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Jessica Smith Walk On Metabolism Booster - Thoughts

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Walk On Metabolism Booster with Jessica Smith. Just realized when I was planning May rotation that I never reviewed this workout. The DVD Menu Play All Upper Body Circuit Walk Lower Body Circuit Walk Total Body Time Saver Bonus Routine for Stronger Knees Lower Body Circuit Walk clocks in at just under 35 minutes.  Jessica uses a pair of weights to increase the intensity of the resistance moves.  You are doing each of the exercises for two sets of 16 or so reps. Jessica adds cardio breaks in between each grouping of exercises. Upper Body Circuit Walk clocks in at a little over 35 minutes.  In this workouts, Jessica performs three upper body exercises back to back, repeats those exercises and then moves on to a cardio break, before taking on another group of three exercises.  The last grouping are standing core exercises.  Jessica uses a pair of weight for the strength exercises. Total Body Time Saver clocks in at 16:45. It is  circuit style working in whi...

May 2025 Scheduled Workouts

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May 2025 Workout Routine For the next 5 or 6 months, the plan is to follow the same workout routine. The routine is: Sunday - Cardio Monday - Lower Body Tuesday - Upper Body Wednesday - Cardio Thursday - Lower Body Friday - Upper Body Saturday - Recovery May 2025 features strength workouts from Jessica Smith, Cathe, and Autumn Calbrese. Cardio will be treadmill on Sundays and Discount Workouts Kickboxing DVDs on Wednesday.   Recovery workouts will be from Michelle Dozois, Jessica Smith, AeroSpace and Tamilee.  

Cooper River Bridge Run - April 2025

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Cooper River Bridge Run 10K Race On April 5th, I participated in the Cooper River Bridge Run in Charleston SC. It was a 10K race. It had been a couple of years since I ran my last 10K. This year, I did it in a 1 hour and 20 minutes.  I was in Coral G. All total, there was over 36,000 participants. The actual race was fine. Getting to and from the race was a bit of a hassle but then it usually is in these big races. All in all, I felt good about the experience and may do it again sometime in the future.  

April 2025 Workouts

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April 2025 Monthly Workout Schedule  

March 2025 Monthly Rotation

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  March 2025 What I am doing in March 2025. Training for an upcoming 10K. 

February 2025 Monthly Workout Rotation

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  February 2025 For the next two months (8-weeks), I will be doing Bodi's Autumn Calabrese Belle Vitale Program. Autumn actually designed this as a 12-week (3-month) program, but I am condensing it down to 2-months. In Autumn's program, she has you doing 5 workouts per week, with 2-days off. On my off days, I will be doing treadmill runs (I am training for a 10K) on Sunday and yoga/active recovery workouts on Saturday.

Cathe Lift, Move, & Restore Functional Pilates Fusion

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Functional Pilates Fusion clocks in at 33 minutes. Several tools are used throughout the workout.  Cathe starts using the foam roller to help increase flexibility and to add a bit of resistance and expansion to the body. The mini-ball is added to work on coordination and increase intensity through dynamic movement. Cathe uses the fabric-loop band to add resistance during the leg floor series.   DVD Menu Full Series Overview Workout Intro Equipment Needed Play Functional Pilates Fusion Play Lower Body Foam Rolling Bonus Chapters Premixes Audio Settings I liked this workout. I felt I wanted more of the Pilates and less of the fusion. 3 & 1/2 stars