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This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another killer upper body workout! Though chest is in the title and the chest does get some work, the main focus of this workout is the triceps and shoulders. Mine are fried! Caroline was burning out, too. … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 15: Chest, Shoulders & Triceps
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This was a tough lower body workout but I did make it easier on myself. I previewed this workout yesterday and it looked brutal with all of the Bulgarian lunges. This morning was one of those mornings … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 11: It’s Leg Day!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This was a tough workout! Though all of the upper body muscle groups are worked in some fashion in this workout (isolation or an assisting muscle group), my shoulders and the triceps are what really got burned … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 12: Upper Body
10 Min Abs & Booty is a short add on workout from Heather Robertson and it is tough. Of course, how tough it is depends on the weight of your ankle weights. I am impressed that Heather is using 5 pound ankle weights on each ankle. In her longer lower body workout Booty & Thigh … Continue reading 10MIN Abs & Booty (Ankle Weights Workout)
Hamstrings & Quads Strength Workout with Dumbbells is Day 10 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. OMG this was a tough lower body workout! Very metabolic! I spent a total of 10 minutes in my peak heart rate zone! I've been doing so many Caroline Girvan workouts that I am accustomed to reaching for … Continue reading Day 10: Hamstrings & Quads Strength Workout with Dumbbells / HR12WEEK 4.0
Chest & Shoulders is Day 8 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. This was an intense upper body strength workout. It gets metabolic, too. Heather adds in a more intense exercise at the end of each circuit to spike your heart rate but even without those bonus exercises your heart rate gets elevated from … Continue reading Day 8: Chest & Shoulders (Dumbbell Strength Workout) / HR12WEEK 4.0
Booty & Thigh Toning (Ankle Weights Workout) is Day 6 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. This was a different way to work my lower body. Not that I haven't done mat work before but usually as a finisher or in conjunction with weighted strength work. The only resistance used in this entire workout … Continue reading Day 7: Booty & Thigh Toning (Ankle Weights Workout) / HR12WEEK 4.0
Back & Tricep Strength (Supersets Workout) is Day 6in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. This was an intense upper body strength workout that really hit my back and triceps thoroughly. I had to drop to lighter weights on one of the exercises and I was considering it on some of the other exercises! It … Continue reading Day 6: Back & Tricep Strength (Supersets Workout) / HR12WEEK 4.0
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. What a tricep burner! Since it is so short I added it onto the end of another upper body workout that did not have any tricep isolation work (though plenty of compound exercises in which the triceps … Continue reading CGX: SuperSet Triceps
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Caroline's Unleash Series is definitely kicking my butt. This is another excellent glute workout. She starts you out with straight sets with longer rests to give you some solid strength work then cranks it up with trisets … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Series Day 8: Glutes, Hamstrings & Abs