Workout 2- "Steal JH's moves"

I will start this by saying that I have no idea who Julianne Hough is. This workout featured a resistance band. Resistance bands are truly multifunctional workout tools and I think everyone should have one. They don't weigh anything and they are compact so you can travel with them. (I do!)

  I looked over the workout before starting and didn't have too high  hopes. One of the classes I teach is targeted mostly for active seniors. These moves we do in that class put some of the moves in this workout to shame. I completed it anyway. And at the end I added 20 crunches. And I almost broke a sweat. It's a great beginner workout. Nothing too crazy hard. But as far as giving me a total body firm up, as the article implied? Nah.

Workout 1- Self Trainer to Go- No equipment

So I found this workout in Self magazine. No equipment. The best kind. I had high hopes about this one but overall wasn't impressed.

What I found is that it was a simple, piece of cake workout. Until you get to the exercises where your hands are on the floor and feet are up on the wall. I did the workout barefoot. I found it was ALOT of weight on my hands and arms, and I struggled to get half the reps done.

I workout. Workout review Intro.

And I'm a hoarder. Of some things.

For years, I've ripped printed workouts from magazines. All kinds of magazines. Sometimes I would do them. Now that I teach several fitness classes a week, and run, and teaching a running class at our homeschool co-op, I don't do them anymore. But I still tear them out, and put them in my workout folder. Every now and then, I'll go thru looking for inspiration for some of the classes that I'm already teaching, or for when I'm going to be substitute teaching someone else's class.

I was flipping thru the folder Monday afternoon looking for some yoga inspiration. There was some good stuff in there. And some crazy stupid stuff. And a lot of the same moves repeated.

And all the workouts promised that if you do them 3x a week on non-consecutive days, you'll lose inches and pounds and you'll look like the model demoing the workout in the photos.

I thought about throwing them away. I thought I should do them at least once before they went to the recycling bin.

I decided to do one 'workout' a day, weeding out the crap.

So I'm going to find a link to each workout, hopefully and post it. And give you my 'professional' opinion.