Rachelstra said (way back in June -- sorry for the delay)
"I have just read the slow burn book and was curious as to why you are working out 45 mins 2 times a week. I was just under the impression that you only needed to exercise every 5 days after a good 30 min workout. What are you and your wife doing during those 2 sessions a week."
As I recall from the book and from comments on the message board belonging to Fred Hahn (
http://pub83.ezboard.com/fseriousstrengthfrm1), one can improve one's condition working out once a week, but the optimum is twice a week. The book says 30 minutes, but we found that not to be realistic. We don't take breaks between exercises, but moving from one to the other takes a little time. In addition, the time we use can't be set for partial minutes, so we do each exercise for 2 minutes instead of 100 seconds. If you're in a gym and have a trainer changing settings on the machine for you and have the right timer, 30 minutes might be enough.
We do the set of exercises the book shows for home workouts, with a few minor variations. For instance, my wife does the bent-over rows (I don't think that's the name Slow Burn uses, but the same exercise), and I do lat pull-downs while she does one side and wrist curls while she does the second side. I've started doing dips while she does push-ups. I do calf raises one leg at a time, and my wife does both, but while I do my second leg, she does wrist curls. At the end, we've both added reverse wrist curls.
Are you still using Slow Burn? Results?
Ron