Jari, Jari, Jari
October 30, 2006
Well, I didn’t really feel like working out again today too, but I decided that I just had to do something. I didn’t want to do another Firm, so I reached for Jari Love’s Get Ripped! I just love this workout. It is probably an intermediate level strength training DVD. I just love it because you work a lot of parts of your body, but don’t feel like you got hit by a bus when you are done.
Her warm up consists of a bunch of squats and dead lifts. You then go into a superset of squats. I just did the DVD, but I can’t remember if there was something after the squats before heading to the floor for some chest, back and leg work. Oh well. Yea, then you head to the floor and do a superset of chest presses, followed by lat and triceps work. She then has you do some inner and outer thigh leg lifts. You then stand up again and do some lunges, more dead lifts and back work. Then on to the shoulders and delts. There is a short ab segment and short stretch. The workout is about 45 to 50 minutes long, but it never feels that long whenever I do the workout. The time really goes by quickly.
I really do like Jari Love – she is so down to earth and she always has great words of encouragement to keep you going. I also like how she stresses that you should do the DVD about 3 times a week – but in order to get really “ripped” and lean, you have to make sure that you do cardio work and watch your diet. It’s actually kind of refreshing to have an instructor emphasize that the DVD is not the complete answer to your fitness goals.
It’s kind of annoying actually when you do some tapes and the instructors try to make it seem like you can get a body like theirs just from doing their workout, when that is really not the case.
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