Yes! PizzazzEE‑25 is a fortifying routine that engages Every Muscle, Every Joint, Every Time you complete the 25‑step program.

If you perform the entire full-body workout (which takes less than an hour) you will work all voluntary muscles and joints.

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It is best to complete the entire routine at once, but there is a natural stopping point offered after #12 – the audio will note that as the half way mark. You won’t work every muscle and joint if you choose to do half during one day, but you will catch up with the others on the next day when you finish.

However, you won't earn bonus points if you split the program over 2 days. If you finish all 25 steps within 24 hours, then you do earn bonus points!

While 3 times would be terrific and 2 times is excellent, even just once per week will make a difference in your flexibility, balance and overall good feeling.

Do NOT preform it every day – our bodies do best with resting time in between workouts. On the 'rest' days, try another activity.

You get bonus points on the Scoreboard if you do PizzazzEE‑25 once a week, and you get DOUBLE bonus points if you do it more than once within a week.

PizzazzEE-25 is designed and intended for people of varying abilities.

It’s recommended that you review the "Important Alerts" section of the Tips & Alerts page before proceeding with the program.

We suggest that the answer is NO. Don’t let anyone tell you that any one exercise can accomplish everything.

It is true that unlike most exercises, PizzazzEE gently engages every muscle and joint. Still, our minds, bodies and spirit need variety in our activities.

"Goal-based motor components" are dynamic balance activities which change multi-directional movements of arms, legs and trunk.

"Goal-based" components demand that people pay constant attention to how their body is balanced and moving, and make adjustments to body alignment and position in space in response to external feedback (in this case the voice directions that walk you through each step).

While small segments of PizzazzEE use isometric exercises, most of our steps are isotonic.

However, isotonic movements themselves are made up of two types of action, those that shorten the muscle as they strengthen and those that lengthen it (respectively, these are known as concentric or eccentric).

While many exercises use only concentric techniques; PizzazzEE‑25 uses both.

It is fine to use cushioning if it doesn’t upset your balance.

Some people use a garden pad under the hip for # 20 and 23. For those with bony or sensitive hips you may wish to have a towel, mat or pad under your hip when you perform those (or other) sections.

Additionally, some people like to have a towel or bandana on the floor/rug to protect their face when doing face-down steps.

Here is an overview or what we mean in the context of the program, and how or why the goals are achieved.

• Stamina – The program works on a gradual and safe strengthening of muscles and mild aerobics, increasing stamina and strength (both organs and muscles).
• Flexibility – the program gently stretches muscles over the body’s joints, ultimately maintaining or increasing your range of motion and flexibility for daily living.
• Balance – Muscles contract and relax over our joints. When we fortify our control of these ‘tightening & relaxing’ actions it improves balance, which helps to both avoid injury and aid daily activities.

The Musculoskeletal (aka Neuromuscular skeletal) system – includes bones - joints – ligaments, tendons, muscles and nerves working together. When they are not working together in balance, there is mis-alignment and neuromuscular skeletal ailments.

These types of problems have surpassed the common cold in the top 10 reasons people go to the doctor. There are 2 typical causes:

1. Excess weight (major stress on joints)
2. Unawareness of prevention methods

It is very common for this type of ailment to enter a bad cycle. The BAD CYCLE = more weight – more stress – more injury - more sedentary – more weight – etc.

We do not need to add additional weights. I actually recommend against it. Our body carries enough weight for strengthening itself.

As an example step #12 (squat and lift) uses your own body weight to strengthen muscles. All of the twisting, raising, crunching (or in the example of #12, bending and lifting) are using the weigh either of your entire body, or certain parts.

While we ALL have heard that strengthening is important for aging and bones (and it’s absolutely true), too much repetition with too much weight can cause pain, injury and compressed joints. YES, we want to use 'weight' when we work on strengthening, but we are best served by using BODY weight.

PizzazzEE-25 can be done in whatever way is comfortable for you. While loose, comfy clothes are strongly suggested, socks are optional. 😊

There are many ways to perform a plank. Many advanced side planks are done with upper arm raised in air. PizzazzEE‑25 takes an easier approach even for the advanced steps. However, you may wish to approach the side plank in a way that is challenging, BUT SAFE, for you.

Make sure you start gently, and only then work up to more stressful positions.

Activities of Daily Living. If you already know what ADLs are, that might be bad, as it means your doctor may have talked to you about this.

ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) are all the little things we do in our lives or around our home: eating, bathing, dressing, cleaning up, puttering in the garden, picking up the mail, on and on.

Easy body movement makes all ADLs easier.

But here is what we sometimes miss about ADLs; in and of themselves they can be remarkable movement. Many of them are full body activities that work our muscles and fascia via isotonic lengthening (vs isotonic shortening) movement as most of our exercises are.

Our grandmothers and grandfathers did not usually 'exercise' or 'go to the gym' as is so common these days. You might say "well, they just didn’t know to do so." Yet, even 'keeping up a house' can offer great movement when we rake the leaves, sweep and wash the floor, move heavy items around as you clean the storage shed, or in days past hung the laundry (which I remember as quite a bit of work).

In reality these activities if done frequently can be more beneficial than some of our less-frequent exercises that focus on certain muscle groups. The problem is that most of our daily routines now include more sitting than moving. PizzazzEE‑25 includes all the types of muscle/fascia/joint work that both mimic and help full-body ADLs.

While movement of the feet may seem of little value, the joints and tendons around the 26 bones in the feet are often ignored. They are the starting place of good posture, balance and alignment.

A neurological pain loop can be problematic when the "ankle bone connected to the leg bone" throws things off, and the pain works itself up the body.

Mostly, this is simply to put some playfulness in our workout time.

Additionally, it helps establish a quick picture in your head of the moves.