Moving Onto The Next DVD Series Challenge–BBW

My current criteria for fitness DVD’s are none to minimal fitness equipment investment, integrative/plyometric oriented workouts, and fun/inspiring.  The Brazilian Butt Workout (BBW) is the next one.  This video is from the Beach Body group, so I am noticing a theme and some evolutionary relationship between Hip Hop Abs and Insanity.  I like seeing variations on similar themes, so one can understand the lineage or spectrum from easier to more difficult, but all are effective.  The “Just Move” theme is the underpinnings of any DVD program.  I really like the ease of doing it at home (thinking ahead to traveling and my pink, cement room in India) even though I am a gym addict.  The gym is becoming the adult jungle gym experience for me–having fun with equipment.  The DVD’s are more inward and personal, since they don’t involve equipment and I am alone experiencing them.

Day One of the BBW.  Cool and I could walk the next day.  One cautionary observation is to be careful of how low you do the squats, how high you lift the legs etc. so nothing gets over taxed.  The constant mantra of form, core engagement, balance, and inner awareness/control cannot be highlighted enough to prevent injuries.  My sense is that as I get use to the exercises and I am not losing my balance, the degrees, speed, and amounts will grow naturally.

Note:  The day before I started BBW, I noticed that the groan pull I had been working with for over 10 years felt really good, so I jumped into the exercises with an unusual state of blind abandon and was reminded that was reptilian thinking and what was I thinking… I love the body for its’ clear feedback capabilities.