Workout breakdown:
Let’s start off with the Health Updates video:
Lunges: What fucking lunges? ‘Lunges lol’ is right. NEVER reached 90 degrees with the lead leg. In fact, I would be doubtful that she ever reached anything close to 30 degrees. These aren’t lunges - they’re heel lifts of the back foot. Still, will rage that fatties shouldn’t be doing lunges without support because of the strain it puts on the knees. Lunges are a great workout, but they do put a considerable amount of strain on the lead leg's knee. Reverse lunges can help with this. Side lunges help considerably. Yes, there are multiple types of lunges and I have no idea why these dummies keep defaulting to the one option. My personal favorite is doing weighted clock lunges, where you hold a dumbbell in each hand, then do a series of lunges - right foot, you start crossing behind yourself to the 7 o'clock, then back fully to 6, then to 3, then to 12, then to 10 - so yes, you cross behind yourself, do a reverse lunge, do a side lunge, do a front lunge, then do a cross front lunge. Then repeat with the left leg. And do that 3 times. It's a great lunge set and works your muscles more than just doing the same tired forward lunge everyone does ad nauseam.
Marching instead of modifying the exercises: Given that I have no idea what she’s supposed to be doing, I can’t give too much input here. I will say that her marching in place is better than being stationary and doing her sad little head-wiggles. However, all exercises can be modified and done effectively.
For example, have degenerated discs in your spine and can’t support your back through a full push up for burpees? Put the knees down, do the pushup, get the knees up while you pop to a high plank, then bring the feet in with a hop (one leg at a time if the spine won’t support). This puts you in a deep squat for you to complete the burpee motion. Now drop back into a squat, kick the feet back, ease back onto the knees. Repeat. Do the requisite number of burpees called out by whatever program you’re following, then multiply by 1.5 and complete some more (aka: if you need to do 10, do 15 modified burpees). Gets about the same amount of strain on the applicable muscles while reducing strain on injured portions of the body.
‘Ab workout’: This will murder her spine (if she ever went deep instead of rolling her shoulders to give the impression that she’s going deep). No. No. Nonononono. This is what it looks like when newbie lifters try dead-lifting and don’t realize that hinging at the hips and using the legs is key to not hurting yourself. I do believe the muscle group she’s attempting to target (after attempting 2 myself) is the rectus abdominis, and there are far safer exercises for her to use - given her build, I would NOT have her doing forearm planks or gluteal bridges, but bicycle crunches, dead bugs, scissor kicks and hollow body holds are all well within the playing field. Also effective are isometric bear crawls, which are one of my personal favorites. Holding either the hollow body or isometric bear crawl for 30 seconds will target her abdominal muscles more effectively and much more safely than the bullshit she’s doing with her modified bow motion with no hip hinging.
Retard dancing with arms overhead: That may have burned 2.3 calories. And it’s safe. Fine by me. Needs more energy, though.
Now her chattering about doing this daily? Alright, good. But she needs to substitute out some this shit. ESPECIALLY that abdominal bullshit. She needs to get on the ground for the safety of her spine and her joints and learn some basic yoga holds to exercise her core. And she needs some real cardio. Preferably in a pool.
Next up, the ‘What I ate’ shit:
FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
Alright, little sperg here: the basic stretches and shit she’s doing are very dated, hailing from the ‘80s and the ‘90s. Since then, dynamic warmups have become much more mainstream as they’re shown to reduce time wastage and injury. This is why cyclists, instead of warming up by rolling their necks and stretching their legs, ride rollers prior to a race. Why runners will do jumping jacks, push ups and quick-feet intervals before a 5k race. No more are the days of gentle, slow stretching, because it doesn’t actually maintain your muscles warm, limber and ready to work. Old fashioned slow stretches don't get blood flow, heart rate and oxygen exchange elevated in preparation for working out, which leads towards commencement of efforts with insufficient oxygen supply to the muscles and forces warmup and lactic acid production while still in a rest state. In other words, do dynamic warmups. Your body will thank you by breaking less often.
That said, holy fuck, the warm-up was 5x the length of the ‘aerobic’ workout. Yikes.
Aerobic portion: It’s safer than running, at least. She’s not going full Anna Retard Mode. But she’d get a more effective aerobic session with less impact to her knees in a pool. I don't know if I'd put her on a recumbent bicycle given the size of her gut and the obstacle it would provide to effective pedaling - she'd have to splay out her knees, which puts strain at the knees and hips, to be able to work her legs around that bulbous shit body of hers, so she'd have to slim down a bit before I'd put her on my favored cardio machines. Other than that, it looks dumb as shit and isn’t targeting anything in particular. And it’s sad that it murdered her that badly, given that she wasn’t moving all that much.
Overall: It’s ineffective at best, can lead to injury at worst. There are better things she could be doing with her time. If she has access to a personal trainer at a local gym, she should look in to that. If she has access to a pool, that’s an avenue she should actively pursue, whether it be water aerobics or lap swimming for cardio.
What this egg on chopsticks needs is to (a) cut down on the shit she’s eating/drinking/caloric intake of any form, and (b) work on building lean muscle mass. If someone like her came to me, I would start her on a simple walking program (given how winded she was after her tiny workouts, I’d start her off with the goal of reaching 1 mile in 20 minutes without stops, and just ease her gently towards that goal), and have her start doing strength training with light resistance bands 3 times a week with daily no-impact, low-strain core exercises. (And no, I wouldn’t say ‘oh move to medium or heavy bands’ if she powers through them - it’s better to ramp up the number of repetitions than raise the resistance. It’s the Arnold Schwarzenegger method of strength building - he would aim for lifting ‘x’ number of pounds, and each PERFECT (emphasis on purpose - imperfect or sloppy lifts don't count) repetition counted towards that. Want to lift 1,000 lbs today? 10 reps of 100 lbs would do it, but so does 100 reps of 10 lbs. 50 reps of 20 lbs when you're doing bench presses is very doable for most, and a great way to tone without risking injury to yourself (and most times, is a good way to get in that much weight in your lift days if you don't have an available spotter). Do what you can, but don’t overdo it. Both set options have the same end result.)