Hey everyone, I hope you’re all having a wonderful weekend! Molly and I sure are…
Now that I’m doing Tina’s Best Body Boot Camp, I’ve decided I’m going to use my Sunday posts to re-cap my week’s workouts, and then post what I’ll be doing the next week. As I said, it’s important to schedule your workouts, so this is a great way for me to know what I’m doing each week, reflect on the past week, and give you all some good ideas!
Monday – Monday’s prescribed workout was a full body strength workout and an interval cardio workout. I started off with the intervals in the treadmill and had a blast busting them out, I hadn’t done them in ages! I stayed on for an extra 6 minutes to hit 3 miles.
The hardest move for Monday’s strength was the Scorpian. I couldn’t do it! Well, I could do it for about 4 reps and then would proceed to fall off, my arms shaking like jello… Need to work on this one.
Tuesday – As I mentioned in my Thursday Thoughts Post, Tuesday I went for an 8 mile run. We were told to do 40 min steady state cardio and planks… I just extended that a bit. I knew I couldn’t get in my long run this upcoming weekend and I hadn’t this past weekend so I thought it was a good day to get it in. Unfortunately it really aggravated my IT band…
p.s. Holy DOMS – my legs were sore when I woke up!
Wednesday – Wednesday’s workout was Workout B with Intervals B. I did the intervals on the elliptical since that didn’t seem to bother my knee. Then during the workout I had to modify a few things, like the back lunges, that were bothering my knee and because I didn’t have a bosu ball.
Thursday – Thursday’s workout was again 40 minutes of cardio and planks. Since my IT band was bothering me, I decided to keep to the elliptical… omg I almost died of boredom. Somehow I survived 40 minutes on that thing, thanks to Jillian Michaels podcasts. May or may not have laughed out loud a couple times.
P.S. again, holy DOMS! My shoulders got more and more sore every time I woke up during Wed night/Thurs morning!
Friday – Switched my rest day to Friday… mostly because I just never got myself to the gym. Lesson learned – go ASAP when I wake up or I won’t go…
Saturday – Full Body workout C with intervals. This one was fun and it felt like it went by pretty quickly!
Here are this week’s workouts:
Pretty much the same, except I’ll decide when the weekend comes which day I’ll do my long run. I also might just do it on one of the 40 min cardio days, or on Friday I’m running with a friend so I might switch that around too. The key is to be flexible!
Have a great rest of your weekend!
Anyone else following some sort of workout/training plan?
Anyone wear a good Halloween Costume this weekend?!
The elliptical is soooo boring!
See you in a little bit!
I’ve never heard of the Scorpion…it looks like a challenge, I’d be falling off after a couple reps too! :-p
Haha it was a mess!
Really interesting to hear about your workouts, it sounds like a well structured week. I bet you need that rest day! I need to do more strength 🙂 Been letting Jillian shred me a bit recently 🙂
I love Jillian’s videos!
I was just listening to a Jillian Michaels podcast for the first time in a while in the car on the way to KC – it’s a great way to pass the time! And you’ll definitely need it on the elliptical… I can barely take 20 minutes on that thing!
lol soooo boring! Glad you like her podcasts!
what a killer plan, I love this combo of strength and intervals
The Scorpion was pretty hard. I could do it but I couldn’t extend my leg all the way underneath my body without falling off. Time to try again this week!
Also, I’m impressed that you did the intervals and the strength training. I fully admit I skipped the intervals this past week. Fingers crossed I can fit them in this week!
Haha exactly, not sure I’ll do too much better!
Oh my gosh, that scorpion move looks so tough! I don’t think I would have been able to do it very long (or at all, haha) either!
I get so bored on the elliptical too! Unfortunately I’ve been doing a lot of it lately because my body just doesn’t feel like running these days. Thank goodness my gym has tvs on its machines so that I can beat my boredom with The Food Network. 😛
Oh that’s nice! We have big screens but it’s always on ESPN or CNN
I’m so glad you’re going to recap the workouts. I’m thinking about doing the bootcamp next round!
I highly recommend it! Only $25 for 8 weeks!
Oh wow, that move looks so hard!! But I really want to try it now haha.
Give it a try!
I’ve never used an elliptical, but I have a hard time using any gym equipment. Even if the weather’s freezing, I’d rather attempt to go for a walk, or take a yoga class. I can imagine how boring the elliptical is.
I just started a weekly workout plan with one of my coworkers. We work in the same office at SLU and then we head to our rec center afterwards. We do elliptical/weights/bike/abs. Do you have any recommendations for adding to it?
Fun! That sounds pretty good to me, the only things I’ve learned is with strength be sure to let whatever body part you work on rest for a day before you work it again. That way the muscles have time to repair and rebuild. And intervals are great on cardio equipment. Julie on http://www.pbfingers.com has a lot of interval workouts, many that are based of the ones we do in Tina’s Bootcamp!
I don’t have the patience for the elliptical either. It gets so boring!
That’s a pretty sweet routine. Good for you sticking to it, but not being crazy uptight about it either. I’d never seen The Scorpion, but I teach a similar movement in my yoga classes, without the ball obviously. I bet the ball would add a whole lot of fun to it hahahaha! Gotta try that next time I’m at the gym.
I don’t currently have a routine, but I’m just getting back into gym time, doing HIIT, my aerobic abilities are in a sad state right now, and mostly body weight stuff to strengthen my legs. Yoga has done wonders for my upper body strength.
I dressed up last night as a Day of the Dead Lady, or more colloquially called a “Painted Candy Skull” I think. Had fun with the makeup hehehe…and then removing it….What are you gonna be for Halloween. You may have already said, but I forgot it you did.
I dressed up twice this weekend! On Friday night I was a figure skater and on Saturday I was an egg. My husband was a figure skating judge and bacon. 🙂
I think I might just sign up for the next round of bootcamp if Tina offers it! Also, Molly is absolutely adorable.
That looks like a great workout plan. I do have a plan but now I have a new yoga class I need to try switching things up!