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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. Wow! This was a tough and intense metabolic full body workout. Caroline really kicked my butt. She starts you out with straight sets of two exercises then you move onto a circuit made up of a superset, … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 14: Full Body
Chest & Back Dumbbell Workout (Push & Pull) is Day 13 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. This was a solid upper body strength workout that focuses on the chest and the back. Other muscle groups will get some work, too, but I definitely felt it in my back and chest. In addition to … Continue reading Day 13: Chest & Back Dumbbell Workout (Push & Pull) / 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. Another killer upper body workout! Though chest is in the title and the chest does get some work, the main focus of this workout is the triceps and shoulders. Mine are fried! Caroline was burning out, too. … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 15: Chest, Shoulders & Triceps
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 workout! Though all of the upper body muscle groups are worked in some fashion in this workout (isolation or an assisting muscle group), my shoulders and the triceps are what really got burned … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 12: Upper Body
Chest & Shoulders is Day 8 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. This was an intense upper body strength workout. It gets metabolic, too. Heather adds in a more intense exercise at the end of each circuit to spike your heart rate but even without those bonus exercises your heart rate gets elevated from … Continue reading Day 8: Chest & Shoulders (Dumbbell Strength Workout) / HR12WEEK 4.0
Back & Tricep Strength (Supersets Workout) is Day 6in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. This was an intense upper body strength workout that really hit my back and triceps thoroughly. I had to drop to lighter weights on one of the exercises and I was considering it on some of the other exercises! It … Continue reading Day 6: Back & Tricep Strength (Supersets 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. What a tricep burner! Since it is so short I added it onto the end of another upper body workout that did not have any tricep isolation work (though plenty of compound exercises in which the triceps … Continue reading CGX: SuperSet Triceps
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 a very tough upper body workout! I was glad to see it kicking Caroline's a$$, too! The first 40% of the workout is straight sets of pullovers and push ups to really warm you … Continue reading CGX: Unleash Day 7: Upper Body
Arm Strength Workout with Dumbbells is Day 1 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. Since this is the first workout in this program the intro is longer and Heather talks about why she created this program. She says it is for selfish reasons. She wanted to do a more progressive program and lift heavier … Continue reading Day 1: Arm Strength Workout with Dumbbells / HR12WEEK 4.0
Chest & Back Workout is Day 3 in Heather Robertson's 12 Week 4.0 program. It's been a long time since I've done one of Heather's strength workouts and I really enjoyed returning this morning. I had not forgotten how metabolic her workouts can be. Even for an upper body workout my heart was starting to … Continue reading Day 3: Chest & Back Workout with Dumbbells / HR12WEEK 4.0