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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 a tough and excellent total body strength workout. You are primarily doing straight sets though Caroline labels some of them as supersets. That is because you are doing a unilateral exercise and you do not … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 4: Full Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. It has been 6 months since I have done one of Caroline's glute workouts and though I have not forgotten how brutal they can be, I still wasn't ready for the agony. What is a little scary … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 3: Glutes!
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! Caroline fried all areas of my shoulders plus my triceps. I had back up weights at the ready for most of the exercises and as you can see below, I dropped to … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 5: Shoulders & Triceps
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I generally do short workouts like this as finishers (tacking them onto the end of a longer workout) but since my other workout this morning was shoulders and triceps and the back is the largest upper body … Continue reading CGX: 10 Minute Back Builder
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is a straightforward lower body strength workout. You repeat each exercise two times. Use challenging dumbbells and you will get a solid strength workout. I know I did! Caroline was challenging herself as well. She dropped … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 1: Leg Day
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I used this as a finisher after completing a lower body dumbbell strength workout and it definitely finished me off! Though this is lower body mat work, Caroline does it all on a padded bench. Kneeling on … Continue reading CGXmas Day 11: Ankle Weights
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is Day 1 of the Iron program for me, since I always work my upper body on Mondays (I'll do Day 2 tomorrow). This is a solid, straight forward upper body workout. You focus on the … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 2: Upper Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I used this workout as a finisher after doing Caroline's CGX Iron Program Day 2, which is also an upper body workout that works the chest, so my upper body was already fatigued when I came to … Continue reading CGX: Most Intense Chest & Tri Drop
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is a quick total body strength workout using only a barbell. Because it is a superset workout and the recovery is only 30 seconds, you do not have time to change the weight on your barbell. … Continue reading CGX: Barbell Full Body Workout
STS 2.0 is a fitness program created by Cathe Friedrich. It is a follow up to her original STS program. But do not think for a minute you are getting a rehash of the original program. They are vastly different. But before we get to that, I want to mention that this program comes with … Continue reading STS 2.0 Muscle & Recovery