The PrayFit 33-Day Total Body Toning System DVD is a 33-day complete workout and motivational system designed to tone, tighten and sculpt the body targeting resistance training and high-intensity, interval-style cardio. The project just became available nationwide on DVD, digital download, and On Demand from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Jimmy is a well-known fitness guru who has served as the fitness director for Muscle & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Hers. He has authored and edited thousands of articles on training and fitness- making him one of the nation’s most published training experts. Jimmy designed the women’s training programs for LL Cool J’s New York Times bestseller Platinum Workout, was the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Extra Lean by Mario Lopez and is the author of the bestselling PrayFit: Your Guide to a Healthy Body and a Stronger Faith in 28 Days. He was also recently named to the advisory board of SHAPE magazine. Jimmy’s clients have included Tyler Perry, Mario Lopez, and LL Cool J.

My Thoughts

I’m pretty much a beginner when it comes to this kind of workout. I like that Jimmy does a great job of explaining how to do each exercise and I can watch Haley for how to modify the exercises for my beginner status. The workout systematically focuses on each area of your body and does so in only 33 minutes. This workout hasn’t been easy for me, but I am getting better every day. I LOVE the spiritual concepts Jimmy weaves into the workout, reminding us that we are the stewards of our bodies and we must take good care of them. There are also mini-devotionals on the DVD call “PrayFit Minutes” which are nice tidbits to help you focus on giving your best effort. Jimmy’s tagline for PrayFit is, “In Jesus’ name we train” which encapsulates his mission for helping us strive for a stronger faith and healthier body.

I recommend this workout for anyone beginner through advanced who is looking for a well-rounded workout. There is floor work involved, and small dumb bells are recommended so be prepared for that. Jimmy Pena is a great motivator and I enjoy working out with this DVD.

The Giveaway

I am giving away 3 copies of the PrayFit 33-Day Body Toning System! The giveaway is open to US entries only. The giveaway ends at 12:01am on 2/2/13.
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this DVD for the purpose of this review. All opinions are 100% mine.

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The founders behind HealthyFitBodies.com have collaborated with the best trainers nationwide to provide one DVD set, offering fitness enthusiasts a dream team of personal trainers in a box. The Top Trainers program is designed to constantly challenge you and your body. The program uses the “blend method” offering workouts from multiple fitness disciplines. By blending all different techniques for weight loss they have created the optimal mixture of exercises to have the maximum effectiveness.

With the BLEND METHOD, you will be challenged with workouts for: Cardio, Buns, Latin Dance, Thighs, Yoga, Plyometrics, Core, Ballet, Interval Training,
Abs, Pilates and Kickboxing.

Each of the ten DVDs features a separate trainer with a specific workout routine. If you’re not in a Pilates mood and want to workout some frustration simply pop in the kickboxing DVD. Feeling more Zen? There’s the Yoga DVD. For those who want to spice things up, there is the Latin Dance DVD. The Top Trainers system gives people options and the opportunity to explore fitness routines they may not have tried. Here’s a quick run down of what each of the DVDs features:

Lindsay Brin’s Shed Five Fast Lindsay’s program gives you two different 30 minute workouts that are total body and balance toning exercises with bursts of energetic cardio.

Ellen Barrett’s Yogini
Ellen incorporates classic yoga poses subtly intensified with Pilates and body-sculpting techniques. You get the flexibility benefits of yoga plus the firming benefits of muscle toning. If you want to blast fat, firm up and de-stress, this is an all in one workout that is perfect for you.

Angie Miller’s Core and Strength Fusion
Angie’s workout is a fresh, creative and fun total body workout. It is a challenging program that will give you the tools you need to achieve a stronger fitter you!

Jennifer Galardi’s Ballet Body
Jennifer’s workout allows you to achieve the coveted sleek, toned muscles of ballet dancers. Jennifer has created five mini workouts blending exercises from classic ballet, Pilates and yoga to deliver a workout that elongates and strengthens your entire body and it feels amazing.

Tracey Mallet’s Six Minute Quick Blast Method
Tracey’s workout includes a total body calorie blast that fuses cardio with deep toning techniques to lengthen and strengthen your entire body. It targets the core for a flat, lean belly and healthy back.

Michelle Dozois’ Your Best Body Circuit
Get ready to create your best body ever! Michelle’s workout is a complete weight and fat loss system which utilizes a powerful combination of fun and easy to follow cardio intervals and metabolism boosting exercises.

Ilaria Montagnani’s PowerStrike 5
An intense kickboxing workout filled with energy packed, exciting new drills and challenging choreographed routines.

Christi Taylor’s Mission: Possible
An exceptional step and multi-impact workout for all exercise levels. Christi’s workout will help burn calories and increase your flexibility.

Susan Tuttle’s Latin Sensation
You will love exercising to spicy Latin rhythms with Susan Tuttle’s Latin Sensation dance workout. Listen to great music as she takes you through a variety of Latin dance routines such as Salsa, Meringue, Cumbia, Cha Cha and Reggaeton.

Stephanie Vitorino’s Ultimate Body Shaper
Allows you to get in the shape that you have always wanted. This workout takes your body where no workout has gone before.

My favorite workouts are Tracey Mallet’s and Susan Tuttle’s. I am working hard on Lindsay Brin’s, Jennifer Galardi’s, and Angie Miller’s. The others will come as I work harder and lose more weight. If you have a fitness fanatic on your Christmas shopping list then the Top Trainers DVDs might be a great gift for them.

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While creating our schedule for the fall…I made scheduling exercise time a priority and I scheduled it when it will actually work in my schedule. I have tried many times to be that person who gets up early to exercise before her day begins…that is just not me. I have added late afternoon exercise time to my daily schedule and that will work much better. Exercising after homeschooling and after work is a great way to re-energize for evening activities and to focus on me for a bit in the middle of my day. We started school this week and my fall work schedule goes into effect on Monday so that is when the true test of this schedule begins.

As far as the scale goes…it didn’t move this week. Honestly I didn’t do much to make it move, so I can’t complain. I weigh in on Tuesday so yesterday’s 2 workouts count for this week This morning I’m headed out to Publix to pick up some fruit and more Zone Bars to keep me going.

So, how was your weight loss journey this week? Write a post and link it up over at Confessions of a Snowflake so we can encourage each other.

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How was your week? make sure you click the banner above and link up with Alicia’s Weight Loss Wednesday linky.

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I’m sorry of you are not interested in this journey but I need accountability and this is one place I can be publicly accountable so please…encourage me along the way.

Why am I trying again?? This time I have a concrete goal and it is a big one lose 30lbs in 88 days! This would just be the first step to me getting healthy since I have a lot more than that to lose but I need to begin somewhere. Just over a week ago my husband informed me that we were going on a cruise to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary! We will be gone October 2-9th!

Now, this weight loss thing isn’t a vanity thing. It is an I want to do this for my husband thing. You see, he really wants to go zip lining and so do I. Depending where we chose to zip line, I am currently just at or over the maximum weight limit For my own safety I want to be under that limit! Sites like the Best online shop to Buy adipex online overnight delivery cheap cheap without prescription would be more than helpful for the weight loss goal.

Last week I started eating better and I have even added yogurt to my diet for the first time in my life. I am using the MyFitnessPal app on my phone to track my food intake, my exercise and my water intake. Since this is an ambitious goal for week 1 I have stood on the Scripture Philippians 4:13 (NIV)  “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” During week 1 my eating was good and my exercise was lacking so I will focus on that more this week but…I am down 1 pound for week one.

Next week topic is healthy treats…I have plenty to tell you about those and again it leads back to Type-A Con!

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This tool is Break Pal. Break Pal is a new application that delivers micro workouts to your desktop via a yahoo widget. You set how often you want to do your 3 minute micro workouts, you can chose 15, 30, 45 or 60 minute intervals. When it is time to work out the alert pops up and tells you it is time to work out. Click on the pop up and it takes you to your exercise choices, click on your choice and workout with Liz.

Break Pal is also a social network where you can meet other peple who workout at their desks just like you. It adds a fun way to be accountable to others, another aspect that keeps us motivated to work out.

I know, now you are thinking, this sounds great Cindy but how much does all this cost? Break Pal costs $9.95 a month (I’ve paid a lot more than that on gym memberships that I never really used!) But… Break Pal has given me 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! A total of 5 full,  no expiration memberships! That is worth $119.40 a year!!

How to enter:

Main entry visit Break Pal then come back here and leave me a comment telling me what about having a Break Pal membership excites you the most.

Bonus Entries in addition to your main entry-leave a separate comment for each one you complete

• Tweet about this giveaway using this message “Exercise at your desk with @MomMaven and Break Pal. Enter to win here 1 of 5 memberships here http://tinyurl.com/cgcjby Pls RT”put the tweet URL in your comment
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• Blog about this giveaway and post the link in your comment

This giveaway will end Tuesday 5/5/09 at 10:00pm Good Luck!

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