Fitness
This page is going to be some helpful links and exercise that I like to do (including some reviews of workout DVDs).
Exercise DVDs/Videos/Games
Leslie Sansone is my favorite. Anything by her is going to be good. Her videos are VERY easy to follow while still offering a good workout. She's positive without being too perky (Denise Austin anyone?)
Walk Away the Pounds 3 Mile - Leslie Sansone - LOVE this one. Get this one and skip the 1 and 2 mile versions. You can always just do as many miles as you want and skip ahead to the stretching at the end. You can also do half range of motion with your arms and you can choose to use weights or not.
Walk Away the Pounds 4 Mile Super Challenge - Leslie Sansone - This is ALL walking. There are no weights involved. I like the other exercisers on this one much better. One good thing about these exercisers is that they aren't miked, so you don't hear their silly chatter.
Walk Away the Pounds Walk Strong - Leslie Sansone - This is a 2 mile walk interspersed with strength building exercises. You use a resistance band to do the exercises. I'm just about to start adding this back into my routine because I now have some exercise bands. Though before I did it without having the bands and it worked just fine.
Deluxe Walk - Leslie Sansone - This is an old one where they've combined two of her previous workouts. This is okay, but I don't care for it much. Everyone has 80s hair. 
You Can Do Pilates - Leslie Sansone - I've not tried this one yet. I really want to get a good cardio routine set up before I start on this one. I'll review it when I do it.
Crunch's Cardio Salsa - Giselle Roque de Escobar - I've tried the first 5 minutes of this one. I got it because I'd read that it was easy to follow. Either I'm the most uncoordinated person in the world, or they lied. Probably both. I'm going to sit down and watch it without doing it some time soon and maybe I'll like it better.
Aerobic Striptease - Carmen Electra - After the fiasco with the Cardio Salsa, I decided to just watch this one evening while I exercised on the Gazelle. It seems like a good one if you want to learn to strip, but it's not much in the way of cardio.
Fit to Strip - Carmen Electra - I've not tried this one yet.
Yourself Fitness - xBox - Here's the actual website for it. This is really cool. It's like a personal trainer. You enter in basic info about yourself and then do a "fit test" consisting of jumping jacks, squats, crunches, and push-ups. Then, it creates a workout program for you. When you do the workout, after each section, it will ask you if it was too hard, too easy, or just right and then it will modify future workouts based on your answers. It's got a "Meditation Garden" where you do yoga and it will give you meal plans based on how many calories you want to eat a day, including recipes. I've only done the actual workout once and it kicked my butt, but I think it's a good thing.
Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 - xBox - I haven't tried this yet. I'm getting used to YF before I break this out. I'll probably try it this weekend. It looks like a lot of fun, so here's hoping!
I have more, but I don't do them. I'll try to update more later. I'll also try to add links to the ones above. Good places to order exercise DVDs are:
Amazon
Collage Video
Exercise Equipment
We've got a few exercise machines in our spare bedroom right now. Hopefully, we'll eventually have an exercise room in the basement. The problem is that right now, there's no TV or anything in there, so I don't go in there much. The Gazelle we keep downstairs though, so it gets more use.
Gazelle Edge - I got this for Christmas this year. It's relatively cheap (around $100) and it's easy to do. It's not a bad workout. I don't think it's as good as WATP, but I like to do this when I can't work in an exercise video. I'll do this in front of the TV. This is foldable and light so it will store easily if you have somewhere you can put it.
Stepper - I've got one of these and I hate it. It's really not my thing.
NordicTrack Ski Machine - This is TOUGH! We got it from my SIL who didn't want it any more.
Rower - I've got something that's basically the same thing as a rower, but it doesn't look like the standard one.
Treadmill - My parents are going to give me theirs and I'm terribly excited about it.
Elliptical - My dream machine. This was my favorite when I went to the gym. I'd LOVE to have one of these!
Fitness for Me: What Works Best
My husband's company has a gym that's ultra cheap ($4 a week for both of us) and we work near each other, so for the longest time, I'd get up at 5am, put on my workout gear, and head into the gym. I'd workout, shower, and go to work and be there by 7am. Well, due to the rising gas prices as well as the rising credit card balance, we started carpooling. So, I had to quit the gym. The idea was that I'd exercise at home. I'd get up at 5, exercise, shower, and get ready. Yeah, that lasted 3 or 4 days. I just can't make myself do it at home. I don't feel like I get as good a workout with the videos as I do with the exercise equipment at the gym.
So, one of my New Year's Resolutions was to get my credit card balance back down and then we can stop carpooling and I can join the gym again. Here's hoping!
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