Discount Workouts – Advanced Weight Training Vol 2 Workout Two

Well, on Thursday I was excited to get back to my treadmill workout videos. I chose Beginner Treadmill Vol 1, Workout Two – which may have been the one I used the last time I was on the treadmill. I like the one minute jogging intervals, even though there are only a few – but maybe that’s what I like about them – the fact that there are only a few. :lol: Those jogging intervals are a lot more challenging for me than the jogging intervals in Four Fast Miles – even when I don’t do Leslie’s jogging on the rebounder.

Today it was back to weights, so I tried out the other workout from Discount Workouts – Advanced Weight Training Vol 2 – Workout Two. This is a 60 minute full body workout, similar in style and order of muscle groups to Workout One . It’s led by Ashley, but not the same Ashley from Workout One. It uses the same equipment – barbell, plates or dumbbells, and a step or bench. The music is decent, and different from Workout One – but the timing of it seemed off. There were a lot of moments of long silence in between sets, and there a few times that the music ended before the end of a set. I found that a bit distracting, and don’t remember that happening in Workout One. While this workout isn’t hard to follow, I didn’t find the cueing as good as it was in Workout One and felt like I had to watch the screen a lot more to know what rep count she was using. And while the instructor is likeable, pleasant, and offers some encouragement – I didn’t enjoy her as much as the other Ashley. Also, I thought that Workout One was so well cued that it felt like I had done the workout before, since I was never off a beat or behind. With this workout, I had to play catch up a few times, and was sometimes using the wrong rep speed since I didn’t know a change was coming.

This workout is chaptered every ten minutes, and each muscle group is worked for about five minutes. Though, the chaptering doesn’t really match up with the muscle groups, since the work doesn’t begin until after the warm up, after minute 6. There’s also plenty of time to change your barbell weight, when needed – and a few times it was almost too long. I think she also stretched more between sets, so I’m not sure there were quite as many reps overall. Many of the same exercises from Workout One are used in this one, though she does add a few twists. The rep counts vary from 2-2, 3-1, 1-3, 1-1, etc, and there is some use of low end reps and pulsing. The abs work was weighted, which I like, and was different from the other workout.

So, while I didn’t enjoy this one nearly as much as Workout One, it was still a solid workout – and is easy to grow with by increasing your weights. I went a bit heavier with this workout, too – so I suspect I may be a bit sore tomorrow. I would still recommend this disc as a good buy, since Workout One was great, and Workout Two offers a some different exercises and will get the job done.

The breakdown:

Minutes 0-10:

Warm up with a light barbell – deadlifts, upright row, shoulder press, squats, lunges, etc for ~5 min
Barbell squats
Barbell wide squats

Minutes 10-20:

Barbell squats or wide squats
Barbell chest press
Deadlifts
Dead row

Minutes 20-30:

Clean and press, dead row, deadlift combo
Deadlifts
Dead rows
Dead rows, underhand grip
Deadlifts, regular grip
Barbell lying triceps extension
Barbell triceps press
Barbell triceps extension/triceps press combo
Triceps dips (I subbed seated triceps extensions )

Minutes 30-40:

Barbell biceps curl
Dumbbell biceps outer curls
Barbell stationary lunges, with front foot elevated on step
Dumbbell alternating reverse lunges, staying in a squat position during the transition
Squats, dumbbell on shoulders

Minutes 40-50:

Push ups
Dumbbell bent over high row
Dumbbell bent arm lateral raise
Barbell overhead press
Dumbbell bent arm lateral raise
Dumbbell shoulder press
Crunches, dumbbell/plate on chest (begin around minute 46)
Oblique bicycle crunches – pull in opposite leg during the oblique crunch, with dumbbell on shoulder
Straight leg crunches, holding dumbbell with straight arms behind your head