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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 fried my lower body. Caroline does all of the exercises at a very slow and controlled pace and if you follow her pace like I did, it burns! The first half of the workout got … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 13: Zero Stretch Reflex 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 do love step ups so I did enjoy this lower body workout. There are a lot of step ups! Not just in the workout but the finisher, too. A 4 minute complex of step ups. My … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 11: If You Like Step Ups… You’ll Love This one!
40 Min Lower Body Strength Superset is Day 6 in Heather Robertson's HR12Week 5.0 program. This is a solid lower body strength workout. Heather hits all of the major muscle groups in the lower body. Use heavy enough weights and she will burn them out, too! Especially with all of the pulses an half reps. … Continue reading 40MIN Lower Body Strength Supersets // Day 6: 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. My reviews are becoming redundant. The P.E. program is tough and every workout kicks my butt in some fashion. This one is no different. I did start strong and kept the same weights throughout but I was … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 9: ‘Even one bodyweight thrust was a challenge’ (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 the P.E. Program workouts and still in the pre-exhaust phase. I remember my first week and decided to be conservative with my weights. Caroline is only using 22 pound dumbbells for everything and she … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 7: ‘Partial Reps to Prime or Exhaust?’ 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 workout. It was more of an endurance level lower body workout. The intervals were long but thankfully so were most of the recoveries. 90 seconds of stability ball roll outs is brutal. You … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 9: Ballpoint 15-20 Rep 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
38 Min Lower Body Strength is Day 1 in Heather Robertson's HR12Week 5.0 program. Heather has a new studio and it looks really nice! She talks about it in her intro and it sounds like she did a lot of the renovation herself! This was a tough lower body workout. That first long circuit of … Continue reading 38MIN Lower Body Strength // Day 1: 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. 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. These workouts are not getting any easier. In this one Caroline clearly looked like she was struggling--more than she sometimes appears to struggle in other workouts. Just like in Day 1, you will do a body weight … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 3: ‘Starting with only Bodyweight Squats?’