I started out not really liking it.
The counting annoyed me. I kept trying to figure out what 'age group' the short-haired woman belonged to after Delores made a point of saying how her exercisers were from different age groups (deliberately chosen this way to show us that anyone can workout).

Then, I started to like it. In the end, I decided to keep it, and rotate it amongst my lower body workouts. I burned about 180 calories on my watch during the whole workout, including Michael Olijade abs, which was a lot of fun.



She starts out with standing legs.

20 sprints on one leg
20 on the other
20 again on one
20 on the other

10 or 20 squats (forget how many)
20 (very boring) slow squats with front kick. This wouldn't have been boring if it had been faster. I ended up doing them faster.

10 squat pulses (3 pules per rep)

20 plies (I think it was 20 - already, i've forgotten)
10 low end plies

20 alternating lunges
10 on each side, lunge low ends (3 count per rep)

Then, do the whole thing, but with weights. Instead of sprints, you do front kicks.

I used 5 pound weights (5 in each hand) because that's what I had nearby. Kristen, the very long and lean and muscled "younger" background exerciser used a body bar, and the other one (pam?) used small weights. delores was without weights.


After this was floor work.

First, bridge work -

20 bridge lifts
then lifts with kicks (10 or 20, can't remember)

Then do it again.

After which, on knees and elbows/forearms for:

40 leg extensions to the back (here is where the counting infuriated me. I'm looking down, so when she started over at 1 after 20, I thought she switched legs. She hadn't, and this threw me off).

After those, she did 20 side donkey things after moving her arms a bit to the side.

Then she did 10 where your leg is up behind you, parallel to the floor, and your shin part is perpindicular to the thigh, heels pointing at ceiling. Open and close leg (so you straighten and bend leg).

Then you go back to the bent leg position and do 20 quick pulses up.

Switch legs, do the other side.

And then a stretch.

After that,, there was a 10 minute Olijade ab segment:

Crunches (20?)
Alternating oblique crunches

alternating oblique crunches where your knee comes up to meet elbow of opposite arm

heel raises

Pendulums

And then something that reminded me of the knee-up-vee-up thing in P90X ab ripper x. You lie down, bend one knee, foot flat on ground. The other leg is out straight, and is lifted off the ground. You raise that leg 3 times (pulsing), never touching the ground, and then sit up into a v, with the leg straightened (ouch). I think it was 8 times on each side, and it was challenging.

Then a nice stretch.

It clocked in under 1 hr with both segments.

I'll keep it. It's a nice lower body workout. Maybe not the most exciting, but since I probably couldn't sell it for more than $5-8 dollars, it's worth keeping.

Instructor Comments:
Delores tells us right off the bat that she's been doing this for 25 yrs, and that yes, she's somewhere in her 40s.

Delores is friendly and encouraging. She's non-whoopy, but I thought she was very amiable.
I didn't like it when she squealed "Squeeze" 2 different times... it sounded like a clown had suddenly invaded.

Also - interminable counting - and it was BAD counting. She would count to 10e, then count backwards. It was irritating. Or she would say 1, 2, 2, right leg, 3,2, 4, 2, 5, right leg (sometimes saying 2 to mean 'right leg' after doing left leg).

She also had an annoying tendency to count to 5 before starting a new move. I dont' need that break.

Michael did that in the abs section to.

Leela