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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. Unlike Days 1-4, this workout is not done PHA style. (For more information on PHA, see Day 1’s post.) This is also different from Days 1-4 in other ways. First, this workout not only works your core … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 5: Our ‘fun’ day of the week!
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. Another awesome and thorough total body strength workout! I loved this one! Like Day 1 and Day 3, this one is full … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 4: It will have been those sumos!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This workout, like Day 1, is done PHA style. For more information on PHA, see Day 1's post. I did not love this workout nearly as much as I did Day 1 but it is still a … Continue reading CGX: Max Day 2: A higher rep output!
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is the first workout in Caroline's new 10 week Max Program. All of the workouts in this program are total body strength workouts. As of today, Caroline has only posted 12 of the 50 Max workouts … Continue reading CGX: Max Program Day 1: The most ‘well known’ compounds to start!
Box a Better Waistline is an interesting workout from Kelly Coffey-Meyer on her CoffeyFit Raw YouTube Channel. It's kind of a kickboxing workout but everything is done to a slower pace and with purpose to engage your core. Kelly says that unlike a regular boxing workout you will extend arms 100% when punching. At the … Continue reading CoffeyFit Raw: Box a Better Waistline
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. This is an excellent and killer lower body strength workout. You do 4 sets of many of the exercises but Caroline gives you a long rest between sets--at least at the beginning. Around the halfway mark the … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 25: “Not WHAT you lift…HOW you lift” (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 a thorough upper body workout that will really give your biceps and triceps a good pump, especially at the end. The format is one long circuit that is repeated 3 times. Caroline gives good attention … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 24: “It’s all in here” (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 really nice, well balanced lower body workout--until you get to the finisher when Caroline fries the quads. It is one long circuit that is done 3 times. Within that circuit you hit both the … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 23: Plenty of Glutes but Quad Finisher
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 upper body workout. The intervals are long and it gets tough. I had back up weights setting nearby for every exercise but pushed through and didn't end up using any … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 22: ‘Don’t lose out on mechanical tension on the way down’ (Upper Body)
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Another killer lower body endurance level workout. It wasn't just kicking my butt--at times Caroline was losing steam, too! This is a pretty metabolic workout. I burned 450 calories and spend more than half of the workout … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 21: RDLs, Hip Thrusts & Lots of Lunges