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My 4-Week Workout Journal, Day 7 & 8: Cardio & Upper Body Workout

January 10, 2011 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

I’m still going strong with my 4-week workout plan. I was doing awesome until yesterday. Still, I’d rather skip a workout than injure myself and be out for weeks! The good news is that the upper body workout I did today already felt much easier than it was the first time I did it. I’m [...]

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Quick Arm Workout for Women

April 17, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

This is actually the workout I did yesterday, which was a very busy day! I ended up having to rush through my arm workout and then I forgot to post it when I was finished, so it’s a day late. The workout goes pretty quickly anyway, but yesterday I went through it especially fast because [...]

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3/31: Arm Workout and Steady Cardio

March 31, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today I did an arm workout that consisted of both biceps and triceps exercises. It’s the same arm workout I’ve been doing for a little while now. I followed immediately with a steady state cardio workout on the treadmill. It felt good to run again, it feels like it’s been awhile. Arm Workout Barbell Curls [...]

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3/23: Arm Workout and Cardio

March 23, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today was arm workout day and since I didn’t do any cardio yesterday like I said I was going to, I did some cardio afterwards as well. I did the same arm workout I did last week. The workout involves doing a warm up set or two, then doing just 1 straight set until failure [...]

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3/15 Workout: Cardio, Arm Workout and a New Milestone!

March 15, 2010 By Melinda F 1 Comment

This past Saturday, I did a new leg workout and decided to follow the entire program I found on Bodybuilding.com. You can find free workouts there under the workout section on the left side of the page. Like the leg workout, I’ll be doing a warm-up set or two and then doing 1 straight set [...]

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3/11 Workout: Biceps, Triceps & Cardio

March 11, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

For some reason my triceps were really sore today. I must have used them more than I thought yesterday during my ab workout. Whoooops! I still did pretty well even though they were so sore – I raised the weight 5 pounds and still did 12 reps (last week I did 15 reps with less [...]

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3/3 & 3/4 Workouts: Cardio, Biceps, Triceps

March 4, 2010 By Melinda F 1 Comment

Today’s workout was pretty much the exact same biceps/triceps workout that I did last week so I’m gonna keep this pretty short. I did do over an hour of cardio last night and I included that in the beginning of this workout post. The biceps/triceps workout immediately follows and is a great workout for those [...]

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2/25: Biceps/Triceps Workout – New!

February 25, 2010 By Melinda F 6 Comments

Earlier this week I started a new workout program where I decided that I’ll continue to do strength training Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and cardio at least 3 days per week. I normally do cardio on two strength training days and I skip it on leg day and do it the following day. Today I [...]

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2/18 Workout: Chest, Triceps, HIIT & Steady State Cardio

February 18, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today was chest and triceps day again. Oh how I love chest day! It always makes me feel strong. I lifted heavy today because I’m still working my way back up to benching 100 pounds. I did 4 sets of 85 pounds, which you can see in more detail below. I also did another 60 [...]

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2/11 Workout: Chest, Triceps & 600 Calories Worth of Cardio

February 11, 2010 By Melinda F 1 Comment

Today’s workout was a little tough. I’ve had some kind of stomach flu since Tuesday night and some horrible abdominal cramping to go along with it. Today has been quite a bit better, but I still haven’t been eating as much as I normally would on a workout day. For this reason, I felt weak [...]

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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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