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So yesterday was my first day on ChaLEAN EXTREME and my first workout was Burn Circuit 1.  I have to tell you that anything that say EXTREME, kinda had me worried especially since I had never done the workout before.  I wasn’t sure of my fitness level.  I was pleasantly surprised that I really had no trouble getting through the workout.

So first of course, I went through the learning dvds and then I was off.  The one thing I liked is that it wasn’t ridiculously long, about 45 minutes including  warm up and cool down.  I didn’t have the selecttech dumbbells as Chalene had, but I did have free weights so I set out 5′s, 8′s and 15′s.  Yep I know I jumped from 8 to 15 pounds – stupid yes, but unfortunately I have no 10′s and no 12′s so I worked with what I had.

Burn Circuit 1 was mainly combo moves.  I will tell you as you will find in any workout that you do for the first time – there is that awkward feeling trying to follow and do the moves as good as you should.  You will not be used to working parts together as they do in the combo moves.  I am sure the next time it will feel much more comfortable.

A real quick rundown of the moves:  Sumo squat with a hip lift, lunge with a fly, dead lift with a fly, pushup with a leg lift (by the way she does very slow pushups – very hard, at least for me).  There was a lung with a core oblique rotation (the way you hold the weights on this one may be why my arms were shakey after the workout).  We did a bench press while working abs and a chest fly while working the butt.  There was also some squats with weight side bends.  These may seem hard but really once you get past the awkwardness of working two parts at the same time, it was not a hard workout.  It was good.

Today my muscles feel worked, not painful.  Today was a rest day – believe it or not.  By the way on a rest day if you still want to still login and get yourself registered for the daily prize, choose to do something easy on your rest day, like stretching or a short walk.  Today I walked my dog and I still was able to log that in and I’m registered for a chance to win.  Tomorrow is Burn Circuit 2.  I will report back and let you know how it was.

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