Personal Training with Jackie: 30 Day Fast Start (& Cupcake Booth Photos!)

Today's Review: Personal Training with Jackie: 30 Day Fast Start
Jackie Warner, 2011

This dvd has a 25 minute upper body & a 25 min lower body workout that can be combined or done separately. Jackie works out in a brick gym w/ 2 backgrounders. You will need a light set of dumbbells for these workouts.

This is a power pyramid workout; you alternate two exercises for one rep, then two, all the way up to ten reps. The pace is fast so you really do have to use light weights (Jackie rec's 5 # dumbbells). Jackie pairs biceps & chest, back & triceps, lower body & shoulders, and core/ abs.

Upper Body Workout: Super quick warmup, pushup & kneeling hammer curl, bench press & bi curl, fly & outer curl, row & overhead tricep, upright row & kickback, and straight arm lat raise & straight arm kick back. Lower Body, Shoulders, & Abs Workout: squat & front raise, deadlift & lat raise, sumo squat & military press, crunch & clam crunch, toe touch & scissor and frog crunch & reach.

This workout hits your upper body more than the lower and the ab moves are tough & lots of reps so my abs were also thoroughly worked! Jackie is an awesome lead- great cuing and lots of variety. Time really flys in this one! If you are a fan of light weight high rep workouts- this is the workout for you! She really accomplishes a lot in a short amount of time. I received this dvd to review.

Weekend Cupcake Booth: Well my Sat cupcake booth got postponed until this upcoming Saturday but my Sunday booth was a go! It was at a holiday marketplace at a church. I did better than I expected. I only had about 20 cupcakes leftover and I handed out a ton of brochures & cards. It was fun! I need to get a better table cloth, hopefully will find one this week. Will post pics of the cupcakes this week. 


Today's Tip: Your Workout May Burns Fewer Calories Than You Think
Feeling pretty righteous when the treadmill says you've torched 800 calories? Not so fast, cautions Olson. An unusually high calorie burn reading is rare, Olson says, and most machines overestimate readings by as much as 30 percent. "Many machines do not require you to put in your body weight and, therefore, the calorie output is often based on a ‘reference weight' often used in science of 155 pounds," Olson says. "So, if you weigh 135 pounds, for example, you would not burn the same calories as someone who is at the reference weight." Read more on Shape


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