Hi Guys,
We prepared this video a little while ago and it took longer to put together because it is a longer format video. We made this video real time length, because we wanted to stress the importance of doing a proper warm up before you jump into your workout. You will see that this warm up routine will be very handy for you this week, because our next theme is going to focus on high intensity interval training and your body will need to be warmed up. Also I wanted to show you what I do to prepare my mind and body for my daily workouts. You may think that the visualization practices are just hocus pocus, but many top athletes use visualization to help them achieve their goals. Think like a winner and not like a whiner (or a wiener for that matter) :) haha. If you warm up and prepare your mind for the intensity of your workout, you will not only help to prevent injury, but you will absolutely get better results from your training. One of my resolutions for 2010 was not to skip my warm up or my stretching ever again. I no longer consider the warm up and stretching as separate activities from my workouts. It is all one, and it is all important part of my training. It is easy, sometimes to just want to skip into the workout and then avoid stretching, because you want to move on to other things. If you take the approach of skipping out on your warm up and stretching, you are leaving 2/3 of the potential benefits on the table.
Enjoy your warm up and try to beat your personal best in any of my Daily Workouts.
Best,
Zuzana.
P.S. I forgot to say in the video that for the first exercise you might want to change the direction of your body movement.
Hi Zuzana,
I just discovered your videos. The first time I saw it on you tube I have to confess that I judged you “not another large breasted airhead posting her workout”. I am so sorry that I though that of you. You are knowledgeable, truthful, and extremely hard working. I like that you don’t pander to your fans because getting a body like yours takes hard work. I went back to your archives workout, I start my first week of your New Rock Your Body. I plan to the workouts for a month then change to another of your work. Is this the way to following your routine?
Once again thanks for a great site. Your have my respect and admiration. Keep up the good work.
Ha, ha :) it’s ok, it’s probably the first reaction of a lot of people. The best way to follow my workouts is to jump in to my Daily workouts and start following them on a daily basis. I workout for about 5 days a week and I keep track of my personal bests. Couple times a week I go back to some of my older workouts and try to beat my old records. If you find some exercises too challenging, you can always modify them according to your own fitness level or replace them for different exercises. Just make sure that you are keeping track of your workouts.
Hello,
I am glad I found your site. I need to get in shape badly but I dont know where to start. I don’t exercise at all right now but I would like to start.
I also decided to lose weight/get in shape. I dont work out regularly enough, but I plan to start doing better with that. since i started late November with pretty much eating less (not really a diet) Ive lost 26 lbs. My body still doesnt look good at all imo, but with focusing on exercising i think i can do better. This site is great motivation (cant really do the workouts, not close to being in shape for her stuff -super intense lol)
Hi,
My wife and I want to start working out again, it has been about ten years. Children have slowed us down, but now they are older. Do you have a beginning set of routines or should we just “jump” in at our own pace and slowly “catch-up” to be able to complete the entire workout?
We are so glad to have found your site first YouTube then on “bodyrock”. Rock on girl!!!