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Well, my initial plan for August was to do systems. My original plan included Peak Fit Challenge system and the Aerobox systems, but it became a hassle ordering the Aerobox system so I nixed that. So then I decided to do the Peak Fit Challenge System with Tracey Staehle's New Total Body Boot Camp workouts. These workouts were supposed to be release mid-June, but as of right now I still don't have them, so this plan too got nixed. The latest plan is to do the Peak Fit Challenge system with "Pink" FIRM workouts. It has been a couple of years since I have done many of the Pink FIRM workouts. I have signed up for a 10K race. Race date is October 30th. I will start training for that with treadmill work on Sunday and Wednesday. Also, I have just received the new Amy Bento workouts. I will try to fit KB2 in sometime as an evening workout. I also ordered Seasun's new Zfit Step and I plan to start learning the combos to that as well.

Name of Cathe Gym Welcome Poster for Cathelete Cake on Night Two Cathe and Crew Saundra and Cathe

Some pictures from Cathe RoadTrip 2011. First we have FeelFitWear. This is the line of workout wear that Cathe will be wearing in the new Low Impact Series. Me after Spin Class Cathe Poster Sign Cathe Store Me after Athletic Step The Filming Studio and Cathe leading class. Just before step class and Cathe cake served on night one.

"Welcome to the Revolution" Tracie states at the end of each of these workouts. The Revolution being a "different" way of training or the foray into functional fitness type training. Functional Foundations is a workout set that consist of two workouts: Core Strength and Core Cardio. They were made in 2004 and during this time it seemed like "functional fitness" was the new fitness buzz word of the day. I thought and I think I was hoping that functional fitness was a passing fad but no, it is still around today - not always called functional fitness but certainly with the elements of functional fitness. Well these two workouts are led by Tracie Long and definitely as far a functional fitness home DVDs workouts go, Tracie is one of the leaders, and she is superb in these workouts as well. Core Strength is a 50 minute workouts. It uses a stability ball, mat, and various weighted dumbbells. This is a strength, balance, and posture workout. There is almost n

I am usually pretty skittish when it comes to trying “health” shakes. The ones that are low in calories, usually don’t taste very good and the ones that taste good are high in calories. I find this is especially true for the pre-made shakes. With tastes being so specific to an individual, reading reviews of the products have to be taken with a grain a salt. So when I came across the Special K Protein Shakes , I read a bunch of reviews and the majority of them pretty consistently said the shakes taste good. It just wasn’t one flavor they said tasted good, but according to the reviews, all the flavors were yummy. When I decided to give them I try, I had a hard time deciding which flavor to go with, so I went with all three and I bought a pack of each flavor. The Special K Shakes come 4 bottles to a pack. Each bottle is 10 oz. I bought mine at Target for $5.44 a pack. Wal-mart also sells these and the other day I saw the same four pack at CVS Pharmacy for $8.82. Of course I thought CVS w

So a few weeks ago, I joined Weight Watchers at Work, and one of the things I found out is that they have this new pedometer which they call PointsPlus Pedometer . Well considering that I have the bodybugg, a heart rate monitor, a Garmin GPS watch, it is not like I need another tool to attach to my body, but I am a gadget person and I was sold on the fact that it could specifically count my Weight Watcher Activity Points (AP) that I earned throughout the day. So there would be no guessing or converting. I would just wear the pedometer and check the display to see how many AP points that I earned for that day. You can use the pedometer in two modes - 'All Day' or 'Active'. 'Active' is when you want to record or track a specific workout session and 'All Day', well it tracks your daily movement including any exercise sessions all day. The default setting is 'All Day'. So the box states: "This pedometer is powered by motion sensor and step filt

Better Burn Better Buns is a functional fitness workout that is 55 minutes in length and it is led by Tracie Long. The workout uses a rag or you can use a paper plate or gliding disc to work the lower body. There are about 4 sets of lower body work using the rag. There is also some standing single leg isolation work. The types of moves that you are doing are leg lifts, zig zags, single leg squats, push lunges, standing shootouts.. - all using the rag or your own body weights. No dumbbells are used. The workout also has medicine ball cardio and core sets. I thought the medicine ball routines fun. However, they are repetitive . You are repeating the same group of moves about 8 time through but I find this is typical for a Tracie Long workout. The moves are simple , repetitive and allow for full execution and the majority of the time you have cool music that you’re performing the move to so the repetitiveness of it doesn’t bug me. Some of the cardio moves, are hurdlers, X marks the spot,

Strength in Movement is a Tracie Long Training workout and it is led by Jen Carman. Clocking in at just over 55 minutes, Strength In Movements uses dumbbells (light, medium, and heavy) and a medicine ball to work you through a series of functional fitness type exercises. Along with Jen, there are two background exerciser – one showing beginner type modifications and the other showing more advanced options. There are parts of this workout I really like a lot and parts I didn’t care for at all. There are three cardio segments and each cardio segment uses a medicine ball. The medicine ball is also used in the warm up and in the active stretch segment. Two of the med ball cardio routines I didn’t like. I felt they lack flow and Uummph, but one I really thought flowed well. The weight segments are what I like the best about this workout and that is unusal for me because usually the weight work in Functional Fitness workouts is what I like the least. I love how all the moves worked with the

  Endurance For Movement is a 60 minute total body workout and it is led by Tracie Long.  The DVD cover states "We Train For The Way You Live" and "..... we wipe away the 'old school' style of training".  I agree that this is not your traditional style of training or I will say it is not my traditional style of training. This workout is functional fitness at its best.  I say that even though I am not a fan of functional fitness but even after all these years of having this workout, I still find it a very unique workout and not one that I like doing but after I have done the workout I feel accomplished. There are many segments in this workout and as you move from segment to segment Tracie takes time to give a mini introduction to the segment.  I like this because it gives you time to set up for what is coming next. So the segments roughly break down as follows: warm up, core warm up, core, cardio, weight work, legs, upper body, core, cardio, push ups, lower