Yikes…. I’m so sore from all of this leg stuff lately. This will have to wait until tomorrow… sadly :( Today I went on the stepmill for 40 minutes to try to loosen up my muscles. I still managed to do level 14 without holding on!

Well I just finish, it´s 3:00hr AM here, but it is the time I have, so I do anytime I can…
It took me more than 30 minutes to complete, but at least I could complete all the sets with proper form. I think my legs are still weak because it took me 45 minutes to complete all the challenge. I couldn´t exercise yesterday because I had stomach ache, I was very nervous yesterday and my stomach payed the price.. =/
But today I did it and I added some abs exercises after I finish the challenge. I did 50 side V (50 each side) 50 hanging leg raises and 50 roll over (it took me 15 minutes)
Then I did a light strech that took me 10 minutes. Now I´m felling great again, I´ve been exrcising a lot because I thought I had to get rid of belly fat, but I was swollen because I was in the premenstrual period, any of you women have this problem? Today I´m already thin again and I´m soooo happy because my six pack is starting to show!! *_* (after all exercising a lot is not a problem, hehehe…)
Gonna see the coffee talk right now! ^^
Thanks again and always, Z and Freddy… you two ROCK!! =D
(I love one leg squat!! – or pistols, am I right?)

I´m sorry but I don´t speak english.
I have a question… an alternative “reverse push ups” could be “bent-over rows”.
Thank you very much.
Great job

Suprisingly I do not feel any muscle soreness from yesterday! Well, it is not really suprising, I found out a looong time ago that proper streching is really the key!
I just ate my lunch (brocoli soup, yummy!), I have a few more hours at work, and I will do this challenge when I get home :)
I am doing my 5+5 one leg squat religiously, everytime I go to the bathroom at work, I do one set :) and I really improved, I can almost go all the way down, they are like 3/4 pistols now :D

hahahah good one :)

lol :) I hope that you didn’t give up on the piano because of us :)

Good job on helping your mom with the workouts. She will be surprised how strong she can get in a relatively short period of time if she sticks with it.

edit: Granola is in the oven, I am done too :D :D I didn’t stop my time :( but I guess it all took me about 40 minutes. It was haaaard, so many one leg squats!!!
I am hoping tomorrow’s workout is gonna be nice, I am going to dentist tomorrow (boooo!) to finally get my wisdom teeth removed :( With me luck, I am pretty scared :D

finished workout. was only able to do 4 full rounds of workout. 5th one I just did jump roping! was doing high knees and today I did it with the jump rope! The leg squats are no joke. Totally had to be present! Crazy workout!!! I’m working out all the way up to my surgery this friday!!! Lots of kisses Zuzana and Freddy!

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There are some serious workout warriors on here! I thought I did good on this workout until I started reading the other scores, then I felt kinda lame, but none the less I am a beginer with Z and F’s workout so I am still proud of myself for doing as much as I did. I learned yesterday during this workout that YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO UNLESS YOU TRY!! so here is how much I got through: I did one complete round and I did another round of one-leg squats and press-ups, but I skipped the skipping(lol no pun intended!) I am eager to see the next workout!

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Hi guys!

Wow! This challenge was really challenging for me :)

The whole thing took me 50 minutes, so less the 20 minutes of jump rope intervals that was 30 minutes, I figure that was about 3 minutes for each set of 10 half squats and pushup.
I am really keen on mastering these 1 legged squats. When i first got my dip station I’d do these, standing “inside” the station and ust the dip station bars to help my balance. However, my balance has been improving and I am trying to get lower in the squats without any assistance. I did the first set completely free. But, I was struggling. For the other four sets I used my high step. I started each set with my heel on the edge of the step. This allowed me to continue to work on my balance and get lower in my squats. Then I could swing forward and do my press ups in front of the steps. I think I’ll use this “method” for awhile to continue improving my strength and balance. I was surprised it took my so long, but I know when I compare my times to others I am slow. I am not so worried about my speed. I suspect as I build strength and balance in my lower body, my times will improve.

Anyway, I LOVE one-legged squats, even though I can’t do them all the way/all the reps yet, and so glad you include them in the workouts.

BTW I had some healthy quiche leftovers this morning. It is even good “cold.” :)

Thanks Z & F for keeping this going. I don’t know how you guys do it!

Oh my goodness!!!! You guys are getting dumped up … that is so funny … your jump rope is buried :)

Just the ones that we post :)

It took me a lot of time. But I´ve never been fat, only have localized fat in the low back and in the low part of the abdome. But now I´m getting fitted again.
The history was: I always exercised but not like Zuzana, I used to practice kung fu and lift heavy weights. But my resoults were not so satisfied, I had lot of pain in my neck and in my wrists. And I was not becoming muscular as I wanted. After I married I stayed 2 months without exercising because I was moving and I became sick because of stress. And I lost a lot of definition I had. Stress is one of the worse things for our bodies, I think that If I had only 2 months without exercising it would not make me so bad as the same time with stress.
And If I can answer your question, after I back exercising with Zuzana and doing religiously her workouts it took me 3 months to get my fitness back, and for my six pack it took me 5 months, but each person has different resoults. I think my body took a long time to recover.
I loose a lot of fat with Z´s workouts. Not much weight because muscles are more heavy than fat, so I don´t care too much about weight and I care more about measures and muscular tonus.
Today I´m muscular and toned and defined than ever in my life. Without any chemical suplemments. Only take green tea before workouts, meals with lots of protein and fiber and some yeast sometimes, not everyday.
If you follow Z´s adviced there´s no way to go wrong. And I think, after experiment a lot of differnet aproaches of fitness that her workouts are the best, because they develop muscles, cardio, and work all the muscles of our body equally. and her diet is the more correct as well. We can´t invent anything but the simple and correct that is what Zuzana and Freddy shows us here.
They rock and they´re the best! =D

Oh, sorry, just one wisdom tooth :D (baaad spelling, sorry) :D
I am just having breakfast and leaving to the doctor, I am so scared, but I also know I will be fine :D Thanks for your support Rfinley!!!

Hey Friends! Its 1:30am and I just completed this challenge. Today was a busy day so this was the time to do it! I added 40 leg raises to this challenge and didn’t time myself. But it seemed to take a while. Maybe 40 minutes? It was lots of fun though. I love the one legged squats. I have really noticed a change in my strength and balance, which is amazing! Such a burn on the legs! Thank you Zuz and Freddie! Can’t wait to do the Marine Workout tomorrow! :)

Goodnight world

Try that, Lauri! And let us know how it’s going :) It is a tiny exercise you can do at work without spending any time, haha :)

update on a tooth: The bad guy is gone, I have it in in my purse now :D I have a MASSIVE hole in my mouth now, and at the moment, 3,5 hours after the “operation,” the whole right side of my face is still dead from the anaesctetics :) I stayed home today and I was just sleeping for two hours :) Doctor told me: no cooking, no cleaning, no bending over, no running, no jumping, stay relaxed today. I made puppyeyes and asked her quietly if I can workout today, but she said: OH NO!!! :( Makes me a little sad, but a little relieved at the same time, because today is a Marine Corps Workout and I it looks so hard :D So I am kinda happy I have this saved for Friday :)

UUUUUUMMMMM……. I REALLY don’t think this was meant to be 25 to 30 minutes long. It took me like 52 minutes!! Which means that it took me 32 minutes to do all those 1/2 leg squats because 20 minutes was skipping. The skipping took 20 minutes, which means that there was 5 minutes to do all those squats. How can someone do 300 1/2 leg squats in under 5 minutes?? It’s impossible!! You have to be superman or something! It took me 5 minutes just to do 10 sets on each leg! Never mind 50 sets for all 5 rounds! But it was SUCH a good workout :D I felt good after completing it!
-Natalie.

I agree with you Natalie :) It took me 55 minutes to completely finish this because of reseting my timer in between. Here are my times for each circuit:
4:33
4:40
4:58
5:17
5:26

They do – sometimes there is a delay if there is a large volume of comments waiting to be moderated :)

The workout as written out seemed abit much to me so i modified it. The first round I did the 3 half squats and press up but only 5 sets on each leg. then the rest of the rounds I did 5 full 1 leg squats and a press up after 5. I did 2 sets on each leg each round.

For the skipping I did intervals of 10:50. The whole thing took me 35:24 (I used two timers)

I diiid iit!!! took almost two hours but i soo did it!! brutus tried to kick my butt from round two but i kicked hiis!! now im off for some well deserved lunch!!! thank uu Zu!!

Dheana! You will soon progress too, you will see! I was also only able to do 1/4 way down at the beginning :)

Did this, except I don’t have a jump rope (my entire apt is carpet), so I ran for the 4 minutes instead. My bf and I got some funny looks from people driving by as we stopped to do squats and press-ups on the sidewalk, but I couldn’t miss taking advantage of a beautiful sunny day!

It took me 50 minutes to complete, which is 10 minutes per round.

I thought to myself during the 2nd round that this workout is really effective and there was no need for me to do all 5 rounds. I was about to give in to this voice until another one chimed in and told me, “Maximum Effort!” That was all I needed to tell myself.. and I completed what I started! I feel great, and so does my booty. ;D

I had to choose this one because it didn’t involve any use of the shoulder. :( I am trying to let it heal up so I can do the full body workouts. It has been about a month of this, so I really need to take care of it instead of constantly challenging it and making it sore again.
So I did a long hill run and burned my legs some more with this one!

Did this one week ago but I’m behind with writing my scores, so here it is :)
1.1) 5:59
1.2) average 39
2.1) 5:03
2.2) average 43
3.1) 4:52
3.2) average 43
4.1) 5:10
4.2) average 45
5.1) 6:03
5.2) average 46
Still don’t have a jumping rope. So I did the high knees. I remember it was hard :)

Such an intense workout!!! I did a circuit full body weight lifting routine yesterday so I was looking for something that put less strain on my arms (since they feel like rubber bands)!! This workout was excellent for my legs and balance though!! I must say this workout (so far) has been the one that caused me to sweat the most my room mate came home after I had finished working out to find me sitting on the floor with my back against the wall she immediately threw her bags down and said “Are you having a heart attack!!?” For the record I’m only 20 so I merely glared and said “Zuzana” and she instantly relaxed lol!! Great workout even if the time frame is a bit off. Thanks Zuzana!!

So wait a sec…in the video Zuzana says it will take at least 5 min to complete ALL the sets of squat/press combo.  How is that??  It took me 16 min to complete 7 sets on each leg, and my legs were quiverinng.  Am I just weak and slow??  At any rate, I did what I could, and I’m dripping in sweat and I got good cardio, and I still LOVE this website!!  Thanks!!!!

So wait a sec…in the video Zuzana says it will take at least 5 min to complete ALL the sets of squat/press combo.  How is that??  It took me 16 min to complete 7 sets on each leg, and my legs were quiverinng.  Am I just weak and slow??  At any rate, I did what I could, and I’m dripping in sweat and I got good cardio, and I still LOVE this website!!  Thanks!!!!