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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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My 4-Week Workout Journal, Day 4: Dumbbells

January 6, 2011 By Melinda F 1 Comment

I thoroughly enjoyed today’s workout! It was an upper body dumbbell workout done circuit style and I loved it! I think I liked it so much because it’s really fast-paced and I was constantly moving. There were a total of 7 exercises that are completed one after the other and then you rest for 60-90 [...]

Filed Under: Cardio, Workouts Tagged With: dumbbell incline flye, dumbbell lateral raise, dumbbell lying triceps extension, dumbbell overhead press, dumbbell pullover, dumbbell workout, dumbell bent-over row, standing dumbbell curl, upper body workout

3/9 Workout: Chest and Back

March 9, 2010 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Today’s workout pissed me off. I don’t know why but the past 3 weeks I’ve been flat benching 85# and it feels as if it’s getting harder each week. Shouldn’t that be the opposite?? Usually that happens to be the case, but not as of late. I feel like I’m stuck at 85 pounds. Today [...]

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12/3: Upper Body Workout + Interval Training

December 3, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

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 [...]

Filed Under: Workouts Tagged With: Cardio, High-intensity interval training, hiit, Interval training, Treadmill, upper body workout

11/29: Upper Body Workout + HIIT (Interval Training)

November 29, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

I’m really liking the current workout split that I’ve got going on. Today was an upper body workout followed by HIIT (or high intensity interval training). My legs have actually recovered from my last lower body workout and that makes trying to sprint a whole lot easier. When I was doing the full body workouts [...]

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11/25: Upper Body Workout, Interval Training & My First Giveaway!

November 25, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Happy day-before-turkey day! This is the day that I finally decided to switch up my workout and I decided to do an upper body/lower body workout split. I had no idea what I was going to do for a workout today until I got downstairs, put my sneakers on and started flipping through some fitness [...]

Filed Under: Giveaways, Workouts Tagged With: Interval training, qiveaway, upper body workout

5/3 Upper Body Workout

May 3, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Image via Wikipedia Today I did a similar upper body workout to what I have been doing, but I added more sets to my bench press because my goal is to be able to bench my body weight. The details will be outlined in the routine below: Flat Bench Press – 40# x 12 reps [...]

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4/27 BodyForLife Workout: Upper Body

April 27, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

This was my first workout in almost 5 days. I’ve been sick. I did a lot better than I thought I would do though. I was even able to increase the weight for a couple of the moves. Warm-up for 5 minutes @ 4 mph on the treadmill

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I Started The BodyForLife Program & Here’s Why!

April 17, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

On Tuesday of this week I started the BodyForLife program. The past couple of weeks I’ve been making up my own workout routines until I found something new I wanted to try and I found that in BodyForLife. The strength training routines and the cardio is all freely available on their website and so far [...]

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4/15 BodyForLife Workout: Upper Body

April 15, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Wow. I loved this workout! It made my upper back a bit sore and that hasn’t happened for quite some time! This is my first strength training workout that I have done for the BodyForLife program. This was a pretty long workout, I think it took me about an hour to complete. I didn’t really [...]

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Upper Body Workouts: 3 Chest Moves You Must Do

April 2, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Upper body workouts are important in order to strengthen your upper body. The biggest muscle group of your entire upper body is your chest. Here are 3 chest moves you should consider using your upper body workouts: Flat Bench Press – Depending on your experience, you can use either a barbell alone, a barbell with [...]

Filed Under: Strength Training Tagged With: Bench press, Chest, Chest Exercises, modified push ups, push up, pushup, pushups, upper body workout, Upper Body Workouts, women's chest workout, women's upper body workout

Another Women’s Upper Body Workout

January 12, 2009 By Melinda F Leave a Comment

Here is another upper body workout to try in addition to this one. Again, try to complete 12-15 reps for each exercise. If you can’t do at least 12 reps, decrease the weight and if you can easily do 15 reps, then increase the weight. Here’s the most recent upper body workout I completed: Bent [...]

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