Nutrition and Weight Training for Women
Phase 2 is kicking my butt. I ended up taking my rest day on Saturday this week instead of today (Sunday). So…I did the workout I skipped yesterday, today. I have included both workouts in this post as you’ll see below. For the shoulder workout I forgot to enter the details for the real delt [...]
My stick people drawings are back! I like to include photos with my blog posts but it’s always hard to find something that works for my workouts so maybe I’ll just keep these stick people comin’. CrossFit Workout I love the workouts that include running and strength training at a high intensity level! Today’s CrossFit [...]
This is really, really late. Week 3 of the Beat the Heat Summer Challenge was pretty much a FAIL for me as far as working towards my goals goes. Ah well. I took full advantage of our 4-day vacation and loved every minute of it! I contemplated skipping this Week 3 post considering tomorrow starts [...]
I’ve met my weight loss goal and it’s time to work on building muscle again! If you haven’t yet heard of BodyRock or CrossFit, you are missing out on two of the best workout programs that are absolutely FREE. Each of these programs features a workout of the day (WOD) and a workout is posted [...]
A few days ago I started following the workout program in the book New Rules of Lifting for Women. Although I can’t post about each and every workout, I am posting the workout I did today. It feels weird not posting my workouts! I don’t wanna give the entire book away or I’d post all of [...]
Up until now I have never included a fitness FAQ post here on my fitness blog. The following are some popular questions asked by women who want to learn how to get in shape. Keep in mind that “get in shape” means different things to different people and I realize that. The following Q&A are [...]
The last time I did this exact leg workout my legs were sore for the next 5 days. It was crazy. I think what did it is the fact that I did 3 leg exercises I haven’t done before. This just goes to show how important it is to switch things up every now and [...]
I finally made it to leg workout day! I haven’t done a complete leg workout since March 21st so I’ve been antsy to finally do this workout again! I was also excited because I got to use my new lifting straps. I just bought my own from Bodybuilding.com a couple weeks ago, but haven’t used [...]
Back workout day today and nothing else! Another personal best for deadlifts, I’m now able to deadlift my bodyweight 11 times! One of these days I should see what my 1-rep max is (that is…how much weight I could lift just one time). I bet I would surprise myself! My previous personal best for deadlifts [...]
I haven’t worked out on a Friday, other than doing cardio, in a long, long time but today I did a new back workout. It’s a 5 day split that I started last Saturday and it’s a workout I got from Bodybuilding.com. It’s under the workouts section and it’s an advanced women’s workout. For this [...]
I started a new leg workout again today. It’s really not THAT different than the recent leg workouts I’ve been doing, but it’s a lot quicker and more intense. I got the workout I did today from Bodybuilding.com. (You can find the workout I did here today under their workouts section) Bodybuilding is my favorite [...]
Another heavy leg day! I had to skip working out yesterday and did legs today instead. I plan on doing some cardio tomorrow since everything got twisted around this weekend. My legs are way too tired now to have even attempted a run at doing some cardio today too. My husband picked up the squat [...]
Today was heavy leg day followed up with a shoulder workout. I’ve decided that I’m going to start a new workout split next week, but I haven’t quite figured out exactly what yet. I’ll work on it tomorrow and Monday. I think I’ll probably keep the Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday split for strength training but I’m gonna switch [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day! <3 I did a heavy leg workout and a shoulder workout yesterday and then today I did a steady state cardio workout. I don’t do cardio on leg day – it gets to be too much for my legs, especially when I’m lifting heavy like I have been lately. So…I’m completely kosher [...]
This leg and shoulders workout took a lot outta me today! I did heavy legs again this week and I followed that up with shoulders. I was going to do weighted crunches afterwards but my arms (more specifically my shoulders) were too tired. I felt I wasn’t performing them properly because I wasn’t strong enough [...]
This post is a compilation of the workouts I did yesterday and today. I had a huge Christmas party to go to yesterday and before that started I had to go grocery shopping and then get my workout in. I had planned on doing abs yesterday, but I decided to do them today just before [...]
On a happy note, I’m so glad the Vikes won their playoff game today! But…wanna know what’s sad? My hamstrings were STILL hurting from the HIIT workout I did the other day. As a result, I decided to still do legs today but I used a light amount of weight and did a higher number [...]
