better than the Kettlebell program already. I got to use the bell in the warm up! SWEET! 

Then we went to the Challenge for the workout. This challenge was pushups. We were supposed to do as many push ups as possible in 60 seconds. Only the push ups with good form were to count. I didn't actually count my push ups. I need to work more on push ups. During Les Mills Combat, I thought I was going to get a full push up before I was done. I was rocking those knee push ups. I tried after I was done, but didn't get down very far. During PiYo, I thought I was going to get a full push up on my toes before I was done. I did them on my toes, but I didn't go down very far. I didn't get that full push up on my toes all the way to the ground. I was getting better though. During this push up challenge, I did them on my knees and by the end of the 60 seconds, I wanted to die! Maybe my shoulders are weak from something else I've done recently. I'm not sure. I just know that it was a rough 60 seconds and I was on my knees! They should have been easy! 

The workout consisted of three rounds. Each round had moves and we did each move for 30 seconds. Between rounds, we had a rest period. The first move was a Pullover Crunch. We were on our backs with our knees bent and our feet flat in front of us. We had a kettlebell on the floor above our heads. We grabbed the bell and brought it towards our legs as we crunched up. I didn't get much of a crunch, but I went as high as I could. Two of the people in the video came all the way up like a sit up. Wowzers!

Then we got on one knee and did a single arm swing. We did each arm for 30 seconds. After that, we got back up on our feet and did squats. We alternated catch squats and goblet squats. I kinda like these. Then we did the Yaw Press. If you're not sure what that is, you should Google it because I can't really describe it. It was similar to a military press using a dumbbell, but there was a upper body twist involved. Then we did the two arm swing. Then it was time to rest and do it all over again.

The cool down was several yoga poses including Eagle Arms, Table, Down Dog and Child's Pose.

I really liked this workout. It kicked my butt! I used a 15 pound kettlebell. It might have been a bad idea to go that heavy. He didn't say what weights they were using. The female in the group looked like hers was really small, but some of those styles of kettlebells can be pretty heavy in a small package. 

I don't plan on doing the entire Intelliburn series. I just wanted to do this one because it was kettlebells and I love kettlebells. I still have to finish up the yoga stuff and possibly do the Let's Move series if there's time. I haven't decided on that one yet though. It's all dance stuff, but I did like the 15 minute one. 

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I'm pretty surprised with how low my calorie burn shows on here. They had it listed with over 700 calories. I don't believe their estimate though. That's a bit high in my uneducated opinion. I think they use the same equation as the MapMyHike people who think I burn like 3000 calories by walking a couple miles. 

Review of Daily Burn Day 32: DBK6 Kettlebells

Day 32: DBK6 

It's been awhile since I've done kettlebells. I've missed them, but I needed a break. The last workout talked about it being a 20 minute workout which really got on my nerves. It's 20 minutes of kettlebells, but there's 30 minutes of other stuff. I'm getting down to my last days of Daily Burn, so I had to go back and finish up kettlebells. I really love working with the kettlebells. I'm just frustrated with this set up. 

This workout followed the same format as the other kettlebell workouts. There was a timer in the lower right that ticked down. There was a bar on the bottom of the screen that filled up as we did each move. Once the bar was filled, we moved on to the next move. We started off with mobility stuff like arm circles, thorax circles, and stuff like that.

The workout consisted of 8 exercises that we four times. The first and third rounds were one side and the third and fourth rounds were the other side. We started off with a starfish side plank. I wasn't able to do the starfish part. I did the side plank, but I didn't get my leg in the air. For the first round on each side, I was able to hold the plank, but for the second round of each side, I fell out of the plank a few times. 

Then we did the clean to squat. We cleaned the bell up and then squatted. We were supposed to do rock bottom squats, but I can't do rock bottom. I'm getting deeper though. Just not deep enough. 

Then we did a one arm deadlift with a kick. I missed the whole kick part of it the first time around. So we did a one arm deadlift which involved stretching one leg back. Instead of setting that food down after your upright again, we were supposed to take the leg that was back forward into a kick. The leg is never supposed to hit the ground. It goes from back to kick and back again. I had to touch my foot down each time. It was really hard!

Then we did the High Pull Windmill. I really like these, but they were pretty hard. I'm sure I'll feel it tomorrow. I can't really describe this one, so just Google it if you want to know what it's like.

Then we moved on to the Inside Clean. I can't really describe this one either since I could barely do it. Google this one too. 

Then we did a squat to a press. So we cleaned it up and squatted it down. As we came up from the squat we pressed the bell up. My shoulders were on fire by the time we were done with these. 

Then we moved on to Renegade Rows. I don't have two kettlebells the same weight, so I just did Dynamic Rows. Renegade Rows are probably a bit over my head anyway. So the Renegade Rows had you in a plank position on the kettlebells. Then you alternated rows. With the Dynamic Rows, we were in a bent over row position and we pulled the bell up and let go and then caught it with the other hand on the down stroke. I liked these for the first round, but by the fourth round, my shoulders were just shot. 

Then we moved on to alternating swings. We swung it up and then let go when the bell was weightless. At least that's what he said. I like these, but they really got my heart rate up! 

We rested for a minute between the rounds. 

Once all of the kettlebelling was done, we did some yoga stuff and we were done.

He talked about the fact that this was a 20 minute workout so anyone can fit it in, but it's not a 20 minute workout. It's a 51 minute workout with 20 minutes of kettlebells. I just wanted to scream when he was talking about that. I'm really enjoying the kettlebells and I'm glad that I learned all of these moves, but I'm done with the DBK series. There's another kettlebell workout in another program on Daily Burn, so I'll make sure I do that one before I finish my trial.

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Here it is! It still amazes me that I'm sweating as much as I did and only got 6 minutes of total activity! My heart was racing! How can it only be 6 minutes! Crazy Crazy!

Review of Daily Burn Day 18: Cardio Kickboxing 1

Day 18: Cardio Kickboxing 1

I had planned on doing yoga this morning, but I took too long to write my blog post for DBK5 and ran out of time. I scrolled through to find something that was 30 minutes or less and found the True Beginner series. I figured beginners would be 30 minutes or less. I found Kickboxing 1 and thought it sounded fun. I love kickboxing so win win. 

This workout doesn't show up until week 5 of the True Beginner series. It really is for beginners. The guy leading the workout is very calm and relaxing, but still motivating. He guided us through the workout at a nice pace. He wasn't yelling at us to go harder or faster. He just tried to get us to keep going. That was kind of nice. 

So this is similar to DBK where you have the clock on the right that ticks down the whole workout and you have the bar on the bottom that tells you how much time you have left for that particular move. I think we did each move for 30 to 60 seconds depending on what it was. The people in the workout looked like they should be in a beginner workout which was nice. It wasn't all perfectly fit people. 

We started off with some mobility stuff, but not the annoying stuff from DBK. These were slow paced and pretty easy stuff, but some of them still challenged my balance. There was stuff where we lifted up one knee and held it there for a couple seconds and then alternated. We did some side bends and a few other things. Nothing too crazy.

Then we got into the kickboxing part of things. The first move was just a jab cross. We did that for a minute or so and then we did a jab cross front kick. For some reason, this challenged my balance since we were kicking on the same side as the last punch. We did this fairly slowly and it would be easy to keep up for a true beginner. After that we did a jab cross kick jab cross. Then we did jab cross kick jab cross kick step forward. It was all pretty easy to follow. 

Then we went into an upper body thing. We did some knee push ups and then we did some elbow planking. He had us hold the plank for 10 seconds and then we rested for a couple seconds. We did three sets like that. I just stayed up in plank the whole 35 ish seconds.  Then we got up and did some bent over rows without weights. We just squeezed our arms and made resistance. 

Then we went back and did the whole thing over again on the second side. We did the push ups and the planking and bent over rows too.

Then it was time for the cool down. The cool down only last a couple minutes. It consisted of some toe touching that they called Star Fish, some back bends and a reverse lunge stretch on each side.

Overall, I would recommend the workout for a true beginner, but I wouldn't trust the calorie burn they show. It said something like 741 calories. That's crazy. Insanity burns around 1000 calories an hour. I just can't imagine that this slow paced workout burns more than Insanity.

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My calorie burn from BodyMedia is only 170. I can't imagine that BodyMedia is off by over 500 calories. It was a good workout and I got some vigorous minutes in there. I wasn't expecting much of a calorie burn from a True Beginner workout. I do plan on doing more of these True Beginner workouts before my Daily Burn free trial is over just so I can blog about them. There was so little information about Daily Burn when I was trying to decide if i should sign up or not.

Review of Daily Burn Day 17: DBK5 Kettlebells

Day 17: DBK5

I started out this 60 day trial period with the intention of doing DBK all the way through as laid out by the makers of the program, but that has changed. I love working with the kettlebells. I truly do. However, the kettlebell workouts are 51 minutes long and only 20 minutes of that is actually using a kettlebell and There are only 3 to 4 kettlebell workouts a week. The other days are Yoga and Mobility. I like the Yoga workouts, but I'm not a fan of the Mobility workouts. I then modified my plan to do this fast version so instead of doing 4 weeks with the same basic program before moving up to the next set of DBK, I would do two weeks. Then I just decided to say screw the calendar and do whatever I wanted. I've only done DBK3 and DBK4 once and I've already moved on to DBK5. Once the soreness goes away, I will do DBK6. I figure after I've done all of these, I'll know enough kettlebell moves that I can do my own kettlebell workouts without all of the mobility and yoga stuff. I'll still get my warm up in and my stretches, but my kettlebell workout will have more kettlebell than non-kettlebell stuff.

So the format is the same. We did 8 moves for 30 seconds each and had four rounds.

The first move was alternating side elbow planks. I suck at these. It was torture, but in a good way.

Then we did a Catch Squat. The bell was on the floor under us. We squatted down to grab it and pulled it up to our chests and did a Goblet Squat. Then we lowered it down to the floor and did it all over again.

Then it was the One Arm Deadlift. It was one leg too. My balance just isn't where it needs to be for these. I did them really slowly. I really felt it though. 

Then we did a Low Pull Windmill. So the bell was in the bottom arm. You've got one arm up in the air and one arm down. The bell was in the down arm. We kicked our hips out to the side and lowered the bell pretty much to the floor before standing back up. 

Then it was the "Mason Clean." They also called it an Outside Clean. They gave it the name of the producer of the show since he likes these. I can't describe this very well, but instead of spiking the bell between your legs, you move it along a straight line in front of you from left to right (or right to left depending on what side your on). This wasn't too bad while I was doing it, but I'm pretty sure it fried my lower back muscles in a good way. OMG I woke up sore the next day.

Then we did the Clean and Press. We spiked the bell between our legs, brought it up into racked position and then it went up over our heads and then we reversed the process. I like these too. It didn't really hurt to do it. I never got to failure, but my shoulders were pretty sore the next day.

Next was Explosive Alternating Rows. So we were in a bent over row position. We pulled the bell up and sort of dropped it as the other hand caught it. Then we lowered it down and pulled up again. It took me a bit to really get this one.

Then it was the One Arm Swing. I love the Swing! 

Then it was more Yoga. I like some of them, but not others. It was a good workout.

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I'm seeing more activity at least! It's a bit bothersome though that I can do my own Leslie Sansone workout while watching The Biggest Loser and burn way more calories than doing this kettlebell thing. Everyone talks about how you burn crazy calories doing Kettlebells, but I just don't see it on my BodyMedia device. Oh well. 

Review of Daily Burn Day 16: DBK4 Kettlebells

Day 16: DBK4 Kettlebells

I took yesterday as a rest day. I was sore still from DBK3 and I wasn't really in the mood to workout. I felt guilty about it that night and ended up doing some foam rolling after dinner. Not that foam rolling is much of a calorie burn, but it got me moving. I really enjoyed it too. It was nice to do while watching TV. I could spend however long I needed on each body part. When I woke up this morning, I felt like I had been given a beat down the day before. I felt all bruised up. All of the spots that were trigger points yesterday felt like I had been punched there. It wasn't terribly painful, but it was weird to have all of these random sore spots. A friend who does foam rolling said that it was normal, so I'm not worried about it.

Back to DBK4! This workout followed the same basic format as the previous three. There was a 15ish minute mobility section. This one was a bit different than the previous ones. It was nice to have some different moves. The mobility stuff consisted of some arm circles, some interesting elbow thing that I'm not sure I did correctly, Frog pose and some other similar things. The workout was 8 moves. Each move was done for 30 seconds. There were four rounds. There was a minute rest between each round. After the workout, we did 12ish minutes of yoga poses including Down Dog, Drill Bit (Up Dog with your hands facing backwards), Pigeon, One Arm Locust and several other similar things.

The kettlebell section started off with elbow side plank! I suck at side plank. I suck at elbow plank. I really suck at side elbow plank! I had to keep my knee down for most of it. Even with my knee down it was hard! I've done better with side plank when I was up on my hand, but this elbow thing is hard. They also had their feet on top of each other instead of how I've seen it with one foot in front of the other. 

Then we moved to the Squat and Roll. We were supposed to do a rock bottom squat and then sit on the floor and roll up on our backs. Then we roll back forward and stand up before starting it all over again. I wasn't able to do that. Instead, I did goblet squats. He said that we could pick any of the squats we had done. So I picked the one that I liked the best.

Then we went to One Leg Deadlifts. These didn't go so well for me. I wasn't able to keep my foot flat. I kept losing my balance and going up on the side of my foot. It probably wasn't a good idea, but that's what happened. I missed a few reps because of my balance. I was surprised at how much this worked my raised leg. I thought it was just work my plant leg, but nope! 

Then we moved on to the Kneeling Windmill Sit Through. This was an expansion of a move that we had done in a previous workout. We started off kneeing on one leg with the other leg at a 90 degree angle to the floor. We picked up the kettlebell with the hand of the raised leg. We cleaned it up and then pressed it up. Then we placed the hand of the lowered leg down on the floor. Then we did a windshield wiper move with the lowered leg and then pulled that leg through and sat down. Then we pulled that leg back behind us and went vertical again. I was a little fumbly with this one. I got through it without too much turmoil, but it wasn't really a fun move.

Then we went to the Swinging Clean. I liked this one. It was something I could do, but it was still challenging. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be feeling this one tomorrow. So the swinging clean...You start off with the bell in front of you. You pick it up and spike it back behind you. You bring it up and clean it into the racked position. Then you clean it down and swing it back between your legs again. 

Then we moved onto the One Arm Press. I liked this one too even though I don't like shoulder stuff. My shoulders suck. We got the bell up into a racked position and then rotated the shoulder out and lifted the bell up. Then we lowered it and rotated it back in.

Then we did Alternating Bent Over Rows. Instead of sticking with one side, we set the bell down after each rep and picked it up with the other hand. I love rows. I love any back stuff!

The last move was the Two Arm Swing. Finally! The Swing! I love the Swing! 

So that was the workout in a nutshell. 

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Here is the screen shot from my workout. 

Review of Daily Burn Day 14: DBK3 Kettlebells

Day 14: DBK3 Kettlebells

I finally did it! I made the jump to DBK3. I actually watched the remaining four workouts before doing it. I didn't watch them in their entirety, but I did look at each of the 8 moves in each of the four workouts. Some of them are going to be INSANE! I'll save that for another post though. For now, I'll focus on DBK3. 

This has the same format as the previous two workouts. There is about 10ish minutes of mobility stuff like leg saws, arm circles, knee circles and other stuff like that. Then we get to the workout! It's 8 moves and each move lasts 30 seconds. There are four rounds with a one minute break between rounds. Then there is another 15ish minutes of yoga. I love the kettlebell parts of this, but there are times where I think about the math. So you have 8 moves for 30 seconds each with a 10 minute rest period. So each round is 5 minutes and there are 4 rounds so you have a total of 20 minutes of kettlebell stuff (that's if you include the rest periods) in a 51 minute workout. That's less than half the workout going towards kettlebells. It's a little annoying. I really wish we could condense that down to like a 30 minute workout or add two rounds and drop off some of the yoga and mobility stuff since this workout program is loaded with that stuff.

Okay back to the workout.......The warm up mobility stuff was very similar to the others. I wish each of them was completely unique to ease any risk of boredom, but it's not. Oh well. This one started off with alternating handcuff planks. I always thought that we had plank and side plank and that was it. I'm learning so many new things with Daily Burn. If you've never seen or done them, handcuff planks are like normal planks, but then you pick up one hand and touch it to your lower back where you hand would go if you were in handcuff. I didn't think there would be any way in hell that I could do this, but I did it. If we were doing elbow planks, I don't think I would have been able to. It's only 30 seconds too so that helps.

The next move was front squats. I'm not sure why it's called a front squat, but I don't care really. We held the bell in a "racked" position. (Where you end up once you "clean it up.") We then did squats. Not too hard, not too exciting.

The next two moves were done without the kettlebell. They were to teach us proper form for something coming up in future workouts. The first was the One Leg Balance Stick. This one was a bit hard for me. It was the beginnings of doing a one leg deadlift. We leaned forward and stretched our arms in front as we picked up one foot and stretched that leg behind us. My balance sucks so this was pretty hard. I'm not really sure how this will go once I've got some weight in my hands.

The next was the Bodyweight Windmill. We did the windmill position, but we had no kettlebell. Not much else to describe on that one.

Then we finally did a fun one! Floor cleans! The bell is on the ground and you do a deadlift type of position to grab it and pull it up. It ends up in a racked position with your hand up by your shoulder. I like this! They didn't seem too terribly difficult.

Next came the kneeling press. We started with the bell in the racked position like after you do a clean. We were kneeling on one knee while doing this. We pressed the bell up as we moved forward a little bit. Then we lowered it as we moved back to the starting position. This was hard with a 15 pound bell, but I made it through and didn't have to skip any reps.

Then we revisited the single arm bent row, but this time we lifted the bell on each pull instead of every other. 

Then came more fun stuff! We did a single arm kneeling swing. The name says it all on that one. I really liked this one! Between this and the floor cleans, I felt like I was finally doing a kettlebell workout and not just working out using a kettlebell. Loved it! 

I loved this workout! I knew that I was going to be hurting the next day! I thought it would actually be my legs that would hurt, but it turned out to be my back. It was the weirdest thing though. It was my ENTIRE back. I've done back day before and really been sore the next day, but it was always in certain spots like my lats or my lower back from back extensions. This was the first time that my ENTIRE back was sore. My rear delts and traps down to just above my glutes. It was crazy. It felt amazing! I always loved back day partly because I was good at it, but partly because it felt so amazing the next day to have DOMS in my back! 

The program has you do DBK3 and the next day DBK4. I decided to do Yoga the day after since I don't like the idea of working the same muscles two days in a row. I think it was a good idea. I'm writing this two days after the workout, and my back is still a wee bit sore. I'm looking forward to doing it again. I love that I'm getting into more of the kettlebell moves! Woot woot.

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Here it is! I burn less calories according to this than they say I should. Oh well.

Review of Daily Burn Day 12: Strength Recovery Yoga

Day 12: Strength Recovery Yoga

Day 12 of Kettlebells is supposed to be Full Mobility, but as I mentioned in my previous post, I've given up on doing the kettlebell program the way it's laid out in the calendar. I want to get in as many different workouts as possible during my 60 day free trial. I will admit that I came to this conclusion after I decided that I just don't like the mobility exercises. I've been dying to do foam rolling so I was going to do the full body foam rolling workout this morning. However, it required a tennis ball and I didn't have any. All of the foam rolling workouts use a tennis ball according to the blurb about them, so I went with a Yoga workout instead. I picked Strength Recovery Yoga because it's part of the kettlebell pogram. It's the last yoga workout in the program. It doesn't show up in the schedule until much later, but I did it early just because I wanted to.

Okay so the workout is very similar to the Yin Yoga workout that I did on Day 5, but it was much less intense. It's led by the same instructor and has the same set up. It's just her in a room doing Yoga. She does a voice over with the instructions. I found that a bit annoying the first time around, but I got used to it. This was all about stretching and relaxing. We didn't do anything that was strenuous. I felt cheated out of Pigeon! I love Pigeon, but we didn't do it in this one. We did hold Down Dog for a bit and I'm pretty sure I felt that in my glutes and hamstrings later. It's hard to know if it was residual from yesterday's DBK2 or if it was from today's Yoga. 

There was some stuff in this workout that was just way beyond my flexibility level or my mobility level. I'm still working on figuring out the difference between those two. Anyway, I learned that I really need to work on flexibility or mobility in my back. My back was really tight and I couldn't reach my toes! I read recently that foam rolling can really help extend my range of motion with toe touches. I'm hoping it works! Tomorrow, I foam roll! 

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Here is my screen shot. It's rather unimpressive, but this was stretching yoga and not weight loss yoga. I wasn't expecting much of a burn. However, the Daily Burn people think I should have burned like three times this amount.  

Review of Daily Burn Day 11: DBK2

Day 11: DBK2

Day 11 was DBK2. I actually took a rest day between Day 10 and Day 11. Day 10 was DBK1 and it really worked my hamstrings. I thought that was pretty funny because I think on Day 10, I was complaining that the workout wasn't enough and I was ready to move on to DBK3 and DBK4. When I went to bed, I knew I was goingto have sore hamstrings in the morning. The sore hamstrings aren't actually why I took the rest day. In the afternoon of Day 10, my left knee started to hurt. I didn't tweak it or anything. It just started to hurt. In the middle of the night, I got up to go potty and my knee still hurt. When I woke up at 4:00 AM with my alarm buzzing in my head, I stood up and my knee hurt. I then climbed back into bed an decided to call it a rest day. I woke up in about 45 minutes and hung out on the couch for a bit. When it was time to get into the shower, my knee didn't hurt. I felt guilty about taking the rest day after that! 

The next day, I woke up fine, so I did DBK2. I did this workout for the first time on Day 3 of my Daily Burn trial. I loved it then and I still love it. However, it didn't make me sore. I'm not getting to failure or even close to failure except during the arm circles and the arm bar thing and those don't really count as failure. I'm really looking forward to doing DBK3 and DBK4! 

Day 12 is supposed to be Full Mobility and Day 13 is supposed to be Yin Yoga. I've done Full Mobility and wasn't a fan. I've done Yin Yoga too and actually liked it, but I've decided not to do this plan the way it's laid out. I only get 60 days with Daily Burn and I want to try as many workouts as I can during that time frame.

BodyMedia Screen Shot

Here is my screen shot. I show less calories on this than they show that I should have burned. Maybe if I did the lunges faster I would get up there with them. I'm not a fan of that section. They want you to go super low and I just can't, so I go super slow and try to get as low as I possibly can. 

Review of Daily Burn Day 10: Kettlebells DBK1

Day 10: DBK1

Today was Day 10 of Kettlebells. It was DBK1. I did this workout for the first time on Day 2 of Daily Burn Kettlebells. I loved it then and I still love it. However, I'm getting really close to moving on. This one seems a bit slow now. There is a lot of instruction in this one, and now that I've done it a few times, I'm ready for it to move faster. It's not so much that the reps aren't fast enough, but there seems to be a lot of resting between sets.  I used my 15 pound bell today. I got through each move without any issues. I didn't hit failure or really come close. The staggered rows were as close as I got. The last few reps were of the staggered rows were hard, but I didn't feel the burn and I didn't hit failure. Tomorrow is DBK2! 

I'm really excited to move on to DBK3 and DBK4. I love using the kettlebells and I love the format of these workouts, but I'm feeling like I'm not really hitting it hard enough right now. I felt the burn in PiYo. It was incredibly challenging. My legs would tingle all day long. I didn't enjoy doing some of the workouts, but I really liked how it felt. I know that DBK1 is the basics so I can move on to bigger and better things and I need to be patient, but I don't do patience. 

BodyMedia Screen Shot

Here is my BodyMedia screen shot for the workout. I got a whole minute of vigorous activity! My calorie burn according to the BodyMedia device is less than the what the Daily Burn people think it should be. 

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 9

Day 9: 15 Minute Mobility

Day 9 of Daily Burn Kettlebells was 15 Minute Mobility. I feel like I'm doing more stuff without the kettlebells than I'm doing with the kettlebells. Tomorrow I get to pick up a bell again! Woot woot! Okay, so 15 Minute Mobility is very similar to the first part of yesterday's workout Mobility Yoga. It was a lot of circling of my body parts. We did neck circles, arm circles, wrist circles, elbow circles, hip circles, knee circles and ankle circles. It was rather boring. I'm sure that it's doing wonders for my body and some of my body parts got a bit sore during all of the circling, but it's just not very exciting and it also doesn't give me much of a calorie burn. I'm so excited that I get to play with my bells tomorrow! Two days of kettlebelling and then more mobility and yoga!

BodyMedia Screen Shot

Here is my rather unimpressive screen shot. It was only 15 minutes though. I didn't even break a sweat. This wasn't supposed to be about sweating or burning calories though. It's about making me more mobile. 

 

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 8

Day 8: Mobility Yoga

I'm back at Daily Burn Kettlebells! I was pretty bummed that Day 8 wasn't actually a kettlebell workout though. It was Mobility Yoga. This was a 50 minute program. It was done in three parts. The first part was the mobility exercises like we did in Full Mobility on Day 4, but it only lasted about 15 minutes so we didn't do all of the same moves. We did a lot of arm circles and leg saws. Nothing lasted too terribly long in this section so nothing got too tough.

The next section was standing yoga. This was done in the same format as the other Daily Burn workouts, There was a timer that ticked down how much time was left in the workout and a bar that filled up to let me know how much time was left in that specific move. None of the standing yoga moves was very difficult. This section lasted 10 minutes or so. We did stuff like side bends. I really can't remember many of the other standing moves.

The third and final section was yoga on the floor. We stuff like Frog, Dying Warrior, Table and Tripod. Table and Tripod were hard! My arm was shaking! I don't remember many of the other moves. 

This workout wasn't much of a workout, but it did give me some good stretches. It felt weird though due to the format. It wasn't the deep breathing quiet calm yoga like Yin Yoga from Day 5. I didn't really feel like it was helping with my flexibility like Yin Yoga did. 

This workout seems to be in each week, but I don't think I'll be doing it. For some reason, I can't find this workout on my Roku app. I had to play it on my laptop which made it a bit awkward. I had to keep moving my laptop around as we moved around for the different moves. I also hate listening to any sound coming out of my laptop. Tomorrow is 15 minute Mobility. Then I get back to lifting that kettlebell!

BodyMedia Screen Shot

Here is my rather unimpressive screen shot, but it was yoga, so I wasn't expecting a calorie burn. 

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 7

Day 7: DBK2

Today was my Rest Day for PiYo, so I finished up my first week of Daily Burn Kettlebells. I'm a few days late doing Day 7. I should have done it on Tuesday. I thought doing Kettlebells and PiYo at the same time was possible, but it's not really all that feasible with my schedule. Getting in a one hour workout is doable, trying to cram more than that into a day is hard and trying to figure out what workouts to do on what days was just too taxing for my brain, so I left Kettlebells slip for a few days. Now that I've finished the first week and PiYo will be over in two days, I'll focus solely on Kettlebells starting Monday. 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE kettlebells! I really like the format of Daily Burn and I really like the instructor. He's low key, but still helpful. The other people doing the workout with him aren't annoying in anyway. Did I mention that I LOVE kettlebells? 

Today I did DBK2 using my 15 pound kettlebell. I made it through the entire workout with the 15 pounder. That made me really happy. I used the 10 pound bell the first time I did this workout and it was rough. I'm not really sure why I thought it would be a good idea to try the 15 pound bell this time, but I really wanted to. The pistol grip press thing was a bit hard and holding the bell up straight was hard during the kneeling windshield wiper thing, but I got through it and it felt great. I love love love doing the rows. I pretty much adore any back exercises that don't include back extensions. I'm not really sure why I love back stuff so much, but I just do. Back and bicep day was always my favorite at the gym. It could be because I'm good at them. I have strong biceps and as strong back. I can live decent weights with them, My chest and triceps are super wimpy. Leg day was good, but walking after leg day sucks. So there you have it.....I love back and bicep stuff because I'm good at them and because it doesn't really have a negative impact on the rest of my life. 

I'm so excited to make it through to the next set of DBK workouts! I know that I need to do DBK1 and DBK2 a few more times before moving on, but I really really don't want to wait! I just want to go do them tomorrow! I want to buy every kettlebell DVD there is! I want to go look up kettlebells on YouTube and do them right now while hubby watches TV! I wish I had done these sooner! Beachbody needs to make a kettlebell program so I can get a T-shirt!

BodyMedia Screen Shot

Here is my screen shot for the workout. It's not very impressive for the calorie burn, but whatever. I'm getting over the whole need to burn a bazillion calories. I had fun working out and that's what matters! 

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Days 5 and 6

I did Day 5 and 6 of Daily Burn Kettlebells the same day. I was also the same day as Day 49 of A person called Piyo. It was a busy day. The coming week is going to be rough. I've got the last week of PiYo, plus Daily Burn Kettlebells. There are too many long workouts in the coming week to double up, so I tripled up today and will probably have to do the same next Saturday and Sunday. I need to get Kettlebells onto a Monday through Sunday instead of this Wednesday through Tuesday thing that I've got going right now. It's going to be a very long week!

Day 5: Recover Yin Yoga

I actualy did Yin Yoga after DBK1 today. It just made more sense to end my triple workout day with Yoga. This was my first real Yoga workout. I did a Biggest Loser Yoga workout before, but that wasn't the same as this. This was more traditional calm music, slow deep breathing and very slow movements for stretching. This was not a weight loss yoga workout. I'm not going to go over all of the moves that were done because they all had Japanese names except for Pigeon, Down Dog and Up Dog. This was HARD! I was a bit disappointed to have the Down Dog Split thing like in PiYo. I didn't do so well with it either. I was pretty much fried by the time I got to this workout. 

The set up was just like Kettlebells. There was a timer that counted down the whole workout and there was a bar that filled as the move progressed. Once the bar was all the way across the screen, we were done with that move. However, this was a bit different because the person doing the routine wasn't speaking. She flowed through the movements and then she did a voice over on it. I found that to be a bit weird. It sort of kept me disconnected from the workout. It makes sense why they would do it, but it was just weird. I had a hard time following the moves with just her voice cues and I had to keep looking at the screen which made it a bit awkward in some of the moves.

I wasn't sure how this was going to go, but I really liked it. I found that I was a lot more flexible than I thought I was. I also feel really really stretched out right now. It felt pretty good! It wasn't a big calorie burn according to the BodyMedia, but that's okay. I wasn't going for calorie burn with this. I just wanted to feel like I had been stretched out, and this definitely did that. 

BodyMedia Screen Shot

There's not much to say about the screen shot other than, I don't think I did 100 steps. Most of this was on my butt. I did find it funny that she actually used the word butt several times. You don't hear people in workout videos use that term very much. 

Day 6: DBK1

I did Day 6 on Day 5 since it was going to be a rough week trying to work in all of the workouts. This sounded like a good plan at the time, but sitting here now a few hours later, I'm not so sure! I'm getting ahead of myself though. First I should talk bout the workout. 

The first time I did DBK1, I started out with the smallest bell that I had and I worked my way up. This time, I started off with the 15 pound bell. It made a HUGE difference. The fact that I had already done another workout today could have also made a difference, but I'm pretty sure the weight had a lot to do with it. This time around, this workout felt like a workout. The first time, it seemed pretty slow paced, but not this time! I was huffing and puffing for the bulk of the workout. I used those 1 minute rest periods to catch my breath! By the fourth set, that weight was getting heavy! I was grunting and groaning pretty good. The last four reps of the row were HARD! I didn't quite make it to failure on anything, but I came pretty close! 

My body took a beating today. I'm seriously wondering if I'm going to be able to walk tomorrow. My glutes are all tingly. I really felt it in my hamstrings today too. I think that I had better form today. I really worked on the hip extension thing that they talk about. I'm really excited to move on to DBK3 and DBK4! I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to wait until week 5 for that, but I'm not sure when to make the jump up. 

BodyMedia Screen Shot

I got two minutes of vigorous activity! Yahoo! I thought with all of that huffing and puffing that I would have had more than 13 minutes of total activity, but I'll take it! Three workouts in one day! OMG!

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 4

Day 4: Recover Full Mobility

Day 4 of the Daily Burn Kettlebells program isn't actually a kettlebell workout. It was Recover Full Mobility. I wasn't really sure what to expect. I was leaning towards a lot of stretching type stuff, but wasn't so sure on that since they also have a Yoga workout in this program. I definitely was not expecting what I ended up with. 

I can't really describe this workout. My best attempt is that it was 30 minutes of warm up exercises. Some of them lasted 30 seconds, but others were  a full minute. I didn't do so well with some of these. My knee started to hurt while doing some of them. I did not have fun during this workout. There were just so many things that I was blah about with it. 

The format was the same where there was a clock at the bottom counting down the workout and a bar filling up to show you how long you've been doing the current move. The instructor was the same guy who does the Kettlebell program, but it was set up almost like an instructional video instead of a workout video. Cody did some of the moves, but there were many of them that he had another person do. Cody would talk throughout the move and explain how to make it harder or easier. It just felt weird. When the other guy was doing the moves, he really emphasized his exhales and I found it quite distracting listening to him breathing. There were far too many moves to go over each one individually, but I'll give you the names and you can Google them if you want to know what they are.

Head and Neck Circles

Double Figure 8

Dynamic Arms

Arm Screw (PAIN!)

Arm Bar (Shoulders on FIRE!)

Tea Cups (I never did figure out how to do this one)

Tai Chi Twist (it was well Thai Chi on the screen though)

Thorax Circles (This taxed my brain, but I think I got it eventually)

Spinal Rolls (I kinda liked this one. I think I'm feeling it today too)

Loose Leg Leg Saw (This is where the pain began)

Inside Hip Circles (The knee pain carried into this one)

Outside Hip Circles (This one too)

Knee Figure 8 (I couldn't figure this one out)

Frog (LOVE IT)

Shin Lunge (I had never done these, but I kinda like em! Never thought I would find a lunge I like)

Shin Box (I eventually figured this out)

Shin Box Frog (I kinda liked this one)

Sit Through Extension (Kinda like a kick through with PiYo I didn't do so well)

Scorpion (This was interesting, but kinda hard, but still kinda nice)

Samurai Shift (I don't think I did this one correctly because I didn't feel much)

Extended Table (I wasn't so good at this one)

Bear Squat (Interesting name, but similar to the Down Dog squat thing in PiYo)

Tripod (I didn't even try this one. I just looked like something I shouldn't do)

Rock Bottom Squat (I didn't get very low, but I went as low as I could)

Plow Toe Touch (I didn't do so well with these, but I did try them)

Straddle Reach (Not what I was expecting, and I didn't do it. More rolling on my back UGH)

Shake Out (I did really well with this one! Woot Woot)

My overall thoughts on this workout.......I don't plan to ever do it again. It's in the schedule once per week for the first four weeks though. I'll work on my mobility with Tai Cheng after I'm done with Daily Burn or the 21 Day Fix. I have no desire to go through this workout ever again. I have to do workouts that I don't like to get through the Beachbody stuff to earn my T-shirt, but I'm not getting a prize for torturing myself with stuff I don't like from Daily Burn. If I don't like it, I'm just not going to do it. That may sound like a bad attitude. I should do things that I don't like so I can get better at them and then maybe I'll like them, but right now, I need to do workouts that I like so I'll keep working out. There are plenty of things that I do like, that I shouldn't waste time on things that I don't like. 

Day 5 of Kettlebells is Yoga. I'm really hoping that I like it! I've got PiYo Strength Intervals to do as well. It will be interesting to see how the next eight days goes. I might have to miss a couple kettlebell workouts and double up later. I'm looking at the PiYo schedule and Monday starts off with Drench which is 48 minutes. Kettlebells should be DBK1 which is 51 minutes. I obviously can't do them both in the same day. I'm going to do PiYo now, and I'll look at the schedule in a bit to see how I can tweak things and still get all of my workouts in. 

BodyMedia Screen Shot

Another less than impressive screen shot. My calorie burn was a lot lower than the one that showed on the screen. That's probably because I didn't finish every move and there were a couple that I didn't even do since they looked dangerous for me. 

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 3

Day 3: Kettlebells 2 (DBK2)

I was a bit sore when I woke up Friday morning. I was tempted to just roll back over and stay in bed for another hour. This whole plan of doing Daily Burn Kettlebells while finish up PiYo was a bit of madness, but I got up and I did the workout. I'm glad I did it too!

I just love this program so far. I'm sure I'll get bored with it soon enough since I seem to have a touch of ADD when it comes to workout programs. I think I loved PiYo in the beginning and now I just want to be done. I still love some of PiYo, but I'm just not thrilled with Drench and Sweat, and it seems like I'm constantly doing one or the other.

Okay, so DBK2 follows the same format as DBK1. You've got your 10ish minute warmup which was basically the same warmup as the first workout. I hope the warm up changes for DBK3 because having the same warm up over and over again really makes the workouts seem like they are the same.

After the warm up, you've got 8 moves and 4 rounds for each one. You do each move for 30 seconds. If the exercise is for one side of your body, you do the right side for rounds 1 and 3 and the left side for rounds 2 and 4.

We started out with alternating planks. I was a bit confused when he said what we were going to do because I never thought you did much in plank other than hang out. It's alternating side planks, but he doesn't use the word side. So you start out in plank and then go to a side plank, back to plank and then side plank on the other side. I didn't think this was going to go well for me, but it really wasn't that bad. I probably didn't have the best side plank form, but I'll get better.

We also did Goblet Squats. I had never heard of a Goblet Squat before. We held the bell up by our chests and then we just squatted. The bell never moved. It was simple enough with my 15 pound bell. Then we moved on to a Suitcase Deadlift. This was another move that I had never heard of. It was basically a one armed dead lift with the bell on the outside of our foot. I kept trying to squat with it instead of making it a deadlift. I also had a hard time keeping my shoulders square.

Then we did the kneeling windshield wiper. I love the names they come up with for this stuff. So you're kneeling  on one knee and you have one knee up with the foot touching the ground and you form a 90 degree angle with the leg that's up. So you end p getting the kettlebell in the arm of the raised knee. So then you touch the floor with the opposite hand while keeping the bell up in the air. Then you make a windshield wiper move with the foot of the down knee. I don't really get why the foot moves, but it does. I had a hard time keeping my 10 pound bell up in the air.

Then we did a kneeling clean. You're in the same position as the last move. The bell gets swung between your legs and then you pull it up into a clean. I don't really get why it's called a clean. I did this one with the 10 pound bell, and it worked out okay.

Then we did the Pistol Press. We held the bell in both hands and lifted it up over our heads. I did this with the 10 pound bell, and it went okay. After that, we moved onto the Bent Row. We alternated using the bell and doing one without the bell. I'm pretty sure I used the 15 pound bell for this move, but I might have used the 10. I love rows. I love how they work my back. I love how my back feels the day after I've done back day! I was pretty happy to be doing this little move!

Then we did the Box Jump. After watching The Biggest Loser last year, I thought a box jump was jumping onto a box. For anyone who watched last season, you should remember the one contestant who couldn't do box jumps. She had the height, but she just couldn't do it. She finally did it before the end of the season. So he says Box Jump and I say, "Hell to the No!" Turns out, he wants you to sit on a box and then jump up. I used my window seat and I survived.

After the Box Jump, we went into the cool down which was all yoga stretches. It was very similar to the DBK1. I liked Pigeon, Frog and Dying Warrior the best. I'm not a fan of One Armed Locust.

BodyMedia Screen Shots

I'm having fun with Kettlebells, but apparently, they aren't a huge burn for me either according to the BodyMedia device. I'm hoping that once I bump up to the next set up workouts that I'll get a better burn. These first two are just to start working with the bell and teach us about the hip swing. I know that doing the Kettlebell Swing gets me really out of breath so I know it's going to burn a ton of calories when I get there. I just need to get there!

Review of Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 2

Day 2: Kettlebells 1

Today was my first official day of Daily Burn kettlebells. Yesterday was just a 12 minute tutorial, but today was a full blown 51 minute workout. I was so excited and scared at the same time. I did two PiYo workouts yesterday so that I could do kettlebells today! 

I gotta say that I really liked this workout and I managed to get though it with little trauma. I really like the instructor and I'm pretty picky about my workout instructors. He was pretty low key, but very informative.

The warm up lasted about ten minutes. It included running in place, arm circles, side bends with a stick, some funky shoulder thing that I can't even describe, leg circles and leg swings. There may have been some other things as well, but I can't remember them. Each move lasted a minute. We did half of that minute on one leg and half on the other for the moves that we couldn't do both legs at the same time. Oh, and I think there was a frog stretch at the beginning. I'm not sure if it's a classic yoga move or if they just made it up for this. I kinda liked it though! There was a timer on the bottom of the screen that indicated how much time was left in the workout. There was also a bar at the bottom that filled as the minute went by.

The workout consisted of the same 8 exercises done in four sets. Each exercise lasted 30 seconds. There was a bar at the bottom that filled as the 30 seconds went on. Some of the moves were single arm moves. The first and third rounds were for the right side and the second and fourth rounds were for the left side. I got to use the kettlebell! Woot Woot! I was sooooooooo excited! So the different exercises (in no particular order) were plank, squats, single arm deadlifts, a thing where we flipped the bell over and raised it up over our heads, side bends with the stick, a false clean arm thing that I can't remember the name, a move where we sat down on a box (I used my window seat) and stood up quickly while pushing our hips forward, and a single arm row. 

After each round, there was a rest period. They also showed on the screen how many calories we had burned. It stayed pretty close to what the BodyMedia device showed. 

I did the first set with my 5lb bell, the second and third sets with my 10lb bell and the last set with my 15lb bell. I wasn't sure what to expect, so I wanted to make sure that I started off low so I could make it through the whole 51 minute workout. Next time, I'm going to do it with the 15lb bell for all of the sets. I never felt like I got to failure. I hope the 15lb bell gets me there because I spent $26 to get these bells and hubby won't be thrilled if I need to buy a heavier bell after a week! Apparently, I'm stronger than I give myself credit for! 

The cooldown lasted about 10 minutes. It was a bunch of yoga poses. I don't remember all of them, but the ones I liked best were pigeon, dying warrior and frog. Tomorrow is a PiYo rest day, but I won't get to rest! I've got kettlebells 2 tomorrow! I'm excited to see what that involves. Then this weekend it's Recover Full Mobility and Recover Yin Yoga. Both of them are about 30 minutes. I'm not really sure what to expect from either one of them, but I think they'll work out great after a PiYo workout. PiYo will be Drench and Strength Intervals! 

Overall, I was thrilled with this workout. I loved the set up, the instructor and the moves. However, I'm still a bit puzzled by the Daily Burn app on my Roku. Yesterday showed the Swing Clinic as Today's Workout, but it was there again this morning. Apparently the app doesn't keep up with me, so I'll have to make sure I know what workout to do each day. That's not a problem since I've been doing that with PiYo and Les Mills Combat, but not all of the workouts are in the Kettlebell program, so it could be annoying to find them. I need to give it more time to figure out if it's annoying or not to deal with the app. 

BodyMedia Screen Shots

Well, my screen shots aren't very impressive. This was the first workout and I was still figuring out what I was doing. We'll see how tomorrow goes. I might fast track myself to Kettlebells 3 and 4. :) That big spike at the beginning was the running in place section.

Daily Burn Kettlebells Day 1

Daily Burn Kettlebells 

I have been dying to do kettlebells for months! Today, I finally got my wish! I have a 60 day free trial to Daily Burn. I'm going to use it to do the kettlebell program that they have. The program is 90 days and consists of 6 kettlebell workouts that are 51 minutes and an assortment of yoga and mobility "workouts" that are between 15 and 51 minutes. There is little information about the program before you actually sign up. I found that highly annoying. The sign up process was really easy. It was also easy to get it connected to my Roku. 

When you login to Daily Burn, you can go to your scheduled workout program or you can check out anything else that you want. When you get to your scheduled workout program, it gives you the option to do the workout for the day or something else. I signed up yesterday, bu didn't do the workout. Today when I logged in, it still showed the Swing Clinic as my workout for the day. So, I think it will keep track of the next workout in the schedule even if you don't do it. 

I was surprised to see that this program has a "workout" for every single day of the 90 days. Some of them are just 15 minute yoga things, but it's still surprising to have something scheduled for every single day for 90 days. I never really intended to do the program exactly as it was laid out. For the first week and a half, I'm doing this at the same time as PiYo. I also want to do C25K while i'm still doing kettlebells. We'll see how all of this goes. 

Day 1: Swing Clinic

On Day 1, we have the Swing Clinic. This was only about 12 minutes long. The instructor had one person with him. The instructor talked while the other person demonstrated what to do. This 12 minutes was pretty intense. He said that women should use a 12kg kettlbell, which is around 25 pounds. My heaviest bell is 15 pounds. I used my 10 pound bell because it was my first time. He said that using a light bell was not good. Otherwise, I would have used my 5 pound bell. 

We started off by doing the squatting and hip thrusting part of doing a swing. We then did that while holding a stick to our backs. Then we sat down and jumped up. Then we did a deadlift with the bell. It was great getting to play with the bell! Then we did swings while holding a towel under the handle of the bell. I didn't quite get that, but it really got my heart rate up. After that we did one arm swings and alternating arm swings. I'm really scared to ruin my TV by missing the switch off, but I managed to get through this without ruining the TV. 

My legs were tingly and weak before I started this. Doing the double workout this morning really kicked my butt, but OMG 12 minutes of a swing tutorial was insane. I got my heart rate up and I got a good burn on my butt and hamstrings. I honestly don't think that I'll be able to do a complete 51 minute workout, but I'm going to give it a try tomorrow if I can walk. I probably will need a sick day on Friday. Friday is supposed to be my rest day, but I was planning on doing kettlebells then too since I've got PiYo and kettlebells to do together and kettlebells is too long of a workout for me to do on the same day as PiYo on a workday. We'll see how this goes! I had fun, but it makes me nervous about what a 51 minute workout will be like! I'm also concerned about boredom. For the first 30 days, I'll do Kettlebells 1 and Kettlebells 2 for 3-4 workouts per week. I tend to get bored doing the same workouts. I also find that I put less oomph into them as I start to memorize the routines.  

BodyMedia Screen Shot

I didn't think that this was going to be a workout so I didn't do a workout tab. I wish I had! At the end of the workout, it told me that I had burned 40 calories. It would have been nice to compare the two. I did do a screen shot from the website though. As much as my heart was racing, I thought I would have gotten more than a 10 calorie per minute burn, but I guess it makes sense because we did 10 reps and then rested.