Snowmageddon Housebound Workout – 2/13/14 Edition
Bears, Mountains, and Ski Jumps. Just keeping it snow themed. Do a descending ladder of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of the following: Mt. Climbers (each leg) Mogul Jumps (each side) Bear crawls pace (each side) Post your time to comments, and pray for spring.
Read More20 cool ideas to boost your long-term success!
It can be hard to stay the course when you’ve been at it a while. Take a gander at these 20 ideas to renew your commitment and spike your progress. Have more ideas? Add them to the list in the comments section! Track your food (and mood) for two weeks on myfitnesspal. Pick a badass…
Read MoreAre you stalling out on reaching your goals? Get tracking and make progress!
Assuming you have them, are you reaching your health and fitness goals? Maybe your jeans are roomier or the number on the scale is lower. Those are amazing successes that you definitely should celebrate pronto—maybe with a new pair of jeans. But what happens next? And what happens if those jeans are still tight, or…
Read MoreIce Ice Baby – The Workout
Here we go again. 6am class is cancelled for February 5th. Fingers crossed for 9:30. Here’s a cool (har, har) workout in case you need it: Set your timer, pump up the volume and get moving to “Ice Ice Baby” (the worse thing to happen to a Queen song, ever!) by Vanilla Ice. The…
Read MoreANOTHER Snow Day Workout
More snow! Instead of 9:30 Boot Camp try this workout on for size. Post your time to comments below. Warm-up with: 10 Prying squats Workout – Do 5 Rounds of the following for time: 10 Squats 5 Squats w/ :05 hold after each 3 Jump squats
Read More1/22/14 Snow Day Workout
Warm-up 10 Spiders 10 Pumps Workout – 3 to 5 rounds of the following: 10 Inverted Rows with a bed sheet 10 Decline Push-ups (or other challenging variation for you) :30 Hollow Hold 10 Tricep Dips Post rounds and time to comments.
Read MoreSacrifice and Sustainability: The Double-Edged Sword of Goal Achievement
You have fitness goals, both short- and long-term. Your short-term goals might include being able to perform 10 perfect military pushups or doing a minute of jump squats without stopping to catch your breath or nearly puking. Your long-term goal might be to make other women want to scratch your eyes out when they see…
Read MoreClean Up Weekend Strategy
So, it’s your first weekend on the Clean Up. You’ve got a girls’ night, a charity ball, and a family birthday party (with cake as the main event), not to mention Saturday lox and bagels at the corner bagel shop. What’s a virtuous Clean Up participant to do? Read this redo of a post from…
Read MoreSnow Day Workout/Day 26 of the 12 Days Fitness Challenge
Housebound Workout: Push-up and Step Challenge Oh the weather outside is frightful – and the parking lot isn’t plowed, so classes are cancelled today. That’s still no excuse not to workout. Here’s a housebound workout for you to do instead. Warm-up 10 Walk outs 20/20 In-place high knee jogs Repeat two more times Workout Part…
Read More12 Days Challenge – Day 14
It’s back to intervals for Day 14. Check out Day 2 if you need ideas for an activity for your interval training. Warm-up with 5-8 minutes of cardio. Workout: Do one minute of hard work followed by one minute of light work for six rounds.
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