travel workouts – Page 3 – Performance Fitness

WOW! Week of 5/26/14: Mom Left Us in Charge!

The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as needed depending on your fitness level and intensity…

WOW – Week of 3/31/14: They might be robots

The WOW, or Workout of the Week, is a short workout that you can do on your own as an add-on to your training. These workouts are designed to be mostly equipment free (so you can do them anywhere) and of medium to high intensity. Modify as you need depending on your fitness level and…

WOW (Workout of the Week) week of 3/17/14

INSTRUCTIONS – Do 4 rounds of the following: 10/10 Switch Lunges (substitute jumping lunges or split squats) 30 Bear Crawl Paces 15 Medicine Ball, Dumbbell, or Naked Chops 30 Bear Crawl Paces Post questions, comments and thoughts below.

Moving Heavy Stuff – The Bodyweight Edition

In a previous post about strength training I whittled down the basic human movements to 7: Squat Lunge Push Pull Bend Twist Gait Then there were the FIVE basic compound exercises: Squat Pull-up Push-up Deadlift Carries Some of the Basic Five have weighted variations: Front or back squat Rows Bench press Conventional Deadlifts Weighted carries…

All about the Orange

Part 2 of my time off – The Staycation – started on Tuesday. I decided to do a class at my trainer friend, Master SFG Phil Scarito’s, studio in King of Prussia. Phil is my kettlebell guy, and I’ve trained with him on and off since 2008. He prepped me for my RKC in 2010…

Summer Vacation 2013 – workouts 1 and 2

Technically I’m on vacation this week. I say technically because between the toddler wrangling and well, the office work, it hasn’t felt like much of a vacation yet. I did get to spend a few days in Ocean City, NJ at the lovely rental condo of the parents of admin assistant/boot camper/friend, Marti Keegan. A…

The best intentions…

I spent the weekend in sunny warm Orlando. To tell the truth, it was unseasonably cold (49 degrees on Sunday morning) and I spent 10+ hours a day in a conference room under fluorescent lights, I never really saw the sun. So, I spent the weekend in temperature controlled, fluorescent Orlando. The conference was at…