As I mentioned last Thursday I think the fat burning of the ab ripper x routine can be magnified if you warm up a bit before doing the routine. I did not even burn 100 calories and my avg hr was real low last Thursday when I went into the routine without any warm-up.
For today's routine I did a 3 minute warm-up to get my heart going a bit and to stretch out my ab muscles. I jogged in place for one minute. I did 30 jumping jacks. Finally I did a downward dog into a vinyasa which finishes in upward dog to stretch out the legs and abs. Then I first started my heart rate monitor and the ab ripper x video. I opened at 108, far better than the 80 I opened with last week.
Avg HR =112 bpm
Peak HR = 148 bpm
K Burned = 143
(For comparison last Thursday going cold turkey into the routine i was 96, 126, 98) I highly recommend doing 3-5 minutes of warm-ups if not doing this right after some other routine or within an hour of doing another routine. Ballistic stretches and some jogging in place and/or jumping jacks do the trick for me.
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