Thursday, April 2, 2015

Get your workout on.....


I am WAY less pumped when my alarm goes off.

I'm really a horrible morning person. I function much better at night, but I can't exercise and then go to bed. It seems illogical to me. If I choose to work out at night then I end up staying up super late and I still hate waking up in the morning. I figure that if I am going to be miserable no matter what time I wake up, whether it's 4:30 am or 7 am....I might as well just haul my butt out of bed early and exercise. I always feel better for it.

Since I was not able to go to the gym this morning I set my alarm for 5:50 AM instead of 4:30. This means I actually slept in!! Yet, when the alarm went off, it was quite a surprise (it's always a surprise to me, it doesn't matter that it's been over 3 years). I said to myself "self, this sucks, let's go back to bed"....and then I rolled out of bed anyway.

The DVD was great. I didn't have a kettle bell as I previously have loaned mine to my sister. I was able to use a dumbbell...a 10 lb one and a 5 lb one. The 5 lb one was useful for the Turkish Getup. I found that overall her instructions were very similar to my previous Kettlebell instructor and I like to see that consistency. I did find, however, that her Turkish Getup was less focused and too quick moving. My past instructor had us to this move very slow and focused, always with our eyes on our kettlebell which was always raised in the air with shoulders stacked. In class I was able to do this with a 10 lb kettlebell and then progressed to a 15. At home, since it’s been ages, I just used a 5 lb dumbbell.

I liked that she again had two people in the video with her, a beginner and a more advance. As I have been working out so long I was able to follow the advanced person with ease. A novice would truly need the beginner and then Jillian is somewhere in the middle.

Overall, I will use this video again, but likely not in the next few days. There was little focus on legs and right now that is where I really need to focus. But that's a post for another day!

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