I am trying to test drive as many of the Beachbody workouts on my 30-day free trial as humanly possible, so I can decide if it is worth paying for after the free trial ends. Last night I worked my legs with Supreme 90 Day (not a Beachbody workout, just a DVD set I already had), then I added on a 40 minute Body Beast workout called Build: Shoulders.
Body Beast is led by Sagi Kalev, who I never heard of, and two other guys join him for the shoulders workout:
The workout consists of sets of 15, 12, and 8 reps for each exercise, increasing weight with each set. Exercises are typical shoulder moves like presses, lateral raises, upright rows, etc. He talks a lot about getting big shoulders, and getting huge, and basically brags about the size of his own muscles, but I could easily tune it out and focus on my workout. I won’t hold it against him that he has no apparent self-esteem issues!
The workout ends with a few ab moves, then a stretch. All in all, I really liked it, and I want to try the legs workout next.
I thought after a 40 minute workout of nothing but shoulders, I’d be crazy sore today, but I’m not. I always worry if I’m not sore, then I didn’t get a good workout, so that concerns me. Sometimes I am not sore until 2 days later, so maybe I will be feeling it tomorrow.
My legs, however, are a different story. The 35-minute Supreme 90 Day Legs workout left me hobbling today. My hamstrings and butt are quite sore. I had picked up the Supreme 90 Day DVD set for maybe $20 back when it first came out, and it’s been discontinued. It has many workouts in it, from cardio to legs to upper body to full body. There’s not a lot of chit-chat or trying to make corny jokes, like some other workout sets (I’m talking to you, P90X), and the workouts move quickly, which I like.
On tap for tonight: I’m going to try another Insanity workout and see if I like it any better than the first one I tried.
Sweat & Sparkle 