BLACK GIRLS WORKOUT TOO!!

I recently started using the DVD. Has it worked out for you?

I purchased this dvd about 3 months ago...now that I am ready to use it my meal plan is no where in site. Can someone email me the meal plan pleasssssse!!! :sad:

Can you email it to me when you get it please? Lol! My roommate lost ours.

I workout, but CAN"T jump !!! :laugh:

:drinker:

"You can do side bends or sit ups but please don't lose that butt."

Checking in - this black chic works out!

Yes WE do!

they say you burn about 500 calories the whole dvd

Anyhoo... I detested getting my hair relaxed when I was young, it would suck straightening it and I hated spending that much time on it. Went natural and haven't looked back. Dreads are the best decision I made for a low maintenance hair style that also happens to be extremely sweat friendly. :drinker:

Might try the DVDs out at some point, looks intriguing!
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^^ quote above^^ Sybrix
My hair was a hot mess after my workouts. I had to choose between my bone straight perm and my heavy duty daily workout. Trust me when I tell you it was a difficult decision. When the scale started an upward trend and I needed a monthly supply of $110 blood pressure medicine, I went natural. Going natural relieved the pressure/stress I endured having to make it presentable every single day. The switch probably lowered my BP too! Lol

Great that you are getting in shape. As far as the DVD name, I wonder how well it would go over if it said "White girls work out"?

Not very well, because it...wouldn't make any sense in the context of the marketing tactic. The genetic trait of every white women's hair does not involve instantly reversing texture upon moisture contact after spending hundreds of dollars at the salon to alter the texture. They are marketing to a certain demographic in which a lot of the women avoid working out, by being relatable to other black women. The hair thing may not seem like a big deal or silly to you but it is a cultural thing. :laugh:

Also...nearly every popular DVD I bought geared towards women has starred a white woman. I get a pleasant surprise out of the ones that have a black woman kickin butt in the background, makes me identify with it more. :happy: So your point is kinda moot, I'm not sure how marketing towards a neglected demographic in a certain market is "reverse racism". I for one welcome any black female fitness role models!

Anyhoo... I detested getting my hair relaxed when I was young, it would suck straightening it and I hated spending that much time on it. Went natural and haven't looked back. Dreads are the best decision I made for a low maintenance hair style that also happens to be extremely sweat friendly. :drinker:

Might try the DVDs out at some point, looks intriguing!

QFT! I have'nt gotten the DVD but I hope this is sucessful and more DVDs like this will be made that encourage black women to workout.

About the hair thing, I'm natural as well. When I straighten my hair I wear it up in a high snug ponytail with a wrap so it won't frizz up. I usually wear my hair in twistouts,buns or braids.

I use to workout on the weekend so that it would coincide with wash days. Then I started wearing half wigs on workout days so that hair wasn't a factor. Now I am natural, so if I miss a workout it is because I'm being lazy, not because of my hair.

I am glad that there is a push to get black women active through this DVD and Black Girls Run. It is not about being exclusive, but trying to introduce and encourage fitness to a group of women who happen to have the highest rates of diabetes and heart disease. I have always had an interest in fitness, but I don't recall any woman, in my life, my mother, aunts, older cousins working out or having a gym membership when I was growing up. Many of them were naturally thin in their youth and then gained later and just accepted it. But now majority of them suffer from diabetes and heart disease. We have so few examples of black women in the fitness industry. You don't black women often in workout DVDs, on the cover of Shape or Fitness magazine, in fitness/bodybuilding competitions, martial arts etc. However, I feel that as more black women make their health and fitness a priority that this will change, in fact it already is. I ran a 5K back in the summer with Black Girls Run in Harlem of all places. There were more white runners, but still the black women of black girls run represented in a big way and without that group, we would just be a few chocolate sprinkles in the 2000+ runners that participated.

Well Insanity jacks up my bob everyday. I dont care if I wrap it, put rollers in it, or pray about it. shaun has my hair all kinds of soaked but I figure have a banging body or banging hair. I choose body *kanye rant*

I just did this workout but I don't know how to log it into myfitnesspal ???? help meee. And I'm looking for inspirational friends to add so please add me if you can help on my lifestyle change

Working out is great, it helps so many things...stress levels, confidence, flexibility, sweating helps to clean pores...BUT remember, wt loss and maintenance is 90% WHAT YOU EAT and 10% Execise/Activity. Don't be fooled and focus on the WRONG thing. When days get hard, if you have to pass on something choose the exercise instead of pigging out because working out TWICE a day will get you down. Reality, you can lose weight w/o an exercise routine but you can NOT lose or maintain wt loss with a bad diet (eating habit for life).

Truthfully, I wish people would get as excited about eating healthily as they do about chasing that "magic pill" (An Exercise DVD or Routine. Most will get a "Turnt-Up" exercise routine so they can eat BADLY and feel good about themselves. Enjoy your DVD, but don't go so far over-board that you become sooo hungry and tired that all you think about is hitting a number at a certain time, and then 6, 12, 15, 18 Months after that you are back in here saying you are going to do it Right "This Time". Be Well, Live Well

I know that's right.. that's y I got braids

29 year old wife in Ct. I am raising 3 little girls and I need to make some changes in my life so they will know black girls can be healthy and fit too. Still new here so encouragement, tips and motivation are welcomed. Maybe I can offer the same to someone else. Peace & Blessings.