This week the host of Fashion Flash is Jackie of Aging Backwards. This big site covers a wide range of alternative health issues including nutrition, beauty, and medical problems. You will love her spirit and energy and learn, as I have, to value her advice.
Jackie is passionate about exercise and is constantly urging me to join her gym. I’m not quite there yet, but I’ve started exploring exercise videos to firm up my arms. I found a Marie Winsor Plilates video at a chruch tag sale. I had seen Winsor Pilates infomercials on TV and at 50 cents for the VHS tape, it looked like a deal too good to pass up. I also liked the fact the Marie Winsor was over 40 and hoped she would offer a workout with age in mind.
Not quite. From the start this approach did not seem right for me. The warm-up was brutal and seemed to go on forever. It began with a straight back and legs at a 90 degree angle and needed a large ball. Right away I felt stress in my back and
the back of my legs.– not uncommon for a baby boomer. After a few children and decades carrying them and the dead weigh oft bags of grocercies, most of us have had some type of back problem and this type of exercise only makes it worse.
I wan’t quite sure where the warm-up ended and the exercises began, but I noticed that the instructions became more complicated and now included breathing patterns. And while the tape was called Upper Body Sculpting, they seemed to be directed at my abs, not arms. The exercises kept increasing in difficulty and required strong core muscles. I almost felt that if I could actually do these combos, I really didn’t need this tape.
Finally the warm-up was done and so was I. I actually had to rest on my couch for a bit before I could follow her exercises for tricpes and bicpes. However the tape recommended only one set of 10 reps with 1-2 lb weights. I know I’m a newbie in exercise programs but this didn’t seem like enoogh effort to get the results I am hoping to see. Next!
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