tonight I'm doing cardio party mix 3

Cool i like these rotation i don't have fat blaster so ill substitute for a different workout of turbo jam or turbo fire. Tomorrow I'll do the sculpt.

Should I even attempt a schedule seeing as how I couldn't even complete Cardio Party Mix 2 today? Should I just keep doing that one till I can get all the way through it or should I try to follow some sort of rotation and just do as much as I can of each workout?

These are the ones I have:

Cardio Party Mix 2
Cardio Party Mix 3
Fat Blaster
3T (Totally Tubular Turbo)
Lower Body Jam

Can anybody recommend a rotation using these 5?

You have the ones from the elite series! Those are harder. Honestly, I'd just stick with the one you started and keep at it until you can make it all the way through. Once you get that one done, move onto the next. I don't think a rotation is as important as just exercising period, so you're doing fine!

Sooooo, I have a question... I am doing the beginner schedule, but I actually started the day after Christmas with the learn and burn videos and so this week I am on week 4 of the schedule.

My question is this... after this week, do I start all over with week 1? The idea of just doing the learn and burn for a few days and having a short 4 day week seems odd after working out so hard last week and this week.

I was thinking starting over with week 3 and 4, and adding in the booty sculpt and ab something or other that came as a bonus with my set, and the kick/punch/jam that also came with it (on my beginner schedule it adds it in on Saturday but I'm so busy on weekends with 3 kids in sports plus I've worked nights the past few weekends that I haven't fit it on the weekends so had 2 rest days Sat/Sun).

I am not 100% to where I feel confident doing the advanced schedule yet as I still get tired and can't 100% complete the ab jam without having to stop and rest a bit and stretch and start back up again. When I can complete the workout 100% to the T per the video, then I will move up to the advanced schedule I suppose, but for now it just seems weird to back-track to the first week where I only do learn and burn for the first two days, then only 20 min. for 2 days then rest for 3 days, lol. I NEVER thought I'd say THAT!!

What would anyone else do? I figure if I can work week 3 and 4 for two weeks each, two weeks using the punch/kick/jam in there and the second and third week doing the booty sculpt/ab thing, that it would be still intense enough to keep my momentum going? I have loved this first month so far, only 2 days left and I've officially completed a month of exercising and it feels AMAZEBALLS!

Anyway, any suggestions??

Diana

No worries Linda, at least you replied.

I think I will just do the week 3 and week 4 over 2 more times (for a total of another 4 weeks) because I'm afraid if I don't do enough I will not feel challenged and start to wean off the workouts and I don't want that to happen.

Well, I did it, but very hard for me! I am totally, utterly exhausted. I may just really need an extra day to recover... I will probably switch to that until I build up. I'll just keep repeating the Beginner Schedule until I can do it every day except for the specified rest days.
I don't think that I should be quite this exhausted...
Linda

I just started the advanced schedule this week. I hope to get the other DVDs to be able to do the other schedule after. I love Chalenes workouts.

Thanks Friggie, for some reason the last time I was on here I didn't see your post??? grrr on me, lol. I haven't been able to get to a computer so I just found this today. (I for some reason can't get to the groups from my iPhone). I ended up doing weeks 3 and 4 over and over for 4 weeks to finish out my 8 weeks of working out, BUT, I haven't even been truly following the schedule as things come up and some days when I plan to work i can't due to work issues or kids schedules, but I have worked out at 4 days a week for the last month instead of 5, which I guess is better than 3 haha.

on Wednesday last week there was just scheduled the 20 min, nothing more...and let me tell you it was the FIRST time I was able to talk in full sentences while working out (talking to my fiance while I was working out)!!!! It was an awesome feeling considering just 8 weeks ago when I first did the week, when doing the 20 minutes I thought I was going to die!

I decided this week I was going to do the beginner schedule again, but this time work out 5 days the first two weeks and 6 days the last 2 weeks like it has in the book. My fiance bought me a heart monitor for reaching 2 months of working out and he sees how much I'm liking it and I can start to finally see some results physically in my clothes, even though the scale is moving slow, so to reward me he surprised me with that and some free hand weights to do some of the workouts. I'm excited!

So, to complete 90 days, I'm going to do one more month of the beginner schedule, but this time sticking more to the schedule of working out 5-6 days a week, because up until now I have only worked out 4 days a week for the past 8 weeks.

Only change I am going to make is to the first week of the beginner schedule again, after 8 weeks I feel the learn and burn is just not challenging enough to be by itself for me now. Example, yesterday (Monday) I did Punch, Kick & Jam, Tuesday (today) I plan to do the 20 min, Cardio Party (Wednesday), 20 min on thursday, Cardio Party Friday, then rest Saturday and Sunday as per the first week having 2 rest days. (the best day for me to rest is Sunday because that is when everyone is home together and I'm off work). I know its more like the first week of the advanced schedule, but I feel i need more than just the learn and burn if I want to keep motivated.

Week 2, 3 and 4 will probably follow the same beginner schedule, doing 5-6 days a week depending on the schedule. Then after week 4 that will be 12 weeks of working out, and I will then start the advanced schedule I think.

I am already starting to look at her other DVDs to purchase, I love Chalene's workouts! I also love Zumba, had it on Kinect on the xbox 360, but when my son and I moved in with my fiance and his son, well the xbox got moved to the boys' room (they share a room) and so I can't do it in their room because its always a mess, haha, so I am looking into maybe adding some zumba too because I love to dance and mix those in with the turbo jam stuff, but that wil be after I buy the next set of Turbo Jam DVDs.

Is that bad of me? lol