Slim and Lean!
I didn’t work out on Tuesday. Doh. Why? Well, I finally got my beta invitation to the MMORPG that shall not be named and it was took forever to download. The damn file is 2.5 GB’s! It took like 2 hours to download the thing and then when it downloaded, the file kept freezing! So I redownloaded it again and it froze again! Ach! I was too frustrated to do anything but try to get it to work since I desperately wanted to login and see what the game was like. I finally did get it installed yesterday! Hurray!
I got an email from another video fitness lady in Hawaii on Wednesday and she told me that she found a copy of Jari Love’s Slim and Lean at Ross! She also called me that morning to tell me that she put it on hold at the Ross in Pearl Ridge and that she could pick it up for me. Woot! But, I said I would go down and get it myself so I could get it faster! Yay! It was $5.99 at Ross! I have even heard that Jari’s new release Get Ripped 1000 has already been spotted at Ross’ on the mainland. That kind of surprises me since it was just released at the end of October.
I was a little afraid to try Slim and Lean actually and was debating whether I should do it or not, but I figured what the heck and did that on Wednesday. Oh man, it is such an awesome workout. Like her original Get Ripped – it’s a high rep/low weight workout and it really got me. There are a ton of reps in this workout and I was really feeling them. She does something like 54 push ups in this one! Ach! No, I couldn’t get through them all – but I will keep trying. There are a lot of squats in this one and I thought I would be okay with those, but my ass actually did start to hurt Thursday night because of them. Woot. I haven’t had DOMS in my backside in a long time.
She also has you do a rotator cuff exercise in this one – which is something that is usually overlooked in most exercise DVD’s. I didn’t do all the reps for that one either since I think I should have used 2 pounds weights for that instead of 3 and because I could just feel myself straining and I did not want to injure myself by overdoing it.
Another thing that is so great about Jari Love is that she has 3 other people working out with her and she always has someone showing different modifications for each exercise. There will be someone showing advanced modifications and someone showing easier modifications. I won’t say beginner modifications since the workouts themselves are by no means beginner workouts, even with modifications.
Thursday night I was thinking about going on the treadmill downstairs, but it was hot and I didn’t feel like working out in the afternoon. I did decide to do some cardio since I was starting to feel that DOMS in my butt. I was looking over my DVD’s and I realized that I really don’t have that many pure cardio workouts. Most of the cardio workouts I have are all Firm ones, and those are AWT, (aerobic weight training). I have some step workouts, but I really wanted to give my butt a break. I was thinking of many a Turbo Jam, but I didn’t feel up to that intensity either, so I whipped out the Leslie Sansone 2 mile walk DVD.
After that was done, I felt like I could do a little more especially since I ate some pastries last night – whoops, so I also did the 20 minute workout from Turbo Jam. Then I did the 10 minute ab routine from Slim and 6 and then the 15 minute stretch from Slim and 6. I am pretty pooped today.
November 17, 2006
