Alrighty, so it's two days into the week and I'm off to a great start! I'm teaming up with a friend so we shall achieve toned bodies together :)). We are hitting the fitness center everyday this week and it's going to be awesome.
What I'm Doing:
1. I'm working on my calves. I do 10 calve raises on 12 steps with a total of 120 calve raises per day! (Intense.)
2. Arms. Using dumbells, I do various lifts. Triceps, biceps, and everything inbetween... (they are sore!).
3. Core! My friend and I love ab workouts. Using a medicine ball, we do inclined sit ups and add a rotation in the down position to add a little more oomf! Also we do "spiders." Spiders are moves you do lying on your back and they are amaaaazing. Sometimes I sit on the fitness ball and do sit ups, me gusta!
4. We tone our legs. With 20 lb. dumbells my friend and I do lunges and hold them in the down position. I can really feel it in my quads. Also we do squats with dumbells. To tone our inner thighs we use a machine we like to call "the crotch buster." It really works the groin muscles.
5. Last, but not least, cardio of course! It's too cold to run outside yet, so we just stick to the eliptical and the stationary bikes. (We despise the tredmill). On the eliptical I like to to farklicks. Farklicks are where you go hard for 30 seconds then ease up for 15 and you keep doing that. I'll do that for about 5 or 6 minutes. Otherwise we stick to biking. We bike pretty hard, enough to break a sweat. Reading a magazine really helps time pass :)
**Overall I love working out. I can feel my muscles all over! If I continue this routine I will be toned in no time :)
**Oh and also, track starts next week for us. Ugh. But this will just help me to stay in even better shape, yay!
I also despise the treadmill.
ReplyDeleteSomething similar to fartlek is tabata, where you do 20 seconds all out followed by 10 seconds rest. Repeat this 8 times and that makes one tabata circuit. Come to think of it, it's pretty much the same thing, but 20 seconds/10 seconds instead of 30/15. I'm sure there's some sort of science behind that number.
I like to change exercises quite often, firstly to fight boredom, second because it actually helps the muscles develop if you shock them by making them do something different. For example you could do the triple threat: lunge with the right leg, lunge with the left leg, squat, then repeat.
You could also combine various body parts by doing, say, clean and press, deadlifts, and so on.
Ramble mode off!