Thursday, July 30, 2015

Lower Body Day

Title is self-explanatory, today was all focus on the lower body!
 
 
 
 
20 minutes on the stairmaster.
20 minutes on the bike.
4x15 reps on the abductor machine.
4x15 reps on the adductor machine.
4x12 on the laying leg curl.
3x15 slanted leg press.
45 calf raises with weight
2x20 lunges with weight
2x20 squats on bosu ball
20 inner thigh leg lifts on each leg
 
 
 

Monday, July 27, 2015

Monday Blues = good workout

After a much enjoyed conference week last week, I was semi dreading waking up this morning to go back to babysitting this week (especially when I didn't get the best of sleep last week and last night). After a long day of "kid watching", I was ready to burn off some energy and sweat at the gym!

Started off with 25 minutes on the stationary bike (starting to become my new favorite over elliptical) before deciding on an arm and ab routine.
 I haven't done an arm work out since Thursday night, but for some reason, my arms (mainly shoulders) were screaming at the end of this. I did do crab walking soccer today with the kids......

 
One day down, 2 more days of kidwatching and one day closer to seeing my mom & Caroline on Friday! :D

Friday, July 24, 2015

Last day of hotel workouts

Day 5 of TEACCH ended today and that means this week has come to an end. It has been a great experience and I'm really glad I got to come to this training!
 
My Day 3 of hotel workouts was running on the treadmill and I forgot to post yesterday's workout (oops).
 
I had a nice hour and half workout in the gym this evening (I decided to sleep in this morning). I'm thinking of calling tonight's workout a Full Body Sandwich Workout.
 
1 mile run on treadmill
15 minutes on the elliptical
10 jackknife sit ups
20 Russian twists
10 weighted sit ups
30 crunches
20 oblique crunches
:45 plank
20 hip twists in plank
25 Russian twists
30 vertical crunches
1 min plank
15 minutes on the bike
 
Hope everyone is having a fun Friday!
 

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Hotel Workout #2

Day 2 of TEACCH training complete!
I woke up early again this morning to get my workout in and I am so glad I did that. A group of us went out after we were done at 4 to walk around Franklin Street (the social scene of UNC) and dinner and I am now relaxing in comfy clothes and digesting all the food we've had today (seriously, TEACCH makes sure we are well fed). No way would I want to go workout now.
 
So today's 6:30am workout: arms and abs.
 
 
30 vertical leg crunches
20 oblique crunches
5 weighted sit ups
20 Russian twists w/ dumbbell
:45 plank
40 bicycles
10 scissors
:20 side plank each side
10 weighted sit ups
:30 plank
 

Monday, July 20, 2015

Hotel Workout Day #1

Greetings from Carolina!
I'll be in Carolina all this week for a TEACCH Autism Program training which means hotel workouts for me!
 
I woke up before the training this morning to get a workout in and was happy to find the little fitness center all to myself. I started out with 20 minutes on the elliptical (If you hadn't had already guessed it, that's kinda my go to warm up) on an Around the World routine that had lots of high levels.
 
Since hotel gyms are very limited to equipment (and space), I chose a leg workout that just needed your body.
 
 
I finished with a quick ab routine before rushing back up to my room to get ready!
30 Russian Twists
10 sit ups
:30 second plank
20 vertical leg crunches
:20 second plank
10 jackknife sit ups
40 oblique crunches
:15 second side plank each side
30 crunches
:40 second plank
 

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Hiccups While Working Out

...totally happened twice to me while working out. And not just any hiccups, but the painful chest ones. Not fun. And I feel rather silly doing some exercises and then my body "bounce" cause of a hiccup. I will tell you this, hiccups and jumping jacks are an odd combo.

 
Leg Day today. I went back through my old Pinterest pins and found this leg workout (that I think I pinned when I first discovered Pinterest senior year at Radford).
 
I did glutes yesterday so my lower body was feeling a bit sore after yesterday and today's workout. But a good sore ;)