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I just received my new DVD from Tony.  It is called Super Cardio.  I am so totally stoked on what he has in store for us. 

Tony is one crazy individual but I do love his workouts.  I did a cardio combo last night and I incorporated all the jabs, crosses, hooks, and uppercuts and then a touch of Turbos (Chalene Johnson) in there to raise the heart rate.

I love getting the heart rate up and working on the heart muscle.  If you want your performance to improve you need to work that muscle too.

I will get back with you on the Cardio thing.  I can’t wait to use it on my college students.  They are going to die.

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Well, I have been thinking about this for a while since, I had a young man visit my site and mentioned he was doing this.  It looked very interesting.  I am not good at push-ups at all.  I can do the modified ones like all day but the standard push-ups seem really difficult.  I have been working on my upper body in order to improve my push-ups.

So, today I decided I would jump into the challenge.  This challenge is suppose to have you be able to do hundred push-ups in 6 weeks.  What is it with these 6 weeks things.  Okay, I printed out the test and took it.

I could only do 10, I really thought I could do more, but if I did it would have put me in a bracket that I know is too hard.  So, 10 is good.  More than I have ever before.

Now, not sure if you are suppose to wait to start the initial workout, so I decided to try this workout today.  I started after I finished teaching my Body Chizel class.  We had already done 20 push-ups in class, modified of course, and we did regular bench press and wide chest presses.  So, what was I thinking when after class and everyone was gone, that I thought I could do these push-ups. 

I thought I have better do them now because if I wait then I know I will not do them.

Guess, what I did the bracket I was suppose to and at the end I was suppose to max out at 5 but I did 6.  yeah me!

I think I should be good for Wednesday.  I should do these push-ups first thing in the morning when I am fresh and not after I already worked out.  Then again, that is what I should.  Well, I will mix it up and see what happens.  It doen’t hurt to try.

Hey, if you are looking for a new challenge, come try the hundred push-up challenge with me.  A small goal for the new year.  Hey, now don’t forget about your eating-clean routine.  Want those abs to show through then, you are going to have to eat-clean.  NO more junk!

So, check out http://www.hundredpushups.com/  you can be added to the list with me.  Pkayfit.

Good Luck.  Let me know how you are doing.  I will do the same.  See you at the end of the week, I will let you know what happens.

I has been a while since I have posted.  One of the reasons is because I really have not done too much over the holidays but be a bum and gained a few pounds that I did not need.  Urgh!

I have not gone to a gym in a long time. I started back after the semester, working on my chest and back and working on my pull-ups.  I trying to get to where I can actually do one with the P90x bar. 

Anyway, I have not been sick for like two years.  Gyms carry germs on the machines and no one wants to wipe them down.  I got sick, with a cold.  I was so mad.  So, I have been slackin.

During this time of being sick, I decided to watch the fifth dvd that came in on the one-on-one with Tony.  This dvd is all about push-ups and pull-ups.  None of which I can do.  Tony is himself here.  Crazy.  So, what does the thirty/fifteen stand for.  I will tell you  Thirty seconds of push-ups from every style of push-ups you can imagine in Tony’s world, to fifteen seconds of pull-ups every different kind of pull-ups you can imagine.  Crazy!    This one style of pull-up that Tony does is insane.  He does them in a horizontal plane.  Can you even foster the idea?

Take this guy and take away the floor and try to do the pull-up.  Tony actually does one regular pull-up and then pulls himself into a horizontal position and does another one.

Then it is back down on the floor for some more push-ups.  Just insane.  I decided to pass on working out to this one.  I may use the different push-up in my core training class next semester.  I am thinking about doing the 100 push-up challenge with this next class too.  That should be fun.  I can do this challenge with my class.

I love it though.

I received my 6th dvd with a holiday special dvd inside.  It was a pretty good one.  I will have to let you know how that is when I actually do it.  The main dvd is called “The Fountain of Youth” now who does not want to still look young.  Yoga is this dvd.  Pretty aweseom.

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Can not believe that 2009 is upon me.  It has been a crazy year.  I am putting 2008 out the window and hope the Texas wind doesn’t bring it back.  I am ready for a great 2009.  I am tired on being broke and I am tired of being the same weight for the past 5 years.  I can go down, but then my body likes to go back where it is confrontable.  Well, I have news for the body.  Next year in about 4 hours, I have something else in mind.  I plan on making a plan and completing my P90x and the upgrade.  Workout to the new Chalean Extreme Workout program.  View a couple of more tapes, get my bio down for a company that is waiting for me to get my crap together, focus on marketing the studio more and beachbody stuff and the list goes on.  This year I am not going to slack and let the days leave me behind.

With that being said, tomorrow I have the review on Tony’s holiday treat in which I watched the other day and I think tomorrow as a Post Holiday Recovery Workout I will do that one.  Not too long of a workout.

I want to wish all of my followers a Happy New Year and let’s bring it for 2009.

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Back in October I mentioned that I received Tony’s One-on-One DVD for “Just Arms”  Well, I am getting my act together again and I finally did the workout.

I brought home from the Studio my 6 pounders, 7 pounders and then my 15 pounders.  Well, I left the 8 pounders at the studio and I meant to just pick up another set to have at the house.  HA!

Tony works the Biceps, Triceps, and the forearms in this video.

Biceps “the two-headed Biceps brachii muscle on the inside of each upper arm.”  You know the part on the arm that all the girls look at on a man after they see the washboard ABS.  AKA “The Guns”

 Okay now here is mine. 

I know kind of sad.  I really should have taken the picture when I was all pumped up. 

Tony breaks the routine up and does one set of Biceps, then one set of Forarms and then one set of Triceps. He then goes back and does that set again.  So, you actually do two sets of the exercise.  Gives you a chance to make the adjusts on the weights that you need, just like the Bodybuilders do.  I was able to do the 15 pretty good.  Now, I did not do all the reps, I picked 15 reps to do.  That really should be the max, because I am not trying to really get my guns to pop out like most men do, I just want them to be strong.

Tony does about 15 sets of exercises, not just the ones that I mentioned.  But he does 3 different exercises 2 times and then does another group.  There are some great exercises for the forearms.

The forearms seem like they get left out on most workouts and I am so glad that Tony put them in on this video.  Those muscles need to be strong. The forearm contains many muscles, including the flexors and extensors of the digits, a flexor of the elbow (brachioradialis), and pronators and supinators that turn the hand to face down or upwards, respectively.

I found a great website that has some excellent forearm exercises.  Go check them out if you are looking for those popeye forearms. 

Oh, those Triceps are such a stubborn muscle for me.  Did you know it is the tricep that really makes the bicep pop out.  You need to work your triceps to get the thickness in your guns.  I truly hate those muscles.  It seems no matter how hard I work them and keep increasing the weight, they just seem weak.  Either I know I need to work them.  They help in my push-ups and they are the primary muscles for throwing. 

“The triceps is an extensor muscle of the elbow joint, and is an antagonist of the biceps and brachialis muscles. It can also fixate the elbow joint when the forearm and hand are used for fine movements, e.g., when writing.”

“The triceps accounts for approximately 70 percent of the upper arm’s muscle mass.”  Yes, you read that correctly. 

If you are looking for a great arm workout, then I suggest you grab Tony’s “Just Arms” workout.  Now, the DVD said 47 minutes, but I forwarded the tape alot to get the workout in 30 minutes, Tony’s spends alot of time chatting, but in that chatter he has some great information. 

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Get started today on that physique you have always wanted.  “A year from now you’ll wish you had started today.”  -Karen Lamb.

Why wait, what are you waiting for?  Either today or tomorrow, either 10 pounds lost or 10 pounds gained, it is your call. 

I know it has been a while since I have posted.  I am an Adjunct Professor for two colleges here in town and the semester is long.  Seems like I don’t have time to get on my computer and post anything.  My computer also decided to start slowing down and doing all kinds of funny things, so I had to have it checked out.

About two weeks ago I ordered my P90X t-shirt and some Protein Bars.  I received them about a week ago.  The protein bars I ordered were the new Cafe Mocha.  They are AWESOME!  My hubby even likes them, if you can believe that, he is not one to get into things like that.  I do know that they give me energy and have really helped with my performance. 

I started a new class late at night and I actually eat the protein bar in the morning but it seems to last throughout the day.  I am going to order some more Cafe Mocha and the Wildberry.  The NEW protein bar is peanut butter.  Now, I do like peanut butter but I get a little funny when it comes to protein bars, sometimes the peanut butter overwhelms the bar and it tends to get a little gritty.  I will definitely try them but not right now, probably when I get tired of the Cafe Mocha bars.

I have also ordered the P90X Peak Health Formula multivitamin.  My hubby takes those too in the morning to get him through the day.  I have also taken those and I too like them.

I bet when they do the autopsy on me they will find all kinds of P90X stuff in me.

I have also tried the Slimming Formula and I take the Performance Supplement.  Geezzzzz!

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Well, I was not ever privileged enough to take any kind of kickboxing or any martial arts when I was growing up.  As a matter of fact, I really was into basketball.  I know I have said that a few times.  As I look back I wish we would have had that sort of fitness in my home town.  I really should say discipline. Well, actually I wish I would have had some sort of self-defense art. 

Now, being in the fitness industry I been privileged to see all kinds of martial arts studio and gyms pop up all over the place in the USA.  But where do some of these disciplines comes from.

I happen to be browsing and a viewer wanted me to take a look at his website.  I was really fascinating by it.

This martial art of kickboxing or really a combination of both is called “Muay Thai” kickboxing.  As I read about this on their muay thai training I was drawn into this discipline.  Did you know that in muay thai kickboxing is also known as “The Art of Eight Limbs” because you can use eight points of contact versus the two points of western kickboxing.  I found this very interesting.  Also, I found out that muay thai kickboxing is mainly in Thailand, hence the name Muay Thai. 

If you go to Thailand, you might want to check out muay thai in thailand, and to be more specific on the island of Phuket.  There is the biggest muay thai training camp of muay thai boxing.  Just take a look at all the great photos they show.  These guys are very physically fit.  I do have to say they are very disciplined in their diet to look like that.  If you think you would be interested in muay thai or any other forms of martial arts at least go and get your inspiration from their website.  You might learn a few things as well.  I know I did.

Get a variety into your workout by spicy it up with some different forms of martial arts.  Heck, if you want to take a vacation to thailand as least make a stop by Phuket and check out the world’s famous Suwit Institute of Thai Boxing.

Please go by and check out the website and click on the Questions and Answers and the photogallery too.

Even if you are interested in learning a self-defense.  Something is better than nothing and left hurt.  How much is your health or life worth?  Priceless, I would think.

I am anxiously waiting for the mailman to bring me my new DVD on Tony Horton’s One-on-One Training DVD.  This new one is suppose to be “Just Arms.”  I can’t wait.  I don’t know why.  I guess it takes a while for each to come in.  Seems like it gets later and later in the month to get here.  Oh well, it is not like I don’t have enough to keep me busy.

I like it when new stuff comes in the mail.  It is like Christmas each month.  I am addicted to new and exciting workouts.  I love challenging myself.  I can only take so much, but I love it.

I am thinking about uprgrading my P90X or should I say incorporating the Plus system with the P90X.  Tony has come out with P90X Plus.  It has 4 additional DVD’s with 5 extreme workouts.  I am thinking about purchasing that real soon. 

Now, I have to say that I love BeachBody products.  One because they are affordable.  Second, the experts are really cool people.  I have met just two of them and I think they are great.  They know what they are doing.  Carl Daikeler  Co-Founder/CEO of Beachbody really know how to pick the experts. I am impressed.

The 10 Minute Trainer has some really good exercises on it too.  I will get that next as well.

If you want to get those DVD’s or any of Tony’s DVD’s at a discount.  Be a coach.  Go to milliondollarbody.com and sign up to be a coach.  It is well worth the discount that you will pay.  Sign up under me (pkayfit) and let’s become a team and get people motivated to workout.  This epidemic we are facing is really getting out of hand.  The epidemic itself.  I look around all the time and can not believe my eyes.

I will be back with what I think of the new DVD if I ever get it in the mail.

Have a great workout.  ;)  Always Bring It!

If Tony is a little extreme for you.  I will post another workout system that is awesome also.  These experts are going crazy with all this old school stuff that they are bringing back.  Things I did back in the 80’s just alittle more upgraded.  I love it.

American Heart Walk!

For those of you who really have a passion for fitness, I think the American Heart Walk Association is a great organization to be a part of.  Today is the day for our event.  I am so excited.  They have choosen me to lead the warm-ups.  Okay, so it is just a little task, but a chance to really get my name out there.  My time to show how much I care about people and the way they chose to life their lives and hope that because they are participating in this walk to keep going.  Don’t just do the walk and then that is it.  This could be a start of a new person to take up exercising to help fight heart disease.  The number one killer in America.

I chose to help live my life longer.  I do all that I can to help others. 

I shall return with pictures.