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mstawnya - 60 lb. FSPP? 70 lb. step-ups & high rise static lunges? 50 lb. 1-pt. rows? 2 minute planks? You're like a superhero!
^^^ This! You are superwoman! My weights aren't anywhere close to that!0 -
What was i doing before stage 2 - yoga?! Bloody heck stage 2 is hard compared to stage 1. And that Dumbell Prone Cuban Snatch; OUCH!!! I'm literally using two 1.5kg plates right now instead of dumbells because I'm so weak! Hopefully i see results!
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mstawnya - 60 lb. FSPP? 70 lb. step-ups & high rise static lunges? 50 lb. 1-pt. rows? 2 minute planks? You're like a superhero!
^^^ This! You are superwoman! My weights aren't anywhere close to that!
Thank you ladies! It means a lot to me coming from y'all. 0 -
Hi ladies, I was getting excited to be almost done with Stage 2, so I looked in the book to see what's coming in Stage 3, and couldn't help but notice that Stage 4 has the EXACT same workouts as Stage 2. Yikes! I think the # of sets/reps are different, and prob. the rest period, but it's the same moves, in the same order.0
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Still wondering if I'm doing these right? The forward reach is still awkward for me? The video link about is NOT how I do them...Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE0 -
Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
Nope, that's not how I do them. I hold the weights down by my sides to start, and to start, I'm standing on an aerobic step. Then as I pull one leg backward to lunge, I hold the weights down towards my front ankle, like it shows in the book. I also lunge lower than the woman in the video, sometimes even tapping my rear knee to the floor.0 -
Hi ladies, I was getting excited to be almost done with Stage 2, so I looked in the book to see what's coming in Stage 3, and couldn't help but notice that Stage 4 has the EXACT same workouts as Stage 2. Yikes! I think the # of sets/reps are different, and prob. the rest period, but it's the same moves, in the same order.
Yep, from what I understand Stages 2 and 4 are the same and stages 3 and 5 are the same.0 -
Still wondering if I'm doing these right? The forward reach is still awkward for me? The video link about is NOT how I do them...Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
Same here. I have a book at home that has a bunch of exercises pictured and it show this reverse lunge the same way as the NROL book, reaching towards the feet, not up. It lists the exercise as a quad/glute(?) exercise. I just don't get what the reach is for. It feels awkward and since I don't know what it's working, I don't know if I'm using enough weight or too much.0 -
Still wondering if I'm doing these right? The forward reach is still awkward for me? The video link about is NOT how I do them...Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
This looks more like mine, except this guy keeps his arms straight down, and I reach more towards my front foot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Sos6efTaY 0 -
Still wondering if I'm doing these right? The forward reach is still awkward for me? The video link about is NOT how I do them...Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
This looks more like mine, except this guy keeps his arms straight down, and I reach more towards my front foot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Sos6efTaY
Ok, this one look like what I THINK we are supposed to be doing. A much more fluid movement than the way I interpreted the book description. And we use a step, of course.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE 0 -
Ok, this one look like what I THINK we are supposed to be doing. A much more fluid movement than the way I interpreted the book description. And we use a step, of course.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
I just noticed watching again that the people in both videos are alternating legs on every rep. I thought we were supposed to do all the reps on 1 leg, then switch and do all the reps on the 2nd leg???0 -
I thought your hands were suppose to come down on the lunge part by your foot on the bench? In that video her arms are going straight out...0
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Still wondering if I'm doing these right? The forward reach is still awkward for me? The video link about is NOT how I do them...Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
This looks more like mine, except this guy keeps his arms straight down, and I reach more towards my front foot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Sos6efTaY
Ok, this one look like what I THINK we are supposed to be doing. A much more fluid movement than the way I interpreted the book description. And we use a step, of course.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
Gah!!! Totally the wrong link! :grumble:
Try this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWe8wi_8yTM 0 -
Ok, this one look like what I THINK we are supposed to be doing. A much more fluid movement than the way I interpreted the book description. And we use a step, of course.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
I just noticed watching again that the people in both videos are alternating legs on every rep. I thought we were supposed to do all the reps on 1 leg, then switch and do all the reps on the 2nd leg???
And you're right, they do all switch legs. The book does say to do all reps then switch. I wonder if it really matters. Although, I tend to lose count when I alternate. :laugh:0 -
That video was much better! That is exactly the way I have been doing them but with the front foot on the box.0
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finishing stage 2 tomorrow. I feel like this stage just flew by and by the time I finally got the hang of the work out it is finished and I am moving on. Looking forward to stage 3 though 0
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Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
Nope, that's not how I do them. I hold the weights down by my sides to start, and to start, I'm standing on an aerobic step. Then as I pull one leg backward to lunge, I hold the weights down towards my front ankle, like it shows in the book. I also lunge lower than the woman in the video, sometimes even tapping my rear knee to the floor.
I do the same as Karen.0 -
It really does fly doesn't it?! I can't believe i'm on my last week!finishing stage 2 tomorrow. I feel like this stage just flew by and by the time I finally got the hang of the work out it is finished and I am moving on. Looking forward to stage 3 though0 -
Just started Stage 2, did 1A on Monday, 1B today....
Question for you - how different do the lunges & split squats feel? They look pretty similar to me, I really don't like the lunges (hurt my knee), wondering if I'm going to have the same issue with the split squats.0 -
Still wondering if I'm doing these right? The forward reach is still awkward for me? The video link about is NOT how I do them...Is this how everyone is doing the reverse lunge (of course adding the step which is missing from the video)? This is the only video I can really find of the lift. In the picture, it shows the foward reach the the dumbbells out towards the ankles -- but that just doesn't seem very hard. In the video, she's reaching out perpendicular from her body...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
This looks more like mine, except this guy keeps his arms straight down, and I reach more towards my front foot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Sos6efTaY
Ok, this one look like what I THINK we are supposed to be doing. A much more fluid movement than the way I interpreted the book description. And we use a step, of course.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjPQgIQMhlE
Gah!!! Totally the wrong link! :grumble:
Try this one.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWe8wi_8yTM
That's similar to what I'm doing...except see how he's basically bending his upper body? I don't do that.Mine stays fairly perpendicular to the floor the whole time (maybe that's why my foward reach seems awkward)?0
