No joke, but last week I ate four pieces of pecan pie on Thanksgiving. FOUR PIECES!
What’s that, like 18 million calories!?
Curse you holiday temptation! It’s constant and everywhere I turn, like these blasted Trader Joe’s dark chocolate stars. I think they follow me, nom nom nom…
Throw in cold rain and shortened days — what’s a girl to do?
Yes, Virgina, you can still work out over the holidays
I thank my dark chocolate stars for fitness expert Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred ($10).
The DVD’s from 2007 (the one I have), so it’s a few years old, but the balanced workout really makes me sweat.
So, what’s this shredding business?
JM (the same one from TV’s The Biggest Loser) calls it the 3-2-1 Interval System, a 20-minute mixed workout emphasizing strength training, cardio and abs.
The idea is to work your way through the three levels of difficulty over the course of 30 days, at the end emerging leaner and “shredded” to the max.
Can you say sweat?
To say these workouts are challenging for me would be an understatement. No workout DVD has ever kicked my booty like this one has, but it’s still fun, doable, and I think the exercises themselves are interesting — things like skaters (a motion like speed skating), plank jacks (plank position/jumping jack hybrid on the floor), squat thrusts and high-knee kicks.
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