Today was my last day of level 5...woohoo!!!!! I was all excited that I did not have to do any more of those side plank leg lifts...until I previewed level 6...haha...no such luck, they are in that level too. And she adds a straight leg plank to that move this time...omg!! So as I thought would happen, I was only able to finish out level 5 using the 2 lb ankle weights on each leg. Those plank kicks were tough!! But I like being challenged :) I'm still battling with the fact that Tracy does not do the same thing on each side in the videos, for legs at least. In level 5, the last move is a leg lift pulse thingy with an arm pull over. On the right side she does straight leg pulses and then on the left side she does a sort of leg pull instead. So I do 20 of one and then 20 of the other on each leg just to even it out. I'm thinking that's what I'll continue doing if there are anymore uneven moves in the coming levels. All in all, level 5 was pretty difficult and challenging! I liked it a lot! My only negative thought about the Meta workouts so far is that I'm surprised that they did not edit the videos better with some of the moves and reps. But in the grand scheme of things, with Tracy doing tens of thousands of moves on film for us....that's no big deal!
Tomorrow bright and early...level 6! Having previewed it yesterday and today already...hahaha!...can we say "anxious???" I can already see how the movements are continuing to get faster and faster. Which I think is awesome! I worry a little about the affect the straight arm dumbell type swings will have on our shoulders eventually...but I'm not to worried about it. Just a thought I guess. The abs in the abcentric level 6 seem like they are much longer...makes sense of course. And there is an ab exercise mixed into the leg section, which I thought was unique. We'll see how the transition goes tomorrow with that move. The leg section has all kinds of new moves with lots of balancing in some of them, like coming down on one arm instead of two and stuff like that. And Tracy incorporates the 3 lb hand weight into some of the leg moves for the first time in this level. I'm so interested to see how that will make it more challenging. Not every move is done for 40 reps either. There are a few that are only done for 10/15/20. And there are about 8 or 9 moves per leg instead of the usual 6 that have been in earlier levels. The very first move, I already noticed that she does it 30 times on the right side and 35 on the left, so I've just decided to go for it and do that move for 40 on each side. That may change tomorrow when I'm actually trying it for the first time!! This is all just from previewing it so I'm sure my outlook will be different once I attempt it.
On a side note, I'm not even to Continuity 1.0 yet and I'm excited about Continuity 2.0!! Everything that Tracy has been posting about what she's been taping sounds amazing and I cannot wait to see how she incorporates the chair and medicine ball into Continuity. But from my understanding, I think Continuity 1.0 is 9 months worth of workouts, so if that is the case, I still pretty much have a good year or so until I get to 2.0 :) Patience is a virtue I apparently do not have with TAM!!!
Until next time after I've attempted level 6!
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