My 21-Day Self-Challenge: Already In Progress

21 day challenge

This post is inspired by a recent blog post I read by Bry Jensen over at Embrace Fire titled “21 Days to Habit!” (I used to have this linked, but the link is broken and now I can’t find her article – apologies Bry!). She recently wrote a post about studies that have shown that it [...]

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 [...]

3/23: Arm Workout and Cardio

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Best of 2009 at Melinda’s Fitness Blog

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As 2009 comes to a close, I wanted to create a “best of” post for this blog. I haven’t done it before and I think it’s a great way to summarize the year and what’s happened here at Melinda’s Fitness Blog. Here is a top 10 list I created in no particular order: My Top [...]

12/3: Upper Body Workout + Interval Training

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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 [...]

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 [...]

My Daily Workout: Chest, Back & Cardio

For today’s workout, I did chest and back exercises and then finished with some cardio. It was a quicker day than I had anticipated but my kidlets were NOT cooperating so I had to cut my lifting routine a bit short because I wanted to make sure I got my cardio in. Flat Bench Press [...]

My Daily Workout: Cardio Interval Training

Since I lifted and did cardio yesterday, I only did cardio today. I was finally able to run today after getting a new tattoo on my hip this past Saturday so it felt good to run again. I couldn’t run as fast as I was prior to my tattoo because it’s still a little bit [...]