Daily Burn Reviews
RudyBarich
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Ok, so my first day on the new program. As I said in another thread, I answered the pre-survey questions and the website recommended Live to Fail. I reviewed the program and came to the conclusion that it may be too advanced for me. I then took the time to look at each of the programs and ended up selecting the Total Cardio. This is a 4 week program and is rated intermediate with a focus on gaining strength and weight loss.
It started off with a fairly fast warm up, not sure I got the rhythm for the rocking hops or whatever they're called lol, but I imitated best I could. The warm up did incorporate some stretching and lasts about 6 mins overall.
After that they go right into a squat challenge. This is 60 seconds of any of the 3 squat variants given. There was the difficult one the main trainer does, then the 2 assistants show a intermediate and I don't want to say easy, so I'll just say the easiest of the 3 lol. You do as many as you can and at the end of the 60 seconds, a entry window comes up asking how many you did and you enter to record it. I guess the program will track this and you then see your progress (or lack of) during the duration of the entire program. Then the meat of the program commenced with a series of 6 - 20 second sets of the same move with 10 second breaks in between each of the six. In between each of those group of 6 sets there is a 60 second cool down then you start a new move with 6 sets. Rinse and repeat for the 5 different moves. I was fairly surprised I hung with most of them. They are significantly different than any of the cardio stuff in BLBC. All the moves are shown with 3 variants; hard, inter and easier. I stuck with the easier on all 5 moves.
After that the 6 min cool down is a mix of stretch and yoga basic poses (childs, downward dog, etc.). The whole video was 38 mins. At the end, my triceps and arms were barking. I'm not so sure I burned the 600+ calories the on screen prompter suggested, but I felt decent. Maybe the calories are based on doing the most difficult moves.
I don't see any weekly menu plans, the nutrition section has a daily suggested meal plan for that day, but I don't see a link to see any future days. There is a pretty extensive recipe section much like the BL food section, but this seems more extensive in selection and you can sort by calorie, protein type, etc. No shopping list function that I can see.
That's all I have for this review, I'll see if this program is progressive and I think it's a good one to try for the free month. It looks like it's 12.95/mo after the free month.
V/r,
Rudy
It started off with a fairly fast warm up, not sure I got the rhythm for the rocking hops or whatever they're called lol, but I imitated best I could. The warm up did incorporate some stretching and lasts about 6 mins overall.
After that they go right into a squat challenge. This is 60 seconds of any of the 3 squat variants given. There was the difficult one the main trainer does, then the 2 assistants show a intermediate and I don't want to say easy, so I'll just say the easiest of the 3 lol. You do as many as you can and at the end of the 60 seconds, a entry window comes up asking how many you did and you enter to record it. I guess the program will track this and you then see your progress (or lack of) during the duration of the entire program. Then the meat of the program commenced with a series of 6 - 20 second sets of the same move with 10 second breaks in between each of the six. In between each of those group of 6 sets there is a 60 second cool down then you start a new move with 6 sets. Rinse and repeat for the 5 different moves. I was fairly surprised I hung with most of them. They are significantly different than any of the cardio stuff in BLBC. All the moves are shown with 3 variants; hard, inter and easier. I stuck with the easier on all 5 moves.
After that the 6 min cool down is a mix of stretch and yoga basic poses (childs, downward dog, etc.). The whole video was 38 mins. At the end, my triceps and arms were barking. I'm not so sure I burned the 600+ calories the on screen prompter suggested, but I felt decent. Maybe the calories are based on doing the most difficult moves.
I don't see any weekly menu plans, the nutrition section has a daily suggested meal plan for that day, but I don't see a link to see any future days. There is a pretty extensive recipe section much like the BL food section, but this seems more extensive in selection and you can sort by calorie, protein type, etc. No shopping list function that I can see.
That's all I have for this review, I'll see if this program is progressive and I think it's a good one to try for the free month. It looks like it's 12.95/mo after the free month.
V/r,
Rudy
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Cool review! That sounds like a winner program. I'll be dipping my toe in there soon. I think I'm hungry most for different warmups and cool downs. The FitStar stuff only has one warmup routine and that's it. I actually use the BLBC for warmup/cool down to supplement that.
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Today, it was a shorter workout called Metabolic Hip Hop. It was a dance based cardio workout done all on your feet. I definitely showed my white boy has no rhythm self lmao! It was about 4 mins of quick paced warm up moves. At the end of the warmup, another squat challenge for a minute and a window popped up to enter the number. Then about 18 mins of different moves and combos of them. You were constantly moving in one way or another. The trainer said more than a few times to stop at anytime to get water. So if you kept up with her, you were breathing and sweating pretty good at the end. At the end you had a cooldown period of another 4 minutes or so. Total video time was about 26 mins. It claimed just over 320 calories, but who knows. I felt like I was sweating more than I did on yesterday's workout.0
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Your experience matches up with the review I put over on the BLBC chat board Rudy. It seems like the programs are pretty similar. I also have NO rhythm, Lol, but that Metabolic Hip Hop routine sounds like fun! I might check that out because I know you can do workouts from any program despite what your 'assigned' program is. As long as no one is watching, I'll have fun!
There were a couple other short routines I've seen in my Facebook feed over the past week too that looked like they might be fun to try just as 'extra' activity after my regular workout. One was a squat/lunge routine to the song 'Dark Horse' - it looked pretty darn challenging!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJURs7nJRI
And the other was a 'hip hop' type step class that just looked fun - but it'd probably take me a month (or more!) to get it right! Lol!
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That DB routine sounds like fun and I think I could keep up with the first video... definitely not the second! Although that second one had some more elderly folks doing it so maybe after a lot of working up to it... I could do it.. maybe.
On a side note, it's pretty cool how you can post some videos in this forum like thing.
I'll be checking out DB real soon, although I'm getting some great workouts in using FitStar. The one feature I like is that I can select my own music to play with the workouts. The app blends in the music with the voice instructions.
I'm sure DB offers something like this, but I've been doing a simple 20 minute morning routine (called Good Morning) to start my day, right after I roll out of bed, and I find it beneficial to do something like that but not too much where it takes a lot of time. Then I'll do the normal workout in the evening so I'm calling it two-a-days.0 -
Dark horse would kill my knees. lol The site is looking better and better.0
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How about "'Tactical Cardio" for day 3 of my 28 day Total Cardio program on Daily Burn. Omg, that was a killer workout, I'm drenched! Total video time was 48 mins. 5 moves for 90 seconds each with a 30 second recovery period in between each move...rinse and repeat 3 times. There is no way in hell that I could have even come close to doing the easy modifiers if it weren't for the BLBC. I'm liking the more diverse moves. I think my body is responding accordingly. I'm shredding some pounds this week and it's only half over! I peeked at the scale this morning at it was 242, 3 lbs down from Sunday already! I'm thinking I'm going to be turning in that 240# club card soon!!
And Scott, I'm with you...cool people indeed!
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I'm sure DB offers something like this, but I've been doing a simple 20 minute morning routine (called Good Morning) to start my day, right after I roll out of bed, and I find it beneficial to do something like that but not too much where it takes a lot of time. Then I'll do the normal workout in the evening so I'm calling it two-a-days.
There is a workout archive that makes BL archives look like afternoon nap. It has a pretty cool search feature with fillters. You can filter by difficulty, length, etc. Here's a snap shot of the 20 min or less workouts available:
The page was slow to load, but for the ones that were finished loading you can see it gives you a title, length and difficulty. There are some less than 10 mins up to 20 with the 20 mins or less filter set. There more below the bottom, but I only took one page worth in the screenie.
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WOW RUDY!!! You are killing it dude! Can I call you dude?
You're at where I started and I have a feeling you're going to end up at 200 before me! You've sold me on DB and I'm going all in on Monday. FitStar is nice but the workouts are getting just a tad repetitive. Maybe they will change it up in a bit, (the BLBC seem to mix things up every couple weeks), but they don't have nearby the diversity that DB offers.
I peeked at the scale myself this morning and I'm done a pound since Monday (down 3 since my last "official weigh-in") so I'm feeling pretty good. Except my wife made some chocolatey brownies with gooey chocolate frosting and chocolate chips for a function and brought too many of them back. They are classified as weapons grade Kryptonite, just above the Girl Scout Thin Mint grade so I'm having issues. I can't throw them out because I'll have a revolt on my hands from my youngest. They do have sprinkles on them so that's a nogo on the jettison option!
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Yeah, the girl scouts haven't set themselves up in front of the Wegmans I shop at. I'm dreading the day they set up. Their Samoas are my kryptonite! Awesome news on the scale Scott! I did reward myself for the end of the BLBC, I took my daughter to the local Menchie's for some damn good frozen yogurt. I stayed somewhat conservative, but definitely left with a sugar high. It was soooooooooo good. Back to the grind this week!0
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You guys make me so jealous! You're both doing so great. I'm hoping this will be a good week for me - I also sneaked a peek at the scale this morning and I'm down 1.6 from last week. That would sound great if I hadn't gained 1.2 last week. But at least for now it looks like I lost it again and a little more. Hopefully it stays lost through Sunday's weigh-in!
I was cracking up over the beautiful description of the gooey brownies and girl scout cookies
I had Thin Mints in my freezer and ended up giving them to my daughter's boyfriend - the 20 year old who can eat exclusively junk 24/7 and not gain an ounce! Ah to be young again... 0 -
Progress is progress Christine! You have to remember...I weighed a lot to start! I'm sure it will settle soon. Don't get me wrong, I won't complain if it keeps up 2+ a week! However, I know that can't go on forever. Even with all the weight I have lost, I'm still at 34.7 BMI. I'm still obese according to the experts!
You are down from the last week....that's what matters, forget the rest! Baby steps my lady friend, baby steps...stay the course! WE GOT THIS!
Ok, so I skipped a review. I realized today that I bent from the program track. I had 3 workouts, one recover and then two workouts and one recovery. I accidently did four workouts in a row, so I didn't miss much but a recovery day with an easy "Joint Mobility" video. I'll be doing that tomorrow along with the yoga session as a recovery session too.
So, that means I did a regular workout just now, it was pretty fast paced and I barely made it through. It was called Metabolic Maximizer and it was rated hard. The session started off with a normal warmup (although a warmup that uses squats is not really a warmup is it? lol).
The meat of the workout was 14 sessions of 4 moves for 5 reps each. You had one minute to do a round of the 4 moves. The faster you completed the round, the more of the one minute you had left to recover. I struggled to keep up, so the first 4 or 5 rounds, I barely finished at the minute mark. Then it was right into the next round! It was bad enough being slow, but listenting to the instructors talking about being done at 40 secs while I'm grunting and gasping for air wasn't fun haha! But you know what? That's right, Mr. Rudy came and conquered all 14 rounds, I'm paying for it now though. Stupid me for making up yesterday's challenge before that started lmao!!!0 -
Woohoo go Mr. Rudy, the 14 round battle king! Your experiences sound intriguing and I'm looking forward to the DB experience on Monday!
I decided to go a little "Last Chance Workout" today and did the FitStar warmup routine, then the next workout (30 minutes) of the Get Lean program, followed by our 30 day challenge (those leg lifts are killing me!), and then I decided to go work out with an old friend and fired up Dolvett's LCWO for week #1 of the Super Sculptors BC, which was about 45 minutes or so. I know I ruffled a few feathers on the BL forums when I called it a step down from the last BC we all did, but it really is. I did what I could to make it tougher by adding weights for the squats and lunges, but in reality, I think the Total Body Makeover BC is just a tougher one overall than the Super Sculptor one. Actually, I should say that it's really Dolvett's workouts since the Jen and Jessie workouts are simply the exact same ones that we did. Oh well, it was kinda fun to workout with Dolvett again so at least I had that.
And yeah Kristine, you're doing great! I'm thinking percentage wise, you'll do just fine since a loss is a loss. I may have lost ground this week but I haven't confirmed it with the scale yet. Ever since those brownies (which I later found out are black bean brownies so not totally unhealthy), I've been pretty bad. How bad? Well this week, I've had cinnamon rolls, pizza and bread sticks, wine (my wife opened a bottle to cook with and had lots left but at least I stopped with a single glass last night and tonight), ate out at a Thai restaurant, and had two scoops of Baskin Robbins ice cream in a waffle bowl. The last couple items was due to celebrating my son's birthday so I gave myself a pass for that. But, I logged everything in MFP and kept things close to my overall calorie goal, so it will be interesting to see what the scale says.0 -
Wow, you're up early for a weekend day Scott! Perhaps you can just write off the bad food as a reward week. You rewarded yourself for the hard work you've put in finishing the 10 week boot camp and discovering new routines, etc. Just jump back on the wagon and move on. Hopefully the scale isn't too critical. Today is another day, own it!0
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You guys are killing the workouts, I need to step up.0
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Thanks for the encouraging words all - I'm really pretty happy with my progress since, as you've mentioned, at least it's progress! So I'm jealous in a good way Lol! I just lose slow, it's a fact of life for me, but at least I'm losing!
Scott - I had two glasses of white peach sangria on Friday night with my hubby when we went out to eat. I ordered salmon and veggies for dinner, but I did break down and eat a small piece of ciabatta (sp??) bread with about a tsp of real butter on it! Then yesterday, my sister simply FORCED me to eat some Sweet Frog.
I kept the damage there to a minimum too and was still under my calorie goal both days though. Do you think that eating those things has a negative impact as long as you're still staying under calories?
I did the LCWO from Super Sculptor yesterday too. It was the first Super Sculptor workout I've done. I didn't find it 'easy' per se, but definitely not as challenging as past BL workouts from TBM. I actually was surprised that I found the strength moves with the towel to be decently challenging for me - and of course there were the dreaded push ups, so I found those challenging. Challenging might be the wrong word for the towel ones - maybe it's more I didn't find them as 'easy' as I thought I would, I felt a burn. I've really been liking my Cardio Sculpt workouts though from Dailyburn. They're definitely a step up from the bootcamp workouts - and Cardio Sculpt is labeled 'easy'! I'm gonna try a couple of the ones you've been reporting on, Rudy, next week to see how big of a difference it is. CardioSculpt has been taking me through 4 different workouts - BHT (Butt, Hips, and Thighs - my legs are rubber at the end of that 'easy' workout! lol), CardioSculpt, Kickin' It with Kiera (kickboxing, and pretty fun actually), and Lean Abs. I think Lean Abs is a little too easy, but I've only had that one come up once so far in my schedule so perhaps I'll be able to kick it up to the harder modifiers next round and see how that feels.
Overall, it sounds like you guys are putting significantly more time into the workouts than I have been - although in the past week I have kicked it up a bit. I've been doing Rudy's 30 day challenge and I've added 2 miles a day on the treadmill (about 16 minute miles) to my 40-50 minute lunchtime workouts, so hopefully that will get me past this plateau.0 -
Thanks Rudy... I got away with the indulgences with week since I escaped with a loss even from when I peeked before I got off the rails. I did work out harder this week than last so that probably saved me. Up early, up late... potato, po-tato?
Sweet Frog? What's that??? I do hear that calories are calories, but I do think it does matter what kind of calories they are so I'm going to do better this week and not have so many slip ups.
I also found those exercises with the towel surprisedly challenging but I've really looking forward to getting on the DB experience. When I do workout, it's about the same time length as you Kristine, except for the days I do the morning routine. Yesterday was a different story where I did work out a lot longer than I typically have been doing.
Well I need to stop watching some NBA playoff basketball and go do some of that active part of today, so yard work, here I come!0 -
Lol! Sweet Frog is a frozen yogurt chain in our area - kinda similar to TCBY I think. You pay for your froyo by the weight and they have usually 12-14 different flavors and a huge toppings bar. I had 8 oz (2 oz each of 4 different flavors) and was stingy on my toppings - tried to pick the lowest calorie ones. It was really good - I ended up eating around 240 calories... But I didn't go over my calories for the day, so I figured it wasn't too bad.0
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Oh yeah... I've been to similiar places as Sweet Frog and it's sooooo good! Yeah, 240 calories isn't so bad so good job... I know it could've been a lot worse.
Hey Debbie... I'm going all in on DB tomorrow. Come join me! There's a 1 month free trial so let's go for it!0 -
That's what the Menchie's is here. I took my daughter there that Sunday the boot camp was over. I think I had a bit more calories but I was conservative compared to days past. Hell of a sugar high though!0
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Ok, so it looks like they rinse and repeat for the week. I started off a bit let down that the weeks repeat, but then I went into the exercise for the day and realized that there are two other modifiers or you can choose to pick up the pace as options. I tried one move with the intermediate and picked up the pace. I burned 6 more squats on the challenge minute than I did day 1, so that's a bonus. I really feel like I burned more calories this time around.
I'll end the reviews of this Total Cardio as there's no need to repeat. I'm going to keep this up for 28 days....3 work, 1 recovery - total mobility, 3 work, 1 recovery - yoga.
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I signed for DB today and like Rudy, it suggested Train to Fail for me and just like Rudy, I dropped down to Total Cardio after seeing what TTF is all about. Those workouts look pretty advanced plus I think I really need that box to do most of them. So maybe down the road, I'll be TTF'ing but not now.
Tabata Transformation was a great workout! I did feel the burn during it and my knees and shoulder was a bit achy for the couple exercises that put stress on them (that twist maneuver for my knees and that tabletop one for my shoulder) but afterwards, I don't feel sore, but I do feel like I got a great workout. I really love the DB experience on my iPad/Apple TV combo! The TV displays the workout and has the sound while the iPad displays the progress for the workout, the running calorie count (I agree that it's way too generous), your heart rate if you have a bluetooth heart rate monitor, and the upcoming workouts. Here's a screenshot of my iPad at the end of the tabata sets.
I also entered my squat number after the challenge. I thought it was great it was squats so that took care of my squat number for our challenge.
I also really like how there's an actual warmup and cool down that matches the exercises we did, so I'm real happy about that. So I'm turning my back on FitStar for a while and giving DB a good go. There are some other programs that really caught my eye that I would like to do, especially if I get a heart rate monitor. They are pretty reasonable these days.
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Awesome, glad you liked it Scott. It's a refreshing change. I like the deal about the tablet thing. One of these days, I probably would want to try to get a bluetooth compatibe HR monitor just so I can feed it live into the app. It would be cool to see the calorie burn during the workout like that.0
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Well I made it thru the dance workout without tripping and hurting myself. It was definitely a different experience attempting to do dance moves to work out. I got a little bit of sweat up at the end but felt like I needed more so I did the Jen's Amazon Warrior in the current BLBC, which was the one during our 2nd week, and then I knocked out the rest of daily challenge. Afterwards I felt like I worked out. I needed the extra workout because I ended up having a beer with a neighbor. I didn't want to be antisocial!0
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Yes, I wasn't stumbling through it quite as bad as last week. I had a pretty good sweat at the end as I trying move more with them add libbing as I could. Glad no one was watching me haha. I knocked out day 10 of the challenge after.0
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What are you guys doing about the calorie counts from Dailyburn since it seems like they might be a bit high? I did the Kickin' it with Kiera workout today and it said I burned 354 calories in 38 minutes, which I'm not too sure about. I did stop and take my pulse for 10 seconds a couple times and it was at around 150bpm - which is supposed to be 'Cardio' level for my age. I log my exercise on my Fitbit account and it communicates it over to my MFP account. Then, as you know, MFP subtracts my exercise from my calories consumed and shows that I have 'extra' calories I can eat in my 'total calories left'. I've been eating back half of those because I've read that you do need to eat some extra calories when you're working out so that your body doesn't burn muscle in addition to fat from consuming too few calories, but I also don't want to eat too many and negate my exercise! But if my calories burned on Dailyburn are too high, I may be eating back too much. Do you guys enter the full amount of calories that DB reports, or do you calculate some smaller number?0
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I've been using my Up band to time my workouts. I don't know if your fitbit has the same feature, but I double tap and hold my Up button until it vibrates and that begins the stopwatch mode on it. When I'm finished, I press and hold the button until it vibrates again and that ends the stopwatch mode. When it syncs to the Up app, I can specify what kind of workout it was and adjust the intensity level. Sometimes it's less than what the various workouts say but other times it's about the same so I just go with that. Once Up figures out the calorie burn, it syncs up with MFP and factors in my energy equation.
Hmmmmm.... I just checked on what I did last night and for some reason, those calories from my workouts didn't get synced into MFP so I guess there's some kind of glitch in my system now. I do use a couple different apps for when I run, hike, walk the dog, etc and those calories are getting into MFP.
Overall, I've been trying to keep my calorie intake around the goal and discount any of the exercise components (I figured that was a bonus for not making that up). I treat it as my padding for when I do eat extra but keep it less to what I burned, then I wouldn't be too concerned, but I may need to rethink that based on what you read about compensating for the calories you burn working out.
Usually I consume less than my goal when I log my meals, but then again, I've had some weight gains for a week instead of a loss. Like we learned during BLBC, we often underestimate how much we eat and overestimate how much we burn off exercising so although MFP at least gives you a ballpark of your energy equation, it's probably off a bit because of those two factors so maybe this whole tracking thing is more art than science. At least it's raising awareness of the whole process.0 -
I'm afraid I'm not going to be much help with the calories thing. I haven't paid the counting much mind. With the BLBC, I just stuck to the meal plan and staying under 1800 calories. After the early and consistent loss each week, I didn't see a need to adjust nor track much else. After BLBC, I just committed to not buying junk foods or any foods/Drinks that could sabotage everything. It's worked well for me so far. Sorry I'm not much help in answering your question.0
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I did the Tactical Cardio workout today. Yeah.. that's a workout alright! The exercises where it stressed my shoulder were tough, which were the tripod and the base change moves. I did much better on the other moves. I'm feeling the effects of that workout afterwards when I was walking up some stairs and had no desire for more afterwards! In fact, I haven't done the daily challenge yet and I'm trying to psych myself up for doing today's intervals.
My wife did the workout with me and she actually worked up a little sweat and that rarely happens so it was tough one. I'm looking forward to see how the recovery one goes tomorrow because I'm really digging the cool downs with all the yoga stretches.0 -
I bet you feel a bit stronger the 2nd time around (next week). I know I did. I still wasn't quite able to do the base changes for the full 90 seconds, but I hung with the tripods all 3 times. I may not be as fast paced, but I try to set a pace I can finish. On the easier ones like the squat press, I just try to hammer them out. I'm getting more comfortable with moves after doing them a second week. The tactical one by far is the most sweat producing workout of the 5 exercise days. I bought some yoga blocks for the recovery days. I was told they actually promote getting to the point of not needing them. The poses that I have to use them definitely feel more natural anyhow.
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I hope it gets a little easier, at least figuring out how to do these crazy moves. I was looking thru the other programs and I'm getting intrigued by the TBT - Tactical Bodyweight Training and I think that will be the next program I try. I really like working out to Cody and that's a program that requires no extra equipment.
I did the recover one today and wow, that was a pretty cool deal. Who knew just doing some easy recovery moves would led to some sweat? I was lost for a few of the moves involving figure 8's with the legs and also the tripod stretch did me in. My shoulders are limiting what I can do there, but I really liked what I was able to do. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's workout!0
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