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41 Min Lower Body Strength is Day 31 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This is a tough and metabolic lower body strength workout. Heather is working your legs from the very beginning with booty band work in the warm up. In this workout you will do an exercise 3 times (3 sets) before moving … Continue reading 41MIN Lower Body Strength (Glutes & Hamstrings) // Day 31: 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. Killer seems to be a theme this week, at least for me. This workout kicked my butt! In retrospect maybe I should have lightened the weight I used for the hip thrusts because those really kicked my … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 33: ‘Some iso & plyo sets!’ (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 was a killer lower body workout! Caroline really fries your muscles with plyo jumps, tempo variations and isometric holds. I had to drop to lighter weights in the second half of the workout. My legs are … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 31: ‘Bilateral then all unilateral!’ (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. As the title indicates, this workout hits some of the muscle groups that did not receive any isolation work earlier in the week--the biceps and the triceps. Caroline really fried my triceps in this workout with the … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 15: Bi’s, tri’s, abs, glutes & delts!
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 workout begins week 3 of the Max Program and like the previous two weeks, the first workout of the week … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 11: Compromising lighter dumbbells in lunges for greater ROM!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This workout kicked my @$$! In this workout Caroline hits the quads and the glutes hard with supersets and trisets. This is definitely an endurance workout. And you get it all--step ups, bridges, hip thrusts, band work, … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 35: ‘Emphasized Lengthening of the Quads’ Lower Body
41 Min Lower Body (Glutes & Hamstrings) Strength is Day 26 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This is an excellent workout for you glutes and hamstrings, though other lower body muscle groups are nicely worked, too. Heather is working your legs from the very beginning in the warm up using a glute/booty band. And, … Continue reading 41MIN Lower Body (Glutes & Hamstrings) Strength // Day 26: HR12WEEK 5.0
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another tough lower body workout. I definitely enjoyed this one more than Day 27. I had to drop to lighter weights pretty early in the workout. My low back has been feeling "off" the past few days … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 29: ‘A very enjoyable session & I am confident you’ll agree!’ (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This was a tough lower body workout! The intervals are long so it is high rep/endurance level. It is one long circuit and it kicked my butt. Very metabolic. It was wearing Caroline out, too. By the … Continue reading CGX: Intent Day 29: 4 Compounds & 1 Isolation Lower Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This was definitely a great workout to close out the "pre" exhaust portion of the P.E. program. It kicked my a$$. Since I previewed it and knew what was in store for me, I lowered the weight … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 25: ‘Who knew 1 lateral step could be so difficult!?’ (Lower Body)