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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 was a tough but enjoyable lower body workout. There is a lots of variety and and Caroline introduces a new (to me at least) way of doing single leg deadlifts. She is also using the post-exhaust … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 19: Deadstops, Unilateral and Abs 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 kicked my butt! But it definitely depends on the weights you are using. It is made up of one long circuit consisting of 3 basic lower body exercises: squats, deadlifts and hip thrusts. They are … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 17: 9 Sets of Hip Thrusts… or is it?
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is another solid glute and hamstring workout. More enjoyable than some of the other P.E. workouts. Maybe I feel that way because I was kind of dreading it after her lower body workout I did on … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 13: ‘Bridge and Band to Build’ (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I'm back to Intent this week and as usual, Caroline fried my hamstrings with another tough lower body workout. The workout starts using weights then ends with bodyweight exercises using a stability ball and a booty band. … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 7: Beginning with Bridges Lower Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. The title of this workout is appropriate. Not just because it literally happens, but because it really makes you take notice of how different the exercise feels at the end of the workout. I felt it at … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 5: ‘Ending as we began… bridges!” (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. OMG this workout was tough! Though Caroline provides lots of detailed info about this program within the CGX app, during the intro she gives an overview of the program. P.E. stands for both Pre and Post Exhaust. … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 1: ‘It was those Bulgarians…’
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. OMG this workout felt brutal to me--at least starting at the bridges (#12 below). It was definitely working me well prior to that, but by the end of 4 sets of bridges my hamstrings were fried. Then … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 3: ‘Lengthened’ Emphasis (Lower Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. I love it when Caroline creates these short workouts! I love her longer ones, too, but these are perfect to add on to the end of another workout. This morning I did an upper body cardio + … Continue reading CGXmas 2024 Day 1: Squats and Bridge Supersets
The word plyo is in quotation marks because this is a low impact workout. So no real plyometrics. But it is a cardio + strength workout that will fry your lower body. Though you aren't doing any real jumping (there is lots of "hopping"), every move, both strength and cardio, will work your legs. Since … Continue reading Cathe Live: #381 “Plyo” Legs Low Impact
This workout is part of Cathe Friedrich’s Lift, Move & Restore program. This program contains workouts for people who are fit but aging and want to take things down a notch but also want to age well. She notes that these workouts can also be used as recovery workouts for advanced exercisers. Functional Pilates Fusion … Continue reading Lift, Move & Restore: Functional Pilates Fusion