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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 workout kicked my butt! Which is the point since it is a glute workout. I had to lower the weight on my barbell because the hip thrusts were killing me. This was the second workout I … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 13: Glutes & 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 short but tough lower body workout. As the title indicates it is all sumo squats and it really starts to burn by the end. Caroline varies rest and recovery times to really fry your … Continue reading CGX: Sumo Leg Day
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! My glutes have not been worked this hard in a months. Of course, its all in the weights you choose and maybe I should have used lighter weights because this workout was … Continue reading CGX: Iron Program Day 8: Glutes & Hamstrings
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. 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 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
Body Parts Legs + Body Parts Shoulders is two workouts in Cathe Friedrich‘s STS 2.0 program; The program contains 26 workouts. I am doing the 12 week STS 2.0 rotation. If you purchased the DVD version of STS 2.0 like I did, both of these workouts come together on one DVD. In addition to the two … Continue reading STS 2.0: Body Parts Legs + Body Parts Shoulders
This workout is part of Cathe Friedrich‘s STS 2.0 program which contains 26 workouts. I am doing the 12 week STS 2.0 rotation. This was an excellent lower body strength workout. Cathe hits every muscle in your lower body then uses the stability ball to finish you off. And man did she burn out my hamstrings and … Continue reading STS 2.0: Lower Body 1
This workout is part of Cathe Friedrich‘s STS 2.0 program which contains 26 workouts. I am doing the 12 week STS 2.0 rotation. This is a thorough lower body strength workout. I really had to figure things out the first time I did this workout--even more so than some of the other workouts in this phase. The … Continue reading STS 2.0: Lower Body 2