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September 2024 Workout Rotation . Sunday -Treadmill Monday - Lower Body 21-Day Fix, Jessica Smith Tuesday - Upper Body 21 Day Fix, Jessica Smith Wednesday -  CoffeyFit Interval Cardio Thursday - Total Body 21-Day Fix, Jessica Smith Friday - CoffeyFit Kickboxing Saturday - Yoga, 21-Day Fix, Jessica Smith  

Fitness Training For Functional Aging with Jessica Smith contains two workouts.   DVD Menu Introduction ABC Routine (running time 29:46) Functional Strength (running time 29:30) End Credits Play All  

March 2024 Workout Rotation Sunday - Cardio Coach Monday - Cathe Lower Body Tuesday - Cathe Upper Body Wednesday - Suzanne Bowen Barre Thursday  - Cathe & Amy Bento Cardio Friday - Amy Bento & Cathe Total Body Saturday - Amy Bento & Jessica Smith walking For March, I am switching evening mobility workouts to Jessica Smith & Guillermo Gomez workouts. 

Yoga Plus Pilates Power Fusion Mix are workouts from Jessica Smith All Access Pass streaming service that she has put on DVD.  The settings are different for each workout. In each workout, Jessica is working out in bare feet. There are four workouts on this DVD. Pi Yo Flow - 33 min Yoga Fusion Sculpt - 34 min Pilates Fusion Sculpt - 37 min Pilates Fusion Core Ball - 30 min Pi Yo Flow contains both standing and floor exercises. The workout is performed barefoot.  Jessica takes you through several series of range-of-motion inspired Pilates and Yoga moves.  Several moves offer you the opportunity to work on your balance.   Yoga Fusion Sculpt uses a light pair of hand weights and your own body weight to work the entire body.  This workout also contains standing and floor exercises.  Jessica encourages you to stay present throughout the workout. Pilates Fusion Sculpt uses a light pair of weights to work the total body. There are both standing and floor ...

November 2023 Rotation   This month features workouts from CoffeyFit, The FIRM's Body Sculpting System (BSS) 5; some of the "retail pink" FIRMS, Zumba,  and workouts from  Jessica Smith newest DVD.

Jessica Smith Stretch & Relax contains five 15 to 20 minute stretch flexibility workouts.   Rise clocks in at over 18 minutes.  In Rise, Jessica moves you methodically through the body, stretching and moving the limbs for 4 to 6 reps before moving on. There is a slow flow to the workout and a bit of range of motion. A chair is optional and Jessica shows the chair modification as a PIP inset.   Release clocks in at 15:40. It uses a towel to stretch the whole body. Jessica starts out standing stretching the neck and then she moves to the mat to stretch the lower body namely the hamstrings, hips and ankles. Relax starts in the lying position and using a pillow is optional.  You are performing stretches in both the prone and supine positions.  Jessica also throws in some lying side stretches, as well as seated stretches and stretches in the table top position. Relax ends with a supine spread eagle relaxation stretch.  Relax has a running length of 19...

  January 2023 Another year, another month, another rotation. January 2023 monthly rotation is part of a 90 day (13-week)rotation that will take me through February and March 2023. First week starts off with Total Strength Function Fitness featuring Tracie Long Training workout videos and Kelly Coffey Meyer RAW workouts.  Cardio for this week will be 5K Treadmill walk and Amy Bento Cardio. Weeks 2, 3, & 4 will be a three block strength, high intensity interval training and a nighty stretch. Sunday - Cardio Coach Treadmill Workouts Monday - Cathe Strength Lower Body Tuesday - Cathe Strength Upper Body Wednesday - Cathe HiiT Thursday - Cathe Strength Lower Body Friday - Cathe Strength Upper Body                                                                       ...

                                                                                                   October 2022 Monthly Rotation This October, I will be focusing on Kelly Coffey-Meyer workouts. This is in preparation for the Coffeyfit Road Trip.  After the road trip, I plan to do Jessica Smith and Zumba workouts to round out the month.  I also have Andrea Rogers Xtend Stretch workouts planned.  

Walk A 5K The Fun Way has two 3 mile workouts, warmup and a cool down. The warm up and cool down are both 7 minutes in length and the pace of both are slow. Most of the warm up is joint mobility work. The cool down which Jessica calls Active-Recovery series contains ankle mobility work and stretching. The Walks.   The first walk is Steady Walk and it clocks in at 50 minutes.  My apple watch clock the walk at 2.93 miles. It is a pretty basic walk with the traditional walk moves. The second walk is Fast Walk and it clocks in at 43 minutes.  My apple watch clock this walk at 2.67 miles.  This walk contains more impact than the steady walk. You are jogging, doing a bit of hopping and jacking. There are intervals in which the tempo of the music speeds up and slows down throughout. I like these workouts for when I really don't want to think too much. Very easy to follow. Walk a 5K - 3 & 1/4 stars  

Split Session Strength contains the following workouts: (1) upper-body series that is 35 minutes in length, (2) lower-body: build to burn that is 45-minutes in length and (3) bonus core that is 16 minutes workout. See workout sheet for specific exercise . Jessica takes you the through a circuit style session in each workout where you work a group of exercise, you repeat them for  second run-through before moving on to another group of exercises and repeating those for a second run through. Most exercises are performed twice and you are doing around 12 to 20 reps per exercise. There are a couple of exercises that Jessica only hits once. In the lower body workout, you need weights, a mat, a chair; gliding disk and a step topper with two risers.  Core workout uses a mat. Upper body workout requires a mat, step topper, and weights.    My favorite workout in this set is the lower body workout. Upper-Body Series - 3 stars Lower  Body Build to Burn - 4 stars Bonus Core...

June 2022 Monthly Rotation Sundays will be treadmill followed by a stretch. Saturday's combination of rest days and dance days with Lisa Nunziella. The other days will be a mixture of workouts from Jessica Smith's new Strong & Centered series, The FIRM Zip Trainer, Aerospace, and CoffeyFit Raw. I will conclude the month with Suzanne Bowen BarreAmped and Jaana Kunitz Figure 8 Fitness workouts.

Gentle Yoga Plus Pilates is a Jessica Smith two in one workout. It is a core strength and stretch workout that combines exercises from both yoga and Pilates disciplines. The DVD Menu Introduction Standing Series Floor Flow Play All  The Standing Series clocks in at 31:35.  In this portion of the workout, Jessica takes you through a series of standing poses that challenge your balance and improve your flexibility. There is a bit a strength and range of motion exercises as you move throughout the session. Some of the moves in this workout are:  back expansion, mountain pose, plie series, chair flow series, leg pulls, leg circles, crescent, standing 100s, and triangle. The Floor Flow series is performed either seated, lying or kneeling.  This segment clocks in at 33:33.  Some of the moves you are doing in Floor Flow are seated twist, mermaid, side planks, roll ups, scissors, bridge over, locust, elbow plank, roll like a ball, v-sit, and kneeling crescent. In bot...

October 2021 Monthly Workout Schedule Well I was planning on going to Cathe Road Trip in New Jersey, but Cathe cancelled the trip. So I signed up to run the Bay Bridge in Annapolis MD because it is happening the same weekend that the Cathe RT was scheduled.  I have run in the Bay Bridge race before but I am not sure how I will do.  We will see how it goes as this will be my first race I have entered in over three years. This month I focused on preparing for the 6.2 mile run  and along with doing treadmill workouts, I am also doing FIRM Classic, FIRM BSS workouts and Jessica Smith workouts.

   May 2021 Workouts Workouts for May mostly consisted of treadmill runs/walks and Jessica Smith Walk Strong Series of Workouts.  I had a mini-vacation this month, so there were more rest days or days in which I did not workout than I normally like.

Barre Fitness with Jessica Smith contains three 20-minute barre theme workouts. The DVD menu Cardio Ballet Barre Burn Floor Barre Play All Jessica is the only cast member.  There is an outdoor setting for each of the workout.  All the sessions are set to up tempo music. In Cardio Ballet , Jessica uses ballerina movements to get the heart rate up. There is a lot of pulsing and jumping.  Jessica does show various intensity levels throughout the workout so that you can work at your own intensity level. Barre Burn is your toning barre workout. In this workout, Jessica uses a chair and a pair of light hand weights.  This is a circuit style workout in that you perform a series of moves back to back; repeat and then move on to another series of exercises which you perform back to back. Floor Burn uses a mat and a ball. If you don't have a ball, you can use a pillow.  Jessica performs a series of move for the abs, low back, arms, and legs.  C...

June 2020 Monthly Rotation Combination of Barre/Ballet and Dance. Dance will be from Core Rhythm series. Barre will be from Sleek Technique, Jessica Smith, Jazzercise, Karen Voight and Eric Zimmer. 3 miles will be a walk/run on the treadmill.

April 2020 This month it is Tracie and Jessica and little bit of Zumba.  I am upping my Sunday treadmill runs to 2.5 miles. On the 27th and 28th of the month, I will be doing Jessica Total Body Strength workouts. The other Jessica workouts will be 30 minute Walk On workouts. The two Zumba workouts are also 30 minute workouts.

Jessica Smith's Get Strong! DVD contains two strength inspired workout. Workout one is Stepping Strength and it is 45 minutes long.  This is a muscular endurance workout with high reps. You are performing most exercises for about 16 reps. The exercises are compound in nature and very often you are working both the upper body and lower body or you are doing an upper body move with a stepping move, hence the name of the workout. There is a  bit of a pattern to the workout and a lot of single arm work. After performing the single arm work, you perform a similar style move with both arms. Jessica throws in cardio intervals that are 45 seconds in length. The set is nice and bright and the music is decent. Two sets of dumbbells (light and heavy) are used. The warm up is around 5 minutes and the cool down is under 3 minutes.  Debbie and Beth join Jessica in this workout. Workout 2 is Strictly Strength and it clocks in just over 40 minutes.  Jessica divides thi...

Gentle Yoga Stretch is one of Jessica Smith's latest yoga stretch DVDs.  This DVD contains two 30-minute plus workouts. The two workouts are: Session 1:  Flexibility and Relaxation Session 2:  Stability and Mobility Flexibility and Relaxation is a slow moving workout that uses static and range of motions exercises to work the various areas of the body. Some of the exercises Jessica performs are neck, back and shoulder stretches, elbow and wrist rotations, forward fold, cat cow, modify child pose, modify down dog, pyramid pose, hamstring stretch, pigeon pose, and hip circles. Stability and Mobility clocks in at around 35 minutes. The workout starts with expansion stretches inhaling and exhaling with each stretch.  Stretches include lat pull down. and standing cat cow.  Jessica proceeds with rotation movement for the ankles, knees, and hips. This workout incorporates single leg balance work (crane pose) with warrior posture positions. Other postures inc...

December 2018 Monthly Rotation  Breakdown Sunday - Walking workouts with Jessica Smith and Amy Ross Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday - Sculpting Workouts (Jari, Kelly, Essentrics, The Firm) Wednesday - MMA Kickboxing with Les Mills Combat and Fit By Tracey Saturday - Rest