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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
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. This was a tough upper body strength workout. Most of the workout is done superset style. The first part of the workout pairs opposing muscle groups (back and chest) and the rest of the supersets are shoulder … Continue reading CGX: Intent Program Day 2: ‘Quality Over Qty’ Upper Body
This is a workout from Caroline Girvan‘s CGX app. For more info on Caroline’s App, see the CGX App page. For such a short workout this really very fatiguing! Caroline worked my entire upper body, particularly the chest and back, very well. It is impressive how much solid work she packed into 24 minutes. I even used … Continue reading CGXmas 2024 Day 7: Push Ups, Pullovers and more!
Another PHA workout! PHA stands for Peripheral Heart Action. What this means in training terms is you alternate between upper and lower body resistance exercises, allowing as little rest as possible between each movement. The lack of rest and recovery keeps your heart rate elevated for cardiovascular and fat burning benefits, while switching between upper … Continue reading Cathe Live: #348 PHA – No Repeats
I love most of Cathe's PHA workouts and she has so many Live ones! This is another great one. It moves at a pretty quick pace though she does give you water breaks, which I always appreciate. As the title says, there are no repeats. PHA stands for Peripheral Heart Action. What this means in … Continue reading Cathe Live: #366 PHA: Supersets 2 – No Repeats
I was very excited when I saw this workout for multiple reasons. One, it is a cardio + strength workout that focuses on the upper body. There are not many of those out there. And second, this was apparently filmed during the pandemic and Cathe is leading the workout solo--no class. Those are some of … Continue reading Cathe Live: #336 Low Impact Cardio Compound Upper Body
When Cathe had her 2024 Black Friday Sale, I decided to peruse her Live workouts and see if any looked interesting. There were quite a few! She has a lot of PHA workouts, which I love. So when I saw "heavy weight" in the title of this one, it went into my shopping cart. PHA … Continue reading Cathe Live: 426 PHA Strength: Heavy Weight Express
This is the last of the Fit Tower workouts. #513 Fit Tower Sculpt is technically the last one but I did that one before I did this one. So this is the last one for me. Cathe is not creating anymore and she sold off all of the Fit Towers that were in her gym. … Continue reading Cathe Live: #430 Tower Circuit Sweat Express
This workout is part of Cathe Friedrich’s Lift, Move & Restore program. This program contains workouts for people who are fit but aging and want to take things down a notch but also want to age well. She notes that these workouts can also be used as recovery workouts for advanced exercisers. Functional Total Body contains the main workout … Continue reading Lift, Move & Restore: Functional Total Body