…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. This was an awesome and excellent total body strength workout. Caroline hits every muscle in the body and works them well. Most of this workout is done PHA style. PHA stands for Peripheral Heart Action. What this … Continue reading CGX: Day 1 of 3 Full Body Split
Energetic No Repeats Strength & Cardio is Day 60 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This is the final workout in the HR12 Week 4.0 program! What a great way to end the program! Cardio + strength--which is my favorite type of workout. This workout was a lot of fun. Heather hits every muscle group at … Continue reading Day 60: Energetic NO REPEATS Strength & Cardio / HR12WEEK 4.0
Leg Strength is Day 53 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This is another very enjoyable lower body strength workout. Heather sequences the exercises so you can lift heavy for most of them without getting burned out. And I really enjoyed the warm up. It was made up of a lot of dynamic stretches. … Continue reading Day 53: Leg Strength / HR12WEEK 4.0
Back & Bicep Strength is Day 51 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. Another excellent upper body strength workout. This workout has 3 parts. The first part is a circuit of back exercises, the second part is a circuit of bicep exercises and the final part is a more metabolic circuit that works both … Continue reading Day 51: Back & Biceps Strength (plus AMRAP Finisher!!) / HR12WEEK 4.0
Total Body MetCon Workout is Day 58 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This workout is no joke! Heather works your entire body with compound moves and because you are working so many muscle groups with a single exercise, the workout gets very metabolic. According to my Apple watch I burned 366 calories and popped into … Continue reading Day 58: Total Body MetCon Workout (At Home Metabolic Conditioning) / HR12WEEK 4.0
20 Min Rebounder Lower Body HIIT is a short but intense cardio + strength workout from Michelle Briehler. The focus is the lower body. I agree that it is HIIT level (High Intensity Interval Training) but the strength intervals were more intense than the cardio intervals. The strength is where my heart rate really spiked. … Continue reading 𝟐𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐇𝐈𝐈𝐓 ⟫ 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐫 ⟫ 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭
Powerful Leg Strength Workout is Day 43 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. This was another intense metabolic workout. Just shaving 5 seconds off the recovery time makes a surprisingly big difference! Heather works your lower body very well with a combination of weighted exercises, bodyweight exercises and plyometric exercises. According to my Apple … Continue reading Day 43: Powerful LEG STRENGTH Workout / HR12WEEK 4.0
Chest & Back Strength is Day 41 in Heather Robertson‘s 12 Week 4.0 program. Wow. This was a brutal workout. During the intro Heather warns you that the intervals are longer but she wants you to use the same weights you've been using but to try to push out more reps. What she doesn't share … Continue reading Day 41: Chest & Back Strength (Upper Body Dumbbell Workout) / HR12WEEK 4.0
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 super intense kettlebell workout. It is very metabolic so I got cardio with my strength training. The kettlebell swing is a total body exercise that spikes the heart rate, too, and you get lots … Continue reading CGX: Kettlebell Full Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Wow! This was an intense kettlebell workout. Of course, it all depends on your kettlebell weights. I have kettlebells in increments all the way to 50 pounds. I normally use a 75 pound dumbbell for sumo squats … Continue reading CGX: Kettlebell Lower Body