…so I do it at home
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I definitely felt this in my quads! In fact, by #11 below, my quads were starting to really fatigue. You are doing primarily straight sets of 60/30 intervals like you do in the first week of the … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 6: Time for the Quads!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another excellent upper body strength workout. She burns you out immediately with the chest press/pullover combo--3 sets of it! I did not end up dropping to lighter dumbbells for that but I was definitely considering it! For … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 7: Upper Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another tough abdominal add on workout! I did this after finishing an upper body strength workout. This works well for that since you are on your back the entire time. So if your upper body is burned … Continue reading CGX: 10 Min Sit Up Abs
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