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Jari, Jari, Jari
Well, I didn’t really feel like working out again today too, but I decided that I just had to do something. I didn’t want to do another Firm, so I reached for Jari Love’s Get Ripped! I just love this workout. It is probably an intermediate level strength training DVD. I just love it because you work a lot of parts of your body, but don’t feel like you got hit by a bus when you are done.
Her warm up consists of a bunch of squats and dead lifts. You then go into a superset of squats. I just did the DVD, but I can’t remember if there was something after the squats before heading to the floor for some chest, back and leg work. Oh well. Yea, then you head to the floor and do a superset of chest presses, followed by lat and triceps work. She then has you do some inner and outer thigh leg lifts. You then stand up again and do some lunges, more dead lifts and back work. Then on to the shoulders and delts. There is a short ab segment and short stretch. The workout is about 45 to 50 minutes long, but it never feels that long whenever I do the workout. The time really goes by quickly.
I really do like Jari Love - she is so down to earth and she always has great words of encouragement to keep you going. I also like how she stresses that you should do the DVD about 3 times a week - but in order to get really “ripped” and lean, you have to make sure that you do cardio work and watch your diet. It’s actually kind of refreshing to have an instructor emphasize that the DVD is not the complete answer to your fitness goals.
It’s kind of annoying actually when you do some tapes and the instructors try to make it seem like you can get a body like theirs just from doing their workout, when that is really not the case.
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Meet Me at the Bar
I didn’t work out the last 3 days. I sort of took them as rest days, but it was mostly because I was again wicked tired, had to copy a butt load of DVD’s for Fred and I got preoccupied with finding plugins for ths blog.
Thursday was pretty interesting though. I go to a couple of video fitness message boards everyday and I’ve learned a lot about different DVD’s from them. It’s great since a lot of people post reviews on workouts so you can get an idea whether you would or wouldn’t like a video. Of course, the boards haven’t been good to my bank account since they’ve made me want to try so many things that I would never have considered.
Anyways, there are a few people from Hawaii that regularly go to this one board and so we were going to have a get together on Thursday. I was so nervous, it was like going on a blind date! I was really hoping that there would be someone else there that was also as overweight as I am or was so I could get some advice/encouragement from someone else struggling the way I am.
But, only 1 other person showed up! :dizzy: The person organizing it changed the date to a Thursday instead of Friday so we could accommodate a person from one of the neighbor islands, but she never showed! Doh! So it was interesting to say the least. The person I met was really nice and we got to talk about our workout DVD’s. It isn’t something that you can really talk to a lot of people about. I mean, who the heck is going to be excited about getting a brand new workout DVD other than us crazy home exercisers?
The lady I met up with was really nice though and we talked for over an hour. I think we were there for about 2 hours. I was kind of proud of myself since I did pretty good. I think I am really shy and have a hard time talking to people. I never know what to say. I am usually at a complete loss in large groups because I never want to interrupt people when talking and I have this weird sense of modesty where I find it hard to talk about myself because I don’t want to seem like I am boasting - about anything.
Oh yea, and we met up at Ryan’s in Ward Center. I used to go there a lot. When I first started college, some friends and I took an aerobics class at school and we would go to Ryan’s once a week to eat their crab dip. Oh, it is soooo good. Then I would go there with various friends to drink coffee and smoke and talk about all kinds of things. (This was after the demise of Java Java and before the prevalence of Starbucks around town.) So, I have a good feeling about that place.
After the get together, I headed to Ross in yet another attempt to find a copy of Jari Love’s Slim and Lean and again, they did not have any in stock. I also didn’t see any copies of any of her other workouts, so I think that they might no longer be carried by them. It’s too bad, I think the DVD would have cost about $5 or $6, but it’s about $10 everywhere else. Oh well, I will keep looking. I might venture out Kaneohe this week, just to see if they might have it in stock.
Since I also had the car, I also decided to pick up a copy of Sublime Stitching. I had a 25% off coupon for Borders and it was only in stock in Pearl Ridge, so I headed out that way. I pretty much got the book for the patterns since it includes at least 40 pages of iron on transfer patterns. Yay! Of course, I don’t know why I had to have it since I have had the Stitch It Kit for over a year and haven’t embroidered anything yet. I then met up with Fred for coffee and just hung out for awhile.
Friday was like any other day - just tried to take over the world. I spent most of the day burning copies of stuff and tried working on the router again. Aww screw it with the router, I am taking it back tomorrow and getting a NetGear router instead. I just can’t figure out why the damn router is not getting an internet connection. I’ve tried it with and without firewalls, upgraded the firmware, tried it on various computers, and NOTHING! No connection. I can ping the router when a computer is hooked up to it and if I have my laptop on, I can see the home network, but neither of the computers would be able to connect to the internet. It’s just weird.
I wanted to try to do something creative Friday night so I decided to finally try some embroidery out. I mean, heck, I just got the new book and have all of the supplies, so why the heck not? The Stitch It Kit came with a couple of “tea towels” - which I think are just stripped down versions of dishcloths and therefore, I do not know what the actual purpose of a tea towel is - and since I didn’t have access to an iron, I traced a pattern onto the fabric. It didn’t really take that long to do either, which is cool.
I just used a simple backstitch and I think I did a pretty good job for my first attempt at embroidery.
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