12/28: Cardio Workout (Steady State)
Today was my first workout in 12 days. Whooooops! Christmas definitely got in the way for me these past few days. Shopping, wrapping, cleaning, baking and decorating wiped me out. Since we got over 12″ of snow I did get to shovel a couple times though. That has to count for something right? Since I [...]
12/16: High-Intensity Interval Training + Steady State Cardio
Today was another cardio day. I think from now until the end of the year I’ll be on a cardio spree for 2 reasons. The first being because I’m on a roll and I don’t wanna stop right now and the second reason being so I can burn the extra calories I will probably be [...]
12/11 & 12/14: Steady State Cardio Workout (& Christmas cookie baking)
I completely forgot to post my workout from last Friday, so I’m going to double that with today’s workout. I took the entire weekend off because I was busy baking cookies with my kids and by the time I was done baking I was exhausted. I made some gingerbread cookies though and they stayed soft! [...]
12/10 Workout: HIIT & Steady State Cardio
Today was another cardio workout day for me. It’s really starting to get easier which makes me pretty happy because I’ve always hated cardio – more specifically steady state cardio – but it really does start to get easier once your body gets used to running. I’m pleasantly surprised how much I’m actually starting to [...]
12/9: Steady State Cardio + Ab Workout
Today’s workout only consisted of steady state cardio and a small ab workout. Going into this workout, I thought about nixing the strength training portion today and just running for as long as I could. So that’s what I did. I ran until I basically ran out of energy and felt like I was going [...]
12/5: Lower Body Workout + Steady State Cardio
Today was lower body workout day followed by at least 30 minutes of steady state cardio. Since I have been struggling with jogging for the entire 30 minutes, I was looking forward to today’s workout to see if I could improve over the last workout. I definitely did and you’ll see in the cardio workout [...]
12/3: Upper Body Workout + Interval Training
Wow. I’m so sorry this workout post is kind of late. I got a message from a reader today saying that they were unable to leave comments. Well that can’t happen right now because that’s how you enter to win the EatSmart Digital Bathroom Scale giveaway! Needless to say, I was agonizing over this problem [...]
12/1: Lower Body Workout + Steady State Cardio
Happy first day of December! I like December…it means Christmas is right around the corner. I’m actually already almost done with my Christmas shopping and that’s a great feeling! I had a great workout today, felt like I was gonna die at one point. That means I’m pushing myself though I suppose. It was during [...]
11/29: Upper Body Workout + HIIT (Interval Training)
I’m really liking the current workout split that I’ve got going on. Today was an upper body workout followed by HIIT (or high intensity interval training). My legs have actually recovered from my last lower body workout and that makes trying to sprint a whole lot easier. When I was doing the full body workouts [...]
11/14: Full Body Workout – 21′s + HIIT
Happy Saturday! I hope you’re having a good weekend. Only 1 more day until Vikings football is on again. Last week they had a bye week so I’ve been having withdrawals. Today’s workout was almost a full body workout. I did the 21′s workout again, minus the leg exercises, but then I did a 20-minute [...]
11/9 Workout: Full Body Workout + Cardio
It’s Monday. Blah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was hard to get the motivation to workout today. I watched Ellen on the Oprah show today for some laughs and then I was good to go. Gotta love Ellen! My husband broke his thumb today so there was no way he was going to workout. I ended up doing a [...]
11/7 Workout: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
Since I finished my strength training workouts this week, today I decided to do some high intensity interval training (or HIIT). Gosh I love it! I almost felt heartbroken because it wasn’t a lifting day, but I don’t mind HIIT either. I haven’t done it for a few days and it felt good to really [...]
6/24 Workout: Legs, Abs & Cardio
My legs got a really good workout this time. I haven’t been concentrating on them too much, but I don’t want to neglect them either, so I decided to do a leg workout, along with abs and cardio. Here’s my Wednesday workout this week:
6/22 Workout: Abs & Cardio
The heat has finally made it to Minnesota! Makes running a bit more difficult when it’s so humid but I was able to do some intervals for a bit. Tomorrow will be even hotter – they’re saying the heat index will be around 105 – so I think I may not feel much like running, [...]
6/13: Cardio & Abs
Today was a pretty quick workout – I ran for 20 minutes doing intervals on the treadmill and did some ab work too. The ab workouts I’ve been doing lately seem to be working because my entire abdominal section is a bit sore the following day. I likey! Floor Crunches – 2 sets x 25 [...]
5/19 & 5/20 Workout: Cardio
These past 2 days I have just done some cardio. I like to take a break from the weights every now and then for about a week. Next week I’ll be on them again and then probably won’t take a break from them until after our wedding. It’s only a LITTLE over 2 months away! [...]
5/16 Workout: Chest, Abs & Cardio
Today was kind of a disappointing day. I did my chest workout, the ab workout I’ve been doing and then some cardio. All was going great until my last set of flat bench. My fiance’ wanted me to try for 105 two times since I did 100 lbs the week prior. I failed. I had [...]
5/15 Workout: Legs, Abs & Cardio
I finally got a good workout in today! I concentrated mostly on abs and cardio, but I did work on my quads a little bit too. I really wanted pizza for dinner tonight so I did a longer cardio session than I normally do. I use MyFitnessPal.com to track my calories – it’s a free [...]
5/14 Workout: Cardio
After having a rest day, I was really ready for a great workout today and I didn’t get one. My kids were being monsters. All I got in was a 10-minute cardio session. I was doing my 5-minute warmup and the kids started acting up so I just kept going on the treadmill for as [...]
4/28 My Daily Workout: Cardio
Today I did my own little cardio workout routine on my treadmill. It went something like this: Warm up at 4 mph for 5 minutes Sprint/walk intervals for 10 minutes Walk at 4 mph for 5 minutes Fast jog at 5.5 mph for 5 minutes Cool down at 4 mph for 5 minutes Total cardio [...]
4/21: BodyForLife Cardio Workout
Okay, so today was a bit ridiculous. Normally before I run, I chow down some carbs and then will usually wait at least 45 minutes before running. Well for some reason today, I think I just went down to run not even a half hour after I ate. I have no idea why, but I [...]
My Daily Workout: High Intensity Interval Training
Today was just cardio day for me. Oh how I love to hate cardio. Today though, I did it a little differently. I tried HIIT (high intensity interval training). It’s important to know that interval training is different from high intensity interval training. It was really intense, but the tough part was only 20 minutes [...]
My Daily Workout: Cardio
I had totally intended on doing some ab work prior to running but I completely forgot. Whoops. For today’s cardio, I tried a new interval training workout and it was pretty tough for me. The good news is, it only last 22 minutes. It was a 20 minute workout, but I wanted to get to [...]
Lose 10 Pounds – A Cardio Workout Program
According to the latest Muscle and Fitness magazine (that I have a subscription to), here’s the Lose 10 Pounds Cardio Workout Program to be used in conjuction with the Lose 10 Pounds Workout Program: WEEK 1 Days 1 & 4 – 20 minutes of intervals (1 minute fast, 1 minute slow) Days 2 & 5 [...]
