Burn It Up!
November 13, 2006
I didn’t work out on Saturday night. Instead, I fell asleep at 8:30pm. That is really, really early for me.
I wasn’t quite sure what video I wanted to do last night. I thought maybe 2 30 minute Firms, but then I thought, well, if I am going to do an hour workout I might as well do a full hour DVD. I figured that since I was able to get through Ramp It Up! I might as well give Burn It Up! a try.
Now, I’ve had the Slim in 6 series for awhile now, but I would hardly ever reach for Burn It Up. I remember the first time I did it, I actually got DOMS in my abs. I was pretty impressed by that since I rarely get DOMs in my abs with any video I’ve ever done.
I push play and OMG! I was dying within 10 minutes. I remembered why I hardly reached for it – that workout is HARD! It starts with a quick warmup and then moves onto about 25 minutes of lunges, squats, kicks and standing ab work.
The squats were killing me! I normally love squats and get down pretty low on them – but you do the squats so fast in this one that my ass was burning.
One thing I don’t really like about the Slim in 6 workouts is that there is no stretch at the beginning of the workout – just a quick warmup. Now there is some debate as to whether stretching at the beginning of a workout is actually helpful or necessary. I am one of those people that do find it quite necessary thank you very much and so I had to stop after about 10 minutes of squats to do a quick stretch.
I carried on though – Go Me! After the standing stuff, you whip out those resistance bands for some upper body strength training. I got through that okay. Then you move down to the floor for the donkey kicks, pushups and ab work. I again had a hard time with the donkey kicks and did maybe half to 3/4ths of the reps. Whoops. Push ups I did on the fanny lifter and I got through the ab work okay.
I pretty much skipped the stretch at the end and I thought I was going to be able to do the Firm Pilates workout afterwards, but I fell asleep on the floor after I was done stretching. Whoops.
Maybe it was so hard because I really didn’t get that much sleep the night before – I don’t know. I am kind of surprised that my legs and ass aren’t hurting since I was convinced that I would be experiencing major DOMS in those areas, but I am not. It kind of makes me want to try it again tonight to see how I do. I mean you are supposed to do this video for like 2 weeks straight, 6 days a week. I’ll see.
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