Have you been watching #the20s on #beachbodyondemand the last few months? Who do YOU want to be Beachbody's next super trainer??
This will be a longer post, but here's my thoughts on the workouts and trainers:
I'll feel this tomorrow!! Today did all 3 beginner workouts from the 20s on BOD so I could make an educated vote. I was so busy all week- I wish I would have prioritized these so I could have also done the 3 advanced ones. I didn't realize there was only a few day window to vote.
I just did all 3 beginner routines. I was most excited for Erica's because I've been wanting to try barre. But I felt it was all counting and no explanation or personality really. Some moves made me feel a burn, but I felt rushed in keeping up because the moves weren't demonstrated first like the other 2 did. She didn't get much airtime this season. I almost wish Derrick was in the finals instead of her but I do remember he was bad at counts.
I loved Joe's. I like his personality and was funny but also his take on low impact but also cardio. I felt a bit too much flirting with Shallamar but he interacted with both of them great and made me laugh. I had FUN doing it and listening to him. I'd never done most of those moves but he explained well and used his other people a lot. I enjoyed hearing a bit of his fitness backstory with the multiple knee surgeries and why he works out this way.
I liked Megan's and was the most out of breath from hers. Some was from rushing from move to move. I didn't like that I needed equipment. I used my couch and pretended there were lines. Needing to buy equipment is a big barrier to people for trying a program, especially those who don't have a lot of space to workout in. It took me half the time to figure out the overall plan of the workout, lol. Her moves were nice, I had to modify many because my shoulder is strained right now. Her personality was good but lacked that extra special thing Joe had. I feel her story and inspiring her dad and family to change their lives is very cool and it was definitely played up with a lot of camera time this season. For a beginner program, hers was the hardest for me.
I might watch the others tonight but if I had to vote based on workouts alone, I'd vote Joe. Although his elevator pitch was atrocious and it drove me crazy that he mis-said 22 Minute Hard Corps as 22 Hard Corps. Megan I think won more of the challenges, and Ericka was a quiet front runner in the rankings all season long.
What do you think? If you haven't been watching, who would you vote for just based on this quick review?
I totally bombed at P90X3 in the spring and I thought Tony Horton wasn't for me. Then I discovered 22 Minute Hard Corps and I love it! I've got 3 weeks left and I know I can finish strong. 💪
If a program isn't working for you, let me help you troubleshoot! If it isn't fun for you, you won't want to do it or do it hard. Let me help you find something that makes fitness FUN for you- maybe it's Country Heat?
What is Country Heat, you ask? Message me to find out the details and how you can win money in September just for doing your workouts!
My last blog entry was about my
Cize transformation but I wanted to give a little more background information
on what Cize is about as a program. Shaun T is famous for creating programs
like Insanity and T25, but his background is also in choreography and dance.
His first program through Beachbody was actually Hip Hop Abs. I tried one of
those workouts earlier this year when it was released as part of the member
library for Beachbody On Demand and couldn’t even get through a 20-minute
routine. I have NO coordination and NO dance background. I LOVE music though,
so I’ve always struggled with wanting to dance but not knowing how or not
feeling confident enough to just let loose, be goofy, and have fun.
When I first heard about Cize I
was intrigued but didn’t think that it was for me because it was a dancing program.
Beachbody gave a sample workout on Beachbody On Demand before the entire
program was released and I had fun doing it, but still didn’t think I would buy
the program. It wasn’t until the program was released and I saw how much FUN
everyone was having that I decided to buy it myself. Most workouts can be fun,
or we do them because we know how good we feel for exercising, but Cize is so
different. You are HAVING FUN the WHOLE TIME dancing and not even realizing
that time is passing, you are sweating, and the calories are getting torched.
Shaun builds each routine step by
step and breaks everything down into simple movements that you already do every
day. He says “you move everyday, I’m just putting it to a rhythm.” And he is so
right. When you get a move or short sequence done, you add to it and before you
know it you are ready to “Cize it up” at the end to a complete dance routine. A
really awesome feature of the workouts is that once the routine is over, it
goes to a screen where you can pick from the cooldown, 8 count abs routine, or
“Cize it up” again. Some of the routines are so great that I kept doing the
routine over and over again.
The entire program has 6 routines
on 3 discs, plus a short (but effective!) ab workout. They range from 30-50
minutes and features the following songs:
1."Hands in the
Air" by Timbaland. (It introduces you to the first 8 moves you'll be using
for the whole program.)
2."Treasure" by Bruno Mars
3."Lose
My Breath" by Destiny's Child (I loved this routine and would do the “Cize
it up” chapter over and over again.)
4."Problem"
by Ariana Grande
5."Pass
That Dutch" by Missy Elliot
6."Chandelier"
by Sia. (This was the last routine in the whole program and really took the
emotion and moves to another level where you really were feeling it.)
You can choose from a beginner calendar that takes 6 weeks
(1 routine a week) or an advanced calendar for 4 weeks. I felt like a beginner
but did the advanced calendar instead because I did not think doing 1 routine
for an entire week would hold my interest. Overall I had a great time doing the
program. It is completely based on your effort, so beginners to experts can
have fun and get their heart rate up at the same time.
Wow….all of
this information and I just realized I didn’t touch on the 2nd half
of the program: the nutrition!! I LOVE the nutrition guide for Cize. It is
based off the color-coded portion control containers from the 21 Day Fix, but
you can still use the nutrition guide even if you don’t have the containers.
The “Eat Up!” guide gives you a food directory so you can eat WHAT you want,
but it just shows you HOW MUCH you need. The best part of the book is the meal
builder. It gives examples of simple, staple meals, and all the ways you can
customize and mix it up. There are pages like eggs every day, oatmeal bowl,
yogurt parfait, Shakeology bar, salad bowl, wrap it up, simply grilled, Asian
stir fry, healthy pasta, and snacks on the go. For the wrap it up meal you have
steps to follow for each category/container of food: pick your wrap, pick your
protein, add your veggies, add an “extra”, add dressing, and (optional) add
flavor. You’d think a wrap was easy to make, or maybe so easy you get stuck and
don’t know how to make it interesting. My family doesn’t really eat from
recipes of stuff but we do basics like every Thursday we have a big salad for
our meal. So on Thursdays we go to the salad bowl page and can make a different
one each time.
The Cize
kit also comes with a get started guide, a weekend survival guide, and (if you
order through a coach like me!) a free bonus workout called “Hold Your Own”
that gives you some moves you can use when you’re out no matter what song is
playing.
You can see my whole YouTube playlist of Cize routine progressions here:
bit.ly/kboecizevids
