Hello, hello! Since I'm making sure to hold myself accountable while I'm on the east coast visiting with family and friends, I'm back with a recap of my workouts last week. I stayed put a lot more than my crazy week prior to that - though I did have a girls' night out in NYC (more on that to come!). Without mountains to climb and my usual fitness studios around, and with a lot of people to spend time with, it has been the Jillian Michaels' DVD show around here. Sunday I did a 30-minute Jillian Yoga Inferno DVD with my mom. This was the day after my best friend's wedding festivities and I was feeling pretty sluggish, so I was happy I squeezed any movement in at all. Monday morning I did a 20-minute workout via Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred DVD, and in the evening I did a ... [Read More]
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The Ultimate Leg & Booty HIIT Workout
Happy Friday friends! Do you have anything awesome planned for the weekend? I'm very much looking forward to spending it with my hubby, and we have something special planned for tomorrow. More on that to come! As usual, I'm sure that I'll fit a workout or two into my weekend... and speaking of workouts, I have a good one to share with you guys today! In honor of me breaking my muscle tweak streak and not having any muscle spasms or serious aches in the last few weeks, today I'm sharing a leg & booty HIIT workout that'll definitely make you sweat. I created this routine months ago and have done it a bunch of times, but for some reason I'm just getting to sharing it now. Perhaps it's because I wanted to snap some shots of me doing the moves for some visual explanation, and ... [Read More]
20 Minute Cardio Blast Workout
Hi friends, and greetings from Las Vegas! I traveled to Vegas over the weekend for a work trip and will be here for most of the week. Before the "work" of my work trip really started, yesterday my co-workers and I had some fun outside of the Vegas strip, but more on that later, because today I've got a quickie workout to share! Even when traveling I still like to get some exercise in. If I'm on vacation, I usually find a place for that exercise outdoors in the form of hiking or biking, or just even just walking a ton being a tourist, but with work trips like this, I find myself mostly indoors in a convention center. I do walk an awful lot within the convention center - my poor feet always die wearing heels and other uncomfortable fancy shoes, and I think I was made to be ... [Read More]
30-Minute HIIT Holiday Workout
Happy Friday everyone! Greetings from New Jersey! My hubby and I arrived in the northeast late last night. I'm really looking forward to spending the holidays with our families. There's going to be a lot of baking, cooking, drinking, and celebrating in my life this trip, so I will be making sure to balance it out a bit with a couple of workouts as well. Whenever I'm back in my home state visiting, I find ways to squeeze in workouts. Sometimes my mom and I do exercise DVDs in the living room together, and other times I make up routines to bang out first thing in the morning before my day of visiting with everyone starts. Lately I've been digging HIIT workouts - which stands for High Intensity Interval Training, and is when you alternate short bursts of intense exercise with ... [Read More]
An At-Home Halloween Inspired Workout
Happy Halloween everyone! First off, the winner of my Puritan's Pride giveaway for the month of October is Paige C. Congrats, Paige! I'll be emailing you for your address info today so that we can get your prize shipped out stat. So, I'm sharing a workout with you guys today. WHAT? A workout? I know, although I've been sharing plenty of review posts on new workouts I've been trying over the last couple months (SoulCycle, Fitwall, Heated Barre, TRX, Yoga Sculpt, etc.!) I haven't shared a workout in quite awhile! Yesterday evening I came home from a marathon of food shopping (because you know I have to go to the food store on the Marine Corps base for some things because it's much cheaper, then Trader Joe's for some produce and specialty stuff, then the Vitamin Shoppe for ... [Read More]
The Morning Burst of Energy Workout
I'm sure I've said it before, but I love to start my day off with some movement. During the week I'm typically sitting down working a lot of the day, and it's nice to just begin my day with either a long walk with Harley, some yoga, or a quickie workout that wakes my body up. It may just be the endorphins flowing, or perhaps it's the way that movement makes me feel like I'm setting a good tone for the day, but I really think it gives me more energy throughout the morning and afternoon. In the spirit of morning workout love, I'm sharing with you a workout sequence I created last week as a way to get that first thing in the AM movement in. The workout itself takes only 15 minutes. With around a minute of dynamic stretching to start, then a few short minutes of stretching at the end, ... [Read More]