Body Flex System
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:46 pm
"Body Flex", a system devised by Greer Childers is a highly effective size reduction exercise which I used in the past, in my pre Yoga, pre SG years...
I bought it off Cable TV after seeing her infomercial (Hint, Reinhard.. Time to make a cool ten minute Shovelglove infomercial! LOL...0
I figured it wasn't that expensive and I could chance losing the money if it didn't work... I think, at the time, the total package was only 20 or 30 bucks for her videos...
Well, I did it for about 4 months back then , "then" being around 1998 and I was really really big at the start... About 45 inch waist, two years post pregnancy... What intigued me was Ms. Childers own story... She was, at the time, around 50 and had three children.. She also said she had suffered some serious depression and that no antidepressants helped her, but that the exercise did...That, I think is what really sold me, and in that time, I lost about 20 lbs, pretty cool, but the size lost was unbelievable...
Lets see, about 6 months of doing it, I went down 10 inches from my waist... (Incidentally, that's just what I'd like to go down at this point of my life too...)
This is a very intense workout, but it feels sooo awesome.... It claims to be doable in 15 to 20 minutes, but you really need about half an hour to do it where you are sufficiently warmed up and it's truly "burning fat"....
(I put this in quotes because I don't really know physiologically if that's whats happening, but something makes you lose weight with this!!!)
I'm all stoked about this again guys because I tried it today, after not doing it for about five years...
I remember when I would do this workout, I'd measure myself before and after and every single time I did it, my size would budge down, substantially... I wanted to see if this would happen again...
It did... You may stay skeptical if you wish, but as in the past, my size went down, in just the first workout... I was 37 inches at the beginning, and at the end of the workout (which was intense as all hell!!!) I was 36!!!!
I didn't squeeze the tape or anything... I know there's no need to fool myself, or delude myself in any way... I am sooooo excited about rediscovering this that I just had to post about it... I'm going to do this as an everday system, diligently, and watch that I'm really strict with NOS, and I will let you know where I end up in a few weeks...
These exercises are like a combination of Yoga, Pilates, and Primal Scream Therapy.... It's way to loud and embarrassing to do in public, as you make all kinds of unflattering "body sounds" due to the forceful expelling of air as you "compress" yourself and create a "vacuum"..LOL.., but crank up your Led Zeppelin I, and get ready to breathe and stretch yourself into a quivering, shaking mass of fat burning, energy boosting monster!!!!
I haven't looked at Ms. Childer's site for these years, and I'm sure she's still around... There seemed to be a bunch of detractors back then, who attributed her success to jogging and diet, but believe me people, that wasn't what did it... These breathing stretching exercises are like nothing I've ever experienced.. *AND* now that I have much more of an understanding of good posture, and Yogic techniques, I am going to really make the most out of this... If you do it "wrong", it can result in tight neck and diaphragm muscles, as you are breathing very very forcefully... But this can be totally avoided with awareness of your own tension and posture and holding patterns, which I now have...
Since many people have been posting site stuff about a variety of exercises, I thought I'd add this one to the mix...
I'll let you know how it goes...
Peace and Love,
Deb
ps.. Ms. Childers also recommends not eating after 8pm... I think I'll give that a go as well...
Time for some tough love for the Debster guys!
Okay, I just checked her website, it still exists...
You can have a looksie for yourself
www.bodyflex.com
I bought it off Cable TV after seeing her infomercial (Hint, Reinhard.. Time to make a cool ten minute Shovelglove infomercial! LOL...0
I figured it wasn't that expensive and I could chance losing the money if it didn't work... I think, at the time, the total package was only 20 or 30 bucks for her videos...
Well, I did it for about 4 months back then , "then" being around 1998 and I was really really big at the start... About 45 inch waist, two years post pregnancy... What intigued me was Ms. Childers own story... She was, at the time, around 50 and had three children.. She also said she had suffered some serious depression and that no antidepressants helped her, but that the exercise did...That, I think is what really sold me, and in that time, I lost about 20 lbs, pretty cool, but the size lost was unbelievable...
Lets see, about 6 months of doing it, I went down 10 inches from my waist... (Incidentally, that's just what I'd like to go down at this point of my life too...)
This is a very intense workout, but it feels sooo awesome.... It claims to be doable in 15 to 20 minutes, but you really need about half an hour to do it where you are sufficiently warmed up and it's truly "burning fat"....
(I put this in quotes because I don't really know physiologically if that's whats happening, but something makes you lose weight with this!!!)
I'm all stoked about this again guys because I tried it today, after not doing it for about five years...
I remember when I would do this workout, I'd measure myself before and after and every single time I did it, my size would budge down, substantially... I wanted to see if this would happen again...
It did... You may stay skeptical if you wish, but as in the past, my size went down, in just the first workout... I was 37 inches at the beginning, and at the end of the workout (which was intense as all hell!!!) I was 36!!!!
I didn't squeeze the tape or anything... I know there's no need to fool myself, or delude myself in any way... I am sooooo excited about rediscovering this that I just had to post about it... I'm going to do this as an everday system, diligently, and watch that I'm really strict with NOS, and I will let you know where I end up in a few weeks...
These exercises are like a combination of Yoga, Pilates, and Primal Scream Therapy.... It's way to loud and embarrassing to do in public, as you make all kinds of unflattering "body sounds" due to the forceful expelling of air as you "compress" yourself and create a "vacuum"..LOL.., but crank up your Led Zeppelin I, and get ready to breathe and stretch yourself into a quivering, shaking mass of fat burning, energy boosting monster!!!!
I haven't looked at Ms. Childer's site for these years, and I'm sure she's still around... There seemed to be a bunch of detractors back then, who attributed her success to jogging and diet, but believe me people, that wasn't what did it... These breathing stretching exercises are like nothing I've ever experienced.. *AND* now that I have much more of an understanding of good posture, and Yogic techniques, I am going to really make the most out of this... If you do it "wrong", it can result in tight neck and diaphragm muscles, as you are breathing very very forcefully... But this can be totally avoided with awareness of your own tension and posture and holding patterns, which I now have...
Since many people have been posting site stuff about a variety of exercises, I thought I'd add this one to the mix...
I'll let you know how it goes...
Peace and Love,
Deb
ps.. Ms. Childers also recommends not eating after 8pm... I think I'll give that a go as well...
Time for some tough love for the Debster guys!
Okay, I just checked her website, it still exists...
You can have a looksie for yourself
www.bodyflex.com