4/22: Earth Day Leg Workout and Steady Cardio
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 [...]
4/8 & 4/9: Cardio and Women’s Shoulder Workout
I’m gonna keep this post short and sweet today because it’s Friday, it’s dinnertime and I’m hungry! I did a shoulder workout today and I’ve also included the cardio workout I did yesterday. Shoulder Workout Military Press (in front) Warm up: 2 sets x 12 reps, 20# 1 set x 10 reps, 40# Lateral Raises [...]
3/11 Workout: Biceps, Triceps & Cardio
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 [...]
2/13 & 2/14 Workouts: Heavy Legs, Shoulders & Cardio
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 [...]
2/7 & 2/9 Workouts: Steady Cardio, Back, Biceps & HIIT
I completely forgot to post my cardio workout that I did Sunday morning, so I’ll just include it in this post with today’s workout. I took an updated back photo today. I chose to not wear a sports bra in the pic like I normally do so I could see my whole back instead of [...]
2/4 Workout: Chest, Triceps & Cardio
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 [...]
2/2 Workout: Back, Biceps & Cardio
Today I was able to get another great workout in! My goal was to do back and biceps for strength training and then to do a cardio workout that consisted of both high-intensity interval training (HIIT) followed immediately by steady state cardio. I aimed to do 10 minutes of HIIT and at least 10 minutes [...]
1/28 Workout: Chest, Triceps & Cardio
Today I got a kick ass workout in! A couple days ago, I felt so fatigued during my workout and I was getting upset because I couldn’t lift what I normally do. It seemed to take a lot more effort. I checked with My Fitness Pal and SparkPeople to calculate the calories I should be [...]
1/21 Workout: Chest, Triceps & Cardio
The photo in this post really has nothing to do with my workout today in any way but it’s Adrian Peterson and my Vikings are in the NFC Championship game this coming Sunday so I’m showing my team spirit! I realized today that I completely skipped shoulders. For my last workout I did back and [...]
1/12 Workout: Back, Biceps & High-Intensity Interval Training
I got a really great workout in today despite the fact that I’m fighting a nasty cold. If I would’ve known I was going to cough so much after the fact, I definitely wouldn’t have done any cardio. But I’m already done with it now and it feels good to get a great workout in! [...]
1/10 Workout: Shoulders and Steady State Cardio
Today I started a new workout program. It’s actually featured in the January/February 2010 issue of Muscle and Fitness Hers. It’s a workout split that fitness model Nicole Wilkins Lee follows at times. In 2009, Nicole won first place in each of the following competitions:
1/5 Workout: Steady State Cardio
I actually did this workout yesterday, but then forgot to post it. Yesterday was the very first time I have ever attempted to do a cardio workout first thing in the morning. My husband was working and my mother-in-law was watching our little people (the kids<3) for us during the day so I tried to [...]
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 [...]
12/1: 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 [...]
