Here are my workouts for the week of December 5-11, 2011. It started out great but then fizzled.
I don’t like when that happens. But you know me, I’ll just keep going and hope for a better week.
Extreme Burn Interval Training Workout
December 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
Workouts On the Go
November 20, 2011 By 8 Comments
We got back from St. Thomas last weekend and I really slacked this week. While we were there, I did not do any formal exercise as I had planned. The Marriott did have a real nice workout room but we were gone pretty much from morning to night with excursions like snorkeling, swimming with sea lions and turtles and more. You can read about our experience on the Marriott blog. We spent most of our days outdoors in the water and walking around so we counted that as exercise!
Got back to Chicago and we were exhausted so we have been trying to catch up on sleep and getting ready for the next few trips that are planned. So here are the workouts that did happen this week.
Resistance Training Exercises
November 11, 2011 By 2 Comments
This is Part 2 in the lesson on Resistance Training for Women written by guest blogger, Claire.
Resistance Training Exercises
If you want to turn yourself into a lean, mean, fat melting machine, then you need to start by doing 3 sessions of strength training each week. To burn the most fat you need to do a total body workout which targets all of your major muscle groups, e.g. your arms, legs, abs and back. Do this by choosing exercises which work several muscle groups, e.g. squats are great as they target the front and back of the legs compared to leg extension which just work the front of the thigh.
You should also try to do 3 sets of 10-12 reps of each exercise and if using free weights or machines, select a weight which is heavy enough so it feels hard to complete your last rep. If you can do 10-12 reps with ease than the weight is too light or if you are unable to complete the set number of reps then the weight is too heavy.
To get you started, here are some resistance training exercises. I have divided them into two categories depending on whether you are working out at home without equipment or in the gym.
Workouts for Week of October 31, 2011
November 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here are my lousy workouts for this week LOL Hopefully while we are vacationing I’ll be able to keep quite active. Will keep you updated.
If you want to follow our vacation adventure as the Marriott Resort to Romance beach bloggers, you can follow us on the Marriott Frenchman’s Reef blog, where we will be blogging at least 3 times a day. We’ll also be on our Newton’s Travels Facebook page, Twitter and our own family travel blog. We are really looking forward to this experience. Hope you’ll keep up with us as we travel to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Here are my workouts for the week:
Weekly Workout Recap
October 30, 2011 By 9 Comments
All workouts in our new home gym! Loving it. And just yesterday (Sat.) we went back to our favorite fitness store, Fitness Factory where we previously got our spin bikes and treadmill from and ordered my dream machine, the ELLIPTICAL and two other dreamy pieces of equipment, the BOSU and the vertical knee raise/dip. I think we are pretty much set for a while except I am BEGGING for a body opponent bag for boxing (like BOB). Anyway, let’s move on to my workouts for the week. I think it was a great week and hope for another this week.
My First Circuit Training at Home Workout
October 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
Love the home gym chalkboard walls!
Today I set up my own (and first) circuit training at home workout. Since Kev gets the treadmill on Thursday, I had to figure out something for me to do other than spin. So I quickly threw together this workout today. Now, I am NOT a personal trainer so I have no clue if this workout was even a good one but I burned over 400 calories in 30 min. so to me it went well. Here’s what I did.
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