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BodyRock Challenge: Starting a whole new round of punishment
January 14, 2010 by Tiffany 2 Comments
I first heard about Zuzana from BodyRock.tv about a month ago. Stefan showed me one of her workout videos which was being passed around the stock broker network in Frankfurt and I was both awed and inspired by her right then. Check her out in the video below; it’s just one of many simple yet killer workouts that she has online.
After I saw my first Zuzana video, I said to Stefan: “I’m going to start doing her workouts cause I want to look like that!” But where to start? She has tons of workout videos online but instead of starting with something that may leave me in pain for weeks, I think starting at the beginning it a…
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