I wish I could do today’s workout! I don’t want you to miss your workout just because of my toothache, so I have attached the photos below that outline how to do today’s exercise challenge. It’s going to be a really simple and short workout today, but don’t think for a minute that this challenge is easy. Set your timer to count down 15 minutes. You will be doing 10 reps of Low Jumping Jacks and 10 reps of the Core Exercise for which I have unfortunately no name (if anyone has a cool name for this exercise then please leave your suggestions in the comments below). Don’t take any long breaks and try to do as many sets as you can in 15 minutes. You might not be able to do all 10 reps especially in the last 5 minutes or so, but that’s ok. Do as many as you can keeping good form. Have your exercise journal close by so you can write down your score. What counts is the total amount of reps for each exercise. The next time you do this workout you will try to beat that number.
Enjoy this workout. I am going to have a sleep on a pillow of frozen vegetables. Hopefully it will be ok tomorrow and I will be able to workout with you then.
Best,
Zuzana.
Time: 15 minutes
Equipment: Exercise Mat
Exercises: Core Exercise 10 reps, Low Jumping Jacks 10 reps; back and forth.
Sit on your exercise mat and support yourself with your hands behind you. Bent your knees and bring them towards your chest. Keep your shoulders down and chest up, and your abs contracted. This is your starting position.
Extend your legs out, point your toes and try to lock your knees. Bring your knees towards your chest again and repeat 10 times. You can make this exercise harder if you raise your arms up above your head and keep them there through out the movement.
Stand with your feet hip width apart, place your hands behind your head and bend your knees to get your butt low. Get ready to jump.
Push off of your feet and jump up bringing your legs apart.
Land softly on the balls of your feet. Your legs are wide apart and knees bent. Jump up again and bring your feet together. Stay low, these are not regular jumping jacks, so make sure that your knees are bent at all times. Do 10 reps per set of Low Jumping Jacks.
Hope you feel better soon! Thanks for updating even though you don’t feel well. God bless!
Zazana,
Be sure you don’t have an abscess on your tooth. That can be very serious if it becomes any worse.
-Megan
take care, :)
Ah, bless Zuzana ; ) Hope you get better soon. Thanks for all these great workout videos.
I hope you get better, toothaches are no un at all.
Sorry to hear this. Healing energy coming to you.
Aw, you poor thing! You’re so sweet to give us a workout even though you’re in pain. Toothaches are no fun at all.
I’m sure I speak for all your friends and fans when I say I hope you feel better soon! Lots of love and good energy coming your way! :)
Wow…What a legs!!! You have like ZERO body fat!!! Unbelievable…amazing…
I can say that you really eat very small portions and very little calories through the day.
Zuzana, please please tell me: What you do, when you have a day, when you want to eat something sweat or. something really good (but bad ;)) that you just can not resist? Do you eat it anyway? Because we – people – human beings :) are weak, at least sometimes, even super human beings like yourself. Please share! Cause you look better than any woman fitness competitor on hers competition day….and I mean exactly on that day! before and after they are not so ripped. If you think just of water that human body is retaining. How do you do that, you never retain any water? Amazing, just amazing and unbelievable…are you a super woman? :) ;)
Thanks for answer and see a doctor for your tooth! Hope you will be better in a snap!
Tina
Hi Tina,
I can resist junk food usually with no problem and I enjoy to eat healthy meals. I still love chocolate and ice cream, but I eat it only for a special occasion. If I have cravings, then I try to come up with a treat that is not bad for me and that I really enjoy. Fruit, yogurts, nuts, or peanut butter with banana are examples of good treats.
Oh,you poor thing. I can see how painful it is by your facial expression. Get plenty of rest,if your toothace is sensitive to cold,try drinking warm tea. If your pain killers don’t alleviate it then try some garlic on the tooth or tea tree oil or cloves. Most importantly if the swellling spreads toward the neck area, go to an emergency room immediately. Not a dentist. Toothe infections spreading downward toward the neck can invade the lungs or heart which can be debilitating or deadly. I will pray GOD to touch you with his healing hands.
How abouth calling the core exervise,’THE BOOMARANG”,OR “THE ROCKING CHAIR”.
Jé, Zuzko, to je mi moc líto!!! K zubákovi asi ještě nemůžeš když jste tam noví, co? Doufám, že se z toho vyspíš!!! Cvičení super; jsem z něj pěkně “sore” což já ráda, protože vím, že to funguje. Moc díky!!!
Ahoj Jani,
zub uz se docela uklidnil. Stara dobra ceska metoda zvana cesnek zabrala :)
Ow! I feel for you. I just missed a whole week of workouts for the very same reason. I waited three days for it to get better on it’s own, and then I went to the dentist. It required surgery to remove it, which sounds scary, but I feel sooooo good now that it’s gone. When a tooth gets swollen like that, there’s usually an abscess which is very serious. You should just save yourself the suffering and go get it looked at. *hugs*
We call them v-sits without the arms assisting. So maybe ‘assisted v-sits’. Love the site. Hope you feel better soon.
Hi Zuzana,
I feel for you!! I hope you get better soon!
I always called that exercise “the rower” because I used to bring my arms back and forth as well. Ok… makes it easier but it’s a nice exercise any way.
You poor thing, hope you are fine again tomorrow.
Hope you get well soon !!!
Best wishes
Rey
Hi Zuzana – I usually call your core exercise you’re doing “V”sit ups or “V”crunches. Hope you’re feeling better soon. Did your 2 workouts yesterday back to back (only did each circuit twice tho not 4 times) it was great. I’ve been suffering from a couple of injuries lately so it was great doing a hard workout without any weight annoying my injury. I slept like a log last night!
Take care
Cath
Get Well Soon!
Thanks for the workout!
Hey Zuzana, hope its going better now, the workouts are grait.
some workouts take i with me to the gym and let it see to the people there, they like it.
Maybe i have a new word for your core exercise, legbelly exercise.or legabs streching or something like that.
think about it and we will see.
Greetings from this site of the world
Hans from Holland
I hope you feel better tomorrow. I know what you are going through, I am having all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed on Nov 4 , and I am petrified. Good luck
ZuZana…i hope ur feeling better and i will send you healing energy…i do Reiki
…you can also gurgle with chamomile tea…good 4 infections….and was wondering if you are in Malta filming now in vacation?/
I can’t believe you still put posed for pictures in your state. Seriously, you’ve got the balls of steel! Feel better and take care of yourself! We’ll wait for you :)
Frederick, while Z. is resting, can you post more pics with your puppies? =D
Feel better, Z!!!
Y.
regarding the name for the exercise, perhaps V-ups? :) awww zuzana! you’re so sweet. just like texas cindy i will pray for you as well. you should try eating something good and soft like pumpkin soup or porridge!
Poor thing…get better soon!
Hi, me again.
I just wanted to comment on Tina’s post. I know that the question was directed at Zuzana, but I could relate to it, therefore I wanted to say a couple of things.
I used to be like that as well, thinking “how can I possibly resist certain foods that I’m used to eating and it’s always around”? I didn’t think I could, because not only do I LOVE food, it’s just really hard to make the right choice when you go into a supermarket and there’s thousands of products screaming in your face. It certainly took a while, but when I started learning about food, where it comes from, how it’s made, and how the ingredients affect my body, it became a lot easier. Now, I don’t even considered packaged and processed food as food. It’s garbage and I deserve to be fed better.
It’s weird to me to hear myself talk like this, because I have never ever ever been a health “nut”, even scoffed at them at times. Reading Omnivore’s Dilemma, watching Food, Inc., etc etc really opened my eyes and now making the right choice when it comes to food is so easy. And you don’t have to deprive yourself of sweets, just because you want to be healthy. Just make sure it’s the RIGHT stuff, like making cakes/muffins out of whole wheat flour and flax seed. Or something like that. There’s plenty of information online on how to choose the right foods.
=D
zuzana,super si.
veliki pozdrav iz Srbije
:)
zelim ti brz oporavak!
Thanks for posting even though you feel so bad.
go and see your dentist. Appreciate your effort still making a new exercise, we love you!
Zuzana, I hope your tooth heals quickly. I’m a workout fanatic, too, and like you, I hate it when I can’t work out. But, we have to know when we need to rest, so for that, I’m proud of you.
I’m a huge P90X fan, and a similar exercise in Ab RipperX is called crunchy frogs. LOL! The only difference is that you are NOT supporting your body on your elbows. You are wrapping your arms around your legs each time your bring your knees to your midsection. Maybe you can call your core exercise, tadpoles. ;)
I hope you feel better soon. I look forward to trying these exercises.
The core exercise you have on there is simply called “In & Outs”.
“V-sits” is a different exercise.
Get better soon.
P.S. Just curious, do you change your workout routines every week?
Feel better Zuzana! Thanks for keeping us going with the pictures and description! :-)
feel better soon,take care
hi,zu sorry 2 hear. Hope u gt out of it soon. im rglr viewer of ur site bt wrt u occasionally. i seriously started excersing 2 weeeks ago. My routine is like YOGA-CARDIO CONDITIONG-WEIGHT TRAINING. I really feel the change. 2days ago i did NEW ROCK UR BODY wrkout its an excellent wrkout and i say,”YOU R AN ANGEL IN MY LIFE.” cz u give lot of motivation. I hv one question i.e i did the entire 8 parts of rock ur body at a time 2days ago after that since 2 days imnt able to wrkout bcz of musclesoreness. My question is ,what kinda wrkout should i do whn i have muscle soreness?…plz suggest my ANGLE..ONE MORE THING i have lot of abdominal fat so should i concentrate more on abs r entire body..Hope u guide me… and see u soon vt sweet smile n lot of energy.
hi zuzana,
I keep on visiting your sites but i never try to do them.sometimes i even cry because i thingk i am really fat.i want to get into a size 5 but i am a size 11.my weight is 165 lb but i want to be 120 lb.i wanted to ask you how long will it take for me to lose that much.i eat a lot of junk food and i drink a lot of cold drinks.but wen i go on a diet i lose weight fast.i want to have a flat stomach.i want my legs to get tones and less wide and fat.and plus my hips too. i would be really glad if you can tell me as soon as possible .thank you
Hope you feel better! I love your reciepes…will there be any more coming soon???
Gosh, I can tell by the tone of your voice you are really in pain. Hope you feel better. Please take care of yourself, and see a doctor or dentist real soon, within a day.
The pictures are great, almost as good as the workout video. You are an inspiration for all.
you are really a trooper! i would have said the hell with it!
hope you feel better!! and maybe a little rest of you is good. take care
Hi Zuzana :)
I hope you feel better soon! I’m still following your exercises.
I just want to say that I am still feeling the same inspiration I have felt before. All the great energy you give off has pushed me to be as healthy as I can be. I am doing great. I love bodyrock tv so much.
Thank you sooo much.
Little Bri
Poor you :( Get well soon!
I hope that you feel better soon. It sounds like the tooth should be extracted? What does your dentist say? When I was a teen I had all four wisdom teeth extracted in one sitting. Took the entire weekend to heal with sleep and pain killers and then extra rest for about a week. I just recently was in a car crash and had to have a fractured toot extracted as well.
Again, please take care and feel better soon. You are one of the best examples of fitness and exercise on the internet. You should have your own tv show. Do you and I just don’t know where to find it?
Best regards,
Marie
Aw, Hope you get better soon! Thank you so much for caring about us!!!
We all care for you and hope you feel better tomorrow! :)
You are my role model! Perfect body!!
Thank you for you existence!
Oh Zuzana, you are improving so fast. Can you tell me, what are the most important factors of your regimen ?
How many hours of sleep do you get ?
Do you workout every day ?
What is your daily diet like ?
You are incredible. I’ve been working out all my life, yet I find it difficult
sometimes to stay consistent. Do you suggest weight training over calisthenics ?
How do you keep the Fat off ? I’m relatively cut and well defined compared to
most guys, but I still have a strip of fat around my waist that just won’t go away !
I’ve tried everything from fasting to wearing a plastic jogging suit and one of those
torso wraps.
I plan to take a weekend to study all your techniques here on the website,.. someday, however
what would you suggest I do.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
S.Lee-David
hey Z get well soon.
Hi Zuzana,
Its funny that I too had exactly the same trouble last week; the wisdom tooth :)
I got rid of it by extracting it off. Its the wisdom tooth which we hardly use, so you don’t have to save it by root canal treatment; you can peacefully extract it off. Please get a permanent solution fast, otherwise its gonna get worse.
Take care and get well soon,
George.
hope u get better!
Sorry you’re not feeling well, this one had me sweating, love the low jack, I found them less stressful on my knees, I set my Gymboss to 15 minutes, lot tougher than it looks, but I got through it, thanks so much and get well soon.
Sorry to hear about your tooth, I should’ve visited the dentist last year but I’m scared. The B&W pictures are amazing. x
You poor thing – toothache can feel like the worst pain ever! get well, cant wait to see the next workout!
congratulations.you are doing a very serious job.you can call this exersise V-crunches.get better soon.