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Wow!!! This year has flown bye.  In the fitness video front, I really don't think it was all that stellar.  However there were a few workouts that I really liked. My top five favorites were : 1) Patrick Goudeau Present Kickbox Burn 2) Les Mills Combat 60 Live Ultimate Warrior's Workout 3) The FIRM TransFIRM Your Body Workout 4) Ballet Fitness by Jennee 5) Christi Taylor Pure Spice My least favorite workouts that I did in 2013: 1) Aerobox Abs, Core, & More 2) Jessica Smith Weight Loss Cardio Mix 3) Grace Lazenby Rockin Models 4) 10 Minute Solution Cardio Hip Hop 5) 10 Minute Solution Ultimate Boot Camp Systems that I love or like: 1) Figure 8 Fitness System (love) 2) Les Mills Combat (like) 3) Jillian Michaels Body Revolution (like) Middle of the Road Systems 1) The FIRM ZipTrainer 2) Zumba Incredible Results Systems that I found disappointing 1) Michael Olijade (Aerobox)

October 2013 Towards the end of the month, I will be running a 10K.  Sunday - 10K Training Monday - Strength with Jari and Cathe Tuesday - Cardio, mostly kickboxing Wednesday - Total Body with Jessica and Kelly Thursday - Dance with Jennifer Friday - Cathe circuit workouts Saturday - Rest

 ZipTrainer by The FIRM Cycle 1 Rev! comes with four workouts. This is a review of Sculpt 1 and Amp Reps 1. REV Sculpt 1 is led by Stephanie Huckabee.  Along with Stephanie, are Annie and Alison. Alison is performing modifications. Including the warm up and stretch, the workout is about 20 minutes. The main workout, however, is just 15 minutes.  Twice within the span of 30 seconds, Stephanie tells us "we only have 15 minutes". I remember thinking, "I hope she is not going to keep saying this for the whole workout."  Thankfully she did not. So the main workout includes 4 short burst training (SBT) that are 30 seconds in length.  Along with using the ZipTrainer and core ball, this workout also uses a set of light/medium and heavy dumbbells.   The exercises are performed at a steady (non-fast) tempo. The music seemed faster than the tempo in which Stephanie was performing each exercise.  The exercises did move from one to the next. The onl...

June 2013 Monthly Rotation Michelle, Ilaria and The FIRM make up June's Rotation. Sunday - Treadmill Monday - Michelle's Cardio Strength Workouts Tuesday - Ilaria's Powerstrike Workouts Wednesday - The FIRM's Cardio Sculpt Workouts Thursday - Ilaria's Bodystrike workouts Friday - Michelle's Cardio workouts Saturday - Rest I think I am going to have fun with this rotation.  I just hope I don't get sick.  Last month's rotation was pretty much ruin when I got sick.  It was a bummer because I missed out on some of my favorite workouts.