Yeah, actually I think I have good suggestions for you. So, four times a week I try to do cardio- I'm a runner so I'll run on the treadmill for varying amounts of time and speed (some days I'll run 60 min @ 5.5 mph, some days I'll run 40 min @ 6 mph and walk 20 min @ 4 mph). Some days I get sick of the stupid treadmill and I run for 20, use an elliptical for 20, use a bike for 20. Basically I do 60 minutes of some high impact cardio.
Then, once a week I work out with my trainer. He's a functional trainer, which means that he's not interested AT ALL in making me super muscle girl. We use hardly any of the machines in the gym, and in fact we make fun of the big burly guys who have deformed their bodies. We work on core stabilization (making the abs, glutes, etc strong), balance, and strength. So I do all kinds of weird things. I do lunges with medicine balls, or hop back and forth like a speed skater, crunches on balls, I stand on one foot on wobbly objects and raise and lower a medicine ball from one foot to the air (with rotation) and not fall over. I do what looks like Riverdance hopping up and off a step. He's shown me lots of exercises to do, so on the other two days Eric and I just pick a variety of the exercises (making sure to work all areas) and do those for an 1:15 or so.
To tell you the truth I was suspicious of the effectiveness of my trainers exercises (because they're SO WEIRD), but I have little biceps now and I can run a lot further and faster without getting sick or tired, so he knows what he's doing.
I'm sure I would look even better and have lost even more weight if I were more consistant about doing the functional during the week.
Apparently there are DVDs out there- he cites this guy Juan Carlos Santana a lot, if you google him you can find them. The DVD's seem pretty expensive though.
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