Here’s the third workout I’ve been doing consistently since breaking up with Jillian! It’s a Christie Cash workout from GymRa’s youtube page, and it’s a resistance bad workout! I really like this one.
There is no warmup for this workout, so I always make sure to do a quick warmup before starting. It’s two circuits; where you do the moves twice, similar to the previous Christie workout I talked about. There are several moves where I’m actually not using the resistance band but I’m using my 8lb dumbbells (my resistance band is light to medium resistance). I also incorporate squats or lunges since standing in place can get so boring. And adding in two muscle groups burns more calories! During the bicep curls, the front lateral raises, tricep extension, and the V-Raises, I do squats with my 8lb dumbbells. During the shoulder presses, she actually has you do one arm at a time and switch, but I stay in lunge position and do the first 15 and then switch legs and do the next 15. During rows, I stay in a squat position. There are also deadlifts which I use my 8lbs with. I feel like that’s good way to burn a few extra calories. I do use the resistance band to do the lunge and lateral raise, because I hate those. ;) I’m familiar with these in the other Christie workout and I use my 8lbs then, so I figure the resistance band gives my arms a little break! After that, she takes you to the mat! I can’t believe I missed doing matwork, but I did. She has you put one leg in the air with the resistance band and lifting in and out of bridge with your other leg. It looks easy but it is not! You do that on both sides, and then put both feet in the band and you do a leg press with the resistance band. Next move is a reverse crunch. I sometimes switch out here with a reverse crunch or do a bicycle crunch in boat pose because I don’t do ab work as much anymore (I can’t believe I’m missing it!) and I don’t want to lose all the hard work I put in strengthening my ab game. ;) Afterwards, you’re back up doing a move called windmills. This is another one I do a bit differently. She has you stand on the resistance band with two feet and twist side to side, twisting your obliques like a windmill. I usually just do high knees with a torso rotation or jumping because it’s slightly higher impact and I feel like I get my heart rate up a bit higher. After that minute, the next thing she has you do is stand on the band with two feet again, but cross over and stretch out your obliques.
Rinse and repeat and you have a 30 minute workout! You do finish up with some cardio moves; 30 seconds of high knees, 30 seconds of jumping lunges and then 30 seconds of Rockstar jumps or “explodes” as she called them. You just explode off the ground.
So that’s that! And I *really* like this workout. I am a bit bummed out that there isn’t a warmup and the cool down is very very quick (just a deep breath so almost non-existent) but I like this workout so well that I don’t mind adding in the warmup and the cool down on my own! I highly recommend this one! You can watch the video below or click here to go right to the youtube page to watch it.
This is the second workout I’ve done with the resistance band and the first one that I’ve done more than once. Have you done a resistance band workout?
