100-Day Exercise Challenge Day 4: Hip Hop Abs

Shaun T is just a cutie, what can I say.  Love all my Hip Hop Abs workouts.  He does not disappoint.  The one I did was the first Fat Burning Cardio.  It's only about 30 minutes, and I wanted to do another workout after it, but geesh, I'm good!

Hip Hop Abs is an aerobic workout that uses dance, hip hop dance that is, to work the core.  I like how he breaks down the moves.  Very simple.  I remember when I first got HHA about 3 years ago, I looked at a lot of the moves like he was crazy.  But they really are not tough, and if you are doing it at home, alone, stop worrying about looking like a video dance queen.  If it's fun and you are sweaty, the workout is doing its job.

I had to share when I first got it.  I thought the family would get a kick out of it, and do all the dances.  So I brought it over my sister's house, and she tried a few moves, but the kids loved it even more.  We all kind of were shaking our bootal\y and having fun.  I think even those with two left feet, and the rhythm-less nation folks can enjoy this.

The core is worked by Shaun's "tilt, tuck, tighten" way you engage your core.  I mean, you can do the whole workout and not do the 3 Ts, but you won't work your core.  When you really do the 3 Ts, you feel it!  The workout is so fun, you won't even believe how fast the times goes by.

My fave moves are the "up-rock," the "get busy" and I like the "throwdown."

30 minutes total workout AND I did 30 minutes of the Wii Fit Plus beforehand, hence why I was too tired to do anything else.  Another successful day!

Love to dance like me?  Try Hip Hop Hustle!

100-Day Exercise Challenge Day 3: Mel B Totally Fit

Scary Spice tried to kill me today!!

This workout is "bloody murder" as she likes to say.  Don't think this is a wimpy workout, because Mel B aka Scary Spice delivers big on this workout.  It's supposed to be a mix of cardio and strength training, but it felt like more strength training and less cardio to me.

The sections are broken down like this:
Warm up
Cardio
Advanced Cardio
Arms
Legs
Bums
Tums
Cool Down

Yes, she's so cute with her "bums" and tums."  Her accent is totally wicked man!  She's my favorite (and the only one I ever and still care for) Spice Girl.  Her body is frikkin amazing!

The warm up is about five minutes and is a typical warm up, nothing fancy.  Then the cardio part is one minute intervals of doing each side of the body, say like, punches.  It's not cardio in the typical sense of constant moving, but it does keep the heart rate up. It helps that Mel B has such a cute personality and she always has these little sayings.

"I sweatin' like a you know what?"

"I'm no crying, that's sweat, I promise."

I find myself talking to her a lot, or yelling at her.  But hey, that makes me feel like she is personally training me. And yes, I know, she is NOT a personal trainer, but she might as well be.  The only problem I would have with the workout is that there is no beginner moves.  So I would say this is for the intermediate to advance exerciser.

The advanced cardio is NOT cardio!!  It's a total body strength training routine and I like it....buuuuut, it's bloody murder!  Mel B even wimps out and puts down one of her weights (she actually uses 2 filled water bottles, and others have soup cans).  It makes me want to wimp out, then they show a shot of her glistening abs and I'm like "Heck no, I can do this!"

You want results man, they don't come by doing one crunch or two...try like total body workout and healthy eating!  Oh yeah, she also has a section on nutrition and talks about things to eat.  She also prepares a meal with her husband.

I did not do the individual body parts, THIS TIME, I gotta work my way  up to that.  I did about 40 minutes total.  I plan on doing this again Wednesday and Friday for my ST days.  My cardio I like to mix it up.  The plan was to rotate all my workouts this month and come up with a workable plan for February, so we shall see.  I get bored real fast when my workouts are the same thing over and over, I like variety on like a WEEKLY basis.  Still have not done any of my new workouts, but I will soon!

100-Day Exercise Challenge Day 2: P90X Kenpo X

This is my favorite workout of all the P90X workouts so I just had to do it today!  It was brutal on my arms, but the fun brutal...I mean, the I know it's the burning something brutal.

The workout is 58 minutes, and about halfway through I am thinking I cannot make it, but I always finish up.  Tony saying, "There ain't no tired!" kinda helped me along.  I felt rusty, like I have not been working out for awhile...and it's true, I have missed a few workouts around the holiday season.  I want to get back to my fit self and murder this workout like I'm standing next to Tony and he's yelling at me.  Though he's not Jillian, he's not that kind of trainer. 

I like them both!

Between Tony, Shaun T, Chalene Johnson, Jillian Michaels...I can't pick!  Okay, maybe Jillian is my number one to workout with and yell at me.  Chalene would be second, but she doesn't yell, but her energy level and her enthusiasm about her workouts just keep you going.  Shaun T would be third.  He just cracks me up! I'm still mad at him about Insanity, sheesh!  Tony Horton, you're good too, buuuut, he's to nice, he's to gentile, he doesn't have the fire like Chalene has, BUT he works you out like nobody's business!

I love the punches at the end of Kenpo!  Can I just do that for 58 minutes?  Sure, my arms may fall off afterwards, but they would be tone and strong.  Okay, maybe not.  I like the block series as well.  This is just my go-to workout, well one of, when I really don't want to workout or if I have not worked out in awhile and need to be pumped back up. Does the trick every time!

Can't wait for tomorrow!