My Workout

Well it use to be Jillian Michaels 30day Shred DVD for the first 10 weeks, but the regular jumping jacks were to high impact for my knees at this point. I will eventually go back to it, when I'm lighter, and my knees can handle it. I love that DVD it's great for someone pressed for time, it's only 20minutes.

Anyhoo, my new work out I started a week ago. this is what it consists of:

Biggest Loser Cardio Max DVD 3times a week

Biggest Loser Powersculpt DVD 2times a week

I love these workouts because they are geared more towards people who are 50 or more pounds overweight. I know the easier version jumping jacks that aren't hard on my knees now. NICE!

The Cardio Max DVD is 30minutes long for level 1, along the Powersculpt DVD level 1 being 30 minutes too.

Now looking at the calorie burn for these specific workouts for my body weight, which let's face it my weight is in the 200 pounds area.

Cardio Max 30minutes 400calories burned, I figured this out knowing that my heart rate would be as high as if I were jogging for 30minutes. For a person of my weight I can burn 844calories per hour just by jogging. That's huge difference for someone weighing 150pounds jogging will only burn 476 calories per hour, huge difference if you ask me.(resource caloriecount.about.com)

Powersculpt 30minutes 200calories burned, if I'm lucky. Figure this out based on the fact that Bob Harper said if you do 50push ups and 100squats you will burn 200 calories,(www.mytrainerbob.com) I figured that would take about 30 minutes too. Since my heart rate is not that high while I'm strength training, I know I'm not burning as many calories as if I'm doing cardio.

To burn even more calories on top of what I 'm doing, I'm running during commercials while watching TV. I burn 42 calories running for 2-3 minutes. I do that at least 6 times during 1 hour of watching TV. That's roughly 220 calories per hour of watching TV at my current weight.

I also go on walks with my daughter, and do 20 second sprints randomly throughout my walk.

I make cleaning my house a workout, and walking around the mall a workout too. Calories keep adding up the more I'm moving around, the more calories I burn the more weight I lose.

Keep checking back at this page, the more I progress with my weight and my health, the more my workout changes, and my calorie burn changes too.