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38 Min Full Body Strength + Sprint is Day 55 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This was a tough total body strength workout. Heather hits everything in this workout then finishes you off with some HIIT cardio. I really liked the back and tricep focus in this workout. She works everything else, too, but … Continue reading 38MIN Full Body Strength + Sprint // Day 55: HR12WEEK 5.0
40 Min No Repeats Full Body Circuit is Day 53 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This was an intense full body metabolic workout. Heather gives you everything in this workout: compound full body strength moves, core moves, and cardio moves with longer intervals and shorter rests. I was working hard! According to my Apple … Continue reading 40MIN NO REPEATS Full Body Circuit // Day 53: HR12WEEK 5.0
40 Min Pilates Glute Shaper is Day 54 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This workout was much tougher than I expected it to be. Outside of the first part of the warm up, this workout is done entirely on the mat. All mat based lower body strength work. I did wear 2 pound ankle … Continue reading 40MIN Pilates Glute Shaper // Day 54: HR12WEEK 5.0
41 Min Total Upper Body Strength is Day 52 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This was an intense and thorough upper body strength workout that gets metabolic in places. Heather hits every upper body muscle group through both isolation and compound movements. I modified one of the exercises to protect my back and to … Continue reading 41 MIN Total Upper Body Strength // Day 52: HR12WEEK 5.0
42 Min Unilateral Lower Body Strength is Day 51 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This is an intense metabolic lower body strength workout. Heather elevates your heart rate and works all of your lower body muscle groups while doing it. As the title indicates, there is a lot of unilateral work. You will work … Continue reading 42MIN Unilateral Lower Body Strength // Day 51: HR12WEEK 5.0
20 Min Morning Mobility in Bed is a really nice flexibility/mobility workout that I was looking forward to trying it as soon as I saw it. Almost every single exercise in this workout is done laying on your back. It seemed like the perfect workout to do on a recovery day after doing something quite … Continue reading 20 Min. Morning Mobility in Bed | Gentle Movement & Stretches on Your Back
Michelle calls this workout a low impact cardio workout that is perfect for a recovery day workout, so that is how I used this workout--as one of my recovery day workouts. It did work nicely for that. However, rather than a true cardio workout, I felt this was more of a metabolic calisthenics workout. I … Continue reading 30 MIN Low Impact Cardio | No Jumping, No Repeat, Steady State Workout
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Caroline likes to call the final workouts of the week "fun" days. IMHO there is nothing fun about starting a workout with 3 solid minutes of mat based abdominal workout with no breaks. But that is what … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 35: Triceps will be brought to failure!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This workout is done PHA style. For more information on PHA, see Day 1’s post. I found this to be a very tough and excellent workout. I did try to lift the heaviest weight I could with good … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 34: Push ups at the end to push us to a deadstop literally!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This workout is done mostly PHA style. For more information on PHA, see Day 1’s post. This was a tough workout. The intervals are long. Caroline gives you a decent rest period but in this workout it … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 33: Getting into the rear delts!