As I am sitting here in my classroom waiting for 3 p.m. to arrive (last day for teachers), I thought I would do a review of the JM video I did before leaving the house this morning. It is bathing suit season, and I have to say, when school is out I eat much better. I am not sure why teaching makes me get the munchies, but it does. I am still tracking what I eat and my WW points with a notebook on a daily basis.
I try to do one video per week that focuses strictly on the abs, and then incorporate 30 minutes of cardio into the routine; usually running or walking. I also like Killer Abs in the Jillian Michaels series of videos. This video is approximately 32 minutes in length, NOT including a cool down, and burns between 250 and 300 calories.
She takes you through the following routine in Level 1 twice. Just when you think you're in the clear at the 18 minute mark, she informs you that you will be doing the routine a second time, "stepping it up" at a faster pace on round two.
Level 1
- Warm Up
- Lunges
- Squats
- Low Impact Jacknives
- Workout
- Standing Knee Crunches (with weights)
- Rear Lunges with dumbbell overhead, tilt back stretching the core area
- Burpees (HATE!)
- Squats with knee up, rotating your weight side to side
- Alternating side lunge with weights overhead, bending upper body over to lunge down to the mat
- Lever crunches using same arm and same leg (advanced-use both arms)
- Back extensions (supermans with swimming arms)
- Plank jacks
- Long lever crunches-opposite arm and leg (if you are advanced, you can hold a weight)
- Double crunches
- Side crunches
- Get up crunches (opposite arm to opposite leg)
- Caterpillar (stand and walk your hands out into plank, return to standing position)
- Side crunches
- Get up crunches (other leg/arm)
- Side planks with knee in (very tough)
- Spiders
- Mountain climbers
- Side planks with knee in
- Bridge kicks
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