Jessica Smith’s Boost Metabolism + Muscle
By: Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
Tags: Fitness, Strength Training, Nonfiction, Jessica Smith, Health

Jessica Smith’s Boost Metabolism + Muscle

Oh, when will workout videos blend with Netflix?

Photo from Jessica Smith’s Boost Metabolism+Muscle workout on her website.

I’m excited to review this workout because it is the first new workout I’m buying after 4 months! I’m humbled and honored to be graduating from “Walk On” to “Walk Strong”.

These are workouts with dumbbells and they need a mat, too. Get over it. Not all workouts can be accomplished without these.

I used 1 kilo dumbbells throughout the workouts, as I’m starting small. I followed the modifier, Debbie. She’s Jessica Smith’a mom, and often it is what Debbie says that keeps me going.

“When in doubt; walk it out”

So when I’m hesitating at the kettle, making a cup of tea I neither want not need, I recall that and start to do a Jessica Mile workout. I have a few, many of which are prop-free, standing only workouts, which I do on days when the clinic or the kitchen has kept me really busy.

Each workout has a moving mantra that appeals when you’re sweating and primed for the positivity. It doesn’t make you cringe, it HELPS, OK? Photo from Jessica Smith Digital Library.

Your legs may feel like Jello after this workout, but they’ll still carry you through the day

The camaraderie between the mom and daughter makes me smile. I lost my mom, 2015, when she was just 65, and doing Jessica’s workout makes me feel closer to my own mother.

When I was browsing the website looking to see what workout to buy, there was one which was a bit cheaper than the others, which are all around $15. One of then was $14.

The $14 workout, with Jessica Smith in the middle, with mom-daughter pair Andrea and Asha behind her. Jessica is pointing towards Asha, the daughter. Photo from Walking for Wellness, Weight Loss and Energy.

The background artists in this workout are a mom and daughter pair. I could imagine Jessica looking at the great vibrations between the mom and daughter pair behind her as she shot that workout, and how she would have progressed from looking at them, and then approaching her own mom to convince her to do the workouts.

This is the lower body workout which gives you Jello legs. Photo from Jessica Smith Fitness Library.

Maybe Debbie would have needed some training to do the workouts at first? Debbie’s lunges are often deeper than mine, though she’s older than I am. Maybe Jessica convinced her, maybe she stirred her mom awake, taking her for early morning runs and getting her fit enough to be able to film a workout like this one.

This is the total body workout which is also keeps the heart pumping faster throughout the workout. Photo from Jessica Smith Fitness Library.

I imagined the behind-the-scenes banter between the two, because their joviality spills over into my life everyday. Most of the workouts I do in a week are Jessica’s, and it was nice to think of the two of them bonding over the workouts and planning the costumes and moves.

Apart from the fitness instructor certification, I think Jessica is also deeply religious. We all need a little religion and detachment in our lives, and the casual way in which Jessica and Debbie sling a little contentment at us is very welcome.

In this workout she also says that corsets are from the 18th century! Yay. She’s making us move from left ankle to right shoulder as she says this, and she’s helping us build a “natural corset”. Every workout, it is hard to let it keep on playing, to follow along and do the moves. This is not an episode of Downton Abbey, it is a workout we have to make ourselves do, and little things in the video make it easier to start.

The move in the Total Body Focus where so ended up lying on the floor, not getting up at all. Photo from Jessica Smith Fitness Library.

Jessica calls this “practice for sitting up” and she does SO MANY of them. As does Debbie! This is a kind and practical way of improving the core muscles without straining the lower back. I loved this, and the way she popped this in.

You can count upon Jessica to improve strength, stamina, agility, flexibility and balance. The five parameters of fitness. Yes. Also, you see a small nod towards some neglected muscles, so after each workout, you feel a wee bit satisfied that you’ve taken care of your body for the day.

I’ve done a lot of mindless plodding taking long circular walks. This is my prediction: we won’t stop at workout videos.

Workout videos and Netflix shows will blend, have a story and an agenda to make us work out, with jokes written by the punchline writers of Friends.

We’ll have mixtures of trainers, like Hell For Leather Jillian Michaels, religious Leslie Sansone, mommy and daughter pair Jessica and Debbie, Yoga guru Shilpa Shetty and the British pilot and American fitness trainer Rebecca Louise.

Maybe these girls will get together and make a TV show that will entertain us as we work along to it. Hallelujah!