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Posted by Melinda on July 13, 2010 · 4 Comments
I did my favorite leg workout today and it was pretty slow going. I don’t know if it’s because of the heat or what but it was tough to get through. I still had fun though – I just had to laugh at my slowness. My quads still hurt from the HIIT I did the [...]
Posted by Melinda on June 28, 2010 · 4 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by Melinda on June 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Today I did a new leg workout and I can already tell it was a good one because my legs are feeling like Jell-O! I did a couple of new leg exercises that I haven’t ever tried before and I really like them. I also set a personal best for squats which I’m kinda proud [...]
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Posted by Melinda on April 22, 2010 · 1 Comment
Happy Earth Day! I’ve been having some lower back pain the last couple of days. I’m guessing it’s from the back workout I did on Tuesday. It was really bad yesterday and I thought I was okay to workout today until I started doing squats. For this reason, I didn’t even finish up my last [...]
Posted by Melinda on April 14, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by Melinda on April 1, 2010 · 4 Comments
To be blunt, frumpy butts are not attractive and in most cases probably mean you could be in not-so-good health as well. Whether the cause is from excess body fat, a lack of exercise or both, you don’t have to have frumpy butt syndrome forever. There are a couple things you can do to get [...]
Posted by Melinda on March 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Today’s post consists of 2 days worth of workouts, cardio/abs and legs, because I forgot to post the workout I did on Saturday, so I’ve just combined the two workouts into one post. I had scaled back on my leg workout this week. I’ve been doing deadlifts twice a week and it’s really helped to [...]
Posted by Melinda on March 21, 2010 · 3 Comments
Today is Sunday and I did a heavy leg workout. I don’t think I’ll be doing that again. It felt okay, but Sundays are pretty tough workout days for me. Normally I’d just do a cardio workout since it’s Sunday, but this workout split I’m doing now is actually an 8-day split so it kind [...]
Posted by Melinda on March 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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Posted by Melinda on March 7, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by Melinda on February 20, 2010 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
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Posted by Melinda on February 14, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
Posted by Melinda on February 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Posted by Melinda on January 31, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
Posted by Melinda on January 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This is a guest video post by Marci Lall, a certified personal trainer who has over 9 years of experience in the fitness industry. If you are interested in guest posting on this blog, please check out the guidelines here. Here are the guidelines for the workout featured in the video above. You want to make sure to [...]
Posted by Melinda on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Today was leg day. For my last leg workout I used a lighter weight and did higher reps, but today I decided to start going heavy and I’m so glad I did! I was lifting far more than I thought I could and it makes me wish I had started lifting heavy a long time [...]
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Posted by Melinda on January 17, 2010 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Posted by Melinda on November 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It’s hump day, woo! Today was another full body workout for me. I was actually able to increase the weight on a couple of the exercises so that’s always a good thing – lets me know I’m getting stronger. Earlier today I posted an About Me kind of post so you could get the chance [...]
Posted by Melinda on October 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment
On Sunday of this week I started a brand new full body workout that consisted of doing 4 sets of 21 reps for all exercises and today I did another full body workout that goes along with it. The 21′s program is to be done twice per week and this workout is to be done [...]
Posted by Melinda on March 31, 2009 · 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
Filed under Daily Workouts · Tagged with ab workout, abs exercise, Abs Exercises, Barbell, Bench press, cardio, cardio interval training, cardio intervals, dumbbells, flat bench press, hanging leg raise, hanging leg raises, squats, walking
