![]() ![]() I imagine that will change to three lots of ten reps straight through next week. Today involved 15 reps of everything, straight through, then repeating the whole thing from the top, like in most of Phase One, Week One’s workouts. And there was the return of one of the moves I remember most from A Little Obsessed, where you put a weight on the back of your knee and lift up your leg. The hamstring curl was particularly tricky. There were also some classic mat-work type moves, just involving bands and one movement at a time, they were just harder than last weeks. And perhaps most traumatically, with, wait for it: Bear Fire Hydrants, which are just what they sound like and hurt about as much as you’d imagine, across shoulders, core, and legs, as well as the obvious glutes. Sometimes by turning it into a compound move, like with squats to hips hinges or back lunges to knee pulls. ![]() Sometimes, by adding a band to what had previously just been a weighted exercise – like with the diagonal backwards lunge from legs. ![]() Most of the moves were familiar from one or other of the phase one strength-based workouts, but were made harder in some way. I’m not sure I’d have physically made myself do it if I’d seen that description before hand, but it actually turned out to be quite enjoyable, and while I occasionally spent Phase 1 Booty wondering whether I was going enough, that never crossed my mind here. Please don’t cry when I say it reminded me a lot of Phase 1 Legs, only with bands used in addition to weights. Probably harder, on balance, but also just much more of a total body workout (albeit still focused on the butt, obviously), more of a cardio experience, and much more weight-based. This feels like a very different workout to Phase 1 Booty. I next hit me when I prepared to launch into the jumping jacks that have started every workout so far, only to find myself confronted with butt kicks and a whole new warm-up.Īnd then, readying myself for the classic Booty experience of moves that are intense on the muscles but gentle on the heart-rate, I was a little surprised to find myself being told to pick up some weights… Only to discover that Monday’s are apparently now Booty Day. It first struck me when I got home from work all ready to do my now-traditional Monday evening round of Total Body Core. Today marked the start of Phase 2, and even though one of the good things about this programme is that way it’s kept the workouts feeling fresh, today everything felt strikingly new. After yesterday’s introspection, it’s time to get back to business. ![]()
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