Still rehabbing my ankle, I’m sidelined from doing fun classes or anything too adventurous (with 100* temps in June, I was hoping to head to an indoor ice skating rink – COOL, right? . . . maybe in a few months).
So what’s a gimpy girl to do? How about an ab workout? Sounds like a good plan – core strength is important. A few years ago I bought a multi-session ab DVD on Amazon, but have never even taken the film covering off it. So thanks Kim, I finally unwrapped it, popped it in, pushed play and got a “New 2 Me” workout . . . and guess what? I REALLY enjoyed it!!! Who knew!
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This DVD features 5 separate workouts taught by 5 “all star” trainers. Each workout was about 10 minutes long and included a quickie warm up and a couple of brief stretching breaks – especially when transitioning from being on your back to being on your front (i.e. plank).
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The other nice feature is that you can select one workout or you can click on “customize” and pick a couple of the workouts and put them in the order you want to do them. I started with “ABsolutely BEAUTIFUL” with Rob Glick.
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After the obligatory “you might die so check with your doctor beforehand” warning, I met my “workout partners” (Ha!). The picture below makes them look like they are avitars – they were real people – but the photo sure makes it look like a wii game or something, doesn’t it? Hmmm!
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I assume the position shown below and we started off with lil’ basic crunches. I thought – AWESOME – I can do this! My dog, on the other hand, thought I was on the floor to serve as her personal play toe and licking post! Try crunching while being licked to death . . . ha!
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After a quick dvd pause, I got her a bone and she was otherwise occupied for the remainder of my workout. Shew!
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The “ABsolutely Beautiful” workout featured 5 minutes of on-your-back crunches which included crunches, isometric moves, and oblique crunches. These 5 minutes flew by – much to my surprise and happiness. We rolled over and did some stretching child’s pose and cat stretch. You can see “my trainer” below giving me personal instruction – ha!
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After a few seconds of welcomed stretching, “we” (my new ab friends, coach, and I) did 5 more minutes of: lower back work (like Cobras), planks and side planks. Throughout the video there were verbal cues for how many more reps “we” were doing and options to modify the moves.
I REALLY enjoyed this – it was very doable for me so it might be too easy for most of you, but for only 10 minutes - it was perfect. I will definitely be adding these DVD segments to my weekly workouts!!!