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I felt it was pretty balanced. I did lose a little bit of upper body strength. If I did it again, I would go heavier and finish before the minute is up so that I get a longer rest in between. With the short rests, this feels to me more like endurance than strength-building for some of the upper body sections. I would prefer less shoulders and more back. And with that, I would say that she is also in the gym semi-regularly and not just doing her own workouts with dumbbells at home. You don’t get legs like that from RDL’s and variations of split and goblet squats with only ~70# of dumbbells. |
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06-02-22, 10:01 AM | ||
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I do it before the Iron Series Workouts as a warmup. If I have time, I’ll add a 12-15 minute iFit walk to it as a cool down before the weights. On the active rest days, I do two iFit walk workouts that are about 30 minutes each or if I’m tired I take a full rest day. So my total workout time per day averages out to 60-75 minutes a day. I enjoy the cardio and need it to manage stress. Last round of the Iron Series I did an iFit Walk Series as a warmup instead of the C5k and had really good results. I think my body doesn’t like as much stress on it (as I’ve gotten older). But I love running and want to get back to it!
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06-02-22, 10:09 AM | ||
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And I agree with you on the shoulder work. I’m not a fan of an entire workout devoted to just shoulders. I prefer it to be Supersets with another body part.
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06-03-22, 03:53 AM | ||
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I hope she’s honest because it would be nice to be able to attain something close or at least a distant near her physique with her workouts and not the starvation diets those Firm instructors did prior to filming the classics and then sell it like those results are possible just from their workouts. I agree on the shoulders too! Lol. Back and arms please. I do like the way my shoulders look now though! Less hip raises. Haha. |
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I just know I could not always match her for upper body, at least not through all sets, but did for lower body and could have done more (and did, for a few things), yet I am positive she is a lot stronger than I am in all ways, lol. I hope I don’t seem to be knocking her or her workouts at all. I really enjoyed Iron and I plan to do her workouts again, maybe for a couple weeks at a time instead of a full six weeks. I probably should put more of her cardio into my routine since I do enjoy her stuff. I need to step it up. |
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06-03-22, 11:57 AM | ||
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I get what you’re saying, she probably had a great muscle base to begin with after years of lifting. Her body fat is so low that she has great definition. That’s my downfall....the kitchen portion, lol. I have an old Tony Horton magnet that says “Abs are made in the kitchen” on my fridge.
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06-03-22, 01:43 PM | ||
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Plenty of instructors aren’t able to maintain the same physique past mid-40’s and up, even if still super fit. Aging is wonderful in many ways, but not so kind to the waistline. |
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