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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. 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
40 Min Full Body Strength is Day 5 in Heather Robertson's HR12Week 5.0 program. This workout was tough. I managed to stick with the same weights throughout the lower body circuit, though it was getting tough, but the upper body circuit I had to drop to lighter weights for some of the exercises. Heather looked … Continue reading 40MIN Full Body Strength // Day 5: HR12WEEK 5.0
38 Min Full Body METCON is Day 3 in Heather Robertson's HR12Week 5.0 program. Heathers metabolic workouts are always tough and this one is no exception! Heather works your entire body using compound exercises that hit multiple muscle groups in the same exercise. Plus you get cardio! The longer intervals and shorter recoveries paired with … Continue reading 38Min Full Body METCON + Sprint // Day 3: HR12WEEK 5.0
43 Min Upper Body Strength is Day 2 in Heather Robertson's HR12Week 5.0 program. This is an excellent upper body workout. Use weights that challenge you and your upper body will be worked thoroughly. This is a circuit based workout. There are 4 circuits and each circuit is done twice. You start with a shoulder … Continue reading 43MIN Upper Body Strength // Day 2: HR12WEEK 5.0
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 P.E. workouts are tough! I am learning that you cannot lift as heavy as you normally do so I had lots of back up weights ready to go and also went straight to lighter than usual … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 4: ‘Absolute Muscular Failure on Last Curl’ Upper 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?’
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. Day 2 of the P.E. program was no easier than Day 1--it was just my upper body that was beaten up. I did take some lessons learned from Day 1 into Day 2 and made sure I … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 2: ‘Pushed to the Limit’
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. OMG this workout was tough! Though Caroline provides lots of detailed info about this program within the CGX app, during the intro she gives an overview of the program. P.E. stands for both Pre and Post Exhaust. … Continue reading CGX: P.E. Program Day 1: ‘It was those Bulgarians…’