Gay Gasper, 2011 **** (4 of 5 stars)
Gay leads this 57 min cardio workout in a martial arts studio with 3 b/g exercisers. You will only need your UR for this workout. The exercises are split into 6 pods (groups) of exercises which you learn and repeat and then are strung together at the end for a full cardio karate workout. Nice Asian-esque music.
After an 8 min warmup, exercises include: palm strikes, kick combos, hammer strikes, X blocks, cardio lunge & sweeping blocks, elbow strike combos, plank jacks, lunge to horse stance w/ punches & blocks, lunge- throw down, roll back (burpee-esque), side lunge w/ blocks and finishes with 18 min of core & cooldown. The core work includes: body toss in a V sit, sit up w/a kick, pushup -side plank, & side plank leg raise.
I rate this an intermediate workout but you can easily modify up or down to suit your needs. I added weighted gloves & some more hops & got a good workout. I like Gay a lot more in this one than in her URX dvds- she does a great job in this one. The combos are shorter in this one than Amy's but the choreo is a tiny bit trickier IMO. Some of the exercises are slow & controlled (karate) and some are more intense (cardio) so there is a variety of intensity levels. There is a countdown bar that has occasional tips & reminders along side it. Love the functional work and felt my core working throughout. I received this dvd to review.
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Vacation Pics:Our next port was Ensenada Mexico! We had all day there so we booked the longest excursion we did the blowhole + winery tour. The Blowhole (La Bufadoria) was super cool! There are only 3 in the world, 1 in Sydney - I wonder why I didnt go there when I was in Australia? Anyhoo. We saw that did some shopping there, had some authentic Mexican tacos and margaritas. Then went to a winery, sampled & bought some yummy wine and headed back to town.We thought we were going to hang out in Ensenada longer but it wasnt very exciting so we ended up hanging out on the ship-which was fine cuz theres tons to do on the ship. Heres some pics of Ensenada:
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| Us & the Pacific Ocean. Were from WA & I lived in Japan so I always like seeing the Pacific again! |
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| Pacific Ocean |
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| La Bufadoria |
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| Hand blown glass set I bought in Ensenada |
Today's Tip: Water Weight
Water can alter your weight by 10 pounds or more. Think you just lost a few pounds from that spin class? Don't get too excited—it's just water loss due to sweat. And the amount of water in your system has a heavy influence on the number on the scale. "Water makes up 65-90 percent of a person's weight, and variation in water content of the human body can move the scale by 10 pounds or more from day to day," says Dolgan. This is one of the main reasons diuretics are so popular—they flush the water out of your system, resulting in only a short term weight "loss"—but they don't help to change your body composition in any way. Read more on Shape.
Today's LOL: (sorry Im about the most impatient person in the world)
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