YSFE for the Kinect - week 2

Happy Friday everyone!! How is everyone?

We just made it to Orlando and oh em gee… the last 24-48 hours were a tad intense. Nothing like sticking the entire family into a Cube mini-van and driving South. But it's 85* and I couldn't be happier!

What are some rules you guys follow when road-tripping?

Our number 1 rule is that the driver gets say what we listen to. A tad frustrating for my mom since she couldn't drive..

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Anyways.... since last Friday I’ve worked out 3 times? I can’t remember but I know it wasn’t more than 4 times and I made a conscious effort to eat better. Not perfect but I’m not waiting till the New Year.

Determined to use YSFE like it was intended for, I set up a program for myself.. 

I became my own worst client and instead of being honest with myself and listing myself as a Couch Potato (I’ve done no strength training in over 8 weeks! And been quite inconsistent cardio wise until 2 weeks ago when I started running again) I put down Sporty…oy vey… I paid for it later!

Basically you fill out a little questionnaire and then it kicks out a schedule for you.. for me 3x’s a week, 60 minutes per session, for 4 weeks!  Oooppsss…

It even flags the exercises for you that should be doing.

I hula hooped last week as my warm-up’s and figured it was good to try something new this week.

I broke bricks..

Can you spy me?

 Super fun! And very much like boxing.. Then I went to jump roping.. 

one of my favorite cardio exercises since it’s such an efficient calorie burner but I couldn’t really get into it, since the Christmas tree began shaking with all my jumping…oooppsss….

Do you see those foot prints in the water, matching those determines your efficiency with the game. I wasn’t very good at it. =(

If there is one thing I wish they could better is to enhance the scan of yourself, you can see how my legs are chopped off and my face is never recognizable. Honestly, at that point I’d rather they just create a cartoon of me, or a hologram like they use in the Zumba game I’ve reviewed.

Anyways… after my warm-up I went into my strength routine. 

Now this feature, in my opinion, makes the game awesome… You choose how long you can/want to be doing a routine for

Which means if you are just starting out, start off by only doing 2 minute exercises, strapped for time and only have a half hour, do 4 or 5 minute sessions.  Remember, NO EXCUSES!

On the downside, if you are new, and not quite sure what exercises you should be doing, it could be overwhelming because you pick what areas you want to focus on.

There are typically two ways you can break down your strength training, either a full body workout or you focus on specific areas. In my opinion, and especially for beginners, full body workouts are the way to go!

Upper body workout:

Lower body workout:

Ab work:

 And then it was over... so simple and yet so awesome. I'll admit I was hurting and that was lame considering I should have been able to do all that without breaking much of a sweat but that's whatcha get...

Don't forget to comment because I'll be giving one game away in January!!!