Down Another Pound!

Down another pound!!  I'm pretty jazzed.

I am actually noticing a difference for myself.  I feel like ALL. THE. WORKING. OUT that I've done in the past 6 years is really making a difference now.  I feel like the fat is starting to burn off and you're seeing a nice tone.  Still a fair amount of flab on top of it all though.  All in good time, my pretty. :)
In other news I got the Jackie WArner One on One Training video today from Netflicks.  I tried it out right after I got it in the mail.  OUCH.  Today I did the upper body workout, and the core workout.  Ouch. 

The upper body workout is realy great.  Most of the routines that I do combine upper body with lower body and while that's great to burn calories, I'm not sure I'm really working on form or really reaping the benefits by combining.  Jackie does all arms though.  Sure, you might be in a squat while you do it but you're really concentrating on specific msucles.  She gives good tips and is surprisingly encouraging.  I have always put her and Jillian in the same bucket, but I think that Jackie really gets that its is hard and really wants you to get there.  I just think Jillian's mean.  She seems to go in segments of 3 minutes of weights, and 1 minute of cardio... or something like that.  It's nice because it would be a full workout if you did just this, but it's only 20 minutes.

The core section is INSANE!  There's a lot of great different core exercises.  I swear I've done every core exercise there is and then they pull something new out!  I know it's good for me.  Right?  Anyway, just like the upper body section they call it "cardio" but it's more like "really fast bicyles" so you are getting your heart rate up but only at the expense of your already fatigued core muscles.  Then it's back to crunches, etc.  I do think this gives a really good core workout.  They also have someone who's doing modifications on most of the exercises.  And believe me, I needed that.  It wasn't pretty.  I feel like I'm someone who really works my abs.  But, apparently not.

All of the workouts can be done independently, they have a warm-up and a stretching segment included with each one. 

On further evaluation, I think I've seen this workout on my On Demand section of my Comcast -- in case you don't have Netflicks, but you do have that.  It's a good workout.  I'm not gonna run go out and buy it, but I do plan to do the core/lower body on Wednesday, if I can still lift my torso I'll be back to report. :)