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HIIT; OG

I felt it was time to incorporate intense conditioning into my routine and brought my back old HIIT routines! This was a great first HIIT sesh:

Warm up: 5min on the Airdyne, Foam Roll & Stretch, 25: Walking Lunges, Squats, Push-Ups, and Crunches

Using a Tabata Timer App, set it for 20 seconds of “work” with 10 seconds of “rest”.

Spend 20 seconds on exercise 1 then rest for 10, 20 seconds on exercise 2 then rest for 10, and so on. Keep going round after round until time is up! I went for 6 rounds, about 15 min straight!

This are the exercises:

  • Wall Ball
  • Ball Slam
  • Tire Jumps
  • Clean & Press
  • Push Ups

It was a humid and hot morning and I haven’t poured sweat like this in a long time! It felt so good!

Jammed my Spotify playlist “Boot Camp”

Hope you got some cool exercise ideas!

Have a killer day!

Elda

Upper Body Workout; Use your illusion

POWER-set 1:

DB Floor Chest Press, DB Shoulder Press, DB Tricep Kickback & Cable Crunches on BOSU

POWER-set 2:

Chest Flys on BOSU, Front to Lateral DB Raise, Diamond Push-Ups & Kneeling Cable Ab Crunches

Tri-set 3:

Close-Grip Bench Press, Cable Face Pulls, Toe Touches

Shoulder Finisher

12 reps of Front Raise, Front Press, Bus Drivers per side, Military Press & Upright Row

THIS was a really fun workout!!!!

I group 4 exercises for the first 2 sets and called them “POWER-set’s”. I picked one chest exercise, one shoulder exercise, 1 tricep exercise and 1 core exercise. I kept a higher rep range, about 15-25 for each exercise, and did 4 sets of them.

Tri-set 3 was only 3 exercises. I picked Close-Grip Bench press to work both the chest and triceps then selected 1 shoulder exercise and 1 core exercise.

I then wrapped it up with a shoulder finisher, this was killer! Just one set! Burn em’ out!!!

I rocked Guns n’ Roses’ Use your Illusion 2 album today….then Appetite.

Hope you got some exercise ideas!

Have a killer day!

Elda

Circuit 1 – Evening Street Cardio

One of my favorite workouts is hitting the pavement for a 3 mile run and a little circuit training. Here’s what I did:

My warm up is a total body roll with a foam roller for no more than about 5 minutes followed by a brisk walk for about a quarter of a mile.

Run 1 mile, stop and do 25 Squats, 25 Push Ups, 25 Bicycles & 25 Walking Lunges.

Run to mile 2 and repeat.

Run to mile 3 and repeat once more.

Cool down with another quarter mile walk and stretching for 5 to 10 minutes.

I LOVE this style of training and will post more with different exercises, so stay tuned for workout ideas! Have a great day!

Running with a twist

I woke up this morning realizing that I was out of coffee…crap.  Might as well brew up one of the ten or so tea blends I’ve been collecting and wanting to try someday. I experimented with an orange citrus green tea and sprinkled a chai blend over it.

Tasty but it just didn’t do it. I felt blah and had a foggy head all day today.

Since today was a rest day from strength training, I thought I’d go for a nice run to clear my cloudy head.  My friend Stephanie was just telling me about her recent run where she added burpees and jump squats and other exercises at every mile or so that reminded me of what I use to do running my Blockhouse Creek loop. 

I was only planning on a steady 4.5mi run but as soon add I hit the road I immediately felt an amazing energy that encouraged me to go breast mode!

I just got done running 5 miles with 10 burpees, 25 push ups, 25 plank jacks & 25 walking lunges at every mile! It was rough and I went to bitch stitch city, man my sides were cramping but I pushed through it!

EVERY TIME I do not feel like working out, I have THE BEST workouts!

Give it a shot, see where it takes YOU!