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Women’s Chest and Back Workout

January 24, 2011 By Melinda F 1 Comment

Last week I mentioned that I was getting bored with my previous workout so I began a new one. I love it. If I don’t enjoy a workout I’ll just quit – which is not okay – so I decided I’d look for something new and I’m really glad I did. Today I did a [...]

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7/11: Women’s Chest Workout + Quick Fat Burning Cardio

July 11, 2010 By Melinda F 1 Comment

I don’t know about you but summer workouts just suck. Actually I shouldn’t say the workouts themselves suck, but getting motivated to work out when it’s so warm and humid is a bit tough. Today I did a women’s strength training workout for chest and then followed that up with a quick fat burning cardio [...]

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6/15: Women’s Chest Workout – NEW!

June 16, 2010 By Melinda F 3 Comments

This is the best chest workout I’ve done in a very long time. My chest is already feeling quite tired and I’m sure it’ll be sore tomorrow. This is a new workout although the exercises aren’t new to me at all the repetitions are a bit different from other chest workouts I’ve done. If you [...]

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5/17: Chest & Biceps Workout

May 17, 2010 By Melinda F 2 Comments

Today I did the same chest and biceps workout that I’ve been doing for the last couple weeks. I kept the weight the same again for everything, but I think I’ll be increasing it on some moves for my next workout. We had all four of our kids this past week so I haven’t uploaded [...]

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4/27: Insane Chest & Biceps Workout – NEW!

April 27, 2010 By Melinda F 2 Comments

In case you didn’t already know, I started a new women’s workout program yesterday and kicked it off with this shoulder and abs workout. Today I continued the same workout program and followed the chest & biceps portion. I switched up the exercises a bit since I don’t have “machines” in my home gym, but [...]

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3/16 Workout: Chest, Abs & Cardio

March 16, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

For today’s workout I continued working on the new workout plan I started and today was chest and abs day. I also followed it up with a cardio workout on the treadmill. Chest Workout Incline Dumbbell Press Warm-up: 2 sets x 12 reps, 10# dumbbells 1 set x 10 reps, 20# dumbbells (will be increasing [...]

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3/9 Workout: Chest and Back

March 9, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today’s workout pissed me off. I don’t know why but the past 3 weeks I’ve been flat benching 85# and it feels as if it’s getting harder each week. Shouldn’t that be the opposite?? Usually that happens to be the case, but not as of late. I feel like I’m stuck at 85 pounds. Today [...]

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2/21 & 2/23 Workouts: Cardio, Chest and Back

February 23, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

I feel like it’s been too long since I’ve written a post here. That’s probably mostly because I forgot to post my cardio workout from Sunday. (the one I swear I almost died from!) It was pretty crazy and I was so happy when I was done, but my body felt weird for a good [...]

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2/4 Workout: Chest, Triceps & Cardio

February 4, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today was chest & triceps day followed with steady state cardio. I always get excited about chest day. I like the bench press – it’s always been one of my favorite exercises. I decided to up the weight 5 pounds this week and was still able to perform 5 reps. That’s right in the 4 [...]

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1/14 Workout: Chest & Triceps

January 14, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

I started a new workout program this week and today was chest and triceps day. I love chest day and today’s workout was much better than my last chest workout. Actually…I guess I shouldn’t say it was “much better” but it was a lot more fun because I used the bench and barbell this time. [...]

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5/9 Workout: Chest & Abs

May 9, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Okay, so I have to admit that I am sick of the BodyForLife program. I’m not a fan of the upper/lower/cardio splits so I have decided to go back to my old way of doing things and that is to do cardio at least 3 days per week and then have a 5 or 6-day [...]

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5/3 Upper Body Workout

May 3, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Today I did a similar upper body workout to what I have been doing, but I added more sets to my bench press because my goal is to be able to bench my body weight. The details will be outlined in the routine below: Flat Bench Press – 40# x 12 reps [...]

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4/15 BodyForLife Workout: Upper Body

April 15, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Wow. I loved this workout! It made my upper back a bit sore and that hasn’t happened for quite some time! This is my first strength training workout that I have done for the BodyForLife program. This was a pretty long workout, I think it took me about an hour to complete. I didn’t really [...]

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My Daily Workout: Cardio, Abs & Chest

April 10, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Yep, I worked on my chest again today. I have a big love for the flat bench barbell press and I’m really not sure why. I also did some steady cardio, upper abs and obliques. Abs Crunches – 2 sets x 20 reps

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My Daily Workout: Chest, Shoulders, Triceps, Abs & Cardio

April 6, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today my workout consisted of 1 chest exercise, 2 shoulder exercises and 1 triceps exercise. I normally would do 2 exercises for each but I kind of had to speed through my workout because my littlest guy wasn’t cooperating. :] Chest Barbell Bench Press – 65# 4 sets x 6 reps

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Upper Body Workouts: 3 Chest Moves You Must Do

April 2, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Upper body workouts are important in order to strengthen your upper body. The biggest muscle group of your entire upper body is your chest. Here are 3 chest moves you should consider using your upper body workouts: Flat Bench Press – Depending on your experience, you can use either a barbell alone, a barbell with [...]

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My Daily Workout: Chest, Legs, Abs & Cardio

March 31, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today marks my first day of working out since I got my hip tattoo. I kind of jumbled around a little bit to see what I could do without causing myself too much pain. Here’s the workout I did: Walk @ 4 MPH for 10 minutes Flat Bench Press

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Women’s Upper Body Workout

December 25, 2008 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia In case you’re wondering about a workout split to try, an upper body/lower body split is a great one to consider. Do upper body twice per week and lower body twice per week. Try to complete 12-15 reps for each exercise. If you can’t do at least 12 reps, decrease the weight [...]

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