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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 is done PHA style. For more information on PHA, see Day 1’s post. This workout is a great workout to follow yesterday's (Day 21) workout. Yesterday you used heavy weights for most every exercise. In this … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 22: Let’s not make these isolation exercises a compound!
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 PHA style. For more information on PHA, see Day 1’s post. My favorite workouts of each Max week that I've completed so far is the first day of the week and this one … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 21: One isolation amid the compounds!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. If you love lunges then you will love this lower body workout. If you are not a fan of lunges then this workout is brutal. I don't mind lunges but neither are they my favorite lower body … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 45 ‘Bulgarian Lunges to begin’ 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 hits the back, chest and shoulders. I had back up weights ready and I used them for most of the exercises! On the second set of deadstop chest presses I was hitting failure halfway through … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 44: ‘First Single Arm Pressing of Intent’ Upper 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 was a nice change of pace after Day 41's long interval/high rep workout. In the first half of this workout you get 60 second intervals followed by 45 second rests. Those longer rests enable you … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 43: Squat, Bridge, RDL & Lunge 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 is another tough endurance level workout. Some of the intervals are longer but not all. The focus is the biceps, triceps and shoulders. I had back up weights ready and I used them for the bicep … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 42: ‘Mostly Arms but Stimulating the Rest’ Upper Body
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 high rep, endurance level workout with long intervals and lots of pauses to really fry your lower body. There is a lot of quad focus but you are working the glutes and hamstrings, too. … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 41: ‘Tension to the Quads’ Lower Body
43 Min Leg Day (Quads & Calves) Strength + Sprint is Day 39 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This was a tough lower body workout; especially the first two circuits. Holding a heavy dumbbell goblet style doesn't just work your lower body, it works your shoulders, arms and core. By the time we got … Continue reading 43MIN Leg Day (Quads & Calves) Strength + Sprint // Day 39: HR12WEEK 5.0
40 Min Upper Body Strength Workout (Back, Bi's & Tri's) is Day 40 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. This was an excellent and very enjoyable upper body strength workout. I did modify some of the exercises to protect my back and to lift heavier. For the gorilla rows I used a step and did … Continue reading 40MIN Upper Body Strength Workout (Back, Bi’s & Tri’s) // Day 40: HR12WEEK 5.0
40 Min Chest & Shoulders is Day 37 in Heather Robertson‘s HR12Week 5.0 program. Though this is technically a chest and shoulder workout, it is the shoulders that are carrying the workout. Mine were fried by the end! Heather hits the shoulders from every angle. I challenged myself to use 10 pound dumbbells for a … Continue reading 40MIN Chest & Shoulders // Day 37: HR12WEEK 5.0