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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. This is an intense lower body strength workout with a lot of hamstring and glute focus. Caroline "pre" exhausts them early on with stability ball supersets. By the 3rd superset I was glad to see she was … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 21: Shortened Partials of Bridge… Fire! (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This workout, like Day 1, is done PHA style. For more information on PHA, see Day 1's post. I did not love this workout nearly as much as I did Day 1 but it is still a … Continue reading CGX: Max Day 2: A higher rep output!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is the first workout in Caroline's new 10 week Max Program. All of the workouts in this program are total body strength workouts. As of today, Caroline has only posted 12 of the 50 Max workouts … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 1: The most ‘well known’ compounds to start!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is an excellent and killer lower body strength workout. You do 4 sets of many of the exercises but Caroline gives you a long rest between sets--at least at the beginning. Around the halfway mark the … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 25: “Not WHAT you lift…HOW you lift” (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another killer lower body endurance level workout. It wasn't just kicking my butt--at times Caroline was losing steam, too! This is a pretty metabolic workout. I burned 450 calories and spend more than half of the workout … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 21: RDLs, Hip Thrusts & Lots of Lunges
38 Min Full Body Strength Superset + HIIT Finisher is Day 20 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. I found this workout very challenging this morning. I think it partially had to do with the fact I slept poorly, partially because my arms and shoulders are still sore from Day 19 Power Pilates but mainly … Continue reading 38 MIN Full Body Strength Supersets + HIIT Finisher // Day 20: HR12WEEK 5.0
41 Min Power Pilates is Day 19 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. Heather's power pilates workouts are killer! They kick my butt every time. She says at the beginning that this is a high rep/light weight workout and I did use lighter dumbbells than I normally would for most of the exercises but for … Continue reading 41MIN Power Pilates // Day 19: HR12WEEK 5.0
40 Min Lower Body Strength Supersets is Day 16 in Heather Robertson's HR12Week 5.0 program. This was a tough lower body workout. And if you are lifting heavy dumbbells (for your fitness level) your upper body is getting a workout, too. For many of the exercises you are holding one medium or heavy dumbbell goblet … Continue reading 40MIN Lower Body Strength Supersets // Day 16: HR12WEEK 5.0
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another tough and thorough lower body workout. For the first part you get some nice long recoveries, so I was able to lift heavier than I normally would in a P.E. workout. But it is deceiving. The … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 19: ‘Quads, glutes, then the hamstrings… jumping optional’
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 very tough lower body workout. The entire thing was tough but those Bulgarian lunge variations near the end. OMG. They kicked my butt! And the Finisher--more stability ball work with the band. My glutes … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 17: Glutes from all Angles (Lower Body)