Update
February, 2005
Read Karen's Introduction
January started off fairly well as far as working out consistently. By the end of the month I was at 24 workout days, and many of these days I doubled up on workouts. I got through many workouts that had been very tough for me. The workouts were either very advanced or had more complex choreography than I had tackled before. I met the goal of incorporating lower body strength training, but not the goals of incorporating abs and flexibility training into my routine. I may have lost 2-3 pounds, but that seems to fluctuate from day to day.
I didn�t follow a rotation, but instead planned a week in advance to fit around my schedule and time constraints. I had a very good mixed intensity month with quite a bit of cross-training. My main strength training workouts are: Cory Everson�s Basic Sculpting System with Weights: Back, Biceps & Abs and Chest, Shoulders & Triceps, and Cathe Friedrich�s strength workouts such as Pure Strength and Muscle Endurance. I will be receiving the Hardcore Series soon and plan to add these workouts to my routine. I�ve been able to increase my weights or the number of reps I am able to do in almost all of my strength training workouts.
My cardio has been very mixed and includes Cathe�s kickboxing, step and circuit workouts, Firm cardio, Kathy Smith Project: YOU and Functionally Fit Peak Fat Burning, and Leslie Sansone�s Walk & Jog and Walk & Kick. I�ve made great progress by mixing intensity and learned that I don�t have to do an advanced/killer workout every day. I am also getting better at IMAX 2 and Boot Camp with every try. I can get through all of them, not perfectly, but very respectably.
I am slowly making my way through increasingly complex choreography such as Step Blast and have just gotten Christi Taylor�s Totally Hot Cardio. I will keep everyone posted on how this is going. I am really enjoying this as I�ve always thought of myself as having two left feet. I really think it was mainly a learning curve issue for me�I was trying stuff that was too hard for me too early on.
I really enjoy working out now that it has become such a mainstay in my life and plan to work on my goals one at a time. I�ve gotten some new workouts to work through and will chart progress on everything.
Until next month,
Karen (aka Rhae)
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